Favorite EDC pen or fountain 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:

Amazon

Or 3D printed for pennies’ worth of filament:

Here

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.

Yes, it has more heft, but is still a small pen.

Oh that seems very interesting! What is the brand/model :slight_smile: ?

I’ve been into fountain pens much longer than flashlights.

For a while I carried a Lamy Safari in charcoal, but for a long time I coveted the 21k Sailors. Almost three years ago now I finally purchased a Sailor Pro Gear Realo (piston filler) with M nib, and though it’s a bit much for EDC I don’t care and I carry it anyways because it’s awesome. I’ve also gotten into vintage pens, and I sometimes EDC an old Parker 51 Aerometric.

Ball pens are maybe more practical, but the writing experience of a good fp is more than worth the tradeoffs for me. Plus the cool factor is undeniable. That being said I usually keep a space pen of sorts as a backup (I prefer to put the Fisher refill into another pen body)

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It’s a great writing instrument. I just wish PILOT had thought to make the ink reservoir larger. I often use a cartridge that I refill, rather than a converter. I get about 20% more ink. But lately I’ve not been bothering with fountain pens for EDC. They’re usually terrible for signing those printed receipts.

My pen of choice is a Fisher Space Pen bullet, which is super small. Mine is abused. A little dented and the cap “data nub” came off at some point, so I use a rubber cap over it to keep my pants pockets from getting ink stains. When I’m using my portable writing pad, I’ve got a Zebra Sharbo multi-pen docked to its side. 2 ballpoints, 1 pencil. Very nicely made. This one is a limited edition.

I quite enjoy foutain pen.

In my pencil case, I had a Lamy Safari or a Pilot Metro with fine nibs. As a teacher, I like to have inks that cannot be imitated. I mostly use Lie de Thé by J. Herbin.

… but nowadays I prefer only take easy pen like Uni boxy 100 as edc.

I EDC cheap, plastic ballpoint pens, because I keep losing them on regular basis.
For daily writing I like to use my grandpa’s 1949 Waterman fountain pen.
Mike