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), Correct if i am wrong but i think they have some of the original machinery from parker so that probably helps. The outermost layer of packaging is a white cardboard sleeve with manufacturing information printed on it, as well as the nib choice and color of the pen inside. Im not usually a fan of screw-on caps in general because Im impatient and clumsy. This is as much a Parker 51 as the "Parker" of today is the Parker Pen Company that gave the world the Duofold, vacumatic and 51. Flossing the nib works somewhat but still skips and hard starts from time to time. However there are other rewards from blogging, not least, enjoying a thoughtful and witty comment from readers such as your good self. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. In the case of this Wing Sung 601, it is not an expensive pen and I imagine that most owners would not disassemble it. There is a satisfaction in doing this, to care for your pens and keep them running like new. I will say that the blue cartridge that came with mine was kind of, well, garbage. Going inside the Wing Sung 601 fountainpen. So I just tried not to think about it so that I could avoid losing sleep over a writing instrument (theres precedent). I personally am not a fan of any squeeze-based filling mechanism, so Im perfectly happy with the twist piston converter. It does seem a weird design choice. Such a pen could be cleaned only very occasionally and just when necessary, such as if it had leaked, or dried up or if the nib was clogged with paper fibres or if ink flow was unsatisfactory. I consider myself as a pretty lenient person, but this is simply unacceptable. I dont know. For 87$ retail, it does not come with a converter ($11); The fine nib writes remarkably worse than pens of this price range (80$-120$); For comparison:Parker 51 2021, steel hooded, 87$, works most of the time;Pilot E95s, 18K inlaid, 94$, write much better;Pilot Custom Heritage 91, 14k exposed, 125$, writes better;Pilot Lucina, steel exposed, 50$, writes better; Overall, I don't think it's worth it; not even if you are a parker fanboy; Same nib as parker jotter; looks nothing like a hooded nib. And then my new pen came. There should be a converter included in the box, as well as a warranty card and even a little info about the original 51. Joshua Lee Turner and Allison Young: first nightreview. The nib and feed are still inside the ink collector, with a clear plastic breather tube at the back. Now, for the other end: unscrew the blind cap. So while the sequence is now fresh, it seems a good time to describe the process. The section should be able to be dismantled for cleaning and swapping of nibs. I bought one of these new P-51s. Plus the original 51 has that SATISFYING closure that I enjoy. And the new Sonnet? The short answer is, pretty well. As a comparison, the Duofold I bought was used, had slightly cracked lip, and the "old" Domino color edition that is more than a decade old. I bring this all up right now to dispel it a bit. One, this pen is my first experience with any Parker 51 from any year. It also affords an opportunity to see the separate components and better understand how pens work. However, I checked my other model 601, (a demonstrator version and so I did not even need to remove the section). Avoid the new 51. But lets start first by examining what you get when your pen arrives. Thats a theme for me with Parkers these days. Have a wonderful birthday. Perhaps the problem is a modern one when enthusiasts such as myself own numerous fountain pens and have rather too many pens in use at any one time and are forever wanting to switch inks around. Of course there is a risk involved that you might cause some damage and so I hope my occasional blog posts on disassembling pens may be of help to anyone wishing to have a go. I do not check PMs. While I really do love Watermans, I admit that they often seem over-priced. I was quite hyped to purchase this (should it be available). The posting should feel firm so that you arent left to worry about the cap falling off. (LogOut/ I had ink in my hands the next day and was hard at work cleaning out lovely old pens. 5. Yesterday, on finding it almost empty I decided to give it a clean. Repeat until symmetrical. And yes thats a vector nib. In my first