Good call - Pen of the Year. I don't have one yet. Nib sizes are based on diameter of feed in mm. Chinese also use length of nib 35mm = No. 6. Ebonite feed is OK, pen is plenty wet. Slow drying of TR paper. Recently Hongdian has released many pens, numerical order N10, N11 & N12. All look great.
Congratulations, I believe you are the first one to review this model on UA-cam. This caught my eye as well, and I am more inclined to buy the geen one in the future. Also, please check Hong Dian N11 and N12. Both look great.
Thanks for yet another beautifully-produced and comprehensive review. The N10 seems like a very nice pen. I was wondering [since this pen is not offered with medium nibs] if it may be possible to exchange its nib with a Jinhao No. 8 nib. Thanks again, and keep up the excellent pen therapy episodes :)
Excellent suggestion. They are still being used but as soon as I am done with the ink in either the blue or the red N10 I will try to see if the JInhao nibs will fit. This would especially be good since we can buy extra medium Jinhao nibs separately. In fact, other pen makers are incorporating them into their pens. I will try to keep your question in mind and I will let you know remind me if I do not get back to you soon
@@fountainpentherapy Thanks a lot for your response. I like the Jinhao No. 8 medium nibs a lot for their smoothness and character, as the ones I have seem to have a slightly wider down stroke than side stroke. You review of the Hong Dian N10 made me really want to purchase it and test it with one of those nice nibs. Thanks a lot for your willingness to perform that test. I am thinking to order an N10 and give this test a try. On another note, and if I may, I would like to recommend the Lamy Aion for one of your reviews. It is simple, yet elegant, and with great attention to find details. Lamy has a nice UA-cam video about the design and manufacture of this beautiful pen. I have had it for several months now and, if you don't mind me using your expression, I enjoy the great Fountain Pen Therapy is provides me every time I use it. Thanks again, and please keep up the excellent work.
That sure looks like an ebonite feed. I have to say that I am blown away by the quality of this pen. And all of this at below 40 Euros. Thanks for the review!
I'm so glad that you did this review! i was on the fence about this one but couldn't tell from the photos, it almost looked like a rubberized finish, but those are beautiful!
Greetings from Australia. A great video that I have come back to. I ordered one today and look forward to its arrival. Have you noticed the N9 'Sea of Clouds' that is offered by some companies with a Long Blade nib. I know your thoughts on long blade but I think you would like the Hong dian version. The N9 is done in three finishes. Would be good to hear your take on that one.
It defiantly looks like ebonite feed & swing them on your short video ordered the red & green,would have been 3 but nobody had the blue one.Thanks for the review must have missed this on AliExpress.
Very informative professional review. Question: Is the section not slippery? The section of metal pens (except a few ones) often are which just spoils the fun. You very briefly mention this aspect but so far I am not conviced. - Thank you for your reply.
I just tested that section again and tried to compare it with a completely metal shiny section (the D1) and a resin section and it is somewhere in between.
Love this pen! I have to admist though that I hate the line running down the sides, I think it distracts from the amazing pattern finish. I want to try their #8 nib.
You have the coolest introductions to the pens you are about to review. I am not a fan of piston fillers at all, was hoping it was C/C . I wish they would offer medium in these also. Cool looking pen. I will pass. N11 looks great as another YT'er mentioned.
I wanted to get this one and the N11 but unfortunately because they’re not making them in medium I’m going to have to skip them. I can’t fall in love with the fine nibs unfortunately 😅
The teaser for this video was enough for me to order my red and green variants (blue is currently out of stock). I think you deserve to have Hongdian make a stub version of this pen just for you 🙂
I have 3 Hongdian's: A green N5 Qin Dynasty, a N7 Peacock, and a N8 Maple. They all write well, and all are beautiful pens. The Qin Dynasty and the Peacock have ink windows, but the Qin's is tiny and virtually worthless. It looks as if the same will be true on the N10's as well. For nibs, I prefer plain 14K ones, simple and unadorned except for brand name, gold content, and nib size; no fancy scroll-work, or mulit-colroing.
Thanks for sharing! I just shared a comment with a viewer, I just can't keep up. Apart from the Hongdians I already reviewed and published, I have 7 Hongdians reviews are done and await to be published. I just received the Maple N8 and await 3 more in transit. Its crazy. This reminds me of when Penbbs was coming out with pens a few years ago. Enjoy and stay tuned.
