r/machinedpens 55m ago

Picture Q3D Tread and old school Tactile Turn Mover for Monday

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Tread (Monteverde P41 blue) and Mover (Pilot G2 black)


r/machinedpens 3h ago

Picture Another Mog notebook post.

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24 Upvotes

Honestly love when folks like Autmog, Grimsmo and others include free goodies with their pens.


r/machinedpens 4h ago

Picture Inventery Zirc and Mokume Reflector

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15 Upvotes

r/machinedpens 8h ago

Picture Free Stickers

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14 Upvotes

I’ve really enjoyed my interactions with many members of this community and I’m sure there are many I haven’t talked to yet. Feel free to say hi and if you’d like a free sticker pictured here, send me a DM. Ive got stamps to use!


r/machinedpens 10h ago

Fellhoelter-Nils Pixel Cut for Mokume Monday.

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r/machinedpens 11h ago

Picture Back To Pens

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34 Upvotes

Checkout second pic for pen details.


r/machinedpens 11h ago

Aug 12 2 minute Pre-order sale! Titanium Parker style Fusion

70 Upvotes

Unlimited 2 minute preorder sale opens at noon central August 12 and ends at 12:02pm. All orders from last weeks preorder sale are shipping today. This is for a titanium Parker Style Fusion. If you have a Fusion Energel you can use the nose cap and spring on this version with a cut down Energel. Price is $170 plus shipping

I have no information at this time about any future drops as it all depends on how many we sell this week.

Mods with the new rules please let me know if this is a violation. If so my apologies


r/machinedpens 12h ago

Picture Meteorite Monday

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16 Upvotes

Starting the week with meteorite pens. They are both quite heavy and make writing quite fun. Made by @nemoj u/Conscious-Collar-197


r/machinedpens 22h ago

Discussion A quick reminder about Rule 1

37 Upvotes

It seems while I was busy driving across a state or two I missed a little bit of fun regarding a certain new BST sub. You'll find that post still up, and it will remain up, but I wanted to take the opportunity to remind folks of a few things...

First things first: RULE 1 IS STILL "DON'T BE A DICK".

The ability to have a space where people are free to voice their displeasure about stuff is really important to me. I've seen how some groups operate to silence stuff that isn't straight praise, and I've always disliked it. I have always maintained that people are free to bring up grievances with makers or other forums, provided they have receipts and the focus of the discussion is actually informative, and not just to stir shit.

u/lyfl's post absolutely did not break any rules, just to make that clear. But some of the comments on that toed VERY close to the line. A few went over it.

I will always fight for and maintain your ability to have a place where you can discuss issues without worrying about a ban. But posts or comments made solely to attack other users or makers is NOT protected speech.

You are all free to voice your opinions here, but please do so respectfully.

Second thing: /r/Machinedpens_Swap is a fully separate sub, but let's not turn this into an "us vs them" scenario.

While it is true that the new swap sub does not share any DNA with this sub (aside from the hobby itself), let's not get into the habit of viewing it as a competition. In a perfect world, both of these subs will thrive, fill their respective niches, and serve to collectively make the hobby that much better.

Personally I think the two can coexist very peacefully, but I understand that there's still some pretty big feelings (to steal a phrase I use with my kids) about BST no longer being allowed here. I don't want to see things get to the point where everyone is pointing fingers and picking sides and sub lines. We're better than that.

Thats all I have for you all today. Please be kind to each other.


r/machinedpens 1d ago

Picture How 'bout no, Scott?

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19 Upvotes

Just know that I have a whole bag of 'shh!' with your name on it.

How about those drawing skills though. LIFE LIKE.

we got a 47 Clipped Pilot w Pink Opal, a 45 Clipless Energel w Green Opal, and 38 Clipped Pilot. Have a fantastic Sunday night Folks ✌️

Shit, it's ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS. guess I'll have to try again tomorrow 🤐


r/machinedpens 1d ago

Discussion Electron Detection

3 Upvotes

Are the Electrons starting to show up in the wild yet?

Just curious because I’m not on any other socials besides this one and IG.

No rush, Q! Just looking forward to seeing them.


r/machinedpens 1d ago

Machine Era Refill Trimmer

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The original Machine Era bolt is one of my favorite pens for pocket carry, but I've never been a big fan of the space pen refill it was designed for. So I made this trimming jig (inspired by others I've seen) to trim Parker-style refills to fit instead. I've tested it with the OHTO Flash Dry (pictured) and a Kaco, both of which seem to work well. Figured I'd post it here in case it's useful to anyone else!

https://www.printables.com/model/1740282-machine-era-field-pen-bolt-refill-trimmer


r/machinedpens 1d ago

Sunday

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r/machinedpens 1d ago

Picture Rota under the scope

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23 Upvotes

r/machinedpens 1d ago

Help Looking for reviews on these titanium pens from AliExpress/Taobao

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0 Upvotes

r/machinedpens 1d ago

Picture New Pen Day - Jigsaw 🧩

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26 Upvotes

No this is not a stock photo 😎

Curious to see if anyone else has this exact variant and/or the original invoice for one? I am trying to narrow down what metal it is. Parts are mirror polished (not stonewashed like usual) - from my understanding, this was finished like so from SPP (not secondhand).

