Fine or Medium Space Pen

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Spoutz

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I'm getting my first space pen this week and was wondering what everyone's favorite color and thickness ink cartridge! Thanks for the input!
 
I am not aware there are different point (line) thicknesses, but there are several styles. The most common are the chrome (silver) Bullet pens, but they come in Black too. Very nice but the pocket clips easily fall off. I have had a couple other styles, but any of the styles seem to dissapear rapidly.

Good choice as pens go.
 
I'm a fan of medium.

There are bold, medium, and fine.
Some ink color choices from Fisher are black, blue, green, silver, red, burgundy, purple, brown, and turquoise.
 
I found black medium was best for business purposes, and had no reason to look for any other color for casual use.

I've used many of their styles but one I've come to like a lot now is also one of the least expensive: the Zero Gravity. It has a thick rubberized barrel with a triangular tip for a comfortable grip. The tail is a large round clickie to extend or retract the point.

There is also an all-metal version, which didn't interest me, and a Police version I got for my brother-in-law. Same as the ZG, just a different logo.
 
I used to like blue, and liked to have red ink around also, but with so many of my documents xeroxed, I leaned on black for the more consistently clear copies.
 
I've been a space pen user/fan for a long time. I carry one in my Mission Wallet. I use the black Military clickie for work. I like the painted space pen better than the chrome version. The chrome is too slick to stay together and is uncomfortable to write with for long periods.

I like the fine point best but they are hard to find locally. All anyone seems to stock is the bold, black.

I've lost a couple over the years, but I always buy another. I also use the fillers in my Parker pens.
 
I like the fine, because I usually need to write small. Fisher pens tend to blob a bit, and the fine blobs less than the medium. I don't carry my Space Pens much anymore. I prefer a 0.5mm Pilot G2 gel pen,

Blue. Always blue.
 
I have several different models of Fisher pens, but mostly carry older (USA made) Cross ballpoints with Fisher refills. I like blue because my signature or notes stand out against a monochrome printed page. Medium is my favorite, but fine is also "fine with me". My local stationary shop (downtown Chicago) ordered a few for me for pickup in the store. Black is cool too, but I prefer the blue. The Bullet is my go to backup, carried in jeans on the weekend.
 
I prefer the medium black refill. I always used black ink ever since 4th grade, when I was first allowed to use pens. The teachers only allowed black ink, so I still use it.
The pen I run my fisher refills in is a gray gen 1 Schrade tac pen. Love it.
 
Medium Black, here, I write with one all day and that works best for me. I use the Bullet Pen at my desk but carry an Explorer in my Fatboy.

Win
 
I like the fine point. I carry a bullet pen daily and I find the fine blobs less. I had to order them online as I can't find them local.
 
I'm another black/fine person. I write a lot in an organizer, and need to be able to write small. Most of mine had blobbed up when the cartridge is low - I take it as a sign to put in a new one. I use the titanium bullet, love that pen!
 
I finally got one as a Christmas present to myself , so happy that I did. I love this pen !!!


Tostig
 
I vote for Black Medium. I use mine to write on clipboards, it's very handy because that means I can put the clipboard up against a wall and write on it without the pen running out. Black Medium shows up well and is very easy to write with.

Of course, for making really cool-looking signatures, nothing beats a Waterman or a LAMY fountain pen! (unless it's on Ditto paper, in which case you need to use something else!)
 
I guess I'd pick medium; thinner ballpoints are just too stingy on the ink. Fisher space pens are pretty cool, but they're not the best out there for writing. Their ink tends to "booger up" in clumps as you write with it, as opposed to ballpoint refills from high end pens, or even some low end ones. Of course, a good fountain pen will write much better than any ballpoint, since the ink flow is steady and you don't need to apply any pressure to write. Not all of them are extremely expensive, either; I recommend you try one just to see.
 
im going to say to go for fine. I have god-awful handwriting, its an actual learning disability. I have found that the thinner the point the clearer my writing is. My mother, uncle and everyone else in my family has beautiful handwriting, and i try to imitate it but am unable, there are pens that are purpose built to have exceptionally thin tips and that is what has always worked best for me. Id get one of both fine and medium and see the preference for yourself.
 
I think they are cool and neat. I just don't particularly care that so much tax money was spent developing the product when a $.05 pencil would seem to work in a low gravity environment, too.

Maybe I'm wrong and maybe tax dollars weren't used (or maybe it's paid for itself by now?)????? If so, very cool.

I know this doesn't help the o.p. too much, so here goes: I can't stand pens that aren't fine, black ink. No blue, no red, no medium, nada. Fine & Black is what I'm after.
 
I prefer fine blue fisher refills.

I have run out of them at the moment, and both my Tuffwriter and the space pen in my wallet are running their original black refills.

Need to get some more fine blue ones
 
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