Ink pens

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Is anyone else just fascinated with ink pens, especially the retractable, take apart kind where you can examine the intricate components?

They just fascinate me. Every single part so amazing and spectacular.

Unfortunately, I was examining one and I dropped the spring and can't find it.

Yeah I like pens and have a large collection. I used to take them apart and eat them at school, all the parts are edible except for the ink tube that never tasted good and made a hell of a mess. (Note: There's no nutritional value in eating pens but that never stopped me)

I wouldn't recommend eating plastic or metal, as that can cut the intestines.

Although onetime I did swallow a Sacajawea dollar while watching Hamlet. I guess that's why my parents told me to not put things in my mouth.

I love pens and always have. I grew up in the US Army and had thousands of the black US government pens; I could change the order of their insides to make a single shot retractable-pen-guts-gun.

I still have a couple of those pens. and they still work. They are a skill craft product; I think blind people make them. I REALLY love Fisher Space pens. They really do write straight from the freezer, underwater; you could bake one in a casserole, take it out and it would still write.

I love the smell of space ink, and other oil based inks also. I have a sensitive nose. It smells good though.

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What about pencils? Anyone have an interest in them?

Pencils are just too rough feeling, while pens are smooth because the ink flows out.

But here is a movie about the pencil.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYO3tOqDISE[/youtube]

I massively prefer the feeling of an ink pen, but have never owned one expensive enough not to get ink all over my fingers. But one I still own I think was described as 'flight-proof' and would have been destroyed many times in the past if it were not.

I also love ink pens. I like to do ink drawings when I can't connect to the Internet or if the power goes out during the day.