I like the Zebra F402 soft pen

I write in pencil, because things always change. 

I have a Fisher bullet space pen for when I'm in uniform (nice and small, so it fits in my hip pocket).

I do most of my writing in pencil, though.  Years and years of math and science courses (not to mention my current line of work) have done two things to my writing: 1. I don't remember how to write cursive, and 2. I almost always write in pencil.

I use pen when I write on my hand, though, which is an unfortunate habit I've picked up from co-workers ("I never lost my hand").

A few months ago work gave THESE PENS out to all 900 of our employees.

They really have good weight to them and write really smooth.  I like it.  I've been using it to sign certificates and such at CAP.  Of course the rest of the time, it just sits in it's box because I don't want to lose it, or have it walk away...

I suppose it's like owning a Ferrari and not driving it because you don't want to get it scratched...

Quote from: Walkman on February 08, 2008, 05:39:56 PM

I use ONLY Dixon Ticonderoga 1388-S/HB pencils at my office. Clean line, stays sharp and erases completely.

And this my friends is a true designer! (By the way, my desk drawer is full of that exact same model...right next to my stock of white gum erasers.)

I tried a Parker Jotter with some Christmas cash.  They write nice, but, I didn't like the amount of value put into a writing instrument.  I like the idea of pens and pencils being easily replaced, borrowed, given, dropped, lost, etc.

I like the regular Papermate classic pencils.  More bio-degradeable if you drop it in the field, can be sharpened with simply a knife, and doesn't bleed!  They are also acceptable for writing on sheet music. (I play trombone)

As for pens, anything that is relatively smooth and doesn't bleed or show through on the other side of loose leaf.  Bic ClicStic is the ideal one for me.

Pen AND pencil: The Cross Tech3 which can flip from a black ink to a red ink pen and also to a pencil.  I thought it was going to be like one of those old-fashioned "click the color you want" fat pens but I like the look, practicality, and weight of it.  And as a sometimes editor I LOVE the red ink! 

^ I got that for Christmas, and love it!  I have never been more impressed with a Cross Pen than I was with that!

I used to have this really great pen.  It had black ink, red ink, orange gel ink, and a mechanical pencil, and was no wider than that Cross Tech3.  Near the plunger was writing showing the different writing tips.  The tips were gravity selected, so whichever word was facing upwards when you hit the plunger was the one that got selected.  I lost that pen about a week after I got it (never buy an expensive pen for a 5th grader...)

I also forgot to mention my other favorite pen.  The Cross Classic Century 10K Gold Pen - I found one of these things at work one day and fell in love with it...then lost it...found it when i realized my DCoC picked it up...and have since lost it again...

^ Sounds like you need to stick to a Bic for a while SARKID!   

I'm kinda like sarkid, I lose everything... between $20-$50 bills (it has happened on a number of occassions, not often).  I'm notorious for losing pens left and right, I have lost other things and today I just lost someone else's valuable so now I gotta look at replacing it (or hope wherever I dropped it is still there if I think its still there when I get there tomorrow).

Like anything, I like pencils and pens that are made domestically, or at least not in a sweatshop.  Papermate usually comes through for me.