I dunno about you, but my Facebook feed is absolutely swamped with people pouring epoxy resin on to pieces of wood. Often it’s a coffee table.
But you can also get phone cases and myrid other objects, large and small, made using this technique.
While this ‘hybrid’ effect is on the verge of being overdone,… Continue reading
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The TL;DR of this review: if you’re in the market for a robust and comfortable pocket pen, Gravitas offers an excellent option. But there are a few things you should be aware of.
Let’s unpack it a little.
The Gravitas Pocket Pen has very obvious shared DNA with the rest of the Gravitas range. Conical… Continue reading
The lovely people at Cult Pens recently sent me a bottle of ink to review. I asked to try one of the new inks by Straits Pen (new because although they’ve been around since 2018, Cult has just started to stock them), and didn’t specify which colour from the range. My mistake.
Cult sent me… Continue reading
I snuck out of the house today at 7.30, and cruised under sunny skies to London for the pen show with a sense of anticipation. By the time I walked in the door of the Novotel ballroom at 8.30, many tables were already set up and I saw several familiar faces.
Jose Munuera and his… Continue reading
Yep, it’s this time of year again. Another pen show, back in London, and my excitement is mounting.
Here’s my plan so far:
Get started with earlybird entry at 9am. You can still buy tickets!
Head to Cult Pens: I need to swap my broken Narwhal for starters. And check out what goodies Claire and… Continue reading
There’s really very little I can think of to criticise about the Gravitas Pens Entry. As I said in this video, comparing several pens from the Gravitas range, these are mature and well thought-out designs that are basically flawless in execution.
With that TL;DR out of the way, let’s talk about this model in a… Continue reading
I’ve been embedding some review videos inside my written reviews for a while now, but I’ve also been enjoying posting some standalone short (<5 minute) videos to my YouTube channel.
Videos like this quick tour of the Narwhal Cult Pens exclusive:
Or the Tuduriya Moonlit, currently on Kickstarter:
Or the super premium Titanium Capillaris:
Or… Continue reading
As well as buying several pocket 6 pens over the years, I’ve somehow accrued two of Schon Dsgn’s full size pens, and they have both ended up becoming real personal favourites in short order.
(A note on naming: when Ian first launched this pen model in Ultem, and later PEEK, they carried the name of… Continue reading
You know, my last pen purchase cost four figures. You could literally buy 300 Platinum Preppys for the price of that one pen. And there are several very good arguments for why that would be the right thing to do. For as much as I love the TWSBI Eco as an incredible example of value… Continue reading
I see plenty of tie-in pens, whether they’re sparkly Sailors in the colours of cocktails, or Montegrappas and Duponts shaped like spaceships or buildings. You can buy pens about Elvis, Queen, and of course David Bowie. But as far as I can recall this trio of Tibaldis is the first time I’ve seen a series… Continue reading