Whch pens do you carry?

[Derry 1946]

A few years ago my mom gave me a Fisher "Space Pen". It soon became my favorite pen. They're nitrogen filled, and write extremely smooth. And they write upside down. The astronauts use them! (according to a popular TV show)

I heard it this way from my Dad, who worked on Apollo (and met Von Braun):
The astronauts needed to write in space, but pens don't work well in zero G. A brilliant American devised a sealed gas-filled microcanister with a rolling ball that shears off a line of an ink with the consistency of gum. It writes in space, under water, on glass!!

The Russians? They used a pencil.

 

[Derry 1946]

Problem is today kids aren't taught cursor anymore and some can barely print. May be a day soon when pen and paper is replaced altogether.

Actually, cursor is all they do know. It's cursive they're not taught anymore.

My kids are learning cursive, but it's Montessori.

 

[Derry 1946]

Aloha,



I use the Sanford Uniball 207 Bold, 1 mm point



On Sale for $ 1.oo

This is what I use, in a Montblanc.

 

[Derry 1946]

From Rapidograph -Koh I Nor on my desk (makes writing fun, far as I'm concerned) on down the line to Uniball is what I carry on purpose. I'm not quite foolish enough to try to impress someone in my business with a pen. The guy I work for has other people with pens.
I don't wear a pocket protector either...

(I'm actually more of a HB 2 kind of guy)

You're singing my song. These are tools I used as a kid. Nice memory!

 

[Derry 1946]

I don't. In the truck, office, kitchen but not my pockets.

My father ALWAYS had a pen. If you went out to a restaurant with dad you could count on him using at least one paper napkin to illustrate what he was explaining.

We must be brothers!

 

[jdh]

Formal occasions (defined as anytime I'm wearing other than jeans) Cross
Semi formal (jeans with a shirt that has a collar) Stainless Parker
Other occasions/everyday Zebra
At work, the cheapest piece of **** I can find in case it gets dropped between walls or borrowed by the guy to cheap to buy his own pen, backed up by a Zebra.

 

[Jimmyjones]

CRKT Tao, hey, it's a space pen.

uni-ball micro as a NY reload

Can't function with out a writing implement, but I no longer carry a pocket full.

 

[30-30remchester]

My father ALWAYS had a pen. If you went out to a restaurant with dad you could count on him using at least one paper napkin to illustrate what he was explaining.

I worked in Aspen Colorado for a few decades. The Hickory House café was the contractors hang out. At many times a million dollar deal was made while using a pen borrowed from a waitress and a napkin.

 

[Kanewpadle]

Zebra. Black ink. Medium. I don't carry expensive pens because my customers steal them.

 

[Rangerpat]

When I wore a uniform I carried a Cross pen and pencil set in my left breast pocket, due to the slim design and neat appearance it made.

Now that I'm retired I use Uni-ball 207 black ink 0.7mm gel pens. The ink is suppose to help prevent against check and document fraud.

In my truck I keep a Fisher Space pen, nice compact size, and as others have noted it will write on anything.

 

[Smoke]

One nite I was working downtown and I had to write down some information from a cop and I didn't have a pen or paper with me. The guy gave me the "you idiot" look and wrote the info for me, I've never gone to work with out a notebook /pen since.

My notebook is a gimme from Add Staff and I use whatever cheap Bic is in the supply closet that day.

I just checked my uniform and today's pen is a Pilot G2

 

[Mike1647]

Zebra

+1 for the Zebra, fine point black ink. It's all I have used for years, keep refills in my glove box ready to go.

 

[TX-Dennis]

I really loved Parker Classic pens (sometimes called Flighter). Unfortunately they stopped making them years ago, and my last one was swiped by a customer a couple of years back.

Don't care for the Jotter. The Classic was a more refined version of the Jotter with a better clip and slightly more "upscale" appearance. It was also a bit slimmer in diameter. The clips on the Jotters always seem to loosen and the pens fall out of my pocket when I bend down. I hate that.

I may have to cave in and buy some more "modern" Parker pens. I do love the way they write.

 

[cmore]

I carried a Pentel Flexiball in my back jeans pocket with my checkbook
for many years. It screwed open/closed, and had cuts in the sides
so it would flex. Never leaked or broke, and I actually had it when
I needed it. Of course, they dont make them anymore.

 

[ladder13]

I get all my pens from hotel rooms.

 

[wuluf]

My wife loves fountain pens, too much work for me. I bought a Tuff-writer "tactical" pen 3 yers ago and carry it every work day. It's HEAVY, which people always comment on when I hand it to them..and reminds me to get it back. I've never had a pen that long without losing it before this. It takes the Fisher refills and can go on airplanes...

