What Ballpoint Pen Do You Use?

[sail1942]

There are occasions when only a ballpoint will do.I recently bought a LAMY Noto ballpoint which some reviewer said was designed by Naoto Fukasawa.

 

I have about 30 FP and one ballpoint. I know want anyone to think I'm promoting ballpoints. I'm just curious about what people use.

 

What ballpoint/s do you use?

[usk15]

Parker IM

Faber-Castell Basic

Pilot G2 Limited - gel pen

Pentel Energel Alloy RT - gel pen

No Name multipen - D1 minirefills

 

I'm alternating between these ones with a FP, always carry 2 pens.

[inkeverywhere]

I use a Lamy 2000 ballpoint when at work this being the only time because I have no other option. I always carry a cheap Pilot throwaway for those times when I have to let other people sign my paperwork.

 

I am as selfish with that ballpoint as my FP's.

 

Greg

[theverdictis]

Use a parker Jotter, never fails, always reliable and pretty cheap to replace in case it did mess up. i'm the same, i carry bid's for other people to use so that they do't touch my parker lol.

[kaissa]

Parker Sonnet Mini with Visconti gel refill (. Writes likes a dream. I use a Pelikan K200 with again a gel refill.

[shawndp]

Mostly Cross - Century, Apogee, Townsend... My fav writer is the Contour because of the lines on the grip.

[attika89]

I have a Rotring 600 and a Pelikan 355, but I rarely use them....
Same for the Parker 45 rollerball...

[slide13]

I like a nice ballpoint for work because I take a lot of really quick notes and make lists to check off. Uncapping a fountain pen just seems excessive to write a couple words. Right now I have:

 

Maxmadco Ti bolt action

Tibolt

Kara's Kustoms Retrakt aluminum

Kara's Kustoms Retrakt brass

Pelikan K215

Rotring 600

Parker Jotter

 

 

Bought quite a few just recently searching for what I like the best, will probably get rid of a couple eventually. Really liking the Maxmadco and Retrakt.

[DaveBj]

I do carry a ballpoint for those moments (rare tho they are) when nothing else will do. I alternate between an Adler pocket pen that was given to me by a local staffing agency (touchscreen stylus on one end, LED light on the other) and another giveaway that came to my workplace in the mail imprinted with the name of the company where I was security chief. It had a really good, solid feel in the hand and a smooth-working mechanism. Management didn't want it, so I kept it for myself.

 

Of course, any ballpoint is no better than its refill. Fortunately, the Adler refills are very good and are available online. I put a Papermate refill in the other pen, and now it writes very well, too, for a BP.

 

I also have my mother's old Papermate, in which I have also put a new refill. It writes well, but I don't carry it around, for mushy sentimental reasons. When I was overseas in the '70s and again in the late '80s, I received many letters written with that pen.

 

And I have a Cross BP that I never use.

[casualmerlinconstant]

Lamy CP1 and Papermate Kilometricos. Very rarely used however.

[F104]

I carry a Mont Blanc ballpoint (what would that be, a 161?) when I leave the house, for any paperwork I might encounter; about the house, there's a stock of Pilot G-2s, but the actual non-gel ballpoint I use most is a Caran d'Ache Model 849 in black.

[Baric]

I use a variety of ballpoints and rollerballs when not using a fountain pen. Which one kind of depends on where I am, since I don't carry one with me (except in my bag to work). At home at my desk, I mostly use a Yard-O-Led Viceroy Victorian rollerball, occasionally a pair of Montblanc Classique ballpoint/rollerballs or maybe a Levenger Chesterton Silver Mist rollerball. At work I use either a Pelikan K800 or a Levenger Chesterton Espresso rollerball.

 

If I specifically need a ballpoint and not a rollerball, it's either the Montblanc or the Pelikan.

[bernardo]

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[XiaoMG]

0.5mm Jetstream refill in a Retro 51 Tornado (Thomas Jefferson edition) generally. I also use Uni Signo DX gel pens in 0.28mm and 0.38mm. Otherwise I just use what people hand me: typically a decent fine-tipped ballpoint that makes me feel rather spoiled.

[chris.uk]

I received a lamy noto as a free gift recently and have to say it must be the worst pen i've ever used, when it comes to ballpoints I'll stick to my sheaffer no nonsense or the trusty parker jotter!

[Charles Rice]

Very rare that I use one. I just grab anything. If I have to use something other than a FP, it's a roller ball.

[jar]

None if I can avoid it. Life is far too short to put up with ballpoint pens. When I must, whatever is offered.

[j.a.j.]

I have a vintage Japanese Jumbo BP that came in a matching set with a FP. As the FP needs some work i have been using the BP for some things lately and i must say it is quite nice.

[bsenn]

I carry two in my work bag, usually just to loan out.

 

Parker 25 with space pen refill. Indestructible, plus if I am ever under water I can jot a note in my write in the rain notebook.

 

Old Sheaffer click pen, similar to a jotter, just to be different. Parker refill though.

 

Not even fountain pens, but loan either one to someone and they don't know what to think.

 

Brian

[Tanzanite]

Mostly these:

 

Parker Jotter

Parker 25

Parker Insignia

Ballograf Epoca

Ballograf Rondo

Pilot Frixionball