My absolute HOLY GRAIL...,
October 16, 2011
My absolute HOLY GRAIL of pens! After discovering the amazingness that is the
standard Jetstream, I decided to indulge my color-coding habit with the
Jetstream multipen. It was the single best decision I have made in my life as a
stationery addict. The pen body has a good solid weight to it, but isn't
unbearably heavy (some fountain pens come to mind), and holding it is pretty
comfortable, even if you have a super low grip like I do. It looks very sleek
and classy, and the color tabs are very subtle, which I particularly appreciate
in professional settings. (I like the Surari multi a lot, but the bright
plasticky tabs are reminiscent of the good old Bic 4-color pen.) The ink, as
you'd expect from a Jetstream, is smooth and pretty much flawless. I do find
that with the blue I get the occasional tiny glob, and the green is a shade too
light for my taste, but these are very minor quibbles indeed, and certainly
don't stop me from blowing through refills with terrifying speed. (I write a
LOT.) The pencil is not exactly a Kuru Toga, but it's perfectly serviceable -
luckily, I'm not really a pencil person and only use the pencil function for
doing paleography work and for drawing lines in my notebooks that will later be
erased. But this one pen got me through an entire degree, and is well on its way
to seeing me through another. I love it so much that I bought the green version,
and also a pink 0.5 version, but they just aren't quite as perfect as the
original black. Highly recommended!