usage, I found that I needed to push the filler ever so slightly after a new fill just to make sure that a drop of ink didn't fall into the cap and then appear to have the pen leaking. Looking down while writing, the nib barely peeks out from the hood. My pen did not come with the necessary wrench to unscrew the plunger, but I received one later with the Wing Sung 601A and it also fits the 601. It is always ready and never skips or hard-starts. in time. I might be biased though, from all three Parker pens I owned, only the Duofold Centennial somehow have no issue with ink drying and had respectable build quality (despite being resin). By And another one. but those brands also offer their ink cartridges in more colors than just black and blue. The nib on the new 51 feels like this sort of nib, married to the sharper nib from the older 51, nibs which I have always found to have a smaller sweet spot than a regular nib. For what it is, and for what you get when you buy it, I feel it is simply priced too high. IJKWS, (via PENCIL REVOLUTION!) Unacceptable, at any price point. IM and Sonnet, although they write decent, are plagued with ink drying problems despite keeping the cap on. If I never knew that the original 51 had a clutch ring for a slip cap in this spot I might find it a bit odd to have a secret trim ring under the cap, but its a nice minimal look, it integrates seamlessly into the barrel threads, and the cap threads themselves catch and hold securely. And I am not a barbarian. I do find hooded nibs to be better suited to slip caps, because it allows you to switch between capped and uncapped quicker, but the twist cap here is a perfectly serviceable option. It skips, the nib and feed run pretty dry, the darned section gets scratched whilst screwing on or taking off the cap, it feels rather cheap and slippery to hold in the hand. Just a regular section melded to look like a shell. Powered by Invision Community, Many thanks for the links/resources! Granted the pen looks nice with the exception of the fugly gap between the hood and nib.

And that damn thing ink drying issue. Never had a positive feel about this since the announcement. I confess to being a lawyer, although my occasional drafting is usually mundane and unfortunately more geared towards avoiding ambiguity than artistry. But before pushing the ink collector back into the barrel, first screw on the front shell, to see where the protruding lip (for the hooded nib) finishes up: this is then the top, or 12 oclock position. Grip the tiny, tubular nib (and the black plastic feed inside) firmly and pull them out of the ink collector. I dont feel strongly about the new 51 because I dont have to turn and turn the damned pen to get the cap off. And its just so very very lovely.

There is simply no excuse for modern pens to have their ink dry inside the cap (though they are not the Parker that made the very same Duofold I have IIRC). The reissued '51' was to use the brand history of a popular pen, not to actually re-create a proper homage to the original. But for me, I found it to be different from the other hooded nib pens I own, such as the Lamy 2000, enough so that it was worth noting. Unlike the modern Parkers (of which I have love-hate relationship, especially in regards to their ink drying problems with cap on! I completely agree. 3. Then I read a review on it. The Wing Sung 601 is a Chinese homage to the classic but long- discontinued Parker 51 vacumatic but with a few differences such as a stainless steel nib, ink windows and a price tag (in this instance) of around 7.50. That was the writing experience I was looking for. For most people this probably wont make a difference, but for some people I could see this rising to the level of a dealbreaker. It does the job, and thats it. The term precious resin is often made fun of, and rightfully so, but whatever material this pen is made of, it seems to behave similarly to the materials found in other high-end plastic pens. The pen usage has been good but I am nervous to bring it outside for EDC because I'm worried about a tiny leak or if the ink runs out with no idea of how low it is. And I went as long as I could stand without writing with it to see what would happen. Currently, I am thinking of which ink to fill this with next, Im dropping hints/pleas for the Deluxe version in