BASTION® Luxury Bolt Action Pen, Durable Professional Ballpoint Pen with Fine Tip, EDC Pen Ink Refillable Pen - 100% Stainless Steel

I recently started carrying EDC pens at work, out of what I have tried, the Bastion pen is the best pen out there! I love the weight and smooth finish of the body, really strong pocket clip too. I currently have the the slim black stainless steel and titanium grey, the two different sizes and all the color options are really nice. The different material options really add premium choices as well! The bolt feels really smooth with good spring resistance, it has a really nice click in both directions. I love that it can take Parker style ball point refills. I loved the slim stainless steel black so much that I bought the regular Titanium Grey, and now three more (one slim and two regulars) are on the way!

What a fantastic pen. I love heavy pens because I tend to grip them very hard and the extra weight allows my hand to relax while writing. This thing may as well be a baseball bat and I LOVE it. This is a no joke EDC pen as well with its weight and stainless steel body.It is heavy in hand, but that weight leans back balancing the pen beautifully allowing far smoother lines. My handwriting has even cleaned up some.The mechanism is great as well. Very strong spring, crisp action and a not difficult or strange to use. Feels very natural.The seamless design looks beautiful, my only slight tick is that is was coming loose occasionally. I added tiny drop of thread lock and solved that problem without making it too hard to open again. The clip is HEAVY not easy to bend and secured with 2 Torx screws. (Also needed a little thread lock, common with metal on metal)The ink cartridge is okay, I didn't really expect much. It cuts out randomly fairly often, sputters and jumps a bit too but I expected to need to order some new ones. Not sure on the storage capacity, but it does seem to burn ink pretty fast.Overall I am in love with this pen and will be buying another one as a spare.

Top Quality in it's Price PointBastion is an appropriate brand name for a product that clings to a last-man-standing level of quality while keeping the price realistic. I purchased the stainless steel bolt action Bastion in black. The matte black finish is smooth and satisfying and surprisingly easy to grip. The bolt action is very close to perfectly precise; it's responsive to what feels like an appropriate amount of pressure, and the spring resists perfectly so that you feel like you are doing something significant. The bolt action is not loose at all, doesn't click clack around in the engaged or disengaged positions. The two bolts on the pocket clip are low-profile, clean looking, and precisely applied with no nicks or scratches that appear on other pens at this price point from sloppy machining. The native ink cartridge was not my favorite. The lines were a little too light and the tip a little too broad for my taste, but it wrote smoothly and it was easy for me to find a replacement that fit my taste (Ohto extra fine quick dry gel). The machining was virtually flawless. In other words, the bolt action and the seams are so smooth that I could not visually or tactilely perceive any imperfections. The tip fits on and off as if it were a solid single piece of heavy duty metal. The tip feels nice and heavy and lines up with an almost imperceptible seam that is free of any nicks or tell-tale flaws and gives the impression that you are assembling something like a bullet precise instrument.Now let's talk about the weight, the density, and the diameter of the Bastion. These were the factors that I thought would throw me off it's scent. The weight is significant: 2.8oz. It's hard to imagine what that will feel like in your hand, but for comparison, I like to use Pentel Energels, Tuls, Zebra G-402s, and Uni-balls, and I can hold all 4 of those pens in my hand and it still doesn't equal the weight of this one Bastion torpedo. This stainless steel beast is heavy like a rifle barrel. And it's significantly more girthy than most pens as well. I thought these features would cause my hand to tire more quickly and cause my grip to work harder to maintain fine motor control. This simply did not turn out to be the case, despite my worries.The Bastion feels like a machine. And the weight of that machine actually helps do some of the work for you. It rests in my hand at the right angle and the weight exerts pressure on the tip for me so that I don't have to press or push. I compare it to the traction control I get in heavier steel-body cars as opposed to lighter frame powerful engine cars. This Bastion Stainless Steel Black pen seems to reduce my writing fatigue and enhance my writing experience adding significance to my lines and satisfying tactile feedback to my grip. When I write with the Bastion it feels like I'm using a finely engineered machine to help do some of the work for me. Of course they offer lighter pen bodies, like the Titanium ones which I intend to try, but this dense stainless steel bullet of a pen feels good in my hand and gets lots of attention from my peers and coworkers as well.I purchased my Bastion from the Amazon store, didn't get all the swag with it, but still got an impressive pen at the most competitive price in it's category. I own Graftons and Quills and Crosses and Parkers, but this Bastion pen, which is in the same price range of $35 to $50, outperforms all of those pens and feels as if it is in a whole other premium quality tier without having to charge the premium quality price.

Incredible pen. Hefty weight, bolt action keeps the pen retracted in my pocket. Writes great. The carbon fiber looks awesome too. I highly recommend this pen.

I think Amazon should have 1-10 rating system. This is a 4.5. The minus .5 is for the ink cartridge, and I know it is highly subjective. I love the design, the weight, the construction, and the quality of the pen. I sort of knew when I ordered it that I wouldn't like the ink cartridge, and ordered bold, black gel cartridges at the same time. Common ink cartridges are too smooth for my taste and I like to feel the resistance and friction against paper that I get with gel. I have used Pilot G-2's for as long as they have been around, and sort of hoped I could transplant their cartridges to this pen, but no. I found a suitable replacement, and it made this pen a 5 out of 5. Is it crazy to spend over $50 on a pen? Maybe, but I am a guy that likes to have unique items that are commonly carried every day.Ask me to empty my pockets on any given day, and you probably couldn't point to one thing that could be bought at your local CVS, Target, or grocery store...