Ohto Orca Ceramic Roller Ball Pen - 0.5 mm - Red Cap

I bought my first Ohto pen during a trip to Tokyo in 1992 and didn't realy give much thought to refills.
Imagine my despair when I discovered that my favourite pen wouldn't accept normal refills, due the unusual size of the barrel.
Fast forward to 2006 and I'm in Tokyo again.
With my pen in my hand, I returned to the hotellobby shop where I'd bought it, determined to clean out their stock of refills - nope, they don't stock them any more.
The whole 3 days of my visit were spent with one eye frantically scanning for shops that sell pens, but the few that I found couldn't help.
On my return home, I discovered the website for Jetpens and promptly kicked myself, as I'd been in San Francisco as part of my trip (SF -_ New Zealand -_ Tokyo) and had been within striking distance of my precious refills.
Jetpens duly recieved an order for refils and I spent the next year enjoying my lovely pen again.
Earlier this year, a work colleague expressed his deire for a pen like mine, so I bought him one when I ordered some more refills and he is now as mad about Ohto pens as I am.
I'm currently working out how much I can charge him for refills :-)

fantastic pen, nice weight, good size and writes very nicely.. unlike some rollerballs this is super crisp, ink not runny and all around great

This is quite possibly the best pen I've written with. When I see interesting pens, I usually buy one just to place it in my writeability list. I have a very fluid writing style halfway between 'elegant' and 'unreadable,' so I'm always looking for that one smooth, dynamic, heavy ink pen. Too thin a line, too scratchy, or too much bleed, and the charm goes away.

This guy is perfect. It looks great, and it's light but with enough weight that when I'm swinging it around (as much as one does when writing as I do) it swings with me. Like I'm not going to lose my rhythm because I put a letter down too quickly. The ink is dark, solid, and a good thick line. A man's line. A line to be proud of. The ceramic ball is new to me, but I could tell the difference as soon as I started writing. It doesn't matter if I'm scribbling furiously or lightly taking notes - the line's the same.

The only problem I've run into is that the cap doesn't sit as well when you're writing. I've taken to just leaving it off, but the main body of the pen is kind of short. Not so short that it's unusable, but because of the tapered end, it feels like it's going to slip into my palm. It won't; I'll get used to it - it's just something I've noticed.

Super nice pen! Love the feel of it, and it writes fantastic. It looks like a $100.00 pen, and writes just as well as the higher end pens. Recommended highly.

This is a very nice pen that writes extremely smooth, sometimes maybe too smooth. I do have a slight issue with the cap as it sometimes come loose when I twirl the pen in my hand (nervous tick). One of my favorite pens still.