I did. When the piston knob is completely shut off the posting does not interfere. But if you leave the piston knob slightly opened the posting turns the knob even further and the ink leaks out. But you know what I can live with it. For me the pen is just really too nice to pass up at that price.
Surely looks like an ebonite feeder, and the Chinese promotional material states that the feeder is made of “hardened rubber”, which is another term for ebonite or vulcanite. The nib size comes only in F, regardless of what the vendors claim. I suspect they will send you an F nib even if you request an EF one. The pen comes officially in three colors: "sea" (light blue), "peony" (pink), and "grass" (green). Several Chinese clients complained the lines don't align. Maybe you got lucky, or there is a way to turn them until they align. That's all I found in the Chinese side of things. Thank you for the review.
@@fountainpentherapy Today, Hongdian has released the N11, a metal faceted pen with a similar clip and cap band, in three colours and three types of facets, number 6 (35mm) nib.
I have this in green, but I cannot seem to get it to draw ink. I imagine I am doing something wrong, but not sure what. When I unscrew the piston, is the end supposed to come off completely, and reveal a fill mechanism? (This is what I am imagining. I have been afraid to keep twisting after what seems a “stop” point.) I unscrewed as best I could and immersed the nib in ink, and then closed the piston, but this does not seem to have drawn ink into the pen. Can you please advise?
Its difficult to tell what is going on but it sound like your piston as come out of the pen. Check out this video where the reviewer opens that piston system up
Thank you for the reply. The cap had not come off. I was wondering if it *should,* and I had simply failed to turn far enough. This is my second piston-fill out of about three dozen pens-maybe more!-and my very first was a piston-fill; a Parker 51 Blue Diamond. So I guess I was expecting it to be a push-piston, the way that first one was. I watched your video, and when you filled the pen with water, this showed me what I am supposed to be doing. My surmise is that I had simply not been immersing the pen deeply enough into the ink. I found a Skrip “lip” bottle last week, and was trying to fill out of the side-well, but I guess that just isn’t deep enough. Anyway, thanks for the assist. I think I have it filled properly now. @@fountainpentherapy
Curious aesthetic and material choices. The finial-to-finial line invites us to question the alignment. The ink peep-holes are cheap like those in a run-down hotel. And, I'm just not that fond of aluminum pens. What were Hong Dian thinking to introduce an exciting new variant this way? Bring it out in a nice resin; bring it out in solid bronze! And, bevel the peep-holes after making them a bit bigger.
The lines are not that bad. But over time the tightening of the closure threads may lead to a misalignment. The pens would have been great without those lines.
I'm annoyed in this pen that the lines don't match. On the cap and on my section, they do not coincide by a couple of mm. Also, the lines on the cap coincide with the lines on the body only when the cap is twisted very little. These two cons make me use it less often
Good call - Pen of the Year. I don't have one yet. Nib sizes are based on diameter of feed in mm. Chinese also use length of nib 35mm = No. 6. Ebonite feed is OK, pen is plenty wet. Slow drying of TR paper. Recently Hongdian has released many pens, numerical order N10, N11 & N12. All look great.
I ordered my N11 and n12 hope to receive them soon.
@@fountainpentherapy It would be great to see a review of the N11 if that is something you were planning!
Absolutely, I should be receiving the N11 and N12 soon. Stay tuned.
@@fountainpentherapy Yay!!! I was hoping one of you would buy the N12 so I could get an expert opinion. Looking forward to the review :)
Great review. Well done.
Can't decide on the colour. I can only buy in red or green.
Ebay Australia.
Check ebay. I just saw one vendor with all 3 colors.
I ordered a blue Hongdian N 10 and after geting it and writing with it, I ordered a green one. Great pen. Excellent review!
Good choice! Stay tuned. I just received the N11 and N12 will be posting the reviews soon.
Congratulations, I believe you are the first one to review this model on UA-cam. This caught my eye as well, and I am more inclined to buy the geen one in the future. Also, please check Hong Dian N11 and N12. Both look great.
Thanks.
Thanks for yet another beautifully-produced and comprehensive review. The N10 seems like a very nice pen. I was wondering [since this pen is not offered with medium nibs] if it may be possible to exchange its nib with a Jinhao No. 8 nib. Thanks again, and keep up the excellent pen therapy episodes :)
Excellent suggestion. They are still being used but as soon as I am done with the ink in either the blue or the red N10 I will try to see if the JInhao nibs will fit. This would especially be good since we can buy extra medium Jinhao nibs separately. In fact, other pen makers are incorporating them into their pens.
