My wife got me this Hongdian 1851 for Christmas last year, along with the astronaut pen holder. Since I keep it out on my desk, it is the pen that I reach for most often. It has the finest line of all of my pens and I keep it inked up with iroshizuku murasaki-shikibu, which is an incredibly close match to the body of the pen. It has a lot of feedback without being scratchy, and is great to write with.
The calculator is a Casio fx-260 Solar II, which Kristi also got me for Christmas some years ago. It’s the calculator that I grab most often since it is the easiest to get to. It’s my little Apocalypse Calculator since it has no battery and is solar powered only.
I dig your little spaceman dude.
Thank you! He’s an awful lot of fun, and well worth the desk real estate devoted him!
@[email protected] I took a closer look, I thought that was Buddha holding the pen. 🙃
Maybe it’s Buddha in a space suit?
Aka “Space Buddha”?
Buddha! In! Spaaaaaaaace!
Calculator connoisseur!
You should check out the Calculator Community if that’s one of your gigs, too!
I’ve been looking at that pen thanks to your post and I have two questions.
- Do you know an european distributor? I can only find it on amazon as a US import
- I have found this pen on aliexpress as well but the nib looks different to the one on amazon. The amazon pen has a silver nib with a strip of gold around the edge. The aliexpress pens have a mostly gold nib with a strip of silver along the middle. Do you know whether there is a difference between them?
I’m not sure about a European distributor, but I can tell you that mine, from Amazon, has a nib that looks like the one that you’ve found on Aliexpress. I don’t know if there’s a difference between them. The Forest Rainbow that I have has an anodized nib that probably started off all silver, but both of them are extremely fine, and wrote beautifully right out of the box.
It’s a beaut.
I’ve heard the section is quite narrow on these. Is it so?
I have two 1851s and they are the narrowest sections of any pen I own. 7.9 mm at the thinnest, but it has a pronounced bump at the end of it to keep your fingers from slipping into the nib and feed. They are comfortable enough for me to write with, even if I do prefer a wider section. For a pen that costs less than $20 USD, they write great, feel substantial, and come with a pretty good converter. Just be aware that the powder coating wears off pretty quickly with use. The other one that I have is the Forest Rainbow, which is anodized and shows no sign of wear.
I was also impressed with my hongdian (different model).
Much better than Jinhao.
Which other model do you have? I have a 525 EF that was nothing but trouble and had to be benched.
The M2 I posted recently.
That’s right! Sorry for the brain fart!
