I love me a good Kickstarter project, but who doesn’t right? As if you couldn’t already tell by the common theme of my blog, I also love stationery products. There are many resources that I use in order to discover and learn more about the hobby. One of those being the Penaddict blog and podcast. If you follow either of those than you’re familiar with what Mr. Penaddict himself hails as one of the best pen and refills on the market, the Uni-ball Signo DX. So I was not surprised when he announced his latest pendeavor, the perfect barrel for the DX.

The Spoke Pen “Orange Crush”

For this project he teamed up with Brian Conti of Spoke Designs, these two definitely delivered one extremely precise piece of gear. The pen came with multiple color options, and an aluminum and titanium configuration, sort of… I opted for the Orange Crush variant which has an aluminum body with a titanium grip (no aluminum grip option for this model). When I first chose this pen I didn’t know that you couldn’t get an aluminum grip with it, i’m not sure if it wasn’t specified or if I over looked it. I love titanium pens, so this didn’t bother me whatsoever and now with the pen in my hand, I know that what little shred of doubt I may have had is now completely gone.

It handles Cursive perfectly!

The Orange color of the pen is quite beautiful, it stands out, it pops, it is just right on so many levels. The project was delayed a bit because during the manufacturing process when the barrels and caps were being coated, they ended up not being an exact match. This, again didn’t bother me, since well I paid for something and I want to receive it as it was intended. I want to add that at this point any doubt that I ever may have had about this project was again absolutely gone.

Let’s talk a bit about the refill, the pen came with two Uniball Signo DX Refills in .5, a blue and black. Which are two great refills, I like them but I opted to replace them with a black in .38 because what’s not to love about a fine line, a real fine line… I love this pen, even more after the switch.

If you weren’t a backer on kickstarter have no fear as of writing this spokedesign.com has them listed as a November release. I’m not exactly sure if they will have the same colors offered during their Kickstarter campaign, but I do know that they were amazing. I will be buying one of their Joker Models if they have it available, yes because I though the movie was that good, maybe a purple, and green pen with blue ink is just what I deserve?

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