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I picked up another esterbrook from Nathaniel over at thepenmarket since he said he'd throw in some ink sacs to restore a desk pen I had, and I decided to just throw $10 at a novel looking ballpoint.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi38DKVo8YE

 

Holy (bleep) this thing almost takes the title from my beloved fisher ag-7. Almost.

It has a Fisher refill in it, a decent ballpoint fill (I like them for the fact that I can write on anything) and the mechanism works by just pressing the nose of the pen firmly onto something and it gives a nice, satisfying click as the refill slides out. Write as you normally do, but the spring mechanism in the nose gives the ballpoint a really nice bounce, like a springier steel nib. To retract the ball, another firm press and the point slides back up.

 

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The body is a simple slender chrome plated brass or steel barrel, accented with a swell of cocobolo wood in the grip. It's supremely comfortable, for a ballpoint. Build quality is outstanding. The clip is simple but works well.

 

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The only downside to the nose clicker is that unless you click it on the table or your leg or hand (which is not always a good thing to do, especially in a non-black suit) you will leave a dot on the paper when you click it on the page. I just use the last period of my writing to be the retraction, which is actually pretty fun, but opening it still leaves us with a little dot somewhere.

Still, I find the mechanism EXTREMELY satisfying and it lends some nice bounce to the writing, which is nice with how hard you need to press to make a ballpoint write at all.

Overall, if you like novel designs, look around, a used click-up is usually around $30, same price as a Fisher space pen, same build quality, same refill

Edited by Honeybadgers

Selling a boatload of restored, fairly rare, vintage Japanese gold nib pens, click here to see (more added as I finish restoring them)

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