April Sponsor Spotlight

Tornado Fountain Pen - NYC Skyline Limited Edition - via Goldspot

Sponsor support is very important to me here at The Pen Addict. My sidebar advertisers put their faith in me to deliver good value for them month in and month out, and I want to shine the light on the best of the best for you. If you are shopping for pens, paper, inks, and more, please check out these great companies and see what they have to offer. Some recent highlights:

Pen Chalet has the new Lamy Pico Neon Green Special Edition, which is an insta-add to my shopping list.

Goldspot has launched a big new collaboration with Retro 51, featuring their NYC Skyline artwork in a limited edition fountain pen.

Anderson Pens has the new North American exclusive Sailor Graphite Lighthouse edition, in both Slim and Regular sizes.

JetPens received the new large ink capacity Opus 88 Demonstrators in Red, Gray, and the perfect for me Orange.

INVENTERY Interchangeable Mechanical Pen and Pencil Giveaway

The Brass Interchangeable Mechanical Pen and Pencil is the latest product design from INVENTERY, which features two swappable mechanisms for use with a single pen barrel. Each pen ships with two internal Schmidt mechanisms - one for Parker-style pen refills, and one for 0.7 mm pencil leads. It’s a neat system if you enjoy a singular barrel for multiple tasks.

INVENTERY sent me over one of each of their new pens to check out, and while I will keep one for testing and review, that means I have two more to give away below. In the meantime, check out their current Indiegogo campaign, when you can grab this pen for $42 - 30% off its future retail price.

INVENTERY Interchangeable Mechanical Pen and Pencil Giveaway

Uni Jetstream Slim Multi Pen 0.38 mm Review

Multi pens have long been one of my favorite categories of pens. When I learned that not only do gel ink pens come in micro-tip sizes, but I can get a single barrel with multiple colors of micro-tip goodness? My pen world view was complete.

As quickly as I fell in love with multi pens, I feel like they were solved pretty early on in my journey as well. The Pilot Hi-Tec-C Coleto was, and is, still my favorite. The Uni Style Fit came along a few years later and is equally as lovely with as many, or more, refill options. For premium barrel multi pen options there is the Zebra Sharbo X and the Lamy 2000 4 Color Ballpoint. And while new colors and styles and options of these pens have been released over the past few years, nothing has moved the needle for me.

Uni Jetstream Slim Multi Pen 0.38 mm doesn’t move the needle either - sorry to burst your bubble - but what this pen did was remind me how great multi pens can be. And this is a great one.

The minute I grabbed this pen out of the package I was impressed. The barrel looks and feels great, with a comfortable rubber grip and light herringbone pattern in the upper barrel. The knock mechanisms add to the design with their angular buttons, and the silver clip adds to the clean look. And it is Mint Green!

Looks only take you so far with writing instruments. How does it write? The 0.38 mm Jetstream refills are what sent me head over heels with this pen. The line is sharp and fine, and somehow, incredibly smooth. It’s one of those things that shouldn’t happen, and I don’t understand. A tip this fine with ballpoint(-ish) ink should feel like writing with a shard of broken glass. It’s wonderfully smooth, which makes me want to have this pen handy all of the time.

There are other Jetstream multi pen options on the market. Uni-ball even offers options in the Style Fit lineup to use a combination of gel and Jetstream refills in the same barrel. But none of them nail the writing experience for me better than this one.

(JetPens provided this product at no charge to The Pen Addict for review purposes.)

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