{"id":3980,"date":"2016-09-19T07:11:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T05:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=3980"},"modified":"2016-11-29T15:51:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T13:51:50","slug":"jinhao-x750-modifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/19\/jinhao-x750-modifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Jinhao X750 modifications"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend’s project was slightly different. I’ve been trying to teach myself Spencerian penmanship lately, using fountain pens with semi-flexible nibs such as a Pilot “Orient” inkstopper-type that I bought pre-cleaned up at Eurobox<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition to this, I’ve been buying up old dip pen nibs at flea markets, and watching videos like this one<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Then I read about a bunch of crazy people\u00a0who do a modification to a new Jinhao X750<\/a> using a Zebra Comic G <\/a>nib. The theory is that this has all of the benefits of a fountain pen (no dipping) with the high flexibility of the Comic G nib. In some cases, people just push the nib right in there, replacing\u00a0the Jinhao nib.<\/p>\n

I figured I’d give this a try – but with a little more finesse… I bought a pack of Deleter Comic G nibs<\/a> and then removed the nib and feeder of the Jinhao, and then using a Dremel tool, carved the top of the feeder down to match the diameter of the underside of the nib. The cross section below shows a pretty version of what I did. The actual results were less clean…<\/p>\n

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Then I cleaned up the fins by pulling\u00a0an X-acto knife backwards through each slit, since the Dremel pulled the plastic together and sealed up the tops of the slits under the nib.<\/p>\n

The end result is shown below, next to an original “stock” X750.<\/p>\n

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The end result<\/p>\n

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