HONG DIAN Hongdian M2 Black Forest Mini Fountain Pen, Fine Soft Nib & Sleek Shape Aluminium Short Pocket Travel Pen (Caramel Brown)

This pen is nicely made and feels lovely in the hand. The brass finish looks terrific, and the cap posts nicely too. it's perfectly balanced. The pen is a joy to write with: smooth with a slight flex in the nib. Ink flows well too, giving a nice juicy writing experience.

Very impressed, excellent value for money. This is a fabulous pocket pen, it feels well made, writes very smoothly comparable to pens ten times its price, feels good in the hand, come with converter which fills well, or you can buy cartridges if you prefer. I was so impressed I bought a second one plus cartridges (better option for school) for my grandson to use at school. I have a Pilot Prera and the M2 wipes the floor with it. I use mine posted and it is well balanced even with the top posted. Highly recommend it if you’re looking for a good pocket pen, I should also mention the top is a screw on as opposed to click on.

Excellent product. Well constructed, looks good and writes very well. Its my 5th M2 fountain pen covering all of their nib options. They all wrote well from the box, better than a lot of more expensive pens which sometimes need adjusting. So great pen, great nib, good ink flow - lovely purchase, it will be my hardwearing handbag pen for day to day, out and about writing.

Nice looking pen in midnight blue, nice and portable, the fine nib is still quite a thick line so extra fine would have been better for me. Most things are actually good about this pen, just one caveat. Because it’s aluminium and smooth it was impossible to grip the pen, my fingers could not get a grip on the pen so I HAD to find a solution or the pen was not going to get used. Any thin rubber sleeve I tried to put on made the pen impossible to join together again. My eureka moment was putting double sided tape onto the bit where I grip the pen, this finally gave me something to hold on to properly and didn’t interfere with the screwing together of the pen when it’s unposted. Hopefully HONG DIAN can rectify their glaring manufacturing error in future and gnarl the grip so it can be held securely to write with. It is a good handy pocket fountain pen at a good price.

I write alot for my job, and at home, so I decided to treat myself to a fountain pen. I did alot of research about the Hongdian M2 and heard and read nothing but good things. Decided to buy it, I went for the Forrest / Army green and it's a lovely colour. It feels nice in the hand posted and unposted when writing ass it's nicely weighted and balanced, it's convenient to have in your pocket as it's a nice compact size. I used Diamine ink and the converter was very easy to use, straight forward to fill, no mess. I've used it for writing, to sign things, and to sketch, and it performed well in all applications. I would happily recommend this pen to anyone, especially for the price, you'd pay alot more for less quality. I went for a fine nib and it's smooth and flows well, I would like to try a medium nib if I was to buy another one in a different colour, which I probably will, just because I really like this pen, and it would be nice to have a couple of them with different coloured inks in.

Beautiful little pen. The moment you pick it up it surprises - Quality feel and finish - lovely colour (military green). Very nice smooth nib - nice neat writer. Wet nib. Nib is a fine and was more like a medium. Excellent value for money, especially as a converter is included.

Absolutely superb pocket pen which honestly is better than my Kaweco's. Aluminium is standard for M2's but I liked the look of the Brass version. Being made of Brass makes it heavier but coupled with the small size gives the pen a solid, "dense" feeling in the hand which is very satisfying. Only & a quarter turns to uncap which is excellent for a pocket pen. The spring clips main function is to provide a roll stop, the Kaweco's don't need this due to body shape. Does work OK but it grip isn't super tight. Of no concern for me as I never added a clip to my Kaweco's due to their small size. The nib is excellent, another Chinese "Knott" engraved nib, very smooth and wet when writing. An interesting observation is that Hongdian didn't just produce a Brass version of the M2 as an exact duplicate of the Aluminium M2's. Brass is significantly heavier, it looks as if it was produced by machining bar stock, and posting the pen, which as with the Kaweco, you need to do, would make the pen unbalanced. However, they made the Brass version so that it posts more deeply on the body and this adjusts the balance point making the pen very comfortable to use. An attention to detail that should be commended.

I ended up purchasing 3 of these Hongdian M2 fountain pens - in red, blue and army green. All write smoothly, consistently wet and are of great build quality. Never a dry start. They are shipped complete with an ink converter and cap clip unlike another brand, which I have, where not only is the bare pen more expensive, but the clip and converter are an extra expense. A stylish travel pen that is a pleasure to use.

Der Hongdian M2 Black Forest Mini-Füllfederhalter hat mich wirklich überzeugt. Trotz seiner kompakten Größe liegt er gut in der Hand und wirkt hochwertig verarbeitet. Die feine, weiche Feder ist zwar sehr dünn – fast schon filigran – aber sie schreibt wunderbar sanft und präzise. Ideal für Notizen, Skizzen oder einfach stilvolles Schreiben im Alltag. Das Design ist schlicht und edel, und durch die Mini-Größe passt er perfekt in jede Tasche oder Federmappe. Ein kleines Schreibgerät mit großem Charakter – ich bin begeistert!

Ammetto di non avere molta esperienza con le penne stilografiche, il mio metro di paragone è una Lamy Safari in mio possesso. Molto bella esteticamente, pulita, elegante. La clip sembra solida, anche le guarnizioni e le filettature sembrano ben fatte. E' incluso solo il converter, senza cartucce di inchiostro proprietarie. Tenetelo a mente se non avete dell'inchiostro a casa per caricare il converter. Il converter è di dimensioni ridotte, ma non si poteva fare altrimenti viste le misure di questa mini penna! Passando a come scrive: per il prezzo pagato non ci si puo' lamentare. Fluida, non gratta e non richiede pressione. Inchiostro rilasciato in modo uniforme. A parità di prezzo, però, si vede come la Lamy Safari sia un prodotto di qualità superiore, garantendo una scrittura più fluida. Se vi serve una stilografica da portare appresso, piccola e con cappuccio a vite, secondo me questa è un'ottima scelta.

Gorgeous and well made pen with a luxurious feel. Writes smoothly. Very happy with my purchase.

El material es excelente de muy buena calidad amo el tamaño ya que lo mentía mi bolsa y así la uso cuando la necesito 10/10

FIrst, I love pocket pens, and I generally love the Hongdian M2. Incredible value for the money. I purchased the new Titanium M2 with fair bit of excitement because Ti is an amazing metal. Also, this model was sort of the M2 version 2. The silly cat logo was gone, the clip was improved and the ink train - cartridge converter to nib - is the same outstanding system as every M2. I really want to love this pen, but I don’t. For some inexplicable reason Hongdian decided NOT to include a cap liner. This is the plastic sleeve inside all their other pens it helps keep the cap in place when closed or posted. Not included on this one. As a result, day 2, after cleaning and inking with Diamine Blue Black, cap comes off in my pocket, ink stain on a white shirt. Fortunately washed out. But after using pen for over a month now, this is common and indicative of a poor design. This not a one off. Multiple reviewers have commented the same thing. See the difference in the Ti vs the brass caps. IF Hongdian were to rework the design and put the cap liner back in this would be a 5 star review… but at best I will only give 2 stars.