St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - Papa J Studio Floral Finial Fountain Pen

I’m raising money for St. Jude during the month of September, and as we keep hitting milestones, I keep adding items to give away to anyone and everyone who would like to enter.

This giveaway is for a Papa J Studio Floral Finial Fountain Pen in an as-yet unreleased Carolina Pen Co. material, fitted with a Medium Steel #6 Bock Nib. You know the drill - read the rules below, and get to entering!

One note: this, and all other St. Jude Milestone Giveaways will run until the end of September, officially closing at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.

There are more giveaway milestones to hit, so check out my campaign and help myself and Relay raise money for St. Jude Children’s Hospital during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

The full list of St. Jude Milestone Giveaways:

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - River City Pen Co. Inkthrower Fountain Pen

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - Hello Tello Firefly Mini Pocket Pen

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - River City Pen Co. Inkthrower Fountain Pen, Number Two

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - Hello Tello Venice Piccolo Pocket Fountain Pen

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - Nahvalur Eclipse Fountain Pen

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - Mike’s Pen Fun Fountain Pen With #8 Nib

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - Zodiac Pen Co. Aries Fountain Pen

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - London Pen Co. Christopher 14 Ebonite Fountain Pen

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - Esterbrook Estie Botanical Gardens Fountain Pen

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - Skogsy Pens Agave 14 mm Turquoise Fountain Pen

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - Nahvalur Eclipse Fountain Pen Number Two

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - Ritter’s Writer’s Sunset Dreams Fountain Pen

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - Musubi Peruvian Quechua Wool and Alpaca Notebook

St. Jude Milestone Giveaway - Zodiac Pen Co. Capricorn in Orange Swirl Ebonite Fountain Pen

Posted on September 29, 2025 by Brad Dowdy and filed under Giveaways, St. Jude.

uniball Jetstream Prime 3 Color Lite Touch Ballpoint Multi Pen Review

I’ve been sleeping on the uniball Jetstream Prime for too long. Time to correct that.

I bought this pen (full name: uniball Jetstream Prime 3 Color Lite Touch Ballpoint Multi Pen) all the way back in February at the California Pen Show. So long ago, I can’t remember exactly who I made the purchase from. All I remember was being surprised to see it there.

The Jetstream Lite Touch had been launched to great fanfare in 2024, and my experience with it has been great. I reviewed the single pen and the 4+1 multi pen at the time, and have mostly stuck with the single version since. My uniball multi pen time has been mostly spent with the 4+1 Karimoku edition (also seen in the linked review, and in this one,) but the Prime has a lot going for it that has me intrigued.

For starters, the barrel is slim in diameter for a multi pen. So slim, that on first glance it seems like an upgraded barrel for a single refill pen. And it is a metal barrel, too. Aluminum, but not too light and airy, like some of the 4+1 uniball aluminum barrels. The compact nature means the insides are packed, so it has a solid and balanced feel in the hand. The matte finish on my Burnt Orange model is smooth, but it hasn’t been slippery so far.

The deployment mechanism for the Jetstream Prime is a twist, as opposed to a knock. The look is much cleaner for a multi pen, and for the premium Prime barrel it’s a good fit. The Black 0.5 mm refill is in the center, with a quick twist clockwise to engage Red, or counter-clockwise to engage Blue. You will have to jump over Black in the middle every time if you want to go from Red to Blue, or vice versa. The refill retracts in the zones to each side of the Black refill. The clip does line up with whichever refill you select.

uniball Jetstream comparison — *Top to bottom: Single refill Jetstream Lite Touch, Jetstream Prime, Jetstream 4+1 Karimoku edition.*

From a writing perspective, you can’t do much better than the uniball Jetstream Lite Touch - at least if you are amenable to using a ballpoint pen. That’s a curse word in many pen circles, but I’m a fan, and will not stand for any ballpoint pen slander! The Jetstream is not your parent’s ballpoint pen, and the Lite Touch is so good, you might not even realize it is one. The best thing I can tell you to do is try it and see for yourself. Maybe not the Prime from the jump, but the single barrel is a good starting point at $3.

The Prime carries an extra digit on its price tag, checking in at $31. Looking at the label on my box, I paid $37 for mine, but that was before the pen became more widely available from importers. $31 seems completely fair for an upgraded barrel like this, although Burnt Orange seems to no longer be available. The four current colors are nice, with the Ivy Green looking especially great.

Only one question remains for me with the Jetstream Prime Lite Touch, and that is how it fits into my rotation going forward. It’s going to take the place of the Karimoku model for now, and given the fact the Prime uses the Lite Touch refills and the Karimoku doesn’t, it might find a permanent home on my desk. At least until the Uni Jetstream Slim Multi Pen 0.38 mm gets the Lite Touch upgrade and they will have to battle it out for supremacy.

Maybe I just swap the refills now.

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Posted on September 29, 2025 by Brad Dowdy and filed under uniball, Jetstream, Pen Reviews.

Misfill, Sign Pen Edition

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links:

Read: — Pentel Sign Pen (Lexikaliker)

— Why the Pentel Sign (Fude Touch) Brush Pen is my Favorite Brush Pen (he Well-Appointed Desk)

— InkShift – Mont Blanc Royal Blue to Irish Green (inkxplorations)

— Daily Calendar Doodles, May - August // A.C. (Baum-kuchen)

— Coming 10.17.25 the newly reimagined large idea journal (doane paper feed)

— Deliciously Drawn: Five food illustrators who'll make you hungry (Creative Boom)

— Ink Swatching Tools Update (Olive Octopus)

— #12PenPersonQuestions (Toga’s Stationery Vagaries)

— Roly Allen (Uses This)

— Pen Porn: Zek Pens (Rachel's Reflections)

— Ink Swatch Wednesday: Revisiting Diamine Inkvents (and a bonus) (Cheryl Lindo Jones)

— A critical mass of Diamine (mnmlscholar)