Awesome Pens

Fisher’s special pens feature a colored stripe honoring firefighters, EMS, law enforcement, and search and rescue professionals. Each one is worthy of use in the field with its reliable pressurized ink cartridge and single-handed mechanism. A portion of proceeds from each sale helps support first responder charities.

EDCacord offers these handmade titanium pens which have deeply-textured designs for a confident grip. They have a screw cap and waterproof O-ring, and the back end of the pen has a magnetic bit holder. Available in stonewashed, bronze, blue, ice blue, and dark rainbow finishes.

This premium writing instrument offers a unique take on bolt action mechanisms. Its entire front end retracts inside of its body, protecting pockets from ink and rips. Each one is precision machined from titanium and stainless steel and is built for longevity and ease of maintenance. Accepts Fisher Space Pen refills.

This bolt-action tactical pen features a bold aesthetic, highlighted by a textured finger grip, deep engravings on its body, and precision threading on its rear. It’s made from 6AL4V titanium, and accepts a Schmidt Megaline P950M or similar refill. Available in anodized green or raw metal finishes.

MetMo’s unique pen features a precision-machined, dual-threaded body with a pair of nuts that can glide smoothly along its interleaved threading. Its design is perfect for fidgeters, offering a tactile grip and doubling as a desk toy. An optional hexagonal brass cover hides its threads. Available in aluminum or polished brass.

Product designers Arrow & Eaves created a keychain-sized pen that looks and feels more substantial than others. It’s made from durable, lightweight titanium and is designed for long life while hanging from your key ring. Its pen holds firmly in place with an o-ring and screw threads to prevent loss while open or closed.

Fountain pen nibs have a specific shape for a reason. But the Drillog takes a unique approach, capturing ink in a series of spiraling channels which lead to to a precision straight tip which produces incredibly sharp lines. Price shown is for a set with the barrel and either a 0.5mm or 0.8mm nib. Pen rest sold separately.

Tactile Turn’s sleek and substantial pen features a side click mechanism, providing satisfying feedback when deploying or retracting its pen tip. It’s available in titanium, copper, bronze, or zirconium, in 4.6″, 5.3″, and 5.8″ lengths. An optional titanium Damascus clip doubles the pen’s price but looks amazing.

Everyday Carry looks back at the past month to see what kind of gear its readers clicked on the most. The top 10 items feature a great assortment that includes CRKT’s Techliner pen, Seiko’s SNE331 Solar military watch, along with some sweet pocket tools, a compact accessory bag, and more.

Blank Forces’ titanium pen is designed for strength, balance, and utility. It features a bolt-action mechanism and a staggered tip like a mechanical pencil. Its matching dock shows off its sleek design while keeping the pen readily at hand. Finishes include smooth titanium, a perforated “silencer,” or Cerakote in white, black, or orange.

TA+d designed this elegant set that includes an aluminum writing instrument that slides into the body of a matching three-sided ruler. The ruler has a carabiner hole at one end so you can hang it from a bag or belt loop. Choose from metric or imperial rulers and a Pilot FriXion erasable pen or a 2mm mechanical pencil.

By moving their bolt-action mechanism to the middle of the case, GPCA was able to outfit their pens with a 100 dB survival whistle. They also feature a tungsten glass breaker, and their grips are marked for impromptu measurements. They come in four finishes: aluminum Space Silver or Jet Black, and titanium High Polish or Dark.

Looking to fill your pockets with some great new gear? Everyday Carry tallied up its most popular reader-submitted items from April 2021 and they’re here with the results. Among our faves are the small, but mighty Olight S2R Baton II flashlight and the handy Gerber Shard pocket tool.

Videographer Frederic van Strydonck created a smartphone rig that allowed him to attach a camera to a brush marker pen, providing a unique perspective as ink flows smoothly onto the paper beneath its tip. Laughing Squid has a picture of the camera rig that made the shot possible.

Nitecore’s tactical pen features a bidirectional bolt-action mechanism. Flip it one way to expose the writing tip, and the other direction to reveal a self-defense / glass breaker tool. Its body is made from CNC-machined aluminum alloy in a black finish, while its tool tip is made from tungsten steel.

This tiny writing instrument goes anywhere and never needs ink. It uses a special silver composite tip that can leave its mark on a wide variety of surfaces. It measures less than 1″ long, and can also be used for opening boxes. Choose from titanium, copper, or brass variants.

These days, we spend most of our time on our phones, tablets, and laptops. But sometimes, writing and sketching on paper is just more intuitive and natural. And if you’re going to write, you need a good writing instrument. Our pals at Everyday Carry are here with 10 groovy and distinctive pens for jotting down ideas.

Premium office accessory maker Grovemade’s solid metal pen is weighty and balanced, while its faceted surface provides excellent grip, and its tip retracts with a twist of its tail. It comes in black or brass and can be bundled with a metal and wood stand in either maple or walnut.

Unlike other 3D printing pens, Polaroid’s CandyPlay pen outputs designs using candy instead of plastic. It heats up to melt and extrude candy to make freeform sculpted edible artworks. Its sugar-free candy refills come in in strawberry, orange, lemon, apple, grape, and cola, and assorted flavors.

Created by WynLABS, this minimal metal pen features a design that lets you see into its middle. Its split body is machined from a single block of aluminum, with a springy sidebar that uses gravity to drop its refill into place. It comes with a Fisher Space Pen refill for writing in any conditions.

When is a pen not just a pen? When it’s got the durability and utility of a tactical pen. Our pals at Everyday Carry picked a dozen of their favorites, some of which double as self-defense tools, emergency glass breakers, or can even write upside-down or in the rain.

Boker’s unique bolt-action pen is sculpted from patterned black and white Micarta composite, formed to provide an ergonomic grip. Its end cap, tip, and clip are made from titanium-coated aluminum. They also make a .50 cal pen from a matte aluminum.

This CNC-machined titanium pen comes from Canadian metal goods maker FocusWorks. Its design combines a sleek technical style with an organic-looking “dragonskin” textured grip. Its accompanying clicky cap attaches securely without screw threads or o-rings. It takes a standard Schmidt Easyflo 9000 cartridge.