I’ve been using the Zebra F-701 for work for a few years now and it’s suffered getting beaten around a lot and taken it extremely well. It’s a fully metal pen, and you can get metal refills too (which I do). In my line of work, all the plastic pens I’ve used have broken, so in my search for an all-metal pen brought me to the 701 and I love it. I got my wife one too for her at work and she also loves it. Great value for money, too.
I can’t speak for random Reddit folks but I’ve never been disappointed in the ink and I’ve gone through lots of refills. It doesn’t write as smoothly as my Parker Jotter (which is my at-home pen of choice when I’m not feeling a fountain pen), but the Jotter is twice the price and the refills aren’t all metal (I’m sure you can probably get metal refills third party but I haven’t tried them myself).
I’ve been using the Zebra F-701 for work for a few years now and it’s suffered getting beaten around a lot and taken it extremely well. It’s a fully metal pen, and you can get metal refills too (which I do). In my line of work, all the plastic pens I’ve used have broken, so in my search for an all-metal pen brought me to the 701 and I love it. I got my wife one too for her at work and she also loves it. Great value for money, too.
saw on reddit that people dont like the ink? is this true?
I can’t speak for random Reddit folks but I’ve never been disappointed in the ink and I’ve gone through lots of refills. It doesn’t write as smoothly as my Parker Jotter (which is my at-home pen of choice when I’m not feeling a fountain pen), but the Jotter is twice the price and the refills aren’t all metal (I’m sure you can probably get metal refills third party but I haven’t tried them myself).