'kay, yeah, already made a "Triple 2s(-day)" post, yet thought this flipp'd shot made a fun bunch (funch?) to see, so sharin' this as well, w/ the proto RKiV...
Hope your week's been good so far! 😎
'Tis Triple 2s-day, w/ a few machined writing instruments which might have something in common, so, they're related, yet not from the same fam (or brand)...
The upper right of the 1st shot has the "Fraternal Funky Fuel", w/ the Diplomat "Funky Petrol" Aero ballpoint, w/ an iridescent blue pvd coating which incorporates niobium, & the Wingback 'Selected Works' "Jet Fuel" Journeyman Pen which might have a related pvd coating that includes titanium. & both utilize a twist (or, hidden bolt-action) mechanism.
The lower left shows the "Similar Side click Siblings" - the clipless Autmog 45 Click round nose w/ grip lines & Modern Fuel clipless Side Click - where both have bronze barrels & a side button retract feature.
& in the lower right are the "Patterned Primo Pair" & are sorta like cousins, since they use variations of Magnus Macdonald's ClickShift mech, w/ a "smooth nebula" finish for the Switch (which, w/ no "lay" texture for the barrel, is kinda rare for Tactile Turn) or a "smooth fire acid" ano for the v4.
&, since there were only 3 2s, the upper left shot's unrelated... 😁🙃
W/ the recently-delivered bronze 1 from a discord server group buy, wanted to get a fam pic, w/ a ss bap, zirctropic abap, proto ti sc, & ks reward sc as backer #One 😊
Swapped the hardware of 2 new KK RKiV variants to make an ultra black 'Vader' edition & a mix of Captain Phasma's chromium & a stormtrooper's plastoid armor (-ish; couldn't think of a good analogue description from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away which fit well 🙃)...
& then added a few other makers' offerings w/ similar form factors which've been created over the yrs, like the singular black prototype Ultimate Clicky Pen from Jack Roman (of TuffWriter) seen in the ks project promo images, & 1s from Will Hodges' Tactile Turn, along w/ a Billet Click-Z from trcpc.
Anyway, neat to compare/contrast a few similar writing instruments 😎
Will share more another time, yet the KK RKiV bundle (w/ the 'Professional' & 'Stormtrooper' colorways, though gonna switch up the hardware to make an ultra black 'Vader' look, w/ a pre-Captain Phasma variant as well 🙃) & Modern Fuel clipless bronze Side Click (from a disco server group buy) arrived yesterday (so this post is w/i Twenty-Four Hours & not the same day). Really well-made! 😎
Think a few variants of the Bolty w/ supergrip section have dropped, yet this 1's fun in that the 1st owner made this config after swapping the top barrels from its original ClickShift top to whatcha see now. &, since it's already been changed from the stock build (& I like when writing instruments have a grippy area), then I won't feel as bad to get this 1 modd'd, & can keep the 1st Bolty available of this incarnation intact (w/ which I had been considering messin', yet this works out better).
Anyway, kinda neat to now have a grippy Bolty to add to a similar 'Clicky' & 'Twisty' 😊
Some options w/ me while @ an appt...
Which do ya prefer: Titanium, Stainless Steel, or Zirconium?😎
Wanted to get a shot w/ a couple of the materials Karas Kustoms has made available for their Pocket Modal ('cept for the titanium - borrowed from the edk 😊), & thought addin' the new zirc D20 die from GT Scientific could also be a slight diversion. 😀
Then saw it could almost be rotated 180 degrees like previous attempts to have writing instruments switch spots (yet I didn't take the pic w/ an eye to gettin' it square-on), yet it wasn't the best. So I got the die outta the scene and went about gettin' a pic which would almost look like the PMs switched spots. It was close... 😎
So, got the titanium kk edk from a previous kvc opp to make a partial titanium pocket modal, yet the addin' the turquoise dragonskin & brass fluted pocket modals recently means 1 more material to mess w/... 😎
The brass 1's dense, so the top config works well for a balance more towards the tip. Yet after I got the pic, was thinkin' the turquoise top w/ the ti ring grips look might look good & also have a better tip heavy feel. Then the brass top'd pair w/ the turquoise dragonskin grip (yet would have a balance more toward the back), & the ti edk top'd go w/ the black tip. So, I changed it up 🙃
So, misstated in the NPD post for County Communications' Flight Suit Pen v3 that the Machine Era Field Pen | Bolt v2 was made >5 yrs ago (it actually dropped in Aug of '21). Yet elements of u/MachineEraCo's design language had been established since the Solid Brass Pen01 debuted, almost 11 yrs ago (from May '15), & can be seen in the various models over the years.
So, while a design language might not be trademarked, it's interesting to see CC's 3rd iteration of the flight suit pen, which doesn't seem to have progressed from the previous twist-action design.
In contrast, from the 1st iteration of the ME Field Pen (w/ the side button retract feature) to the 1st Field Pen which launched at that crowd-funding platform, even though the mechanism was changed, the pen point was still extended by moving the clip, and you can see the "fam resemblance".
Well, wanted to compare the CC offering with the Field Pen | Bolt v2 (both made for the Parker-compatible International G2 ink cartridges). 😎
Was plannin' on a Tungsten Tuesday, yet got busy after gettin' a shot, & then realized I could've added more to the mix (though the Inkling Pen Company BOMAPen model D6 #3 & the 5th anniversary Focusworks edc W Axis Micro, among others, also aren't present; should get a W fam pic someday when I remember to do so).
Just a fun, superlative, dense material, & it's neat to see what folks make w/ it! 😎