My first stub nib fountain pen: Jinhao Centennial ✖️ Jowo #6 1.1 stub

我的第一个Stub平尖钢笔：金豪世纪鸡尾Jowo 6号 1.1 stub笔尖

I was thinking to get my hands on a stub nib for quite a long time. I originally considered getting the Nemosine 1.1 stub nib as I have heard so many good words about this smooth stub nib. Unfortunately, the shipping cost from Birmingham Pen Co. to Canada is just insane. That plan didn’t work out.

Another stub nib option on my wishlist is the TWSBI 1.1 stub nib. But I am not a fan of TWSBI fountain pens. The only one that catches my eyes is the TWSBI diamond 580 rose gold. However, I can’t justify 120CAD just for trying a stub nib.

So I went with my third option — the DIY route. I grabbed a Jowo #6 1.1 stub nib unit from FPnibs when I ordered my flex nib earlier and swapped it on my Jinhao Centennial Ivory. After doing some adjustment to the nib, it now writes so smooth and juicy. I absolutely love it.

我一直都想试stub这种圆滑的平尖很久了。我最开始的时候想要的是Nemosine 1.1mm的stub尖。Nemosine笔尖只有Birmingham Pen Co.网站有卖，但是寄来加拿大的运费太贵了。这个计划就搁浅了。

另一个我很想试的stub尖是三文堂的stub尖。但是他家的笔一直没踩在我的审美点上。唯一一个我种草的就是玫瑰金的580瓷白，但是120刀就是为了试一下stub尖实在有点贵还是算了。

所以最后我选择了自己鸡尾。我上次在FPnibs定制弹尖的时候顺手买了Jowo 6号的1.1 stub尖，我拿来鸡尾在金豪世纪的身上刚刚好。外加调整过笔尖之后，这个stub尖出墨非常汹涌，搭配彩墨简直绝绝子。

It was a bit of a hassle to do the swapping actually. The Jinhao housing from the Jinhao Centennial Ivory was much tighter than that of my Jinhao Centennial Sakura. I had to use a pair of pliers to take the Jinhao nib out.

The Jowo #6 feed will fit the Jinhao housing but I still decided to use the Jinhao feed as I feel the Jinhao feed provides a wetter flow. Due to the tightness of the housing, it was difficult to insert both the Jowo nib and the Jinhao feed together at the same time. It was much easier to insert the feed into the housing first, then slide the nib inside afterwards. The swapping was basically done at this point.

One more thing I did was to adjust the ink flow of the nib as I would love to have a super juicy stub to play with shading or shimmer inks. I followed the ink flow tutorial from Pen Habbit to make the stub nib writes really wet. The wet ink flow provides more lubrication between the nib and the paper so it writes so smooth and juicy.

鸡尾的过程还蛮一波几折的。象牙白的金豪世纪套筒比我之前樱花粉的套筒紧很多。我手上工具不多，我得拿钳子先把笔尖抽出来，再拔的笔舌。

Jowo6号的笔舌其实也能插进去，但是我感觉金豪的笔舌出水更大，所以最后还是用了金豪的笔舌。又因为金豪的套筒很紧，笔尖笔舌同时插进去会很困难（至少我插不进去），我后来是先插笔舌再插笔尖就好了。鸡尾到这里基本就结束了。

因为我更喜欢出墨汹涌的写感，所以除了鸡尾之外我还调整了出墨量。我是按照Pen Habbit的教程调整的。因为出墨量大，写起来也会感觉顺滑很多。

Ink: Sailor Manyo Fuji 墨水：写乐万叶紫藤花

Paper: Tomoe River white 52gsm 纸：52克白色巴川纸

I love the combination of Jinhao Centennial and the stub nib. It is a great low-budget choice for trying a stub nib and it is aesthetically pleasing. I’m not bothered by the mismatch between the nib colour and trim colour. If this is something that will bother others, swapping a gold colour Jowo nib will easily solve the problem.

金豪世纪和Jowo stub尖我还蛮喜欢的。不失为兼顾stub尖和审美的低预算选择。我个人是不怎么介意笔尖和笔夹的颜色不相同。介意的话鸡尾时候选择金色的Jowo尖就好。