plum from my better half. There is a link to register your pen and extend its warranty, but theres no way to know that exists unless you happen to Google it. Pull the ink collector out from the barrel. I truly love my vintage P51. And at least one more cheer for the likable Wing Sung 601. But I understand the state if modern pen use enough that Im not surprised that Parker went with the cartridge/converter system. I'd rather just get one of those vacuum pump wingsungs with a slip cap and a real hooded nib that actually looks like a 51 but is cheaper than a real vintage 51 such that it provides a viable choice of purchase. But TBH these free bits and bobs have not alleviated the disappointment I feel at this purchase. In hand, the new plastic feels as good to me as any other 51 I have ever written with. Thanks again. And that is saying a lot! In some ways, this could be seen as an answer to Joes concerns last August at the Gentleman Stationer, that too many pens are being released too large these days, and there is a lack of options for people who dont want an oversized pen. As far as I have been able to tell, the nib section is sealed, probably glued shut. 10. I compare this with the Monteverde Ritma, a less expensive pen mind you, which swapped out Monteverdes usual clamshell box for a cheaper looking plastic box, but also managed to include an inexpensive converter asking with the pen. In most videos he uses Chinese xuanzhi, which is the paper for traditional calligraphy, to hold the greater ink flow of calligraphy-oriented pens. 2. Nib and feed directly inserted into the hood/shell. The resin of the section and barrel I initially wrote off as plain and uninteresting, until I caught it in the right light. On the Parker page that I linked above there is a nice little history of the Parker 51 model, but none of that is included with the pen. User-grade aerometric '51's with a gold nib can be found for less than the price of a steel nib 2021 '51'. Use the wrench to unscrew the plunger mechanism and withdraw it from the barrel, which can then be rinsed. Especially with the fact that the new editions are screw cap rather than snap cap (something the 51 was known for). This doesn't surprise me in the least. First apply a little silicone grease to the threads if you wish. Pens went on for decades without having very much done to them by the user. The nib was definitely to save cost so they can just use the Jotter nib production line instead of opening a new production line; The plastic flaring was to fit the Jotter nib so it doesn't look too exposed (jotter nibs are not meant to be used on hooded nib designs in the parker 51, I mean they could make it look like the Duo Cart or Lamy 2000 but that would anger more people); Most high-end pens are screw cap, I guess that's what they are aiming for but they ultimately missed the mark by a mile; I still feel it was just a move to try to get money from people who felt nostalgic about the Parker 51. Hello Jerome. On the whole, I am not entirely disappointed. The nib of the new 51 appears to be identical to the nib on the 2018 release of the less expensive Parker Jotter fountain pen, true. I have comically short fingers, and I can even use a Kaweco Sport unposted. [] Reviewing the Parker 51 Fountain Pen. Today using a fountain pen is, at least around here, a hobby, and I can understand that hobbyists Sign up for a new account in our community. Since there is no money for me in this blog, Samuel Johnson would have me down as a blockhead and I would not like to argue with him. I find no problem with the screw-on cap. I like being able to remove a nib (such as on a Pelikan) to facilitate washing out the barrel and cleaning the nib and feed, to get things running like new, once in a while. Not sure this is worth the $80 I paid. When the parts have been rinsed and it is time to reassemble the pen, proceed as follows:-. (LogOut/ My Lamy 2000 and I: a new chapterbegins. []. Definitely going to check out vintage Parker 51s instead; I think they are legendary for their durability and innovation, unlike this "lazy" attempt to re-release a brand-name pen. I had a look just now, and it seems the BiliBili content producer's calligraphy is mainly in semi-cursive script ( running script). Glad that I have found this post and pointed out the flaws with the pen.

