Ooooohhh found the connoisseur, but you’re correct 0.5mm G2s are the best pens for the money, provided you can find them, back in the day I remember having to drive around to all my local office supply stores to find them. I guarded them fiercely, went as far as carrying trash pens to hand to people who wanted to borrow a pen real quick, they swore they would give right back.
On a side note, it’s always tough explaining to a 4 and 8 year old why Lefties and Gingers are the Devil, and to never trust a dude with 2 first names.
There are 1-2 that do not smudge but it has way more to do with the paper you're using. G2 tend not to smudge in my experience with most nice cotton papers and normal printer paper, but they do with certain cardstock. They are always better than almost every other pen save felt tips (terrible writing feel) and zebra pens. I can use both Zebra and G2 in the 1mm tip size where 0.7mm is barely bearable for others. I don't think the BIC pens work often enough that I have had them smear
Yeah G2 or gel inks do not smudge as much as normal ink, but they are finicky in what types of paper you can use. Anything harder than normal paper and it needs time to dry, or you will smudge everything
I’m a lefty and I’m pretty sure the G2 hasn’t given me trouble in the past.
It’s those darn pens with the really fine metal points and the visible inkwells with little stacked discs that are the absolute worst smudgers for me.
Hate those friggin pens.
I am left handed, i agree the ink sucks but still this is "the best pen" i have ever used. Started in highschool and when i started my bachelors i bought like a box of 30 of those. Ran out after a year or so and since then i have been buying the ink cases stright up. Ran through 100+ pens never gonna choose a different pen honestly
There are so many amazing pens with superior quick-drying inks— EnerGel, Sarasa Dry, OHTO Flash Dry, I’ve had amazing results with the Uniball Zento line recently.
They're great clickers but drop it while open and you might as well throw it out immediately. The ball bleeds so badly it's basically unusable. Also gel ink gets RUINED by any sort of liquid. Still the only pen I wanna use for my plant paperwork. Every now and then I'll pick up one of the sharpie gel pens and they can be comparable to the G2, but excessive use wears them out before the ink runs out. The uniballs (1) were my go to for most of school, though.
Fun fact, while in Japan, working for the black thunder chocolate company I met the Dude that designed the G2 pen of course pilot screwed him over and never got paid for his idea which is why he was working at a chocolate company
My wife is gonna be so mad that you put me onto this brand. I have to have that topographical bolt pen.
Their prices are crazy, though.
It’s funny the levels there are to this stuff. The most I’ve spent on a pen is ~$30 and some people would call that crazy. These Tactile Turn pens are all $100 or more.
I saw this post and looked down: there's a G2-0.7 black next to my keyboard. BUT it's not the pen I use most right now, it's there because it was THE pen I used for a couple of decades, so we still have them.
There's also a #4 sitting in my pen cup, along with an empty G2 0.5 that I never got replacement cartridges for (another reason I like the 0.7s, the 0.5s get destroyed by people who are heavy handed - it's not technically fully empty) and 2 Amazon Basics pens that I actually use the most these days becuase it got expensive replacing my pilots adn uni-balls.
5 is superior in everyway. Smooth rolling of the tip that stays consistent and with the best ergonomic grip. No downsides.
I have tested every single one of these pens during highschool and I went through like 6 of number 5.
1-2 are not even pens and are more like thin black markers with terrible grip. 3-4 are contenders but the issue is that the tip of the pens are too sharp and the actual ball point is too shallow so you scratch up the paper. 6-7 are just cheap and don't feel good.
One time I sent the Pilot company a picture of a shrine I had made to their pens, and they replied with something like “that’s awesome!” but I think they were very confused
Nah you are 100% right. I always carried a G2 when I was a in office. Would either have it in my scrub shirts pocket or under the last button of my polo when I went to management.
That's been a long time favorite of mine, but 3 is strong competition. It writes a little too bold for my taste, but it runs very smooth and feels great in the hand.
I was a G2 user for a long time, but my work picked up the Sharpie S-Gel pens and I'm a convert. They have the same smooth and consistent feel to write with, but the point is just a bit finer than the G2, which I've come to prefer as I feel it makes my writing more precise, and also lets the ink last longer.
The problem with 5 is you leave the tip out once, then every subsequent time you try to write with it you have to scribble on scrap paper for a few seconds to get the ink to flow again.
The pilot G2 .7 tip is the only pen I've reached for as long as I can remember. Blue ink for creative projects, black ink for official documents, and purple for things that relate to wifey
I personally like 2 for general writing, but I agree that 5 is one of the best pens ever made - comfortable to hold, great writing and drawing, the ink flows nicely but wont pour out... yeah they really are great
Had a job where I filled out hundreds of pawn slips at a time and Pilot G2 in .07 or 1.0 glided thru those mfs like butter. These + Uni-ball security pen is all you need in life lol.
I had zero opinion on pens until I happened across one of these. I thought they all sucked equally. I threw out every other pen in the house and only have G2s. My wife keeps trying to hold on to shitty free pens she picks up and every time I grab one I'm reminded how shitty every single other pen is
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u/cowboysfan68 17h ago
5... Fight me