Metal head graffiti markers are great for writing on those surfaces that traditional
graffiti mops and markers don't want to write on and they also have the ability
to give off a unique look with their lines and tags so that is why in today's video
i'm going to be ranking all of the graffiti metalhead markers that i have ever used from
worst to best based on how well they do their job and in my experience what they're good for and how
they write and also make sure to explicitly state for you guys what their jobs actually
are because it does actually vary quite a bit between these different types of metal
head graffiti markers and that'll help some of you graff heads out there hopefully figure out
which among the metal heads you might want to try out for yourself based on your specific purposes
and writing environment that you're going to be using these in so let's get right to it!
to be impartial about this as well i will also mention a few metal head graffiti markers that i
have not personally tried myself that are similar to the ones we're going to be talking about today
specifically so that you have some options between brands that you can look at and compare prices
for all that kind of stuff and i'll also try and link you in the description to as many of
these as i possibly can so you can check them out yourself number six: i said from worst to best so
we are starting off with the baddest of the bad this marker ranked highly only on my list of
worst graffiti supplies you can check that video in the corner or the description if you want
and it's of course the Krink k90. one of my biggest things about graffiti markers mops paint
anything that can't be racked specifically is that it has to be economical so when you
hear that this thing comes with a generous (not) 26 ml of paint and cost you 14 usd
I'm out! i'm out right then and there you know like when you think about that and convert
that to 100 mils i don't want to pay 55 per 100 milliliters of whatever paint comes in this like
i said i'm out and you know what that's that's my regular normal grievances about everything to do
with most krink products i haven't even started talking about how this thing barely even works
in the first place unlike the dykem dalo its main competitor i would say which we'll talk
about later on in this list this thing unless you want the paint to just explode from the
metal ball bearing you have to pump it literally exactly twice and twice is all you can do and
then you have about enough pressure in it to make about three midsize letters of a tag it's just so
you can't put a full tag down if you're writing above a certain area coverage with it and it's
just so frustrating to sum it up you know there's there's just nothing good about this marker um you
know that might have sounded heavy actually but the metal on this is actually pretty cheap like
i can just you know dent that right then and there that's how cheap this metal is i just dented that
in half the tip itself i've never had problems with the ball bearing although i barely use this
ever but it does get clogged a lot other people have said when it does clog it's very hard to
unclog something else the colour selection they have for it is a generous black or white,
you choose. so that's not great either so you know i just don't really have anything good to
say about this and that's why it's at the bottom spot of the metal heads on this list let me know
if you guys would be interested in maybe a video of me rehabilitating this marker here could use a
bit of work let me know number five so the fifth highest spot or the second lowest rather spot
on this list is reserved for two metal heads that i've used in particular or rather a whole class of
metal head ball bearing markers and the two that i've used in particular are the soultip
006 specifically with the metal head ball bearing and the other one i'm throwing in here that i've
used is the molotow dripstick mini with the metal head both of those markers have this
basically identical four mm ball bearing at least that's what they're calling it both of the ball
bearings on them don't really compress too much which i think is a good feature about them it does
allow you to write fairly smoothly on some really rough surfaces like concrete or brick and i think
that's what these things are really good at if they're good at anything but the main problem with
this particular type of ball bearing marker is that they just seem to be very hard to
keep clean and you do need to keep them clean if you want them to roll smoothly otherwise you're
going to be going over every single line you do with it about three times to make it clear
and you just don't want to be trying to do tags like that that's just not fun for anyone and
it's slow right so that being the case i have found that with these particular type of ball
bearings that don't compress very far especially and are larger they only work in particular
with some thin thin paints and some inks in them we tried to do an experiment here where we filled
a molotow rollerball drip stick with some thicker paint and it did do okay but it was after doing
that experiment that i realized like yeah these things don't roll very well and they're super
hard to keep clean if you leave them empty for any length of time and anything hardens up in there so
if there's one thing i want you to take away from these ball bearing metal heads it's that you need
to use them with thinner paints or inks but this one in particular is nice and slim easy to carry
in a pocket but i do have to say i don't have to refill it very often if you know what i mean
the fourth kind of metal head we're gonna talk about on this list is still in the territory
of ones that i just don't think are a good idea and border on dysfunctional so we are still in
that territory guys and the one we're talking about here which might be a surprise to some
of you is the krink k66. and that goes for the mighty marker version of this as well and the
markal version which i bet a lot of you didn't even know existed this kind of metal head has
to do a lot with how i use metal head markers in particular i have been known every now and
again to enjoy a good ground tag and if you're like me and that is your style of enjoyment then
this marker is not for you the ball bearing on it is just so small and unprotected by the
metal surrounding it that if you do any kind of ground tanks on any kind of rough surface sooner
or later this thing is going to break in either one of three ways either the spring is going to
get jammed down and the ball bearing gets stuck inside that one's sort of fixable but sometimes
the ball bearing will just straight up break off and be gone forever into a void or the third
way is the ball bearing will actually chip and if this thing just won't roll that's the worst of the
ones i think and that just happens so often when you're riding on rough surfaces with the krink k66
i do think it would be unfair for me to not point out though that the krink k66 does make some very
nice looking lines it's got great dripability if you're using it on some smooth surfaces that's
where these things really thrive in addition to that i do have to say i really enjoy the sort of
thickness of the marker body here it fits a lot of paint in it and the squeezability of the krink
one in particular is quite nice the plastic's nice squeezable so i guess in a sentence this thing is
delicate untrustworthy but not entirely useless i guess number three so now we are in the top
three territory of our metal heads here and this is where i start really having trouble ranking
these actually and that is largely because at some point in particular i have relied on
each of these top three metal head graffiti markers but for number three after a lot of
thought i'm actually placing the grog metal head here. Some people love it, some people hate it.
