Bolt Action Pen V.02 - X-Ray

Almost Perfect - Bolt Action X-Ray

First off, I do want to say I love the pen overall. I've used nice pens before and really dig my small collection of Lamy fountain pens. This Schmidt p8126 refill is incredibly smooth and I love writing with it. For the pen itself, I do appreciate that the overall look and feel. I think if the body was entirely composed of a non lightweight metal it'd be too heavy for my preferences. However, I won't say that's a con since that falls more under personal preference. I had just a few issues with this pen: First, the lower and upper halves weren't flush. As such, you can feel a small bite from the metal if you're moving your hands/fingers up and down the body of the pen where the two halves are joined. It's not a huge one but it is quite noticeable. I tried to fix it by squishing the lower metal end toward the right direction to see if I could sort of bend or form it better. I was able to fix it slightly using that method. Second, the metal internals of the pen are scraping the polycarbonate body quite a bit. I think it'll smooth out over time but every time I go to extend the tip to write, the metal internal piece holding the refill scrapes the inside of the polycarbonate body a fair amount. I'm starting to build up some shavings/powder inside from this and you can visibly see where the metal internals have scraped the PC. Maybe adding a chamfer to the internal metal piece could have helped alleviate this? Third, One other thing that falls a little more under personal preference, I really wish the logo at the top of the pen was aligned with the clip. For a company that says seems to suggest it is hyper focused on the details, I was hoping for a little better in that regard when it came to these three things. However, I do still want to say that overall I still love this pen. I also really dig that it's Asian-American owned and partner with an Asian-American for the design being Asian-American myself. I'll still root for this company and am curious about trying one of their lightweight metal pens in the future. I'm assuming I wouldn't see the scraping issue with an all metal build.

The pen writes very well. It will take a short time for me to use the latch to release the nib, overall a great pen.

The perfect pen ! Love it