My Baoer 388 came today

[Parsimonious]

After seeing some good comments about the Baoer 388, I decided to try one. I got it for the princely sum of three bucks. I think it's a nice looking pen, and comfortable to hold.



I washed it out with soapy water, filled it with Quink blue black ink, and tried it out. It wrote really dry and scratchy. The nib was badly misaligned. Baoer nibs must be really strong spring steel. I worked and worked on it and it refused to budge. Finally, I decided I'm either going to fix this thing or bust it. So, I bent the heck out of it and it ended up aligned pretty good. It won't win any prizes, but it writes acceptably now. I have two Baoers, this one and an 801. Both of them have required tweaking.