| Pros: 1. The erasability is excellent. It's just as good as everybody says. If you're old enough to remember "erasable pens" from the 1980s, this is completely different. 2. Pretty good feel. Not quite as smooth as a gel pen, but it's like a nice ballpoint. 3. If you get the Japanese models from Jetpens you can get some really really fine tips, like 0.38mm 4. Great for lefties, little to no smearing. One of the best lefty-friendly pens I've ever tried. 5. I find I write/sketch more freely with these relative to regular pens, because I'm not scared of mistakes. Con: 1. They seem to dry up really quickly. A few months sitting in my desk drawer, and they lose their ability to write despite being nearly full of ink. I stopped buying them for this reason. Anybody else experienced this? Now that I'm thinking about it, I probably could have experimented more. Maybe the ball was clogged, and cleaning it with rubbing alcohol could have revived them? |