The Tinkering Dwarf

The BIC Pen Experiment, Part 3

I finished the pen! It actually went faster than I thought it would. If anyone's curious, I tend to write a lot because I do some form of Morning Pages or free flow writing everyday. Sometimes it's one page, other times it's 10. That's the reason why I even became curious about this experiment. I wanted to know how many pens I actually go through while just doing my daily writing.

Anyway, here's a photo of the empty: in this photo is an empty BIC pen on top of lined paper with marks on it showing ink levels in various stages along with how many pages it took to get there

As you can all see, it took roughly 41 pages or 20 and a half pieces of paper to finish the whole thing. After I stopped seeing the ink from the clear barrel, there was still a surprising amount in the brown part near the nib. Now, I don't think this was the best test of it since I actually switched to writing in cursive at some point and that actually made the ink go down faster but I think for an estimate it's not a bad one.

I'm not trying to be too scientific about it, this is just a fun thing for me to experiment with and see. After this though pen though, I decided to work on the whole pack of pen that came with it. I started with a red one and I'll write more updates on it even if no one reads it lol. Heck, after the BIC pens I might even make a post of the other random pens I have at home. I do admit I have quite a collection of stationery items and I want to use them up at this point.

this photo has a red BIC pen on top of lined paper and it has a marker on the paper showing the starting point of the ink

Here's where I'm starting with this pen. Until next time.