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Great, entertaining and useful video!

Ordered on Aliexpress after your video. Never received the pen and Aliexpress , once again!, refused to give my money back. The should call their customer support CUSTOMER DISSERVICE.

A piece of phoney crap that I wouldn’t waste my time on. No, thanks.

I dislike the architect nibs too, but for a different reason. These chinese architects are lovely in that you get line variation based on your angle. But the lines are always thick and I have a teeny handwriting. I can get away with using stubs. But architects make the lines thicker in all the wrong ways and my small e's turn into blobs. :D

Composites of wood, fiberglas, and resin can be stronger per pound than steel. I once made an armored leading edge for a sailboat rudder out of braided line (rope) soaked in epoxy resin. Once cured, I could not produce visible damage with a heavy hammer. That pen should be pretty rugged. Looking forward to your traditional therapeutic analysis!

Very interesting review - I have Jinghua here and using an Asvine v200 <M> on Tomoe River 52gsm paper I get a ton of green sheen and it's a lovely red/brown. I wonder if this is to do with batch variation or not?

I LOVE Rangas! I’ve got probably around 8 or so, and I ordered all with the (utterly terrible) stock steel nibs paired with their very flow-happy ebonite feeds. As soon as they arrived I chucked the stock nibs into the trash and replaced them with a vintage 14k nib (mostly Watermans). They’re incredibly capable with those nibs, and are robustly built. I do the exact same thing with all of my 20+ Noodler’s pens, which is a no brainer considering they’re also made in India.

Twelve pens and not an original body design between them… Jk, I kid. Love your videos!

NOT a clone or "homage" : it's a FAKE... not good not good at all. 😑

Great review! I purchased a few of the Tramol sailor pro gear clones off Etsy recently. They also have Jowo nibs. I found both nibs incredible out of the box. Having a slightly larger pro gear design using a Jowo nib was perfection. Kudos to Tramol for their attention to this detail

Another great review. I love the stabilized wood material. Sadly I cant find them anywhere for sale :(

Another informative video thank you!

Heartiest congratulations on having received your grail pen, sir. I wish you lots and lots more of happy writings and lots of smiles with this beautiful specimen! ✒️🖋️

Now you need to get the Montblanc to make a direct comparison. It's only $1300. 😂

By the way, what do you think about Hongdian inks?

Hi Vincenzo! Wow! I bet it's kind of hard trying to not promote a fake, but when it writes like that one did. . .Makes one wonder! The unboxing part was the most interesting. Was reminiscent of my trying to get my Majohn V-60 out of the wrap!!

Your reaction once you wrote with the pen is exactly what I thought it would be. Too bad the Chinese don't put their fake nibs in their non-fake pens...

I don't think it's made by Win Sung, just some of the many obscure dealers on A-L-I making something up which they believe will be helpful in selling. Another copy of a MB. as long as it writes well and the the functionality keeps up, the coloring and plating's don't vanish, it's OK with me. But honestly the price is way too high, many of the MB copies are trading for 18 to 20 dollars, but maybe a fast and powerful Ferrari drove the price up?

This is a very interesting video. Just goes to show, we don't have to always see expensive pens; to be entertained and informed. And, I enjoyed the comments, ' eyes out on stalks.' One of my favorite; and accurate; descriptions.

Funny if it was a real Montblanc nib, LOL! The pen looks awkward.

Just a short note to you & your viewers about Aliexpress. I would caution anyone considering Aliexpress because their REFUND and RETURN policies are a lie. They so far have NEVER permitted a refund or return and will string you along demanding 'evidence' if a product does not arrive - has happened twice to me in last two months - and then tell you the grace period has run out! Truly buyer BEWARE!!

Thanks Vicenzo! Great video You are the best

What a shocker! I was expecting the pen to be a bummer but as soon as the nib hit the paper, my eyes nearly came out in stalks. Also, the nib showed that unusual color of ink quite perfectly! If it were me, I'd find a single cheap pen case and carry it around with me. Great video, Vincenzo. Regards, Mike.

Greetings from Australia. I think you paid over $75 for this pen. The nib does write well but I think I'd prefer a good quality Hong dian, something like a D5. (Innovative) I found this pen myself on AliExpress ranging from $24 - $65.

Hi Vincenzo - Wondering if the nib is replaceable? Thanks for the mini review.

Can't say that pen wasn't well protected against damage from shipping. 😀

Hi Vincenzo! Hongdian presents its A7 fountain pen with a nib that it defines as fourth generation, oriented to a greater performance, for this a new power supply. The Lemon nib could require a suitable power supply: making manual adjustments as users on this nib is a contradiction. My Hongdian A7 has a fixing defect between the two parts of the nib group holder section. Beautiful review! Thanks!

Thanks, Vincenzo. Curious, to know if the nib is actually steel or gold.

This is actually exciting! Watching a video without having a clue about content is... refreshing? 😅

Really like your reviewing style, keep it up you’ve gained a new subscriber 🤣

People love their architect nibs. I'm not a fan either, but i bet some would love the long knife. I find the hand-polished ones are very nice.