I will try to keep your question in mind and I will let you know remind me if I do not get back to you soon
@@fountainpentherapy Thanks a lot for your response. I like the Jinhao No. 8 medium nibs a lot for their smoothness and character, as the ones I have seem to have a slightly wider down stroke than side stroke. You review of the Hong Dian N10 made me really want to purchase it and test it with one of those nice nibs. Thanks a lot for your willingness to perform that test. I am thinking to order an N10 and give this test a try.
On another note, and if I may, I would like to recommend the Lamy Aion for one of your reviews. It is simple, yet elegant, and with great attention to find details. Lamy has a nice UA-cam video about the design and manufacture of this beautiful pen. I have had it for several months now and, if you don't mind me using your expression, I enjoy the great Fountain Pen Therapy is provides me every time I use it.
Thanks again, and please keep up the excellent work.
That sure looks like an ebonite feed. I have to say that I am blown away by the quality of this pen. And all of this at below 40 Euros. Thanks for the review!
Couldn't agree more!
@@fountainpentherapy I ordered a one in red at an excellent price of 26 Euros!
rub it vigorously with your finger, and give it a sniff -- if it smells like burning rubber, it's ebonite.
I'm so glad that you did this review! i was on the fence about this one but couldn't tell from the photos, it almost looked like a rubberized finish, but those are beautiful!
Glad I could help! They are really nice pens.
I just received the green model. The blue was out of stock. Where did you get it?
Looking forward to using the pen.
I was lucky enough to order it just when it came out.
Happy Holidays!
Greetings from Australia. A great video that I have come back to.
I ordered one today and look forward to its arrival.
Have you noticed the N9 'Sea of Clouds' that is offered by some companies with a Long Blade nib. I know your thoughts on long blade but I think you would like the Hong dian version.
The N9 is done in three finishes. Would be good to hear your take on that one.
You know what I agree. I have reviewed the N9 but the video is waiting to be published and I believe I come to the same conclusion.
Nice review, nice pen ! Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
It defiantly looks like ebonite feed & swing them on your short video ordered the red & green,would have been 3 but nobody had the blue one.Thanks for the review must have missed this on AliExpress.
Check ebay. I just saw one vendor with all 3 colors.
Very informative professional review. Question: Is the section not slippery? The section of metal pens (except a few ones) often are which just spoils the fun. You very briefly mention this aspect but so far I am not conviced. - Thank you for your reply.
I just tested that section again and tried to compare it with a completely metal shiny section (the D1) and a resin section and it is somewhere in between.
Love this pen! I have to admist though that I hate the line running down the sides, I think it distracts from the amazing pattern finish. I want to try their #8 nib.
The nib is really nice. I actually like that line but it has to line up and over time it may lose its line.
Looks good but I wonder if a big nib demands proportionally a more big pen.
You may be right but its still a nice combination.
You have the coolest introductions to the pens you are about to review.
I am not a fan of piston fillers at all, was hoping it was C/C . I wish they would offer medium in these also. Cool looking pen. I will pass. N11 looks great as another YT'er mentioned.
I ordered the N11 and will review it as soon as I get it.
I wanted to get this one and the N11 but unfortunately because they’re not making them in medium I’m going to have to skip them. I can’t fall in love with the fine nibs unfortunately 😅
I had to buy the medium nibs separately.
The teaser for this video was enough for me to order my red and green variants (blue is currently out of stock). I think you deserve to have Hongdian make a stub version of this pen just for you 🙂
I agree with you fully. Majohn has a 1.1 stub but just for its P136 but I am having hard time trying to fit the nib in any other nib unit.
Check ebay. I just saw one vendor with all 3 colors.
@@fountainpentherapy it fits fairly well in penbbs units
This looks nice. And "hard rubber pen tongue" is a bad translation of Ebonite feed. Now I'm excited to get my hands on it.
Its been confirmed by many that it is ebonite. Enjoy!
I have 3 Hongdian's: A green N5 Qin Dynasty, a N7 Peacock, and a N8 Maple. They all write well, and all are beautiful pens. The Qin Dynasty and the Peacock have ink windows, but the Qin's is tiny and virtually worthless. It looks as if the same will be true on the N10's as well. For nibs, I prefer plain 14K ones, simple and unadorned except for brand name, gold content, and nib size; no fancy scroll-work, or mulit-colroing.
