Zebra Pen Zebra F-301 Compact

Why use a cheap crappy pen when you can own two of these for under $7.00. A very solid , well made pen that writes smoothly and is comfortable to use. I love the compact size and the great fit of the lower pen portion onto the stainless steel cap. A pretty good fidget factor also. I would highly recommend and already have bought a couple of more.

Great pens. They are great to keep in your pocket. My son is in the Army and he has one at all times.

I've used Pilot F-301 full-size pens for years, and have found them very reliable and somewhat elegant, considering their inexpensive price (like the metal barrels, most others are just plastic). This compact version is pretty cool, looks almost the same, uses the same refills, and writes just as well, as a result. It appears the cap will stay in place, too, as it has a firm click in the closed position, and a sizeable portion of the barrel slides inside the cap, when you are using it, so it won't fall-off. I actually wanted a keychain pen, which I had before, but turned-out to be cheap and unreliable (stopped writing and the 2 refills I had didn't work either). I looked for a better one of similar design, but according to most of the reviews I saw, they're all pretty much crap, so went with this name-brand clip pen instead, as I know their refills always work. It's the perfect size to fit in the small change pocket of my jeans, which is what I wanted, as I often don't wear shirts with pockets and standard size pens are a hassle to carry, in that case. I've found it will fit snugly, diagonally in that pocket, if you don't use the clip. This also will help keep the clip from breaking-off, due to overuse. You get 2 pens in the pack, too, for a great price, so you have a back-up.

These pens are so cool 😭 They look just like pens and mechanical pencils did when I was a kid. My dad is an engineer and half his pens were this style, with the textured plastic and steel. The pens are so small and relatively tough even though there's plastic. They aren't long enough that I'm worried about them snapping in half in my pocket. The clip is so thin and the top of the pen is so abrupt that the pen almost disappears if you put it in the middle of your book, even if the cover is flush with the pages. You can hardly see it from the front or back. The rigid plastic threads get abraded by the metal tip being screwed on, especially if you put too much pressure on it. Mine are white already from rubbed off plastic dust, and I've had the pens only a few hours. I hope I didn't mess them up too much by experimenting with different ink refills. They 100% could have made the metal tip more versatile to fit more ink refills. The designated refills come with a spring so there's no reason the tip needs to be so tight fitting. I genuinely hate the ink and ballpoint included with the pens lol. I hate it. But fortunately I have several other options. And I read that the g 301 gel refills also fit this pen. So anyway, ZCSM glitter gel, Crayola gel, Promarx gel rollers, Gelly Roll Stardust, Pen & Gear clicker ballpoints, and a bunch of $1.25 glitter gel pens can be cut and used in these. You just usually have to use them up halfway first. A lot of the cartridge tips barely stick out of the metal tip though, so if you hold the pen at an extreme angle to the paper the ink may skip with those. Some of them have a plastic collar that can be cut off easily. (Some pen models that I didn't list have collars that could probably be ground down to make the ink cartridge fit, but I wasn't up to that.) I used a blade at first to cut the easy-to-modify collars, but realized that fingernail clippers would be safer and work better lol. To cut the refill to the right length, put the ink cartridge in the metal tip, hold it lined up with the flat edge like in the pic (so it's even with where it would be when it's screwed on), and cut the cartridge like 1mm shorter than the bottom edge of the black plastic body of the Zebra pen. If you can scavenge a weak/short spring it can help account for mistakes. A lot of springs, like on some of the clickers, are way too aggressive. I really want to find a Frixion pen cartridge that will work but I've tried color sticks, Synergy and Clicker and none worked so far. I also want to find a way to make a Micron PN marker function, but I think it probably can't work and I can't experiment more today. I used aviation snips to cut the plastic straws, fingernail clippers and utility blades for shaving down collars, and pliers to pull apart the pens

I like em, I have several. Sometimes I leave them as gifts !

Great, compact size pen, writes fine black ink. I wanted to have a more versatile pen by using fisher space pen cartridge. The ballpoint end is a bit thicker and did not fit right away. I did some trimming of the screw cup to make it fit and it’s perfect now. Compact size when in a pocket and full size pen when you write. With fisher space pen refill it’s versatile and not likely to leak ink in your pocket and will write in various conditions. Being zebra pen is also great as it has pocket clip - less likely to get lost or “infinitely borrowed” and if it does not a big deal as it’s budget friendly.

Five stars are listed, but the rating is closer to four and a half because of the well-known design defect. When the pen is open for writing with the cover placed on the non-writing end, the cover is loose. On my two pens, one pen's cover is looser than the other. I've tried to fix the looser one earlier today. It's not clear how long the fix will last. By the way, I love the short pen and how well it writes. The fix was to gently move the rubber O-ring out of its groove on the non-writing end. Then I wrapped some black sewing thread around the groove twice and gave it a half-tie to close. Then snipped the loose ends. Then moved the O-ring back over the thread. So far it's holding up well and keeps the cover firmly in place...maybe too firmly. The tolerances are small, so once around with the thread might work better on some pens. This may cause the O-ring to fail prematurely. Time will tell.

Lovely compact pen, always have one with me, write well.

I had this pen before, then I decided to buy another for a friend. It’s useful and compact for the pocket

Estava buscando uma caneta portátil e de boa qualidade, essa aqui é uma q atende esses requisitos.

Its small enough for my kids to take with them on travels. They love it. Smooth writing and drawing.

Has been a comfortable everyday carry pocket pen for several weeks so far. The clip is easy to bend back to put onto something and springs back into place as expected. Keychain/lanyard hole is very convenient for putting onto my keyring with a bit of string. I was able to make this compatable with Fisher refills using a 2.5mM drill; out of the packaging the hole is just a fraction of a milimeter too small for one to fit through.