Jinhao 9019 Fountain Pen Clear Demonstrator Dadao Series Gold Trim #8 Fine Point Large Converter Smooth Writing Instrument

I really enjoy this pen and I want to give a preface that I’ve only use this pen for one evening thus far. My bottom line upfront is that the materials are on par with a $10 pen but the writing experience is that of something 3-4 times greater.Warning: long review.I tend to pick a single pen. I enjoy and use it on a very regular basis to the point it cracks and breaks down. I choose a single pen at a time as a daily workhorse and treat it as an EDC. I carry it in my pocket with my AirPods and keys. There is nothing preventing my pen from getting scratched, used, and abused. I pick pens for comfort and utility and I like to keep a single pen in standard rotation.That said, I have several pens I’ve purchased over the years and never once have I purchased the same pen twice. If I find a pen I like, I usually pick up another brand/model to keep as a backup until one breaks then I’ll hunt for another.My backup was a Conklin and the day has come for it to be replaced. Enter Jinhao stage left.My daily is a TWSBI diamond 580. It writes neatly, it has an extra-fine nib. Almost all fountain pens I use on a regular basis pack an extra fine nib, including this one, the Jinhao 9019.The materials are nothing to write about to the point where I’m using Siri’s speech to text for this paragraph. The materials of the pen are fine at best and the plastic itself seems brittle. It’s not as unrefined as some of the other pens that I have purchased before, but the clip and metal finishes are cheap at best. My TWSBI has dense clear plastic and feels like it can withstand abuse. This pen, with this plastic, feels like one drop off of a shelf onto a hard surface and you might be looking for a new pen.However, in hand is where this device starts to shine.When I was working on my masters degree, I took a course called Human Factors and Engineering. The book that I used for this class was Human Factors in Engineering and Design written by Mark Sanders and Ernest J McCormick seventh edition. On page 406 there is a study that I legitimately disagreed with.The book references a study from 1976 and 1979 about writing instruments and those that are most comfortable and efficient in the human hand with least writing pressure on an electronic pad. For my class project, I chose to disprove the study which showed a favor towards felt tip pens, and I chose to take measurements of the human hand and correlate to the preferred writing instrument. The study itself used a strain gauge and pad in which the subject wrote the letter a 10 times and 10 rows for a total of 100 letters. My ultimate correlation was that fountain pen was least strain. More interesting was the larger the hand, the greater the pressure on the pad.I chose this pen because it was the largest diameter fountain pen that I have found for the price point. I have large hands that are in the 98th percentile of standard measurements and writing fatigue is a very real thing. I need large diameter instruments to feel comfortable and I need a quality nib for extended writing duration. I choose high-quality instruments that align to my needs for the notes that I take on a daily basis. This pen is exceptional for my physical measurements and my experience with the pen correlates exactly with the study I performed.The pen is weighted well when filled and the center of gravity seems slightly above the grip section on the pen. The body nestles easily between thumb and finger and feels near weightless. When posted, the pen falls into the webbing between the thumb and finger but is able to be manipulated with ease. The same cannot be said for the old Conklin.The nib is great for the price. I typically buy Japanese style nibs because of how well they write. I enjoy a very fine smooth writing experience and I do not like the nibs dragging on paper. I don’t always write on the best paper so I want a product that with a nib that glides effortlessly. Of course, a lot of that experience is directly related to the ink that I use, but as a whole, the nib has the greatest impact onto how smooth a pen feels while writing.This nib is singularly worth the price of this pen. The experience with noodlers bulletproof is exquisite. No dragging on cheap paper, no dragging on fine paper. I will say that the nib and feed are not as wet as I would have expected. I saw a new shade of noodlers that I am unfamiliar with. I have been accustomed to a lifeless, solid black experience, but this shows me shades of gray without failure to feed. What’s truly amazing is that it is giving life to an ink that I’ve had for years and became bored of. It is showing me something new and I feel the nib/feed combination should be considered as one of this pen’s greatest attributes.The pen came in a simple Ziploc bag, no wider than the pen itself and did not come in any type of fine packaging like I’ve seen in some of the other photos. Although my pen did not come with those items, it has not detracted from the perceived value I have for this instrument. Very much worth the $10 let alone the $15 for other colors. I enjoy this pen and look forward to this on a regular basis. I purchased this as a back up, but I feel it might become standard rotation and compete with my TWSBI at 4x the price.Solid value. Recommended.

This pen is impressive in every aspect. What strikes you first is the sheer size of this pen. I have two other large pens—a Mont Blanc 149 and an Aurora 88 large—which write exceptionally well, as one would expect, but are too expensive to use as an everyday carry. This pen, however, is one I will be using daily and taking with me wherever I go. To say that a pen that costs less than $15 can provide a user experience not necessarily equal to but certainly comparable to one costing 15 times as much sounds ludicrous, but it is not. It’s a pen that you just don’t want to put down. It’s large and commanding but not ostentatious. Another almost counterintuitive statement is that it is easy to write with. One would think, as did I, that a pen this large would be heavy, bulky, and unwieldy in the hand. The opposite is true. It is lightweight without feeling cheap, and ecpxceptionally well-balanced whether posted or not. (And it posts perfectly) I have large but thin hands, and have the beginnings of arthritis. This pen is far easier to use and with much less strain than smaller pens. This pen has so much going for it. I will definitely be adding additional colors to my collection. One other note: I purchased the Jinhao X159 along with this pen. The X159 is a great pen, and I would likely think far more highly of it if I hadn’t compared it from the beginning to the 9019, which I personally find superior in every way. One key difference to point out is the converter…a screw-in, high volume converter unique to this pen among Jinhao offerings.

The pen is an outstanding value. Great construction, huge ink capacity, nice weight and balance. But the nib needed tuning, it had poor ink flow. I looked at a nib tuning 101 video on youtube, and spread the tines apart a tiny bit, and the pen now writes beautifully.As a side note, I previously purchased a Jinhao 100 that wrote marvelously. I noticed that the feed had an ink stain, and realized that the nib was tested in the factory before shipping. This Jinhao 9019 feed was clean, so it was not tested.So moral of the story is that if your feed has an ink stain, its probably a good one.