Multi-pen
I’m a bit of a pen fanatic. I love all kinds of pens and pencils, from gel pens to fountain pens and mechanical pencils. When I went to Japan (a wonderful country for pen fanatics) a couple of years ago, I bought a Zebra brilliant multi-pen, which had black, blue, red and green ballpoints in it. I’ve used it a lot, so the ink has almost run out, and I couldn’t find any suitable refills for it. Multi-pens are often a little more bulky than single colour ones, but I love the convenience of having multiple colours with only one pen to carry around. One thing the Japanese Zebra pen lacked, though, was a pencil.
I’ve just got another Zebra multipen — the Airfit 2+S pictured above — which has a black and red ballpoint and a mechanical pencil. It has seen heavy service recently with all the marking I’ve been doing. I like to write comments on the scripts in red (sometimes a lot of red), and comments on the mark sheet in black. I write the actual mark in pencil until I’ve had a chance to check all the scripts again and make sure that I haven’t had a moment of idiocy and misjudged a paper. The Airfit is great for this, because I can just use one pen and click between the functions. It makes me feel like some kind of marking superhero, which — half way through a stack of scripts of a certain height — is absolutely vital to my mental health.
The pen is a bit slimmer than my old Zebra because it has 3 functions rather than 4, and you rotate the barrel to select the function, which has a nice positive feel. Both the ballpoints and the mechanical pencil are of good quality, and I know I can get refills.
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Does it have a gizmo to prevent lapsus calami?
by Jonathan Briggs @ 02/06/2008 7:05 pm • Permalink •
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I've been using these pens for about 2-3 years now and they are excellent. You don't specifically mention it, but they also write very nicely, too--a little like the old, plain yellow Bic.
Cultpens do them, if you can't find them--Rymans appear recently to have stopped stocking them.
Best Jolyon
by Jolyon @ 02/06/2008 8:33 pm • Permalink •
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I've got a lamy 4-way multipen that I love.
Having a nice pen can just make even the most boring bits of work just that bit more enjoyable.
by Clair @ 02/06/2008 9:44 pm • Permalink •
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Jonathan Briggs: I'm not ashamed to admit that I had to look that up (I was vaguely thinking "fallen squid"). No, to answer your question. It also doesn't prevent slips of the keys, which is my excuse for the 'Zebra brilliant' rather than 'brilliant Zebra' above.
Jolyon: Yes, it does write very nicely and is not too thin or too thick. I got mine at Cultpens.
by bsag @ 02/06/2008 9:44 pm • Permalink •
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"the Airfit 2+S" that sound dangerous. My girlfriend loves these pens, but for some reason they always seem to fall apart easily..maybe its time to invest in the more expensive versions
by James Micargi @ 19/06/2008 11:46 pm • Permalink •
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