you can leave your thoughts on this particular metal head in the comments for everyone to read
below i will read it i'll show your comments love but for a long time this particular metal head may
have topped the list for me because i relied on it i used it a lot and i was really really rough
on these metal heads and you know what that's a good place to start with this i've always found
it so funny how like all these metal head graffiti markers tend to be advertised as like these tough
implements you can scrape across rough surfaces but then they all tend to break some of them like
right away when you do try and do that with them and to a certain extent that probably is the case
with the grog metal head as well but i did find it to be a tougher one and last longer in general
than most of the other metal heads on this list i have definitely broken grog metal heads that's
why i have this one here in particular actually i can try and show you the caved in ball bearing on
this one but i've broken them in the same three ways that i have broken the krink k66's this just
tends to last quite a margin longer really and i think that's due to how the metal surrounding
the actual ball bearing is a little bit thicker which gives it a bit more protection when you are
scraping it across rougher surfaces and trying to write on them with it the body of the marker
itself is a bit of a double-edged sword i do have to say it is so so nice and squeezable but it's
soft enough that when you go to recap these after a while the neck of the marker will start caving
in and you can't even get the cap on that gets really annoying especially if you're in a hurry
i probably should emphasize with this one as well if you did want to use it on smooth surfaces to
write on because of its squeezability you can get some beautiful beautiful lines with it and
you could probably write till about the end of time with it on just smooth metal doorways and
such i do have to say the ruff stuff pain it comes filled with is a beautiful thick paint formula in
my opinion some people love it some people hate it again. And it smells great too so to sum this
one up i think i should say that the grog metal head works really really well until it doesn't
now my second favourite metal head graffiti marker here is probably going to surprise a lot of people
but it totally is a classic and that is of course the white out pen. it can be any white out pen
this one is just like a cheap bic one from walmart uh you can see it's well used i actually need to
probably replace this because it's clogged at the moment but i have just found consistently that
with white opens they are surprisingly tough and very versatile in terms of the number of surfaces
they can ride on i particularly enjoy the bic ones because of their immensely squeezable bodies here
as well as their shape they're very slim easy to carry with you but there are tons of the different
white oats style graffiti metal heads out there such as the pentel one the press and go one which
might be the art primo brand i don't know and just tons of other ones that all have their own unique
shape and slightly different poly plastic to them so you can really experiment and find out which
ones you enjoy by trying them out and you know what they're all pretty dang cheap as well so it's
worth picking a few different ones off i would say now yes these can be susceptible to chipping
jamming clogging all that sort of thing but here's my counterpoints to those cons one these are
totally refillable in almost every brand this one certainly is number two if you do end up having a
problem eventually with these they're so cheap you can buy a new one and three i've written on
almost every surface from rough wood freight metal smooth metal surfaces and the like with this thing
and it's held up quite well the ball bearing is still rolling so really to sum it up this thing
is very cheap fairly reliable easy to carry and very very versatile you can't go wrong number
one now i know for a fact that almost nobody is going to agree with my number one choice of
metal head marker here but nevertheless it is the dykem dalo industrial paint marker. and slow down
a slow down i hear you in the comments i do i'm well aware that this thing is literally
as slow as molasses it's big bulky hard to carry it's basically the exact opposite of something
you want to be using if you're writing in a street tagging environment. i hear you trust me but i
do have to say this thing has grown on me over time and you can actually get a pretty good flow
with it if you pressurize it properly those are the cons here are the pros that i have to argue
it's got a killer killer formula when it comes to permanence specifically the marker itself
is a damn good one it's built super tough i've never ever had a problem with a ball bearing on
this thing breaking or the marker not pressurizing the pressure is much more variable than this thing
that shall not be talked about anymore and you know what the ball bearing itself comes in quite
a few different sizes i believe a one a two maybe a five or four and just to top that off you can
actually get this in a surprisingly large range of colours. I'll make sure to link sort of like one
of these down below so you can actually check them out and ultimately if you're like me and you are
getting a lot of use out of this specifically in the freight graffiti environment then this thing
becomes quite a nice tool to be using you can write higher than 90 degrees with it due to the
pressurization you can write on wet metal with it quite nicely there's a ton of paint in here
trust me it's a real heavy marker the carriability is not as important when you're not in a street
environment and i know all the hot heads down there and the comments have already been like
dance markers very tight anyway but trust me when it when it comes to freight graffiti specifically
this thing becomes a whole different ball game so just for clarity's sake i should probably
emphasize i don't really think anyone should try and use this in like a street tagging environment
or anything like that but i do think it's a super underrated tool for freight bombing in
particular! But, if you want to see a comparison video comparing all the major metal head graffiti
markers it compares the grog metal head the krink k66, the molotow dripstick and a few others and
you can see every single marker in action doing some tags that sort of thing then check out the
video on screen right now and it'll take you to that review if you'd like to see more videos
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that metal head comparison video soon until then i appreciate your viewership and support. Peace.