Felt Tip Pens

[Federalist Pens]

I have a Parker 45 Marker that I really like! Got it in a lot about a year or so ago.

Uses Parker carts or converter- basically a standard P45 with a marker section ("Parker Marker").

 

Frank

[balson]

I was a bit annoyed when Papermate stopped doing the white ultrafine flairs (nylons over here) recently. For my money both that and the fat tipped flair are design classics, but then I really like felt tips, and think it's a shame that none of the pen manufacturers make posh refillable ones anymore. I'm currently using a Waterman rollerball with fibre tip cartridges in it, but those have been discontinued now, so I'm going to be out of luck finding more at some point.

 

Looking at the posts above, I suspect that my own liking for felt tips is a generational thing. I was born in the early '70s, and remember drawing with coloured felt tips just as much as crayons or coloured pencils as a child. I didn't have any bad experiences with early lemons that didn't work very well, so I don't have the issues some in this thread have with felt tips as a result.

 

check out copic markers. they are refillable and they sell all the replacement parts you could ever want to keep the same pen running for years. you can find the basic markers at most arts and crafts stores but the refills and parts are only available online or at heavy duty art stores.

[Stephen2020]

I remember having Flairs in the 60s, that's why i'm into them now - great nostalgia!

I have various Flairs/Tempos/Nylons in regular, Point Guard and also some of the creamy white Ultra Fines in green, blue and red. I have three of the refillable Flairs too, Cross rollerball refills fit them nowadays.

[Tdot]

I was a bit annoyed when Papermate stopped doing the white ultrafine flairs (nylons over here) recently. For my money both that and the fat tipped flair are design classics, but then I really like felt tips, and think it's a shame that none of the pen manufacturers make posh refillable ones anymore. I'm currently using a Waterman rollerball with fibre tip cartridges in it, but those have been discontinued now, so I'm going to be out of luck finding more at some point.

 

Looking at the posts above, I suspect that my own liking for felt tips is a generational thing. I was born in the early '70s, and remember drawing with coloured felt tips just as much as crayons or coloured pencils as a child. I didn't have any bad experiences with early lemons that didn't work very well, so I don't have the issues some in this thread have with felt tips as a result.

+1

I'm a couple decades ahead of you, but still liked the Flair and other felt tip pens of the '60s and later. They are more like art pens, than writing pens.

 

I also have a Waterman LeMan RB with a blue fiber tip refill, and one back up left.

[Stephen2020]

I heard that the 1st UK ones were by Conway Stewart.

[jakson]

I already used felt tip pens. Felt pens are drier and it's easier to control a felt tip if you are inexperienced with dip pens. Some Advantage of felt tips pens: Easy to use, drier than dip pens, Ink inside.

[Tberry010]

Slightly OT but anyone else remember the earliest Flair HardHeads? IIRC the earlier versons had a smooth tip and the later ones had a fluted tip. Wrote PaperMate and suggested they produce a refillable pen that would take replacement HardHead refills, and got a nasty 'we have our own r&d and don't need your suggestions letter in return.

Swore off Papermate stuff for a long time, but sure did like those pens.

[Stephen2020]

I have got 4 Hardheads, 2 in use and 2 unopened. They are felt tips though, it's just that the tip is mostly enclosed by the plastic cone. My only disappointment with them is not having more.

The Berol Handwriting pen is the nearest current pen type, nothing wrong with those as pens but they are just not Flairs.

[pajaro]

I bought a Flair recently and used up the heads in short order. I think they take a rollerball refill.

 

The fiber tip refills gave me the feeling of drawing my fingernails over a blackboard.

[Stephen2020]

Not sure which yours is but the refillable Flairs with the metal cap will take a Cross rollerball refill.

[Paul80]

Hi

 

It was probably in the 70's but I am sure the ones I used where called Tempo, not sure if it's was a Papermate Tempo as my mind is fading fast these days, to many drugs, and not the good ones, only prescription ones.

 

IIRC the big selling point over normal felt tip pens was that they had a hard point that was supposed to keep its point, which in reality they didn't. At the time Papermate ball pens where much better writers.

 

Paul

[Stephen2020]

The basic Flair came out in the 60s and was renamed the Tempo, then the Nylon and now back to Flair again. The tips that some had was the Pointguard.

[kidde]

My father brought some home in the early '70's. What he liked was the multi surface writing ability and being able to grab one from his pocket protector (he is an engineer and machinist) and fill a scribed line instead of grabbing the Dykem. IIRC they would mark any clean surface.