Sailor Hocoro Gray Dip Pen & Nib - Fude
The Sailor Compass Hocoro dip pen allows you to enjoy a wide variety of fountain pen ink colors without the conventional messy fuss. The Hocoro is designed with ease in mind. After using, simply rinse the nib with water and wipe it dry, and you're ready to switch to the next ink color!
What's more, the Hocoro Dip Pens are compatible with any type of fountain pen inks and various other types of inks. This means you can use the inks you already love with your new Hocoro pen!
Sailor Compass "Hocoro" Dip Pens are available in five different steel nib sizes (Fine, Medium, 1.0mm Calligraphy, 2.0mm Calligraphy, and Fude), each with a different color accent. You can purchase spare nibs or barrels to mix & match to your heart's content, allowing you to explore and enjoy a multitude of inks and expression styles.
This pen comes with a gray barrel and a Fude steel nib with a yellow accent. An attachable ink reservoir is included.
- Condition
- New
- Brand
- Sailor
- Type
- Dip Pens
- Color
- Gray
- Demonstrator
Whether or not the barrel of the pen is translucent, allowing you to see the ink and filling mechanism inside.
- No
- Body Material
- Resin
- Cap Type
How the cap is opened/closed from the barrel of the pen. Some common options include Snap-Cap, Screw-Cap, Magnetic Cap, or Capless (no cap).
- Capless
- Compatible inks & refills
Which ink this pen will accept. Choices include bottled ink and various styles of pre-filled ink cartridges.
- Bottled Inks
- Grip Material
- Resin
- Nib Size
- Fude
- Nib Color
- Silver
- Nib Material
- Steel
- Postable
Whether or not the cap fits securely onto the back of the barrel when open.
- No
- Retractable
Whether or not the nib/tip can retract into the body of the pen (usually for click or twist-open style pens).
- No
- Diameter - Body
- 10.8mm (0.42in)
- Diameter - Grip (mm)
Measured from the place most people choose to rest their fingers, which varies with each pen.
- 10.75mm
- Length - Body
The measurement from the back end of the barrel to the tip of the nib.
- 134.7mm (5.30in)
- Length - Nib
The measured length of the visible portion of the nib when it is installed in the pen, from grip to tip.
- 15.7mm (0.62in)
- Weight - Body
If a converter is included with the pen, this weight is reflected in the total.
- 6g (0.21oz)
- Weight - Overall (g)
- 6.0g
Customer Reviews
I'm pleased with the pen with the fude nib. I'm impressed at how long you can write before having to dip again. I couldn't figure out exactly what was going on, so uploaded an image of the packaging to Claude/AI and got the following translation from Japanese:
Here's a translation of the Japanese text on the product packaging to English:
Made in Japan
Features of hocoro:
Pen tip replacement:
One pen shaft can be used with separately sold hocoro pen tips
Pen tip storage:
Insert backwards to protect the pen tip
Features of the brush pen tip:
Ink retention:
Equipped with a reservoir part to accommodate thick lines that consume more ink
Writes like a brush pen:
Line thickness changes with writing pressure, creating strong and weak strokes
When upright: thin lines
When tilted: thick lines
Writing sample:
[Shows "XXX" written in brush strokes]
Brush lettering Gray
[There's also a QR code with text saying "For detailed usage instructions, check here"]
[At the bottom, it says "Fountain pen-style refillable pen hocoro"]
I have enjoyed using this dip pen with the fude nib. It actually holds more ink for a longer writing experience than the glass dip pen I was using. This is a great pen for trying my sample inks without having to wait to ink one of my regular pens. Also is super easy to clean so I will use it for shimmer inks that I hesitate to put in my more expensive pens. I will buy different nib sizes in the future, but I am very happy with the fude I have now. I would recommend this especially for those who like to use a variety of inks.
I bought two with different nibs. This is a great low-cost way of trialing lots of inks. They have a very convenient way of protecting the nibs and the quality is excellent. I recommend this product.
I stopped using depends decades ago. Writing three or four words, and then dipping that changes the flow and thickness of the ink was imperfect and frustrating. This fountain pen company understands ink flow. I ordered one with a feed bills into it, which makes it last for an entire page with a consistency that I have not seen with any of the dozens of depends I have.Now I can use permanent ink, that I would dare not use in a fountain pen.
