I brought, showed off and even gave away a few mini ballpoint pens at the NWOGEO Fall Meeting. While I'd like to take credit for the idea, I actually got the concept and technique from the HuntnLady's Website.
Here's the link to the instruction page for making them.
The Prime Suspect Guide to Creating Mini-Pens
These pens are great for small cache boxes and a box of 10 of the unmodified Bic pens only cost around a buck.
Mini-pens for Micro Caches
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Mini Pens
Some time ago I used to carry around little mini pens in my pocket. I hunted around the house and found one. It was made by Lindy Pen Co., and was about 3.5" long, and had a pocket cllip, and and a cap. I remember I used to see them on counter tops in jars at check-out counters. Tried to find them on the Web, with no success. They would be perfect for Geocaching, without the work of custom cutting the Bic pens. If I run across them somewhere I'll post where.
Meanwhile the Bic pens are sure cheap enough, as long as you don't mind performing the surgery on them!
Meanwhile the Bic pens are sure cheap enough, as long as you don't mind performing the surgery on them!
just a quick reply on this one i dont know how cold it gets or if you have many winter cachers there in ohio but i dont have much luck using pens below freezing i always carry a pencil with me and most micros ive ran into have room for a cut down pencel and a sharpner just my two cents but im not a ink pen fan when it comes to geocaching