The Prometheus Writes Alpha Pen in Titanium: The Full Nick Shabazz Review

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Author: Nick Shabazz

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The Prometheus Writes Alpha Pen is a great EDC pen which takes Montblanc Rollerball or Fineliner refills, and this version's milled from solid titanium, making for a functional gem of a pen. Unfortunately, the price is *way* up there at $240. So, if you're head-over-heels in love, or if you can find one used at a more realistic price, pick one up. But otherwise, keep your eyes peeled for more great EDC pen options.

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I assume the Monte Blanc refills won't do so well with Rite in the Rain notepads? Girlfriend bought some and we have some Kickstarter pens on the way...she prefers a smoother gel pen but I'm thinking we'll have to go Schmidt Easyflow 9000

do the mount blanc refills run out fast nick thanks

Finally broke down and ordered the Alpha EN after many months of lust.

You should check out the TiScribe pens. They're minimalist, made of titanium, copper or brass and actually still being made by the actual maker (not outsourced out). The guy who makes these has a YouTube channel where he posts tons of videos of him making the pens throughout. It's clearly evident of his passion about his product. You can also get these in ballpoint or fountain. The only thing I wish the pens could do is accept the Mont Blanc refills. Other than that, these look good. He just recently had these on Massdrop and the titanium option could be had for around $130. I've not used these yet, but have two on order coming in the mail. His channel is One2TenCNC and the pen is called the TiScribe.

You got the shaft on the Ti - so it is, figuratively speaking, a tactical pen.

Any experience with the Matthew Martin Tactical pen?

A question/ suggestion and a pen suggestion to review/ try out. To address the unscrewing problem, have you tried a bigger o-ring to increase the friction required to turn the cap? I had a hinderer investigator pen for a couple weeks and o-rings fixed it for me...sold it though because I hated the fisher space pen. For the pen suggestion, I've been interested in Big Designs Ti Click pens, but just never pulled the trigger on it. I have an Everyman Grafton Pen on the way from Massdrop. It's aluminum but at $25 I paid ($35 retail?) it doesn't break the bank. I look forward to getting that in the mail. Apparently I gravitate to clicky tops.

Wacom Stylus Duo. Its a pen and a stylus. I use is all the time in my retail/CS job. I love the way it writes and the fact that it runs our touch screen computers. I also like how fast it is to uncap and cap. Another nice feature is that it looks appropriate for a job setting. The down side is that the paint is wearing off of my second one. Also the price of 14.98 on amazon right now is awesome.

Check out Ti2 Design Techliner pen and Karas Kustoms. I own a brass Bolt pen and it has a really good cartridge as well. You may want to check out JetPens.com. Many technical illustrators, artists, and pen fanatics shop there and review pens of all price points.

Jason makes good stuff. I have three lights, and the brass top you have. A battery leaked in my copper Beta, so I sent it to him with a note that I would gladly pay for a repair. He sent me a new tube, which mine had battery acid in it. And he would not take any $. So I bought my third light, a Beta brass. Good guy.

Look at the pen type b (hi tec c refill) is great. Have it.

Nick, you might take a look at the Parker 5th technology pens. Pretty sturdy,,
fairly inexpensive, look like fountain pens but aren't and they write pretty nice.

oh and one pen I really want to like is the Ti2 TechLiner but I know for a fact that if I get one I'll end up hating it because of the magnets in the ends. if would probably start sticking to other things in my pocket and even start magnetizing other stuff around it - even maybe my automatic watches, which is a bad thing.

I also heard that with some refills it won't write as the magnet will interfere with the flow of ink :o\

it also took me forever to score one on the secondary market but it was a worthy hunt. I love mine as well. Great review!

Interestingly enough mine has no makers mark.

great job

Hey Nick, another solid review. I have the aluminum version and I love it, like you say i cant justify the titanium version. check out the Maxmadco bolt action pen with grooves, if you havent already. thats one of my favorite pen it takes parker styles refill.