Rotring. German company. Outstanding heft and quality. I like the 800, but if you prefer a click actuation to a twist, go for the 600.
Clickers are why my pants and pockets have ink all in them. Twist for life.
I’ve used all kinds. My favorite is still the cheap Pilot G2. Writes effortlessly and has a great click to it.
Bank teller w/half a dog tag chain.
I literally go to the bank to write my novel. The tellers are starting to suspect why I’m a depositing a single penny every ten minutes
I’m no pen enthusiast, but I used to really enjoy Zebra. Build quality was good for the price point, and they were super smooth to write with. Unfortunately the quality went downhill maybe 5 or so years ago and they haven’t been great in my opinion ever since. They still feel fine physically, but the ink will stop dispensing randomly while writing. Got sick of it and switched to Pilot. Been using Pilot Precise V5 0.5mm and find them great. The ink runs a little wet though, so the only downside is that if you rub your palm across the page too soon after writing it’ll smear a bit.
Does Pilot have any twisting pen options?
If you’re looking for a satisfying twisting pen, the Faber Castell hexo ballpoint has been my favorite for a while now.
It uses a parker style refill, so I swapped it out for a Schmidt easy flow 9000 😙👌
OP asking the real questions! Also just ducking glad to see something not news or politics related. My gosh it’s overwhelming today.
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Zebra F-301
Kaweco sports, LAmy, rotring, and pilot vanishing point, opus 88, and one from montblanc but that wasn’t a fountain pen.
I slept on the kaweco sport, but when I finally got one, it quickly became my everyday. I got a transparent body and fill the body directly with ink like an oil tanker ready to defile the ocean within my pocket, then lube the threads with petroleum jelly. Not a single leak.
Iconic style, affordable, ink lasts forever, one of the most reliable, smoothest gold bibs came with it, and it’s comfortable to write with. I love that pen and wish I had as many chances to use it these days as I did in the past. Unfortunately, my writing at work is almost entirely digital now.
I have a bright orange with carbon fibre trim kaweco sport. The opus88 I have is demonstrator so transparent, so I wanted something different. And maybe because it was the last one at the pen show… Lol.
I’ve seen those orange ones, but was never much of a fan. The demonstrators are beautiful though. There’s nothing quite like seeing a beautiful ink sloshing around inside.
And that is why I love my opus 88… Hehe.
Picked up a Rotring for my wife a while back and she constantly gets compliments on it. Really nice weight and feel to it.
Bic
The cheap white plastic bics with the colored rubber grips are some of the most consistent pens ever. The cheap black/blue all plastic ones are some of the shittiest pens ever. I don’t understand how this is the case.
Bic mediums are comfortable in my hand and I don’t ever worry about losing them because their cheap and reliable.
TWSBI has been good, in my experience, for fountain pens. But I haven’t tried many different brands, just a handful.
Uni jetstream edge .28 mm. Uses an oil-based ink that doesn’t smear if it gets wet. Feels good in the hand too.
Also, the rOtring ballpoint pens.
Jetstream is my favorite all purpose ink. I got the refills to put in some of my other favorite pen bodies.
You have some tiny writing with that 0.28! I find 0.5 to be my happy place.
Sharpie.
Crayon,
Papermate inkjoy. The other nurses keep trying to steal my last one that I stole from my last workplace just before it started going downhill and stopped buying the nice pens. It was about 6-8 months before they swapped all our managers and supervisors with ones that were literally physically violent. Now that I think about it the pens have actually been a pretty good thermometer of all my past workplaces. If you go to a hospital and all the nurses have the same decently nice pens, that means their employer is probably taking decent care of them (at least as far as healthcare execs go) and well kept nurses are better at taking care of patients.
Parker, usually. But Pilot is also good. Depends if I want a nice pen or a cheap pen. Kawecos are really nice, but I don’t currently own one.
Zebra F-402 - I write really small and their fine tips flow great but don’t run. Plus they’re cheap enough that I don’t care when my wife or kids steal them out of my desk.
Waterman
