Rust-Oleum 215123 American Accents Satin Decorative Paint Pen - Black, 1/3-Ounce - Perfect for DIY Crafts, Home Decor, and Furniture Touch-Ups

Wanted to refresh the service door to the garage only to discover the hinges couldn’t easily be replaced to match. This Rustoleum paint pen worked perfectly to disguise the old brass hinges. Fifteen minutes and Voilà!I needed this to clean up some edges on my painted stairs where the paint bleed through the tape edge. Would use this brand again.I have some small wood picture frames that I wanted to paint black. I purchased this pen thinking it would be less of a mess and easier to use than some of the other paint options.I received my paint pen yesterday. I sat down with my first picture frame, with a newspaper underneath, and went to work.It’s difficult to get started. You mash the tip down and the paint soaks into the tip. I expect it to be slow on the initial use, but each time I put it down and picked it back up half an hour later, it was difficult to get started again. Frustrating, but not a dealbreaker.The instructions say it takes 15 - 30 minutes to dry. I let it dry overnight. This afternoon, when I went back to it to put a second coat (one was nowhere near sufficient, as the wood still showed through almost everywhere) the paint was tacky and a little came off onto my hands. I wondered if it would do the same to my wall.As the second coat was drying on one side, I noticed that there are still places that were going to require a third coat.An hour later, I picked up the frame to put a second coat on the other side. Once again, I mashed and held the pen down to get the paint flowing again. And mashed and held, and mashed and held. The last time I pulled the pen up to see if the paint was flowing yet, the entire inch long tip came out of the pen, bounced off the newspaper, off my shirt, off my shorts, and then apparently across both legs before skipping across my bed sheet and coming to a rest on the sheet. (I’m disabled and some days, the bed is the only place my hips will allow me to sit without high pain levels). It left a trail of paint everywhere. I included a photo showing the pen minus the tip, the biggest blob on the sheet, and the paint left on my hands. I’ve had the pen 24 hours.I purchased a name brand so this kind of thing wouldn’t happen. I’m frustrated, I have ruined clothes and sheets, I’m still trying to get the paint off my hands, and my frame still needs another coat.This product was exactly what I needed! About a year ago, when my cabinets were painted, the cabinet hinges (which were originally brass colored) were spray-painted a bronze color. Over time, patches of paint have rubbed off. I used this pen to patch up the damaged areas, and it looks great. It's been a couple of weeks since I did this and there is no sign of wear on the touched-up areas so far. I'm not sure why the Espresso color is more expensive, but it was worth the money for me.UPDATE: The paint does rub off over time, and it's somewhat hard to reapply. I think this would end up being better maybe for art projects on surfaces other than metal.This is a pen type device with a pointed hard tip that may be good for painting small narrow lines or filling in scratches. .I tried using this to paint a 4 inch high furniture leg. The tip prevented anything more than a narrow line and when I painted several side by side it was very streaky and did not cover well even after depressing the tip numerous times.I tried painting this small 4x4 inch area and even after letting it dry and trying to re-coat it, I had to abandon using this product due to very poor results.Exactly what I needed when I found a small scratch in some hardware! Blended seamlessly, and made the small scrape invisible!So I clean houses for a living and one client's home had horrible hard water corrosion. Her master faucet was supposed to be bronze, but it looked white. I colored it with this marker and at first I was worried. It looked blotchy and weird but when it dried it looked great...3 months and it still looks good and has not fadedUsed it to cover some exposed metal on my gym equipment where powder coat had chipped off. The color isn't 1-for-1, but it's good enough.The only thing I don't like is how it can be hard to get enough paint to come out if you are trying to use it at a large angle. I ended up repeatedly mashing the tip on the surface to get paint to come out.Ease of use, smooth even coverage.