BIG IDEA DESIGN Ti Arto EDC : The Ultimate Refill Friendly Everyday Carry Pen

This is a brilliant pen design! It will accept almost any ballpoint or rollerball refill. Unlike a lot of pens that adjust for different refills, this one keeps the point rigidly in place with no play. It also does not require any spacers, different springs, or swapping of parts. Installing different refills is quick and simple.Even without the refill options this would be an excellent pen. It is comfortable to hold and offers a secure grip. The weight is moderate and the balance is fairly neutral, although that does depend a bit on the refill you use. The screw-on cap also posts on the end with a couple of twists.The pen is all made of titanium, even the clip. That means it is very tough, but not overly heavy. The black version has a vapor-deposited DLC coating, which is an expensive option with most other pens. The coating gives is a nice glossy look and also hardens the surface to protect against scratches. It might scratch your keys, but they won't scratch it. (Note that the other two finishes are not surface hardened and will pick up scratches.)The Ti Arto EDC has a sophisticated industrial look that would not be out of place in a business meeting or on a drafting table. If you could only own one pen this would be the one.

The heft and the feel of these pens are amazing. I've ordered all 3 in this set and love them. I'm using various Mont Blanc refills and love the flexibility. They have a great industrial feel and the design is pretty amazing.My one small critique is that each of them came with roughly 1/64" slop/gap in the pen clip that is super annoying for me. The differences were such that I could tell it was just tollerances off in manufacturing, not design-specific gaps for breathing or flex. The clips would shift side to side and in and out slightly and when I'd hold or fidget with the pen in meetings the little lack of tightness bothered me. But a quick fix for this was to put a super small amount of JB Weld in the 1/64" gap to close the gap and keep the clip tight. It worked perfectly and looks great.Buy these pens, you won't regret it.

This is the best pen I’ve ever used. Combined with the G2 refills I like, this is my everyday go to pen. And if you replace the pocket clip with one of the colored ones, that’s even better! It’s a bit expensive, but it’s made out of titanium, and it looks really good!

Great pen and the feature of using pretty much any insert is nice but it took a ridiculous time to arrive and when it did it was already a used pen and arrived with a dry ink cartridge

I've recently gotten into the void of pen, ink and stationery. And in the process have bought several more expensive pens and a whole variety of ink in order to find out what my favorite would be.Turns out the pen I like the most is the pen that was able to accept all the different type of refills I threw at it - even though I've finally settled on just one ink and no longer switch around. While I think I may have ended up liking the steel more, the black has a perfectly nice finish and the weight and grip is just right as the tool that gets out of the way when you use it but feels just right when you take time to measure it.I didn't expect what I thought would be the utility pen to become the main I use to write the most. Overall, would recommend.

This pen takes any refill you throw in it. Love it. While It’d be a hard decision to buy another if I lost mine today, I’d still recommend buying it at least once. The only downside is the cap is a screw on and off. To me that’s the biggest and dumbest design you could have made for a pen like this. Like what was the market team thinking? “Let’s make a pen that takes any refill, but you have to screw the cap off.” I have their fountain pen that’s a snap cap so I know they know how to design a snap cap. They need to fire their marketing team

This is pen number two from Big Idea Design. Number one, in raw Ti, is 3 years old and going strong. I just thought it would be nice to have another in black. I get plenty of “nice pen” complements at work but, being perfectly honest, I just enjoy using a quality pen. It’s a big price tag for a pen, in my opinion, but I do not mind paying for quality as long as I feel that I’m getting my money’s worth. For me, it’s worth a 100 bucks to enjoy unscrewing the cap of a world-class pen and signing documents, which I do all day long. Not sure which I prefer more, black or plain titanium. Both are classy and well made.

I really wanted to like this pen, and from other reviews, it seemed like the perfect pen for me! However, when I got it, I immediately noticed how weak the clip was; it felt like it would snap as soon as I snag it on something.I put my favorite refill in the pen and adjusted the screw end to the correct length. Every time I took it out of my pocket, the pen was fully extended! The tolerances in the adjustable part are too loose, and it unscrews itself just by gravity or rubbing on the inside of your pocket.