New pens and new things
When I purchased four cheap pens a while ago, each of them had triggered an urge to try it for different reasons. I talked about the fake Prera, and the extremely cheap and usable Jinhao 992 already – the former being a near perfect but shitty facsimile of the PILOT Prera – a pen I adore – the latter seeming cheap and useful. The pen I am going to talk about today landed in my shopping cart because it combined…
As I mentioned in my post about the fake that looked like a PILOT Prera, I recently got several cheap fountain pens. Each of them seemed interesting to me in some way, so I will take a few moments and see if this still applies after I tried using them for a while. Today’s example is the Jinhao 992. I am uncertain if this is the real deal or a fake of a cheap pen – because it cost me…
Why would they even… There is something about certain pens that seems to attract the eye. Be it the iconic simplicity of the LAMY Safari or the distinct black knob and grip of the Pelikan Souverän M series. And where there is attraction, there almost certainly is someone trying to get a share of the money by imitating the key features. Sometimes I browse Chinese wholesale sites for fountain pens because there are some pretty great deals to be had….