Good Pens For Sweaty Hands

[A Smug Dill]

The Lamy Accent comes with all sorts of readily interchangeable gripping sections, including some wooden ones, rubber ones, grooved ones, etc.

 

The section on the Diplomat Aero is textured and not slippery.

 

The section on the Aurora Alpha is glossy metal but knurled.

[inkstainedruth]

Interestingly enough, I was in a local Barnes & Noble today and was looking at an inexpensive Faber-Castell c/c pen in a blister pack. I'd looked at the pink and teal ones before, but this was dark blue -- and unlike those, came with a medium nib (the other ones were always EFs). But this one had a rubberized section, and I had wondered how well that would hold up over the long haul; my first fountain pens were a couple of Parker Reflexes, and after a while the rubber disintegrated (I was only using them for my morning pages journal -- but I was using first one and then the other one daily).

So I decided to NOT get the pen. It came with a pack of cartridges, but I don't think it came with a converter included (I'm presuming by "standard" cartridges or converters they meant "International Standard").

Oh and those Parkers? The rubberized part was just glued over a metal section....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[sirgilbert357]

The Lamy Accent comes with all sorts of readily interchangeable gripping sections, including some wooden ones, rubber ones, grooved ones, etc.

 

The section on the Diplomat Aero is textured and not slippery.

 

The section on the Aurora Alpha is glossy metal but knurled.

How's the section on your Lamy Studio Stealth (is that the correct name for it? There might be an "LX" in there?)? Is it rubber or lacquer like the rest of the pen?

[Honeybadgers]

I have really oily fingers. Knurled metal works great, like the muji aluminum pen, the lamy CP-1, raw, unpolished bass is quite easy to grasp, I find regular plastic, celluloid, and acrylic easy to hold (platinum 3776, various pilots), the lava of visconti homosapiens is lovely,

 

The tactile turn gist has a textured finish that anyone should be able to hold onto

 

Pretty much the only thing I can't tolerate and slips around in my hands is polished metal sections, excluding brass, copper, silver, etc. But chromed sections or hyper polished stuff just holds oil and my fingers get so slippery on them.

 

If I had to say there was one pen I could pretty much never drop, it'd be something like the knurled aluminum on the muji aluminum, visconti homosapiens, or the tactile turn gist.

Edited October 1, 2019 by Honeybadgers

[A Smug Dill]

@sirgilbert357 Lamy Studio Lx All Black. I can't tell you whether the grip is rubber, and I don't have a brushed steel version of the Lamy Studio against which to compare, but it could well be that, even though it doesn't quite feel like the smooth black rubber grip for the Lamy Accent. Goulet says, "... the LX All Black features a matte black lacquered grip that matches the body." I don't think that's quite correct, and it doesn't feel like lacquer on anything to me, and it is different from the material that forms the body and cap.

 

I find that, when I'm writing "normally" (for me), I'm not actually gripping the section with my thumb anyway, so short glossy metal sections screwed onto a barrel that is not glossy metal doesn't actually cause problems for me.

Edited October 1, 2019 by A Smug Dill

[Bibliophage]

Depending on how the cap ends up on the section, you could always look into Plasti-Dip. Just add a thin coat to whatever you're trying to use. Might look terrible (although you can get lots of colours), but would improve grip _and_ is fully replaceable without damaging the pen.

[Waltz For Zizi]

As someone said before, Lamy 2000 is great. I have sweaty hands too.

[Mech-for-i]

A wooden barrel / sectioned pen which had the wood just sanded smooth, not oiled, waxed, nor any other ... the material pretty much guarantee a fairly secure pose of a grip