The Zebra See Sign Pen

I have always been a huge fan of the Pentel Sign pen reviewed here earlier, but at a recent run through a pen store I came across this little beast and I am now a two sign pen man. The reason for the tractor is, I am still fighting off a cold and needed one of these to haul my butt out of bed this morning. Plus, I have 3 hours of contract reviews coming up, so that will be fun.


The points are very similar, but the body on the Zebra is a bit wider. It still looks like a marker pen of sorts, and I have not put enough uses through it yet to see if the tip will wear down similar to the Pentels, which is pretty cool because it actually becomes a better pen when the tip is slightly rounded for me.

It's a Good Pen, and is in heavy rotation for me. It has it's uses, 3x5's, post-its, and drawing, so far so good. I recommend them if you can find it!

What did she bring me? Episode #1

Zebra F-701 from Staples



If you are just joining in, I asked my wife to pick up a pen for me, no questions asked... for a review. I have a cabinet full of vintage fountain pens, perfect gel rollers, brush pens and now I own a  shiny new ball-point.


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To her credit, it looks like a nice pen. It's metal, sturdy, slim and with a knurled grip. I just am not sure I will ever use it. I love a heavy line of ink and this one seems like it's not putting out the effort. The one thing I did notice is that when writing, it is extremely smooth compared to the thin pens I have been writing with and it says .7 but the line feels much thinner to me.



The receipt says 6.00 and to me that seems expensive for what you get, In my mind, that's half a bottle of Noodlers, or 4 Sarasa's,I only did a few tests with this, but I will give it a day of writing just to be sure.