Do you ever end up with a pocket full of ink?
I started the thread… may as well post my EDC’s
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I’ve never had that happen. The pen does clip with the nib pointing up; I suppose that helps.
I have been carrying this one for a few years now The move pen
:THUMBS-UP: Lamy Safari
So yesterday I did order a Safari with an fine nib. I will be looking for a good general purpose blue and black inks for refilling. They will have to we strongly water resistant. I have always picked up Shaffer cartridges, but have never been overly happy with the ink. It tends to feather under the slightest bit to much pressure. I may try the Lamy inks and I have a couple of others I may try as well.
My daughter has about 6 good condition dip pens she was given from the teens and 20’s, old school pens. She would also like to try them out, but I think I will need a real India ink for them, since the particulate content and viscosity is different.
I am not going to make replacing a 50 year old favorite a rabbit hole, but if the Lamy is as good as reviews state… I could see several in my future at the price with different colors of ink.
One question I do have… are the AL any heavier than the plastics? I always carried a brass body drafting mechanical pencil, German made, and loved the weight and I would like to find a heftier pen in brass, bronze or copper that still maintains a thin body. I really do not like the fat fountain pens, do not hold well for me.
Forgot to mention… my other old favorite is an old Parker bladder fill. Another thin, comfortable pen.
I have the plastic Safari and it is very light but writes well. I also have the Lamy in aluminum, but it’s a rollerball; the body is almost identical. The heft is slightly more, but if you’re used to brass pens, I would say the difference is negligible. I’ve carried brass and stainless steel pens and can understand the attraction of the heft.
The Pilot Vanish Point I have actually has more heft than the Lamy aluminum and feels thinner (didn’t do a side by side yet).
RichH and bassoverflow
already posted Zebras
which is our choice, too.
I've been looking at 3.5" to 4.5" (~.40 grip dia.) "pocketable" EDC pens from several manufacturers, including the Move.
Do you use the aluminum or the titanium version?
Did you trial any other pens in this size range before deciding (i.e., Big Idea Design, Ti2, Tactile Turn, etc.)?
When deciding on such a short pen, was choosing a smooth barrel grip over a textured style, important factor to you?
I’m a fan of the Parker Jotter with a Fisher Space Pen refill cartridge.
I’ve had a few favorite EDC pens, first was a Boker Carbon bolt pen.
Then I found Fellhoelter pens. This one is a G2 Standard Tibolt that matches my TiBolt light.
Current one is a G2 Dots from Fellhoelter with Fap Cap(spinning cap on the end)
Does anyone have a recommendation for a decent body that takes Parker G2 refills in the $5-8 range?
I have no experience with these, but maybe some ideas for consideration:
Or 3D printed for pennies’ worth of filament:
Or here: Bolt Action Pen - Pilot G2 by jaxicab - Thingiverse
Thanks for the suggests. Those 3D prints look fun - though I don’t have access to a printer myself. Online there are a couple of places nearby that can do 3D prints, if the price is right I might try those.
matlward. I still write with fountain pens every day, and have a nice collection of them in display. I say get one. They’re tedious no doubt. Fountains need to be cleaned now and then, sometimes they skip, and can leak if not tended to. Plus side is that a fountain pen can be nicely creative and nothing else looks quite like it. I recommend a stub nib. Those really change up the line thickness when writing, adding to your personality on paper. I believe the Pilot Metropolitan series offers a stub nib. About $20, and metal. If you get a converter for it, many hundreds of inks become available, including permanent ones. Permanent ink is advised for documents of course, but harder to clean the pen, and a bitch if the pen ever dries out. So get yourself a fountain pen and join the proud minority of smeared-ink letter writers (I’m a lefty).
Daily: Pilot Metro, TWSBI 580 ALR, and a Rotring 800 mech pencil
The first pens I bought were a Lamy Logo and then a CP1. At first I started with a Medium nib but on low-quality paper it wrote very thick so eventually got a fine and then an extra fine nib. I liked the pens because they are so small but after a while I bought a Lamy Safari. Man I did not knew how much I was going to like that grip! I used it for a very long time! But it was a bit hard to refill with the cardridge converter, so eventually I bought a Lamy 2000 EF for a birthday present. Man that thing writes incredibly smooth, no idea it was going to be such a difference! Yes it’s much more expensive but it is very easy to refill (piston-filler and way less cleanup due to the hooded nib), holds much more ink and as a bonus the nib can be used upside-down to get even more fine lines!
KnotSoMuch I started with a fisher bullet pen and I also have some other pens the same size.
The smooth clean lines is what sold me on this one plus the one handed operation and no parts to lose.It uses a Lamay M22 cartridge.
The cord I have on it helps to hold it.
Thanks for the memory jog… I had forgotten my favorite ball point as it was lost years ago. I had the Rotring that was a heavy, thin pencil and red/blue pen in the same thin tube. Loved that pen! Have been using fountain pens since about 1979 and love them… just need a minor upgrade as my old Shaffer Sc\hool pen is really starting to feel with wear.
Have any of you used this pen? It should have a bit more heft than plastic or aluminum…
Kaweco Brass Sport
Here’s a fun one.
A Pelikan Demonstrator. A “nude” pen so you can see how everything works.
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Bic round stic med. And a basic sharpie. I used to cut the Bic’s down to 4 inches so they would lay flat when carried in a front pants pocket. But now they go in a cargo pocket with the sharpie.