Thanks for sharing! I just shared a comment with a viewer, I just can't keep up. Apart from the Hongdians I already reviewed and published, I have 7 Hongdians reviews are done and await to be published. I just received the Maple N8 and await 3 more in transit. Its crazy. This reminds me of when Penbbs was coming out with pens a few years ago.
Enjoy and stay tuned.
Do you have a perfect match between the lines on the body and on the section? On my N10, the lines on the section do not match the lines on the body
I do have to tighten the 2 parts but the lines do line up.
To test if the cap sits on the piston knob when posted give it a turn over the sink (or ink bottle) 😁
I did. When the piston knob is completely shut off the posting does not interfere. But if you leave the piston knob slightly opened the posting turns the knob even further and the ink leaks out. But you know what I can live with it. For me the pen is just really too nice to pass up at that price.
Surely looks like an ebonite feeder, and the Chinese promotional material states that the feeder is made of “hardened rubber”, which is another term for ebonite or vulcanite. The nib size comes only in F, regardless of what the vendors claim. I suspect they will send you an F nib even if you request an EF one. The pen comes officially in three colors: "sea" (light blue), "peony" (pink), and "grass" (green). Several Chinese clients complained the lines don't align. Maybe you got lucky, or there is a way to turn them until they align. That's all I found in the Chinese side of things.
Thank you for the review.
Thank you for your obesrevtaions.
@@fountainpentherapy Today, Hongdian has released the N11, a metal faceted pen with a similar clip and cap band, in three colours and three types of facets, number 6 (35mm) nib.
@@thorhilda already ordered late last week
@@fountainpentherapy Great
I am buying one now.
Glad you liked it.
I have this in green, but I cannot seem to get it to draw ink. I imagine I am doing something wrong, but not sure what.
When I unscrew the piston, is the end supposed to come off completely, and reveal a fill mechanism? (This is what I am imagining. I have been afraid to keep twisting after what seems a “stop” point.)
I unscrewed as best I could and immersed the nib in ink, and then closed the piston, but this does not seem to have drawn ink into the pen.
Can you please advise?
Its difficult to tell what is going on but it sound like your piston as come out of the pen. Check out this video where the reviewer opens that piston system up
also this one. It should be same for the N10 : ua-cam.com/video/VOMIhzq989s/v-deo.html
also this one : ua-cam.com/video/-Ge4xBue5W4/v-deo.html
Thank you for the reply. The cap had not come off. I was wondering if it *should,* and I had simply failed to turn far enough.
This is my second piston-fill out of about three dozen pens-maybe more!-and my very first was a piston-fill; a Parker 51 Blue Diamond. So I guess I was expecting it to be a push-piston, the way that first one was.
I watched your video, and when you filled the pen with water, this showed me what I am supposed to be doing.
My surmise is that I had simply not been immersing the pen deeply enough into the ink. I found a Skrip “lip” bottle last week, and was trying to fill out of the side-well, but I guess that just isn’t deep enough.
Anyway, thanks for the assist. I think I have it filled properly now.
@@fountainpentherapy
Ive got several Hongdian pens and every one is a good writer,.....and I was surprised because they're made in China.
It was my Chinese pen makers of the year 2023.
Curious aesthetic and material choices. The finial-to-finial line invites us to question the alignment. The ink peep-holes are cheap like those in a run-down hotel. And, I'm just not that fond of aluminum pens. What were Hong Dian thinking to introduce an exciting new variant this way? Bring it out in a nice resin; bring it out in solid bronze! And, bevel the peep-holes after making them a bit bigger.
The wonderful world of fountain pens. Here you are likely not to buy the pen and I bought 3. Thanks for sharing.
Hongdian pens are my favourite Chinese pens
They certainly have caught my attention.
Mine too! I have a handful, and they are all a joy to use.
@@archivist17 jinhao🤦 asvine🤷 penbbs🙄 hongdian👌
Recommended by a great Italian....it must be good.
Grazie
Hongdian makes great pens, so I won't automatically dismiss this pen but the lines bother me.
The lines are not that bad. But over time the tightening of the closure threads may lead to a misalignment. The pens would have been great without those lines.
I'm annoyed in this pen that the lines don't match. On the cap and on my section, they do not coincide by a couple of mm. Also, the lines on the cap coincide with the lines on the body only when the cap is twisted very little. These two cons make me use it less often