What pen or pens do you carry?

thaeffman

thaeffman

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My daily carry for the past month, a Staedtler Avant-Garde (black) multipen and a Pliot Myu 701 pocket fountain pen. The multipen has been with me for a year and a half but the pilot is a recent addition and so far its been working out great. I also carry a few spare g2s in my backpack for emergencies and when someone else needs a pen.

 
Nice Pilot

I edc'd a lamy safari fountain for awhile. In the winter in my inside coat pocket.
I have experimented carrying a benchmade pen, and a hinderer copper investigator pen.
But wound up with the old reliable space pen at the bottom of my pocket.
 
my EDC pen stash is :
1 sharpie twin
1 standard sharpie
1 zebra 701 .05
2 pilot uniball fine tip
rite-in-the-rain "tactical clicker"

I sometimes add to that, maybe carry more sharpies as they get loaned and lost. I used to use them more as where I worked required a lot of labeling equipment (all gear was signed off on when re-packed)
I might replace the clicker with an inka, as it is mostly to go with the rite in the rain notepad I carry. the uniballs get the most use, I just like how they write.
best way to get a pen back is to only loan the pen, not the lid, makes it less likely to go into a pocket and get forgotten.
 
The cheap Bic retractables our department buys in bulk. In police work, pens are entirely disposable and I'd go broke if I bought good ones.
 
Typically two:

Smith & Wesson SWPENMPBK Military and Police Tactical Pen, Black

and

Montblanc STARWALKER METAL & RUBBER BALLPOINT PEN

I take martial life as seriously as literary life...
 
Nice pens? Oh man... Does the ink debate get as heated as the steel debate? ;)

I'm very happy to carry a G2. I do love a good-writing pen.
Dangit... now I've gotta start searching for a better pen, haha. (This thread should help.) :)
 
I work in an office and have carried a Cross Century pen in my shirt pocket for decades. Grabbed some US made spares second hand in gold and chrome for backup. I like to use Fisher refills. The pens are on the thin side and might not be the best for extended writing periods. They are solid and simple and could be used as a "pokey thing" if it ever came down to that. Air travel friendly as well.

Having said that, I generally use whatever disposable pens the office supplies as general course.

YMMV
 
At work I carry a Zebra F-701 w/ Fisher Space Pen refill. I use it mostly when I'm writing outside now, but the ink lasts forever!

I also have a box of Pilot Precise V7's that handle the bulk of my writing. They write much better than the G2's.
 
I carry a Sharpie twin tip, and it gets used just about every day for something. Its especially good for writing boy names on Gatorade bottles and things like that. I also carry a Victorinox Manager, which has a very small but functional pen. I carry so much stuff already that I don't really want to add a real pen. One must draw the line somewhere. [<< Yeah, thats a pun. What are you going to do about it? :)].

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Normally I carry a Zebra F-701 with Fisher refill.
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montblanc classic i got off a co-worker years ago for 40 bucks. the starwalker (grail) sits in the safe.
 
Right now I'm packing a Waterman Boucheron fountain pen and a 14kt Parker 61 ball point. I get shirts with 2 pockets so the pens don't beat on each other.
 
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