OT: Favorite writing implement?

[richard_l]

.....other than that, who doesn't like a Sharpie? 🙂

The problem is that Sharpies are anything but permanent, as artists who use them for drawing and painting keep finding out, much to their chagrin. A pen which uses a fugitive ink should not be called a "permanent marker."

 

[Tim]

A silver Cross fountain pen.

Although I am permanently glued to a computer keyboard for work, even there when I need to think on paper I reach for pen and paper.

It's hard to do mind maps with little ideas all linked together in random ways on a computer......

 

[Kim Coxon]

A Parker Sonnet Fountain Pen.

Kim

 

[markinlondon]

Currently a Pentel "graphgear 1000" .7mm mechanical pencil loaded with B leads for the notebook, a Sharpie for marking up film cassettes, a chinagraph pencil for marking up contact prints and any old pencil lying around the darkroom for those miscellaneous marking and notetaking tasks.

Incidentally "le vrai Moleskine n'existe plus" as a stationer famously told Bruce Chatwin (a Leica user) but the modern "copies" are fine notebooks.

Mark

 

[peterc]

I use a Sigma 4 in one ... fine point pen, mechanical pencil, highlighter and PDA stylus all in one.

Peter

 

[kzim56]

If you saw my handwriting you would know why I prefer my Mac whenever possible. Any fine writing instrument would be wasted in my hand. There are untrained monkeys that have nicer handwriting than mine.

Karl

 

[Todd.Hanz]

I have tried many and always return to the old standby, Red Crayola on a Big Chief tablet . Mine comes in a nice box with 7 other colors to use based on your mood.

BTW, I eat paste.

 

[Alec]

As I have a nomadic professional lifestyle I tend to use the cheapest ball pens, lest they get lost/stolen or leak...
And I found that Bic, a French corporation, makes both the cheapest and most pleasant to me - "Bic Cristal"
http://www.bicworld.com/inter_fr/bdd/product_writing.asp?product_id=41
(free ad)

Otherwise, the Walmart corporate way of using only "free" pens (given by suppliers, customers, hotels...) suits me quite well!

I don't have the same reasoning regarding timekeepers, though, but a. they are attached to one's wrist and b. I won't go off off topic.

 

[markinlondon]

BTW, I eat paste.

Oh, don't I know, Todd. I live with a bookbinder and sometimes paste is all we have in the fridge 🙂

Mark

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Writing implement? Any which allow concoctions of dark fluid on prepared rations of dried organic fiberous pulp in different degrees of serotonin-deploying levels while it glides in a Newtonian fashion.

Plotting a hierarchical layout would prove most biased. It would not be logical.

 

[Doctor Zero]

I'm amazed to see so many people using fountain pens!
Then again, considering at least my friends think I'm a total n*t for using the camera I do, maybe this is part of the image. I've a pocket watch to match - and if ever I need glasses, I'll be in the market for some pince-nez.

What ho, jolly good old chap, fine weather we're having! 😉

I have two Rotring fountain pens. One got me through my end-of-school exams and looks as though it got me through a minor war somewhere. The other got me through my degree-exams and is equally battle scarred. I've another, cheapy-one at home, too.

Incidentally: in school, we were taught to write with a fountain pens! As a left-hander, that meant coming home every day with a nice blue left hand. Not much has changed since.

 

[SteveM(PA)]

And I found that Bic, a French corporation, makes both the cheapest and most pleasant to me - "Bic Cristal"

The Bic corporation was originally the "Bich" corporation, but shortened to "Bic" in the 1940's, because there was fear that Americans would mispronounce the name. And there is of course the story of how Jerry Seinfeld persuaded Bic to produce a batch of traditional Crystals without the hole in cap, just for him. The hole had been put there to prevent choking.

I'm also partial to the quad-color bic, so my other MC's and I can keep our lyrics straight 😀

 

[Bobbo]

I keep a Dixon Ticonderoga Yellow No. 2, rollerball, and a black sharpie (fine tip on one end, ultra fine on the other) in my camera bag...no real favorites, just what does the job

 

[thmk]

For everydays notes I take a mechanical pencil. They are much more convenient as ballpoint pens if I have to write fast while taking phone calls.

Cheers
Thomas-Michael

 

[dmr]

BTW, I eat paste.

ROFL! 🙂

Not to show my true age, and not to admit that I ever did it {blush} but the school paste Way Back When was more like a peppermint frosting than it was any kind of effective adhesive. 🙂

They *HAD* to have flavored it that way, intentionally, to encourage kids eating it.

(How did I ever get off on this tangent? ...) 🙂

 

[Pherdinand]

fountain pen forever! But i didn't use one for ages🙁

 

[DougK]

I have tried many and always return to the old standby, Red Crayola on a Big Chief tablet . Mine comes in a nice box with 7 other colors to use based on your mood.

BTW, I eat paste.

I was wondering who the first person would be to mention crayons, in fact, I almost put that as an option on the poll.

 

[smiling gecko]

but my favorite ?? i carry and use a middlin' size mont blanc fountain pen, a retro 51 rollerball, a parker "nasa space pen" (along with my pocket change), a parker stainless steel ballpoint and lately a sharpie with teal/turquoise color "ink".

if i have my old lands end canvas satchel with me...the plot/ink /lead thickens. lurking within...a 40's vintage parker mechanical pen w 1.0 size lead, a silver cross pen & pencil set, another retro 51 rolllerbal, like alec & langdon a couple of tres chic bic ,a flat carpenters pencil, an assortment of 2,3,4, hard and soft lead sketch pencils, some charcoal sticks in a box, sharpies -assortment of colors & point widths, a well used pilot mr. grip, a black sensia roller ball, a beat-up rotoring, high lighters, a couple of #2 pencils,etc,etc

i don't need a cartier diabolo, i don't need a cartier diabolo, i don't need a cartier diabolo, i
don't........hah! what does need have to do with anything??? i don't need a leica cl, i don't need a leica cl, i don't.... got to go, i hear my wife !! wheh, that was close ...

todd, i like the crayon thing !!! color and texture and aroma and memories...will have to try it

happy new year to you all !!! kenneth
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[aizan]

i like that one paper mate pen with the blue plastic bottom half and chrome top half. classic!

 

[vha]

huum, let me see ..

In one of my camerabags i have a Fisher Bullet, since they dont freeze, for agenda writing i use a Parker roller-ball (but they freeze fine at -25 Celsius, and all the ink gets out at once)
Moleskine use i prefer a Staedtler mars lumograph 100 pencil either F or H.
Work use (writing ugly on the customer envelopes for the lab) i use a fountain pen or more likely, what ever I have borrowed and forgot to return 😉

vha