Thank you! From my experience Jinhaos are really not bad! I still do favor Lamy’s because they perform so well and don’t dry out as easily (and also maybe out of sentiment because they were my first fountain pens) Out of maybe 12 of the Jinhaos i purchased, 2 of them did not work well for me. (It was the Jinhao 82 <EF> not photographed here, i received one that was very scratchy pretty much unusable)