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Just taken delivery of a Pilot Grance, can't use a fountain pen for paperwork at my job, this is a great rollerball. It is fitted with a .5 refill which I like but have ordered some .7 out of curiosity.

 

Overall I don't own many rollerballs but this certainly a keeper.

 

 

Greg

"may our fingers remain ink stained"

Handwriting - one of life's pure pleasures

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I've also been enjoying the Pentel Energel, same smoothness as the V5, but the blue is a little more vibrant.

 

Another vote for the Pentel EnerGel. Its vibrant blue ink is gorgeous indeed.

 

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Received this capped version the other day. I like it better than the retractable one, which tends to show a little bit too much clearance around the tip. Not so with this one.

~ Alexander

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Just received a J. Herbin rollerball yesterday and loaded it with Yama-budo. I'm really impressed with this thing and intend to order a few more. Next one is definitely getting KWZI Grapefruit.

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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Today I used this Bexley Sheherezade in a beautiful tortoise material. I have a matching fountain pen that is among the best writers I own.

 

My only other rollerball is a Montegrappa Emblema in a gorgeous blue with sterling silver trim. I was too embarrassed to take a picture because I haven't used it in quite a while and the silver trim is tarnished and needs to be polished a bit - just enough to still leave a nice patina.

 

http://www.fototime.com/%7B80499452-1066-49F3-AAC3-0180F901644F%7D/origpict/R1.JPG

 

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Today I used this Bexley Sheherezade in a beautiful tortoise material. I have a matching fountain pen that is among the best writers I own.

 

Wow, that's lovely.

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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Wow, that's lovely.

 

Thanks! Here is the pair of rollerball and fountain pen.

 

http://www.fototime.com/%7B5A79A1B6-9D45-47A7-95F3-2A60D66A0F6D%7D/origpict/R3.JPG

 

http://www.fototime.com/%7B35F77CAD-1EFE-4A75-9733-62976F0F15FD%7D/origpict/R4.JPG

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MB Meisterstuck classic. Same refill already 7 years! Actually, it is living peacefully and undisturbed in a pen case which migrates from one handbag to the other, as a back-up, if something goes badly wrong with the FP (s) in the other slot.

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Thank you Zookie, much appreciated!

 

I agree with zookie.

Mooi handschrift!

 

 

D.ick

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pilot hitecpoint v5 0.5. old classic.

 

others on my desk:

very dissatisfied with jetstream 1.0, while the 0.7 keeps working properly

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pilot hitecpoint v5 0.5. old classic.

 

others on my desk:

very dissatisfied with jetstream 1.0, while the 0.7 keeps working properly

How's the Hitecpoint compare with the precise?

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well, never even seen one. maybe it's same pen with different names in eu/na market?

really don't know

It looks like that's the case. I love the V5 with its needle-point, it writes so smoothly. Only problem I've ever had is lending them to others for signatures then getting back a pen with the point at a right angle.

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I like the Pilot Precise v5 and v7. The only issue that I have with them is skipping and drying out.

The Pilot P500 and P700 is also the same quality.

Pentel Energel pens are also great.

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I've been using the Jetstream Alpha as my go to backup pen and ever since I've started using Jetstream rollerball cartridges I've never gone back to another brand (of rollerball).

 

Though I've also had issue with one Jetstream skipping it was because I used liquid paper and didn't let it dry long enough, I find it 'bizarre' to hear a Jetstream skipping without something being put/jammed into the cartridge as I've gone through many cartridges and honestly the only time it ever skipped was as I said before after using it on liquid paper.

 

Now I just wish Jetstream cartridges would be usable in other pens.

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Using a Rotring Skynn with a blue Jinhao refill.

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