Just One Pen

[Texas Star]

Fountain, ballpoint, rollerball? Make and model?

Mine? Parker Premier, checkered sterling silver, gold trim. Got it in the 2000 era, and have the matching fountain pen and a couple of Parker 75's.

But ink mess, availability, and nib wear rule out fountain pens. My choice is this ballpoint.

 

[df06]

Wide felt tip.

 

[Rpg]

I hate ball point pens! I won’t use them except on carbonless multi copy forms.

When I taught graduate students, I insisted they use a pen other than a ball point for blue book exams. Reading blue books done in ball point was annoying.

If I can’t use a vintage fountain pen like a Parker Duofold Sr or Watterman 56, both from the 1920’s, I use a Cross porous point (a felt tip variation).

 

[IronSkillet]

InkJoy, gel,0.7. I write Southpaw, no smudging.

 

[H Richard]

The MontBlanc Meisterstuck with a rollerball black ink lays a beautiful line if ink, without all the bottle ink problems.

 

[ContinentalOp]

Nothing fancy. I like the Zebra F-701. Sturdy and inexpensive.

 

[dirty & hairy]

I like the Fisher Space Pen.

 

[Rule3]

Pencil, #2, USA Gold Cedar

 

[Engineer1911]

Ball point pen from the last motel or gun shop. Both were freebees.

 

[Rule3]

I like the Fisher Space Pen.

The history. Now Space X uses touch screen computers!


Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that Would Write in Space, whereas the Soviet Cosmonauts Used a Pencil - Scientific American

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Pilot G-2 with 07 black ball here.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Whatever Ruthie absent mindedly leaves in her nursing scrubs after every shift.

Like Jimmy Durante: "I got a million of 'em....ha, cha,cha!"

 

[steelslaver]

A pig pen. BACON MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

 

[GB]

The one , I can find, on my desk, that will actually work! Back in the day, when a pen was part of my work day, I favored Papermate and Parker.

 

[Tom Beavert]

Carpenters crayon, always works.
TB

 

[Telecaster]

A Sharpie.

 

[Justin T]

This is an “only one...” topic worth serious discussion, now!

For cheap pens, I have become a huge fan of the Pilot G2 inkgel rollerballs.

Fisher space pen otherwise. The clicker, though, not the bullet pen. I hate the clips on those (lose friction, lose the clip), and the overall length is too short to be comfortable even with the cap on the backside of the pen.

 

[dscampbell]

Pentel energel .07


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[kmyers]

I am old fashioned. A quill and inkwell.

 

[Bro. Dave]

A digression here: I truly love fountain pens and have a modest assortment of them, but I know why the ball point won out. If you are a fountain pen person you must have a good ink remover product.

I'm not quite luddite enough to use a quill but have actually watched a video on the preparation of a goose quill for writing. It involves a tempering process for best results.