Your Best Pocket Pen?

[Niagara Falls]

Vintage Pelikan 400.

Rather small, lightweight ans holds ink for thousands of pages...

[Lunaska]

Another vote for the Kaweco Sport. I have the clear demonstrator in EF; writes like a dream right out of the box.

 

In fact, I like it so much that I'm planning to get 2-3 of the ICE Sports (waiting on the new colors to come out)!

[burmeseboyz]

A belt pouch would do well...the pen would always be 'at hand', and not get busted up or scratched up by keys, change and pocket knives; nor broken by sitting wrong.

 

 

Belt pouch? Do you mean a fanny pack? If OP wears a fanny pack, he would be laughed out of the state with his tail between his legs.

 

For a pants pocket pen, I would recommend a parker vector flighter. They're cheap and the metal helps keep it from breaking. Only problem is that it's a snap cap, which may come loose.

[pmsalty]

My best pocket pen is Rotring Core, virtually indestructible, rugged clip and cheap. It's what I carry when I'm in jeans and t-shirt.

PMS

[79spitfire]

+10 (or whatever it is) on the Kaweco Sport, excellent writer as well.

 

Other options depending on how brave you feel:

 

Pilot Elite

Platinum 'long-short' pen, very similar to the Pilot

Sheaffer Tuckaway, but I would recommend one of the Touchdown filler pens, it has a sac and if the pen were to break, less likely to leak than the Vac-fil which holds it's ink in the barrel.

The biggest pen I would recommend is the Esterbrook SJ

 

Any pen in a pants pocket is a risk, this may be one of those situations where the correct answer might be a cheap gel pen like a Pilot G7. Breaking on of those won't upset you like breaking a perfect Estie or Tucky!

[Oldtimer]

Pilot Sapporo Mini--great looking, great nibs.

zi have been trying to get one of these, are they made anymore?

[Ted A]

It was the Sailor Sapporo Mini and it was discontinue about a year ago. Pilot makes the Stargazer which looks to be similar in size.

[Doug C]

Franklin Christoph 40 pocket pen.

[siopaopei]

I'll be attending the Dallas Pen Show this Friday, so of course I've got to buy a pen. My "wanta" list includes a pocket pen I can stick in a front pocket.

Where I work my "uniform" includes a pocket-less shirt so the front pocket is where it must live.

I'm aware of the Kaweco Sport and that may be what I walk out with, but is there something else out there that you can recommend?

I always hear "it's a great pen for what it is". The Kaweco Ice Sport is an under $30 pen. And in most cases you get what you pay for.

Perhaps you have a pocket pen that's a dream to write with and it wouldn't leave your side...er pocket.

 

Please give me your recommendations. And thanks.

(budget less than $125)

 

My personal preference is ALSport and Ohto Poche.

[zuhandensein]

This is my favourite. Not as resistant as the Kaweco AL Sport, but pretty fine with the metal cap. Platinum pocket, 14K nib. I do not know exactly the year or model...

 

 

[siopaopei]

This is my favourite. Not as resistant as the Kaweco AL Sport, but pretty fine with the metal cap. Platinum pocket, 14K nib. I do not know exactly the year or model...

 

 

 

awwww, that's awfully cute.

[NinthSphere]

 

Belt pouch? Do you mean a fanny pack? If OP wears a fanny pack, he would be laughed out of the state with his tail between his legs.

 

For a pants pocket pen, I would recommend a parker vector flighter. They're cheap and the metal helps keep it from breaking. Only problem is that it's a snap cap, which may come loose.

 

 

 

Belt pouch? Do you mean a fanny pack? If OP wears a fanny pack, he would be laughed out of the state with his tail between his legs.

 

For a pants pocket pen, I would recommend a parker vector flighter. They're cheap and the metal helps keep it from breaking. Only problem is that it's a snap cap, which may come loose.

 

I suspect he means a pouch...on his belt. Not where I'd carry pens, but my belt is out of pouch space.

 

+ whatever for a Stipula Passaporto or a Pilot Elite, 95s or otherwise. Great pens.

[PerryJ]

What about a Pilot metro ?

[Algester]

muji compact (looks like the Ohto compact and may have been made by Ohto infact) and the TWSBI mini still getting my hands on that Kaweco stonewashed

[ISW_Kaputnik]

Not much point in responding to the original posts from 2011. The OP has no doubt made a decision by now.

 

On the general point, though, as far as I'm concerned, almost any pen with a clip is suitable for carry in a shirt pocket. Only a few oversized pens won't work with the shirts I wear.

 

On the other hand, I don't much care whether this makes the pocket sag a little, or how it may look to someone else. If that were a concern, I have some nice small vintage pens, Eversharp Skyline and Symphony, Conway Stewart 388, a vest pocket size Waterman, all of which would be unobtrusive in even a small shirt pocket.

[setriode]

My Kaweco Sport gives me such immense pleasure whenever I use it. I have a Tuckaway as well but that is heavier because it has a metal cap and overall is more precious. The Sport on the other hand, accompanies me everywhere.

[KBeezie]

Of all my pocketable pens especially for pants pocket I would say the Pilot Elite with the 18K Nib from the 70s.

 

Larger metal cap, very large section (which is why I prefer it over the Kaweco AL Sport), the nibs are excellent (especially my Soft Fine one), and can take both a pilot cartridge or con-20 converter. They're also relatively inexpensive if you're on the prowl, such as the one with the soft fine I got $36 shipped from Japan, and the one with the 18K Posting nib I got shipped for around $25.

 

Capped, Uncapped, and Posted pic for comparison.

 

http://static.karlblessing.com/pens/collections/shorties_oct2014/capped.jpg

 

http://static.karlblessing.com/pens/collections/shorties_oct2014/uncapped.jpg

 

http://static.karlblessing.com/pens/collections/shorties_oct2014/posted.jpg

 

What about a Pilot metro ?

For me, Not as handy as an elite that fits better in the pocket, and I like the grip area better. Most of the stress is on the cap if any stress occurs rather than right on the section connection. I've also found that the cap is much more likely to pop off the metropolitan if either dropped or grabbed the wrong way.

 

http://static.karlblessing.com/pens/pocket_pens/posted.jpg

 

But you can least use a con-50 in a Pilot Metropolitan.

Edited December 2, 2014 by KBeezie

[NinthSphere]

Not much point in responding to the original posts from 2011. The OP has no doubt made a decision by now.

 

 

I hadn't even realized until today that this thread was a necro & I was quoting 2011 posts.

[dapv]

 

I hadn't even realized until today that this thread was a necro & I was quoting 2011 posts.

 

I was viewing the thread as timeless. BTW: because of this thread I'm now jonesing for the burgundy Pilot Elite 95S medium point.

[Cepasaccus]

I normally have a safety in my Jeans pocket. 42, 44, 45, 46 or Montblanc.