hello there welcome to my channel my name is doug and i'm back with another fountain pen video
hopefully this will be a short one today and you'll please forgive the sound of the fan in
the background it's fairly hot here probably not as hot as where you are but this is hot
i've done reviews of these four hongdian number six size nib fountain pens two model n6s
one and seven and this model 100. they all have the same size steel nib and the nib units are
interchangeable with the first n6 this one here i tried to swap the nib with a bunch
of other standard number six size steel nibs without success that led me to the conclusion
that these hongdien number six size nibs are not really standard and either they're too wide have
too much of a curve to them or whatever to be replaced by a standard number six
however after a number of questions from viewers i decided to do some experimenting with all four
of these pad nibs to see what's really going on and i've discovered something inquiring minds
need to know the hongdien number six size steel nib is standard and swappable the problem i had
with the n6 is the ebonite feed and it isn't the feed itself actually but the nib and feed collar
that comes with the evanite feed version let me explain by showing it to you let's pull this
feed out of here there's that ebonite feed that you get in the n6 model and let's pull the nib and
plastic feed on the n7 as well there's the plastic feed and nib of the n7 now let's look at the all
plastic n7 feed you can see that the feed is keyed with a flat spot right there that corresponds
with a flat spot right there in the opening of that collar you just line that flat spot
up and the feed goes in and then the nib goes in on top of that and with the plastic feed on the n7
i've been able to swap jinhao moon man fuluwan bach yovo and even kaigalu long knife calligraphy
standard number six size steel nibs here's a kaigalu long blade long knife calligraphy nib
let's put it on that n7 line it up and push it in that's what she said that's what she said
a little bit of rubber helps as well to push on those shoulders
again that's what she said no god please no and make sure that the feed is lined up
and there we go piece of pie piece of pie cake piece of cake cake yes and all of the nibs
i mentioned all fit in that easily but the issue i faced however with the hongdiem m7
is that the cap won't go on because the nib's too long all of the nibs in that list
are all roughly 35 millimeters in length problem is the hondine is 33.4 millimeters in length and
the only nib that i could swap into the pen and be able to close the cap on the m7 is the wing sun
steel nib that came from the wingsung 699 because that nib is 33.4 millimeters in length as well
so the key element here is that standard number six size nibs fit okay into the plastic feed
of the hondi and n7 but they have to be no longer than 33.4 millimeters in length or the cap won't
go on fortunately we don't have that issue with the n6 as the cap has plenty of space for those
longer nibs to go on and close the pen now let's see what the issue is with the n6 ebonite feed
that prevented me from swapping nibs in the first place if we take a close look at the opening
on the plastic collar you have to look very very carefully i'm going to use this nib
to point see there's a little nub right there and that if you get that aligned incorrectly
prevents the feed from going all the way in and prevents another nib from going in as well
you see there's another little nub down at the bottom of that collar you see it at the
bottom there again that lines up with that channel right there so if you put the feed in
correctly you'll feel it drop into that little spot right there
if you don't you can turn it sideways and it sits a little bit proud of being fully seated you can
actually put the n6 nib on that and the pen works so that's what sort of screwed me up because when
you get that nib incorrectly aligned you try to put any other number six nib like that kai glue
in there and it won't go down inside it won't even go past but it won't go past that little nub
that's why so if you take the ebonite feed and you can rotate it around see it goes around like that
in a circle but put it inside until it fits slightly in you see how far it is out there
if i turn it keep turning it there it dropped into that slot now i take my kai glue nib
easy as cake easiest cake pie easiest pie and look at that there's a kai glue long blade in my n6 now
let's take a look at some of the nibs that i've been able to swap into my n6 and my 100 models of
hondine from left to right this is a special nib that i bought from bobby online i believe it was
on his ebay store he runs the saint pps chinese pen store on aliexpress and this was a fullen
sort of generic nib see it says fullen there and look at the size of the tipping on that he
sold a set of these sort of generic nibs with a huge amount of tipping so that you could
grind yourself whatever you wanted i haven't gotten around to doing that but that nib fit
next up the fully went medium steel nib that fits the kaigalu long blade this one has a couple of
different finishes available this is like a snakeskin kind of a thing it also has flames
this is a wingsung steel nib number six that comes off a wingsung 699 vacuum filler or piston filler
the ubiquitous jinhao 18k gp which we all know should say 18k bs for 18 karat gold [ __ ]
this is some [ __ ] because that's not 18 karat gold but these are pretty stock
easily available number six size nibs and they're actually fairly good next is a moon man number six
size nip this one was a fine and then the two biggest manufacturers of nibs in the world from
germany this is a bach and here is a brand new 18 karat gold real gold leonardo dutch pen show 2021
gold nib i had to have the nib on my leonardo momento zero grande
jonathan brooks replaced um this one's a broad this one's a medium and i'm going
to do a video showing you how to take this pen apart and how to swap nibs on this ebonite feed
leonardo shortly look forward to that video coming but before even swapping it into my leonardo
i took it and swapped it into my hondian n6 and look at that and now we have a hongdae and n6
with an 18 karat gold leonardo yovo nib so it fits all of those nibs that i just named
i haven't tried a schmidt i'll have to locate a schmidt but i expect the schmidt will fit as well
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