 

[Class III]

I use to carry my Aurora Hastil https://www.penchalet.com/fine_pens...ain_pen.html?gclid=CP3o9P_nwcYCFQGUaQodG6QBUg fountain pen everywhere. I loaned it to an IDIOT on a job site a few years ago. He couldn't get it to write, empty ink cartridge, so he tossed it in the trash. He spent three hours in the 30 yard dumpster ripping open contractor cleanup bags before he found my pen. That pen now lives in my desk under lock and key.

EDC pen is now whatever Office Depot has on sale in the bulk bag. Only requirement is it must have a pocket clip.

Class III

 

[FirebirdV8]

I carry a stainless Parker Jotter. It gets lost or stolen every 3 or 4 years or so, but that just means I don't have to buy refills (I have to look at the bright side).

 

[Coldshooter]

I have several fountain pens waterman,Mount Blanc, an Italian one branded Ferrari which is as close as I will get to owning one but the best is a German Pelikan beautiful writer with medium nib. Now that carbon and other multi copy forms are not used no need for any type of ball point. Related I still have and use two Staedler/mars click pencils in .05 which I bought in 1980. They need good lead because the mechanism is so precise. Writing with a quality pen is a joy.

 

[eveled]

Any pen with a space pen refill. Even a cheapo Parker with a space pen refill is a mans pen. Although I prefer my Cross pens. Nothing fancy just the low end heavy brass Cross pens. If I had to defend myself with a pen, I'd rather have a heavy Cross than a plastic Parker.

 

[finesse_r]

My bank has the best ball points I have ever used and they give them away free. I certainly don't get any interest to speak of but I pick up a pen every trip in there. I cannot imagine buying something when so many places give perfectly good ones away for free. In fact the ones from my bank are better than I could buy.

 

[timjake]

I carried a Cross pen for ages. Now I carry the pen I get each year for donating $$ to the university I graduated from. Pretty reliable and they last a lot longer than those US Gov pens they hand out at work.

 

[Auburn4]

I carry a Zebra F-301 fine point black or blue. I have yet to have one leak on me. My mode of dress is shirt with patch pockets. Left side, billfold inside with Flag pin on outside over heart. Right side, folded hanky, comb, Zebra F-301. I am so lucky to be able to carry a COMB!!!

 

[mtgianni]

As I am in motels 12 nights a week mine usually have their logos on them. I carry a pencil most of the time, if someone wants something signed in ink, they usually have a pen.

 

[les.b]

Well, when I was still in law enforcement, I carried what used to be the standard police pen, a cross. Pen and pencil set. When I retired and entered academia, I started using a fountain pen. Have about five or six that I rotate through. Don't use cartridges, though, refill them from a bottle of 'Scrip', if I remember correctly. Much less expensive, and a bottle lasts forever. Like reloading .32 S&W Longs with Bullseye. But, we buy advertising pens to give away, and when someone wants to borrow my pen, I hand them one of those, and tell them to keep it. Good for business, and saves my delicate nibs!

 

[whitecoyote]

Bullet Pen
This pen is made from barn wood (the exact same wood you see in the background). The barn (1850's) wood is from a razed barn from Wasington Twp., MI.

This pen is made from Kauri wood from New Zeeland. The wood is 30,000 to 50,000 years old!

Here is a bullet pen made from reclaimed wood from the Coney Island board walk (cir. 1920's).

 

[TX-Dennis]

Bullet Pen
This pen is made from barn wood (the exact same wood you see in the background). The barn (1850's) wood is from a razed barn from Wasington Twp., MI.

This pen is made from Kauri wood from New Zeeland. The wood is 30,000 to 50,000 years old!

Here is a bullet pen made from reclaimed wood from the Coney Island board walk (cir. 1920's).

I am in possession of a pen that appears to be an exact replica of the last one. The fittings are the same, and even the wood appears the same. I found it on the floor at work, and I've never been able to determine its rightful owner. It sure would be nice to be able to return it to whoever lost it.

 

[Andyd]

On my desk are always fountain pens from Montblanc and Rotring that are in use. I have several sterling silver ink pens from Dunhill, too. They were made by Montblanc for Dunhill when they were both owned by the same company but never sold officially.

I was born in Hamburg, where Montblanc is headquartered and use their pens since highschool. On a daily basis I also use a couple of gold filled Cross ballpoint pens that I had bought at Service Merchandise in Chicago around 1985.

 

[Bkreutz]

I use whatever pens or pencils that are lying around. Mostly Bic or a similar ball point. I have a Cross set that was given to me on graduation day 1969, still have them.

 

[2hawk]

Zebra F-701 Stainless Steel Ballpoint with a space pen cartridge. Best of all worlds, and not too much to cry about if it goes missing.