What Rollerball Pen Do You Use?

[Left FPN]

[twdpens]

I'm generally of the position that rollerballs are the work of Stan (apart from the ones that take standard cartridges, because more colours).

 

However, I do have a Lamy swift capless RB. It's useful for writing on shiny paper like guarantee booklets.

 

Martin

[oregano]

My fallback is still Pilot V5 liquid ink pens, but now that I use fountain pens I also have a few nicer rollerballs I use occasionally:

 

Pelikans - Grand Place, Piccadilly circus, and a R250 brown tortoise

 

 

Aurora Optima blue with chrome trim -- I prefer Aurora's refills to Pelikan's and Schmidt by far but it only fits Aurora pens...

 

There are a couple other rollerballs I'd love to have, but these are the ones I use now.

[Sammyo]

Retro 51 Roosevelt

http://static.jetpens.com/images/a/000/064/64757.jpg

[sharonspens]

Currently I carry a Sheaffer Ferrari 300 RB everywhere with me. I own a number of RBs, and pens using gel refills: THINK!, Acme Crayons, Retro 51s. I do not care for BPs, so just about all of the ones I own have gel refills in them.

[mulrich]

I was given a MB rollerball a few years back as a gift. I got tired of spending money on cartridges so I researched ways to cheaply replace them. That led me to learn you could refill a cartridge with ink, which led me to learn about inks, which quickly led me to discover fountain pens. I would have saved a lot of money if I had just stuck with replacing cartridges.

[pen2paper]

I'm with Sammyo, my Retro 51 is my go-to writer at my computer.

The celluloid set with fountain pen. L o v e the medium fountain pen too, but it dries out rather quickly.

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/59876-retro-51-desk-set-tortoise/

[IvoryParker]

I have had supervening sessions of insanity (not using fountain pens) and during these periods I find the Pilot Hi-Tecpoint (0.5 mm) to be good however I do feel that the ink is a bit light. I have also used a Parker Vector 'medium' nib this lays down an extremely broad line which is paper fussy. I do feel that the Pilot V ball 0,5mm is a good pen that has pure liquid ink and lasts for ages. I only write with black ink by the way.

[wastelanded]

[DiCHi93]

http://i.imgur.com/uJD2AD6.jpg

The left one is a "Reynolds Trimax" with a refill by its side. The right one is a Pilot Tecpoint 0.5. Trimax is only non FP I use, I just included tecpoint for completeness.

[RMN]

I have in the distant past acquired a few sets that included a FP, BP and RB. Notably a Cross Verve Platinum and a Visconti Ragtime.

 

They sit completely unused as, like Martin, I detest the things. The smudge and write un-even.

 

I also must have some low level Parker RBs that were advertising pens. Sometimes one peeps from a corner of a drawer. Sofar I have resisted the urge to throw them away.

 

 

 

D.ick