Pilot FriXion Erasable Pens: A Comprehensive Guide
Pros:<p>1. The erasability is excellent. It's just as good as everybody says. If you're old enough to remember "erasable pens" from the 1980s, this is <i>completely</i> different.<p>2. Pretty good feel. Not quite as smooth as a gel pen, but it's like a nice ballpoint.<p>3. If you get the Japanese models from Jetpens you can get some really really fine tips, like 0.38mm<p>4. Great for lefties, little to no smearing. One of the best lefty-friendly pens I've ever tried.<p>5. I find I write/sketch more freely with these relative to regular pens, because I'm not scared of mistakes.<p>Con:<p>1. They seem to dry up <i>really</i> quickly. A few months sitting in my desk drawer, and they lose their ability to write despite being nearly full of ink. I stopped buying them for this reason.<p>Anybody else experienced this? Now that I'm thinking about it, I probably could have experimented more. Maybe the ball was clogged, and cleaning it with rubbing alcohol could have revived them?