Can you recommend a pen, light, knife combo?

I have a space pen and I agree. They are pretty nice is many ways, but they do blob and it is annoying at times. I found a very similar pen by Zebra that is quite inexpensive and available at office suppy stores that solves the problem. An excellent cartridge with no blobing. I don't think it has the zero gravity or underwater capability, though. But it is a similar length and diameter as the bullet pen when closed and makes a better full sized pen when open.
 
Thanks again, Lurker. I realize I need to check into the pen world. And Powernoodle, wow, that's a lot of lights. I may have some questions for you in the future.
 
wutitiz said:
Lambertiana--nice edcs there. Is it really true that a fountain pen is more reliable? I would have guessed the opposite. What about when compared to the Fisher space pens w/ pressurized cartridges? I know little about pens.
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A ballpoint pen requires a rough finish to work properly, to make the ball rotate, while a fountain pen does not. The only time a fountain pen has problems writing is on things like a plastic cup, where something like a sharpie shines. With a fountain pen, you only have to touch the surface for the ink to flow. As long as it is a quality pen, it will work well. Plus, you can choose from a huge selection of different color inks, from every imaginable shade of the visible light spectrum.
 
Fountain pens are very reliable, as long as they're made in the last 20-30 years and cost more than $30-40. There are older pens that are also very reliable, but because they were made differently you'd need to know a little about pens to find one of the good ones.

The ink is almost as thin as water and flows down by gravity and capillary action to the nib; the only times a fountain pen won't write are when it's ultrawindy and dry, drying out the ink so fast that it can't flow down, and upside down. I've never had the windy thing happen, but there have certainly been times I wanted to write upside down, but ultimately I'm not an astronaut, so I just lowered the piece of paper.

A good fountain pen starts writing the second it touches paper, and writes smoothly until it runs out of ink. Leaking is also a thing of the past, except with crappy pens that you might buy at Walgreens, for example.

Good brands that don't cost a fortune are Lamy, Parker, Waterman, Faber Castell, and Visconti. I may have forgotten some, but all ye needeth to do is ask.
 
Fisher Space Pen (Black with the clip)
Surefire E2D
My blade combo is a swiss army hiker in my pocket and hak claw neck knife (stays sheathed around neck, only there for defensive purposes should need arrive).

Of the three above it seems my pocket knife choice changes with time. My space pen and surefire don't.
 
Lambertiana & bobofish, thank you for that pen info. At least now I know what I don't know, which can be a huge step forward, lol.

I recall the inexpensive fountain pens that were around when I was a kid (40 yrs ago)--they would sometimes leak profusely and make a huge mess. They had little cartridges about maybe 1/3 the size of an AAA battery
 
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