To quote: I wrote the blog post partly for my own benefit as an aide memoire . Thinking a bit more broadly, and keeping in mind my own experience as a writer, I can say of myself that a large part of what I have written is for my own benefit, not really as an aide memoire although the sum of my writings might constitute a kind of autobiography, but that I am writing for my own pleasure whether or not it is paid work. I am a bit of a Parker fan having used a Vector and a Chinese Hero in school back in the 1980s. Your email address will not be published. It may be loose, until the nib goes back in the ink collector. And yet, it isnt bad, and I will certainly use it as a practical workhorse pen, without the need to baby it like a vintage. Just as with any reboot these days, a vocal corner of the internet have been calling this pen a failure since long before any of them even experienced it. As it had been so long since since the last clean, I had forgotten the detail of how to do it, although I had a recollection of there being a few points to bear in mind. I personally found the pen to be a bit too short to write with unposted, but I think most people be fine to choose either option. It's a classic case of buyer's remorse. In order to repair the skip problem of my NG51,I sent it to one of my friend.He disassembled it and gave me these picturesshows the inside of NG51. Thank you. Only modern Parker pens alone seemed to be plagued with the ink drying issue; I have about 10+ pens from varying models; none of them, even on lower end models that costs less than IM, had this issue. I'm starting to have doubts with the today's Parker for QC or innovation in their modern fountain pens line-up. /r/fountainpens - A community for fountain pen enthusiasts, from the novice to the collector. As with the Parthian shot or the sting in the scorpions tail, what some readers might take to be the rich payload comes at the end. for all of its flaws, it puts ink on paper very nicely. Just one year ago, at the Baltimore Washington pen show, I would not be caught dead with a fountain pen. My academic cousin, an historian of the British press and at least formerly one of the editors of the Dictionary of National Biography, now writes to me that at our age there are no more prizes or promotions to be won, except book prizes, ha ha, and so we really are writing mostly for ourselves. And I love it. Tighten with wrench but avoid over tightening. The clip looks nothing like anything that ever graced an old 51. But I really like that Parker updates their arrow clips, and I like the current iteration of it. Nice write-up. The pens that started my collection included two original 51s, a demi-aerometric 51, and some lovely 41s. I was never able to get my 51 to write quite right. Its not that I dont appreciate them, but if a pen has managed to survive intact for 80 years, I dont want to be the one to break it. The original pens are ubiquitous on eBay and at pen shows. I feared that I had damaged it, perhaps by squeezing too hard to pull out the nib. Another feeling I had to adjust to with this pen was the fact that the nib is essentially below the tip of the hood, so when aiming for the page I was contacting it lower than I expected, more like a ballpoint than a fountain pen. Samuel Johnsons widely quoted No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money strikes me as one of the falsest texts in the language, though very rich in ambiguities. Under this we find a grey clamshell box, which features the pen, a proprietary Parker cartridge, and nothing else. Definitely not.

Replace the black plastic feed (and breather tube) back inside the tubular nib, checking that it is centred symmetrically under the nib. My order got delayed, and Fahrneys basically told me to @#$% off when I emailed them about it being lost in USPS limbo. They might be tight and difficult to grip. My pens were, IMO, none the worse for not being thoroughly cleaned as that is understood today. The pen itself has an unsurprising feel to it. My Urban and my Jotters are very smooth writers, with very stiff nibs. Next time! I always wondered why they didnt reissue it with the same or similar design. Bleh, another bad review Im not sure what I expected although I already figured it would be underwhelming. "I wish to have no connection to any ship that does not sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way." Is it going to last like Lucite? Thank you for this, Jerome. We can also take a peek at the vintage squeeze converter in the Parker 45. I didnt buy this as an heirloom object. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 8. I focus most of my acquisitions on Parkers, especially hooded nibbed beauties and also on the standard painted brass tube Waterman pens from the last few decades. nope). 7. Links to web pages or articles about Chinese typesetting, signwriting, etc. The latest of these - with some amount of controversy regarding its design tweaks - is the 2021 model Parker 51. Luckily I had a converter in my order Frontier that I was able to swap over, but it was my first sign that this pen was maybe a little less than it should be at the price that Parker is asking. I appreciate the brushed finish on the cap and that there is a polished band at the bottom. As you can see, this new Parker 51 is similar in size to these legacy models. Copyright 2004-2021 The Fountain Pen Network It is particularly unfortunate, to my mind, because the fact that the recent Parker Jotter release appears to use the same nibs and feeds would have meant that it would be very easy to source replacement nibs to swap into these pen, and to have options for different tipping sizes and even different grinds. (And thats the nerdiest fountain pen thing I know how to say.). And now yours. It has been paired with Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo ink. The ring on the section, and the twist capping mechanism, has gotten a lot of flack online. 9. Fountain Pen Inventory Database by Jon Rosen. I know there is a tendency for fountain pen users to react strongly to the suggestion that MOST fountain pens are over-priced and that Inky Folks fall for it. Early thoughts on the Parker Vector XL fountainpen. It came with a small container of silicone grease, (the container being based, confusingly, on a cartridge- converter which has no place in this pen). Of course, the internet beingthe internet, the hot takes were swift from scores of people who never saw or held or wrote with the new 51. I havent read many reviews on purpose, and the reviews by two people whose opinions I trust (Evan and Joe) were largely positive. Beautifully done; although I do find it a shame that these days, especially on content sharing platforms and in hobbyist discussion forums, it seems common to unduly focus on particular cursive scripts (e.g.

