I felt in love with Jetstream pens some time ago, with very black colour, smooth writing, permanent ink etc. I started collecting all their different tip sizes and colours. Although I try all different tip sizes, I have always been more of fine pen tip person, therefore I have been using 0.38 more lately until one day I found out Amazon sells 0.28 tip. The price was another level, plus shipping cost and waiting to arrive from overseas.. I read all the reviews before ordering, including translated ones from other countries. From the reviews, I knew the pen was not as light as the other types of Jetstream pens, and some people mentioned the tip was so fine, that it rips paper.. I have 0.2 mechanical pencil that gets caught by paper texture, keeps breaking pencil leads, instead lead breaking, I thought paper gets tears for this pen. Anyway, I still made the order to try, and after a few hiccups with UPS delivery, (wasn't worth paying UPS for extra shipping, very disappointed), finally the pen arrived. The bottom one third of the pen where you grip the pen feels like metal, aluminium if I have to guess, so the whole pen is slightly heavier than typical plastic pens. I don't like heavy or thick body pens, but this is bottom heavy, it feels more stable, thankfully the weight doesn't bother me too much. What bothered me a little in the beginning was that it felt like I have to hold the pen somewhat a bit more vertical than what I was used to with other pens. As the tip was so fine, if I hold the pen the way I used to with other pens, it doesn't glide well, but after a few days of annoyance, now I somewhat got into holding the pen that glides ok. And so far, I haven't had any issues with tearing paper when I am writing, it glides well. I haven't had any issues with paper, but the tip so fine, when I got confused with the tip with the top where you push the tip in and out, once I ended up having the tip in my thumb. Ouch. So to cut the long story short, if you like fine tip pens, try this pen.