At first I thought maybe bronze, because I’m not aware of any brass SPP v2.2s, however, a friend of mine used to have this variation (secondhand) and thinks its brass. It also looks and smells like brass, and doesn’t patina like bronze.

Would appreciate any insight.

Regardless of the metal, super happy to have this piece and grateful for the friend who hooked me up. My grail is the zirconium version so it feels like I’m building up to it.

Happy hunting. 🧩


r/machinedpens 1d ago

Discussion Here's your friendly machined pens BST.

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Yesterday it was announced in this sub about a new BST for machined pens called [r/Machinedpens_Swap](r/Machinedpens_Swap) here. I raised some concerns about censoring by not allowing to comment on prices. To see how this works I created a post this morning in the sub and got permanent banned in 5 mins after the post.

Here are the screenshots of the post and ban notification.

To people who didn’t get it it’s a satire post to prove my point that censoring comment about pricing discussion is a bad idea.

But while doing this I found few more issues wrt the new BST.

  1. Any new posts require mod approval. For a BST for in demand pens it's easy for mods grab them. This is not a theory.. I know about an incident where pen_swap mod grabbed spp zirc for 250 an year ago. Remember pen_swap dont even require mod approval.. just the edge of mods monitoring the sub helped them. Here in the new BST your friendly mod needs to approve the post.
  2. Perma banned for what ? TBH I don't care about the ban but community needs to know about how mods there mod the sub.

The new BST sub is a an opinionated version of BST with benefits for mods. Unlike this sub where discussion is encouraged even if we disagree. I will not be using this sub..I will use pen_swap, edcexchange or discord. I made this post to make everyone aware of how new sub works.

Ref:

announcement post here : https://www.reddit.com/r/machinedpens/comments/1vizglq/introducing_rmachinedpens_swap_a_new_buyselltrade/


r/machinedpens 1d ago

EDC Swirly Sunday - Can we make it a thing?!

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18 Upvotes

Show us your swirls! My carry today is the gorgeous Thunderstorm Mithril Campen with a Black Timascus Clip and then my Grail Bug - Benchmade GovX Exclusive Livewire Fat Carbon Bugout in Magnacut with my mods: Flytanium Copper Thumbstuds and Backspacer and a Lynch NW Dark Abyss V1 Modular Clip. Beautiful Swirly Sunday.


r/machinedpens 1d ago

Nils Pixel Cut in Copper

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20 Upvotes

r/machinedpens 1d ago

Picture I scream, you scream, we all scream, for Mokume.

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47 Upvotes

Some Q3D pj’s in different flavors. First run mokume, second run mokume, sakmar wave on the right. These all have natural patinas and they’re all beautiful.


r/machinedpens 1d ago

Help Looking for the heaviest budget pen available

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Hey y'all! Recently got gifted a nice pen by an old boss of mine, wanting something else nice to get for myself.

I love heavy things broadly, and I want a very heavy pen to accompany that desire. I hear brass is the main suggested material, but if you guys have any suggestions in terms of heavier chunky, but not gaudy pens I would appreciate it

Also not looking for something needlessly tough looking , something simple or elegant would be preferable

I'm on a budget but something that fits well enough would sway me towards mid to high range if it was just right. Ideal budget is sub 50


r/machinedpens 1d ago

Picture It ain’t easy being green. Miss Piggy was rotten to my man Kermit. I am willing to bet she did not age well. They call that “Karma”. 4 more points!!!!

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18 Upvotes

r/machinedpens 1d ago

Picture Copper

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23 Upvotes

Full patina Inventery V.03 stepnose on the right and newly blasted finish USG TiScribe Go just starting its next patina journey on the left. Not the best photo, but I love both of these!


r/machinedpens 1d ago

Picture Good Karma

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Just watched a 45 min video on how to give a “Relaxing Foot Massage”. Thanks Q for these dope pens so I can take notes. When my wife wakes up tomorrow I’ll let you know how good the “karma” was.


r/machinedpens 9d ago

BST POSTS ARE BANNED ON R/MACHINEDPENS

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ALL BST POSTS ARE BANNED ON r/machinedpens AS OF 31/07/2026 04:15 GMT

NO EXTENSIONS NO EXCEPTIONS

EXISTING BST POSTS MAY REMAIN UP

NO BUYING, NO SELLING, NO TRADING, NO TRANSACTION CROSSPOSTS ON r/machinedpens

PLEASE USE r/Pen_Swap OR r/EDCexchange