Guardian Titanium Pen Updates - Pre-Orders

The Guardian is an innovative pen designed for busy people who want to be protected everywhere without raising any eyebrow.

Made of titanium, a material highly resistant to chemical attack and has the highest strength to weight ratio of any metal.

We translated the discoveries we made while working on the Stealth Pen Pro and came to design a highly functional defense pen, that in my humble opinion, looks AMAZING.

The satin finish keeps the pen inconspicuous, and the design gives an amazing fighting grip. Loyal to our tradition, we have included a glass breaker concealed by a grippy cap.

The bolt action mechanism is smooth and precise, thanks to the use of POM polymer to ensure the most satisfying action when activating the pen.

My name is Jeff Truchon, I have co-designed this pen and I am the founder of The Atomic Bear. I will update you on this page about the progress in the production of this batch of 100 Guardian pens.

 

*** October 29th 2024 Update ***

The Guardian pens are ready to ship! They will leave tomorrow!

*** October 24th 2024 Update ***

Great news! All the parts have been made. Tomorrow we are receiving the packaging and the clips and will start assembling. Assembling will be finished by Monday the 28th of October. We will ship to our Salt Lake City warehouse on Monday. Shipping will take 5 to 10 days. Then we are ready to dispatch your Guardian!

*** September 26th 2024 Update ***

Super excited to see the production moving forward! One of your pen part is on this picture! They all passed our QC! Things are moving smoothly and as planned.

*** September 16th 2024 Update ***

We are moving the first shipment date again! I want to make sure that you see that we are diligent! We are dealing with a small batch. So the big expensive machines that can CNC titanium are not as easily available as we wish...

And things are PROGRESSING!

1. Meet Lee, a Canadian engineer who lives in China and is the lead on the Guardian production. He is a perfectionist and knows how to get the best out of China manufacturing.

2. See how Lee managed to make the parts line disappear

3. Our current Gantt chart of the first 100 units. The complexity of making a pen like this is surprising! Many of the parts need to undergo multiple processing. So the assembly should finish on October 15th. Freight to our Salt Lake City warehouse will take about 7 days. So in all propability, you should receive by the last week of October your Guardian. Can this be moved? Unlikely. I will keep you updated!

 4. The little cap that caused multiple iterations to get the perfect retention. Controlling very tight tolerances and having the tiny details right. 

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NOTE The delivery of the Stealth Pen Pro has been postpone to end of September. We needed to improve 3 elements:

1) Make the cap a little stiffer

2) Improve the fit for the Fisher Space Ink cartridge. It was not as smooth as I wanted.

3) Modify the shaft design (not apparent) to have a better alignment of tooling to create a more perfect seamless surface to hide that line between the writing tip and the shaft.

This additional iteration makes it impossible to deliver by end of August.

 

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*** New Addition to Your Order ****

 

 

I believe that if you carry a weapon, you need to be able to practice with it. Whether it is a hammer, a screwdriver, or an amazingly sexy pen... This is why I have decided to add a beautiful and functional brass practice tip. Watch the video above to hear what the guy in charge of R&D and manufacturing says about it ;-)

 

Bolt Action Button… Your Pen Is Special! 

The Guardian uses a bolt-action system. This is not a system that we invented. You may want to know how we improved it…

All systems, until the Guardian, use a round bolt action button. If you don’t know why… it is fairly simple. These have a screw directly screwed into the interior slide. If you know anything about manufacturing, you know that it is nearly impossible to align the threading of a screw so that the button would end-up perfectly aligned with the pen. It could look a little ugly. 

Not only, the traditional bolt action buttons are limited in their shape and ergonomics, but they have a tendency to unscrew themselves over time. Which means that the little button falls off randomly and… yes your pen becomes useless.

Traditional bolt action button

Guardian Bolt Action Button

Our design team made a brilliant discovery. We do not screw the button into the slide. We insert it. The screw comes from the top of the slide to secure the assembly. This means that we could design our ideal button. And the button will NEVER unscrew itself from the slide.