Greetings from Australia. It seems that Hong dian have taken this pen off the market. I can not find it anywhere. Perhaps it will come out again closer to Christmas?

I"m new to fountain pens.. Got a Tomoe River notebook to try out.

Ebonite feed take little time to be saturated as its completely dried out. Kanwrite ebonite feeds are one which dont clog with shimmering inks with broard nibs.

Another great review, thank you

Unfortunately this colour is sold out.

I have to say that I am a fan of architect nibs. The issue, in my opinion, is due to the shape of the letter of each one. I do not have cursive handwriting, but rather flattened and similar to "Arabic characters"... so an architect nib is very suitable to highlight the letter. I have a Lemon M2 with a nib "hand-sharpened by architect" that works well for me but with a lot of feedback..., As always, an excellent video. Thanks.

I got a pen from temu for $3 with a long knife nib and was blown away at how smooth it wrote and the line variation depending on the angle. Similar to the kakimori dip nib the vertical lines got thicker the closer the angle of the barrel to the paper.

I have several Architect/long knife nibs from Hongdian which I quite enjoy. 28 grams isn’t hefty. I’m using a Diplomat Nexus currently weighs in at 63 grams. I’m a sucker for a green pen. Very good video. Thank you 🙏

That was an interesting review Vincenzo!! It is without a doubt a beautiful pen, but what gives me pause is the fact it's made from Stabilized wood. I'm not really a fan of wood pens to begin with, and not knowing what process that the pen blanks go through to make them "stabilized" doesn't help. From what I understand, the process is that pen blanks are placed in a container of resin (what kind?), then placed in a vacuum chamber, and the air is then drawn out. That is supposed to allow the resin to thoroughly penetrate the wood. Another question would be, for how long do they stay in the vacuum? For me, I think it will be a long while before I consider getting a pen made from this material.

Yep, only these Lemon long xxx, hand polished blabla nibs are a disappointment, bought once, never again. The standard Lemon Nibs are great, never had any problems with them. The A7 with its mix of materials is definitely interesting, only the 2 colors that are currently offered are not to my taste. I hope HD will expand the color range in the near future so that I can take a dive as well. Vincenzo, you would do me a huge favor if your next review was dedicated to the good blue R615 Ti-Flex with polymer feed. I want to get a decent full-flex pen and hope that the R615 meets my expectations and that is why I am so curious to hear your verdict.

Great video, Vincenzo! I have some experience with the Lemon nibs (have 4 of them): every one had tight tines out of the box, and the results were similar to what you see. After adjustment, they write wonderfully - but then again, I print (block letters) and supposedly that's what the architect grind & variations excel at. I love them, but cursive writers may not. As to the new feed: Hongdian started equipping pens with that feed earlier this year. A couple of my D5 came with the old feed, but the last ones (and an A6) all came with the new feeds. The old Hongdian feed had problems keeping up with wetter nibs, which may be one reason they never made Medium or Broad nibs. The new feed has SIGNIFICANTLY better ink flow and easily handles the broadest, wettest nibs I've thrown at them. In addition, Hongdian's flow issues with dry inks seem also to have been solved with the new feed. I've now switched all of my Hongdian pens that use that nib unit to the new style feed. It's a big improvement and gives Hongdian a lot more leeway in terms of what they can do nib-wise. (Oh, BTW: that particular Majohn ink is called "Yusheng"! I have a bottle of it around somewhere...)

Hi Vincenzo, really nice pen review as you always did, very illustrative. I'm a big fan of Hongdian pens, hey make great pens and have and use some of them daily. Can I ask you where do you buy this A7? I saw this pen in Blue and Green on AliExpress couple weeks ago and I loved how it looks and I loved the idea of a wood and resin pen, but when I try to buy it couple hours later it wasn't available. Since these day I've been searching for them almost daily on Aliexpress and Amazon and is not available, I'm afraid of happens the same of the N10, go out of stock and never restocked. Thanks

Greetings from Australia. Great production. Note: It depends on whether you get a Hong dian or Lemon nib. I have about 5 Hong dian long knife nibs, and they are fantastic. It is the Lemon that is failing. Haha. I'm writing as I'm watching, and you just confirmed this. Now I'm a bit concerned because today I'm having a Lemon Beasts Fountain pen with a Naganita medium nib delivered to my home. Great video, as always. The subject pen is not available on Australian Ebay

Hi Vincenzo. I am always looking forward to your informative and amazing videos. Hope you are having a good day ❤

On the nib: 醒狮 in seal script. Waking lion. The model name. Interesting to see this new brand was secretly launched in China and available overseas at the same time. I guess this brand is under the same hand of Asvine.

I had to open up the long knife nibs a little but after that they wrote great

Another great video, Vincenzo! FWIW, in a video not too long ago Doodlebud commented at one point that the architect grind was originally developed more for printing vs cursive. Although the various similar Asian grinds such as naginata and long knife are more for writing the Japanese and Chinese characters they also are probably better used for printing western letters. I have purchased a couple of inexpensive nibs of that type on a whim, but I have yet try one in a pen so my opinion counts for little or nothing!

Do not trust stabilized wood!

Jinhao 9056 or 58. It's not clear