hello there welcome to my channel my name is doug and i'm back with another fountain pen review
and today's review is of a fountain pen please forgive my sojourn into the world of pencils
ballpoints and rollerballs last wednesday it won't happen again unless it does and for that
i apologize all right all right i apologize you're really sorry i'm really really sorry i apologize
unreservedly today i'm going to review a fountain pen i received way back last may but i've not
been able to get to because people keep giving me [ __ ] stuff just to go over all this stuff
request denied i think this will be the fifth hongdae and fountain pen i reviewed i was really
impressed with the last one i reviewed here that was the hongdae in 1841 in fact it might make the
best of 2021 list coming in a video this december just in time for the lucrative gift-giving season
i know it's bad form to mention that holiday before we're done with halloween but i do have
something special coming for saturday october 30th the day before halloween this skeleton fountain
pen i will review this gold laban skeleton on the eve of halloween evening ween that's not afternoon
that's pre-evening it better defines the ambiguous period between afternoon and evening
evening so stay tuned for that scary review kiddies
stay tuned this saturday night for monster chiller horror theater when we present at blood
kirkland classic dr tom's 3d house of slave chicks but back to the world of the living
and here is the hongdaen6016 i was intrigued by this fountain
pen because it bears some similarities to the moon man p135 and the moon man m1000
oh there oh that's heavy now i have to put this moon man m1000
back where it belongs after this review as it keeps my
door from slamming shut and let's see what these three pens have in common right now
i really think there is something to this pen gravity theory of mine
i mentioned before that even though i order things at many different times separately
they all seem to converge on my mailbox at once more pens have arrived and i got to
my mailbox i was expecting two and i got three packages and on to the next package
interesting they didn't even put it in the sleeve just gave me the sleeve
well i would have put it in the sleeve that's what she said oh some asmr cranky
so this is the hondian 6016 and i got this it's a wooden shafted it's a wooden barreled pen but it
looks so similar to the moon man p135 i will clean this one out and do a full review and a comparison
with the p135 and what i'd like to do today is go over the parts and features of this pen
show some size comparisons some measurements and then provide a writing sample and after
the writing sample please stay tuned as i will talk about what i like and what i don't like so
much about this fountain pen overall the pen is a medium-sized cigar shape here is the pen up
against the ubiquitous omnipresent and totally overrated pilot metropolitan please excuse my
failure to eschew obfuscation and circumlocution but words often fail me when addressing mediocrity
my house is made of mediocrity the pen has a chromed metal cap and clip a wooden barrel and
a bullet-shaped chrome metal and finial the cap is adorned with chinese characters pictograms
and hieroglyphs depicting the symbols and animals representing the chinese years let's
get up closer so we can see starting with the rat the ox the tiger the rabbit the dragon the snake
the horse the sheep the monkey rooster dog and under the clip there somewhere is a pig
so to write with this pen in the present tense of 2021
you must orient the cap with the ox facing up i think if you dial back to the year of the pig
or 2019 you can totally avoid the plague year of the rat 2020.
a time traveling fountain pen very cool it must be some kind of hot tub time machine
the top of the cap is a bullet shape which tapers up to an end which has a raised
ring and the words len tien hong dien and the model number 6016 stamped into the metal
the clip is a very nice sleek shape and extends on what looks like a cantilever out of the cap
it is however very very stiff i wish they would make these clips so they
don't just look cantilevered but are in fact cantilevered and will function with one hand by
squeezing the back end of the clip like this like a
they had to clothespin millions to the abused church of steel
so they could scream back in and make it kill edison
there's a very small step down to the wooden barrel which tapers in a gentle curve all the
way down to the bullet shaped chromed metal and finial the wood is very smooth to the touch and
seems to be well sealed in matte polyurethane lacquer the end finial has a couple of grooves
on it and this pen has some cyanoacrylate glue residue splashed on it or dripped on it
right there so i assume the end finial is glued in with crazy glue the cap unscrews with one
two and a half turns which is at least half a turn past my tolerance level
to reveal a tapering chromed metal section and number six size steel nib the section is separated
from the barrel with a bevel and then some very rounded cap threads and then the taper of the
section there are seven rings on the section which really do help keep this metal section
from being slippery i'm really pleased with that there's a small flare towards the nib as well
let's get a closer look at this nib i appreciate the number six size nib here
as usually these size chinese-made pens sport a number five uh and i like big nibs i cannot lie
i like big butts and i cannot lie this one is chrome with some really nice scroll work
around the border 1997 which is the incorporation year for hongdae and then the hongdian logo and
the words lan tian li shui jejang jae jiang and an f for fine those words translated mean
blue sky happiness and luck with fire i'm just kidding i have no idea what it means except
that i think there are locations or districts in china where hongdae lives and there is the plastic
feed the nib and feet are part of a collar assembly that unscrews easily for replacement
