My friend Rich recently sent me one of the new Sharpie Liquid Pencils to play with (thanks Rich!). He knows I’m typically a G2 pen guy and was curious to see what I’d think.
At first I absolutely hated it.
Don’t get me wrong, it really isn’t horrible… but my initial impression was that it writes a lot like an old ball point pen with ink that’s on the verge of drying out. Not quite smooth and almost feels like it “skips” a bit. Things get a bit better when I press harder than normal but that eventually results in a sore hand.
However, when compared to the erasable ink pens of the 80’s (when I was in school) this thing is incredible. I’ve successfully erased things I wrote several days ago. In fact, the erasability of it all is why this will be added to my daily kit.
While I really enjoy my G2 pens, the amount of stuff I scratch out leaves such a mess when I’m doing a lot of writing and – I can’t lie – that drives me nuts. With this liquid pencil I have something that doesn’t blur nearly as easily as pencil but is still very erasable. Turns out I’m willing to put up with a less than G2 writing experience just for that.
Anyone else tried it out? What do you think?
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Rich G.
August 27, 2010 at 4:05 pm (UTC -7)
Wait… you make mistakes?!?
Maybe that’s why I didn’t like it much. I used it again yesterday.
You hit it right on the head. The feeling of using a dried up Bic pen was exactly what it feels like to me. I haven’t erased with it yet. I guess that being the selling point of it is missed on me since I never make mistakes.
Nevr!!! (sic for great justice!)
Yeah, I tried it again and gave it away. I didn’t even know the person I gave it to lol. I just knew I didn’t want to grab it by accident when I was reaching for my G2.
Chris
August 27, 2010 at 4:08 pm (UTC -7)
This might just be me, but I’ve noticed that after a couple pages of notes it now seems to be writing better…