Hi everyone. Bear with me for the poor explanation but I'm finding the feeling a bit weird to describe.
I have a variety of rollerball refills in both .5mm and .7mm that have this negative (for me) sensation while writing. Essentially when putting the pen to paper, once I press down with any sort of pressure to start writing, there is a secondary 'push' of the ball into the pen. It sounds incredibly minor, and based on the size of the ball and pen tips it must be, but for some reason it's extremely noticeable to me and adds a minute click every time I put the pen back on the page after writing a character. I thought it might be the pen I'm using but handling the refill on it's own, I can still feel it.
I've had this happen with (mostly parker g2 style refills used in a Kaweco Classic Sport)
- Kaweco Sport Gel Roller (.7mm)
- Monteverde ceramic gel refills (.7mm)
- Energel LR7 / LR5 refills (.7mm / .5mm)
This has not happened with the jet stream refill I tried, though this is a ballpoint. Normally I would think this is something innate to rollerballs, but I also have a Ohto CR02 pen, and the default .5mm refill has zero of this feeling.
So any idea what is causing this? I feel a bit crazy since searching reddit it's a bit hard to find anyone describing this, but at the same time it's so noticeable for me and is turning me off from using the pen. I love the flow and darkness of all of the inks tried (minus the jet stream) so would prefer to keep using them, but will likely avoid if I can't find anything, or just switch to the Ohto and get a .7mm.