Award-winning knife designer Allen Elishewitz has
lived in the Far East and has practiced martial arts over
the past 30 years, including Okinawan Te, Thai Boxing,
Northern Shaolin and Kali. This training, along with his
experience as a Recon Marine, gave Allen the perfect
background to design these writing instruments, CRKT
Tao™ Pens.
The pens are made of 6061 aluminum, precision-
machined and hard anodized. The heavy cap is
threaded so that it will not pull off in use. The flutes
and grooves on the pen, combined with the pewter-
toned stainless steel pocket clip, provide a secure grip.
All Tao models are functional writing instruments
which use the Fisher® Space Pen ball point cartridge, a
pressurized design developed for NASA. It has a
tungsten carbide ball point and thixotropic ink which
will write in freezing cold, boiling heat, underwater
and at any angle—even upside down.