It could be that Ive never seen or held a BRAND NEW 51 before. (In fact, I think it IS the same nib.) April 11, 2021 in Parker. So there is no shell. Lawyers take enough pleasure in good drafting so that I now ask myself to what extent they dare think of themselves as doing good drafting as lart pour lart as well as earning a living. After three days of not touching it, it wrote immediately. It was only on looking closely at these after refilling, that I noticed the gap all along one side of the ink collector. Overall I dont really understand why they changed so much about the pen. It didnt engage right away and felt off. It was so dry that the pen was not very smooth, and I was worried that I got a lemon of a pen. We could argue about the durability of resin vs. Lucite and the fact that the C/C system is going to outlast a vaccumatic system (if anything breaks down, you can just replace the converter) or that its easier to clean out than an aerometric system. To cut a long story short, I bought a 51 (thankfully only the cheapskate chrome medium tip version) in May '22 hoping all the "bugs" were ironed out. Actually I found it very satisfying. I mentioned before that I wanted to review this pen on its own merit, not just in comparison to the original Parker 51, but I do think its worth looking at how it stacks up to some older Parker models physically. My nib is notorious for hard starts. Thepen is simpler in construction than I had imagined. Im claiming New Kid status here. Learn how your comment data is processed. It's not even the same UK based Parker of the 80s and 90s that gained a Royal Warrant. In between washing the pen parts I took the photos for this post. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Its a beautiful and quality fountain pen that is more than comparable to my 70 year old DEMI 51 and 1970s 61. With an MSRP of $109.00, and a common street price of $87.20, I really would like to see a little more out of this pen. It does not matter which way round it goes back. I could see the same gap all the way down the ink collector and was relieved that it is meant to be like this and not some damage of my doing. 4. If you come across this pen on a decent sale, or if some of the aspects that Ive described here are enough for you to overlook the faults, I do think that writing with this pen is a very enjoyable experience. An excellent and well balanced review. I do appreciate that certain vintage pen models were particularly popular, which is why I always keep an eye out for retro styled rereleases of pens. On the other hand, I am more and more intrigued with the legends surrounding Parker 51 of why it is one of the quintessential fountain pens of the old (but I'm pretty sure the term "timeless" would be a more accurate for that particular pen). Maybe its the pragmatist in me, but I prefer the plain jewel on the 21 to the ends of the old 51 or the 51 Special. Weeks later, I was tuning nibs, converting pens to eye-dropper fillers, and falling deep into the rabbit hole of my favorite kinds of pens: old Parkers and French Watermans. I sent Brad from Pen Addict a frantic OH MY GOD I DONT EVEN OWN ANY INK AND DONT KNOW WHAT TO GET text that night, and he was patient and kind and resisted teasing me for my YEARS of disparaging fountain pens. It brings old Parkers to mind in a way that I havent heard mentioned yet. - Works like a charm! I am a great fan of the vintage ones, and my hopes were not very high, but I said, what the heck. Its as much a continuation of the 51 as the current Jotter is a continuation of the ribbed nylon thing with a 21 clip. I wish Parker had skimped on the packaging here, and included more inside of it instead. This isnt necessarily a negative, and for people used to other fountain pen models that hit the page like this it may nit be noticeable at all.