maintenance or cleaning the section unscrews to reveal the included pen bbs size converter
which has a reinforced nipple i'd like to try a slippery nipple
okay you're cut off and you don't have to be kinky to like your nipples reinforced i'm petrified of
nipple chafing once it starts it is a vicious circle being pen bbs size means this pen will
take parker ink cartridges but only the short version the barrel is too short for the long ones
or the long lamy cartridge and there is a silicone o-ring right here at the end of the threads of
the section to keep the barrel from coming loose while you're writing keeps it nice and snug there
the inside of the cap shows a plastic cap liner to seal the nib and keep it from drying out the
cap posts deeply and securely and does unbalance the pen because of its 17 and a half gram weight
unposted the pen is just long enough to write with and balances nicely in the hand
the section as i said isn't slippery and this step down right here in these threads
can hardly be felt they are so smooth if you post the pen you can shift your grip back
a little bit further like this to balance it my thumb on the barrel and my fingers on the section
are actually quite comfortable like this i bought this pen from the easy buy store
on etsy for 17.99 u.s now let's look at some size comparisons and here is the hongdien-6016
with a moon man p135 a moon blanc m1000 a moon man m6 and the jinhao 9056
now let's look at them posted and here they are posted
they're all number six size steel nibs except for the p135
which is a number five size steel nail and the door stop and i'm sorry the moon man m1000
doesn't post now let's look at some measurements and i'll be back with a writing sample
and we're back with the writing portion of the review this is clairefontaine 90gsm paper and this
is the hondian
six zero one six and it has a number six size
steel
fine nib
let's check the wetness
this pen is nicely wet and for a fine nib it is wet and smooth
i've done nothing to this out of the box and the nib is smooth with some feedback
and that just means you can feel
the paper under the nib and the ink today
is je urban
de sheep
here are some close matches to this ink from inkswatch.com
this ink has some really very cool shimmer to it the shimmer is in a copper color so in the light
this reddish brown ink really has a nice shiny copper look to it
i'll try to catch it here on this page maybe you can see that in the light some angles but uh with
the reddish brown color of the ink and that copper sheen it really comes out looking like liquid
copper and i was hesitant to put this shimmering ink in this pen because usually fine nib pens do
not handle the shimmer well because of the reduced ink flow they tend to get clogged up now as with
most shimmering inks you have to keep the ink flowing meaning you have to keep using the pen
as long as you're filling it and writing with it regularly clogging isn't usually a big problem
if you let it sit the particulate will dry up especially in the feed and clog the ink flow
cleaning your shimmer ink pens also takes a little bit more diligence and sometimes a soft toothbrush
or those little dental flossers can help dislodge the shimmer from your feed
as to line variation well this is a very stiff chinese steel nib and so you're not going to get
much flex out of it
this line
is .4 millimeters in thickness which makes it a western
extra fine or a japanese
fine and for our quote
and some reverse writing
it's a little bit thinner and much much drier but it is fairly smooth and some quick writing
maybe you can hear the tooth the feedback that nib on the page but there's no flow issues whatsoever
in fact the flow of this nib especially and fine is what's keeping that shimmer coming through this
ink on this fine nib this is one of the first fine nibs i've had that actually allow a shimmer ink to
to do its thing which is really quite cool so what do i like and what do i not like about this pen
well visually the pen is wonderful the stamp patterns on the shiny cap are very attractive
and interesting the wooden barrel is smooth and lovely i like that the cap posts securely even
though it does unbalance the pen i like that it has a standard number six size nib the larger
nib i think balances the pen nicely and can be swapped with other standard number six size nibs
if you like the nib itself is very wet and smooth for a fine rider i like the upscale metal
reinforced converter and that it can be replaced by a pen bbs converter and that you can use parker
short cartridges and i like the silicone o-ring added to the threads on the section to keep it
from coming loose while writing i like the fact that they added seven grooves uh to the metal
section to keep it from being slippery and it's not i'm very surprised you hear that visconti make
the visconti van gogh groovy and drop the price by 150 bucks and you have a deal oh did i say that or
just take it i gotta think of a lie fast this pen is a really nice compromise between the smaller
moon man p135 and the behemoth moon man m1000 and i like the price it's less than 20 u.s
and for that you're getting a fairly nice functioning fountain pen and now for what
i don't like so much well the clip even though it's elegantly shaped is almost useless it's
so stiff that's what she said i don't like the slop of the crazy glue on the end of my barrel
who does i know it's a bit much to expect superb quality control on a sub 20 chinese pen
especially when you can't get it on a plus 200 italian fountain pen but it's a flaw
nonetheless the cap is very heavy and does back weight the pen when it's posted i don't like the
almost three rotations to get that cap off and on that borders on the tedious but overall this
is a nice fountain pen that works well is attractive and a bargain at twice the price
if you want wood this is one way to get it inexpensively now i have sheep i need wood
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