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Thanks to Restartx for alerting me to this beauty, what a beautiful one and made specific for my favorite refill it's perfect!

Decided to go with the GraphGear 1000 for this week's setup. Resting on a clean aluminum cover, this metallic blue finish looks incredible in natural light. I just love the tactile click of the clip mechanism. What's everyone else carrying this week?

As usual love the machined clip on mcms and the machining/finishing is amazing

These pens deserve some attention:

1. Zero Pen
2. TheDutchGuy Brass Bolt
3. The Aether
4. Tetzbo
5. Sakura Craft
6. CW&T Type-A

The pop-sound of Zero and CW&T is so fun. Also watching the pen slowly descend into its storage barrel is a great feeling.

TDG Brass Bolt, is a simple pen. It’s a functional and substantial desk pen, not something I’d clip to my shirt.

The Aether is made by Apogee3D on Etsy. This is the only 3D printed titanium pen I’ve ever seen. It’s quite ornate and light weight. This one is a conversation starter.

Tetzbo is cute AF. It stays in my passport holder. It’s built like a pencil which is fun to hold. I wish it could have been 5.25” in length.

Sakura Craft 009 is another well constructed pen. I greatly enjoy the refill it came with. I’m hoping the refill will be available easily once I run out of ink on this one. The black hollow skeleton outer tube with the solid gold inner showing through is eye-catching.

Hey everyone,

It’s been a while, but we’re back with an exciting update: after taking time to refine everything based on your feedback, we are finally launching on Kickstarter later this month!

Life got a bit busy, which caused some delays, but we used that time to directly address the feedback from our last post:

 

Key Changes & Refinements:

• Titanium Only: After extensive hands-on testing, the feedback was clear. the Titanium version offered significantly better balance and completely eliminated the back-heavy feel of the stainless steel prototype. Because of that, Riv One will be produced exclusively in Titanium.
• Full-Length EnerGel Compatibility: A huge number of you asked for untrimmed EnerGel compatibility. We listened: we’ve introduced a longer barrel version designed specifically to fit EnerGel refills natively with minimal tip wiggle.
• Standard Schmidt Version: Don't worry if you prefer Schmidt refills. We are also offering the standard version designed around that format.
• Anodized Lattice Options: We will be anodising the 3D-printed titanium lattice structure in a variety of vibrant colors.
• UK Manufacturing: We are continuing to build the majority of the Riv One here in the UK, maintaining strict quality control while keeping pricing as accessible as possible.

 

Prototype Giveaway (Our Last One Before Launch)

To celebrate the upcoming launch, we're giving away one final Riv One Titanium prototype (EnerGel version).

 

How to enter:

• Simply leave a comment below! (e.g., Tell us what anodised color or refill you'd run in it)
• (Optional) Comment on our Discord post, sign up for our newsletter, or check out our Instagram.

We will announce the winner in our next post!

Pen Specs (Giveaway Prototype):

• Model: Riv One (Full Titanium)
• Refill: Pentel EnerGel

 

If you’d like to follow our journey or get notified on Day 1, you can follow our pre-launch Kickstarter page here:

Kickstarter Pre Launch Page

Thanks again to everyone here who helped shape this pen. We know its aesthetic isn't for everyone, but we hope to continue refining it and if this goes well, develop future designs alongside this community.

 

Happy to answer any questions about the manufacturing process or specs!

Not the best photo is but this has to be one of the best Q3D milling patterns.

Melrose Machine Works - Series 1 (C693 Brass) Pen - Kaco 0.5mm

Sail posts are go.

New Q-Lear! I made a mistake when ordering and then I whined to Q about it so he kindly let me send it back and did some more stuff to it and now it’s just perfect. Loaded it up with a refill I’ve been patiently saving for it for weeks.

Also my Dark Pines order showed up! The multi color Ano is so pretty. I can’t believe these didn’t get snapped up immediately but I got lucky. I’m going to have to bill those boys for the half hour spent grinding off some of the knurling on the bolt handle so it’s not like some kind of James Bond secret weapon. Exfoliated my thumb right out of the box 🤣. (JK not going to bill you. This time.)

(They still have some available.)

If you didn’t get one of these you missed out. I typically like the C, Cx, etc. for their modularity and wild colors, but this one beats those in comfort. Spoke was on to something here, let’s hope something comes out of it…

The weight is so nice