Yesterday I was talking to one of my work colleagues, and this hobby of mine came up. He is not a fountain pen user, and he, like most normal people, thinks it’s crazy how much I’ll merrily spend on a single pen. His favourite and most luxurious rollerballs are £4. I was waving around a… Continue reading
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Wow, has it been a wonderful couple of weeks for pens for me. I have been powering through my review queue as quick as I can, but I am just too excited about some of my new arrivals and want to share my first impressions.
Schon shining
Well, they arrived!
My Schon Pocket Six collection… Continue reading
I’ve not done one of these for a while, but it’s been a big week for stationery and I’ve got a lot to share that doesn’t fit into normal channels!
Going big with Onoto
It’s hardly been two minutes since I got the Sequoyah, and then Onoto hits my inbox with a set of pen… Continue reading
This trip had a lot riding on it. My first night away from home since February; in fact, more or less my first proper foray out of the house at all since lockdown started.
The destination? A short break to an old pile of a country farmhouse in Suffolk, for some R&R.
Naturally, I spent… Continue reading
The Euphoria is the pen I wanted Benu to make. It keeps everything that makes Benu ‘Benu’ — it’s a complex shape, with facets that catch the light, that distinctive thick cap band, reliable Schmidt nib, and of course the unique glittery resins.
But it is a step forward for the brand towards making a… Continue reading
To me it says a lot about a company the way they treat an email or Facebook/Instagram message out of the blue, whether it’s from a customer or a reviewer.
I contact a lot of brands (and a few have reached out to me first, which is always nice) and I see all kinds of… Continue reading
Looking over my pen tray I am often struck by how many pens I have sold, only to later repurchase.
You might well say: if you liked it enough to rebuy it, why did you sell it in the first place?!
It’s a fair question, but I have a few answers.
Sometimes (as the song… Continue reading
A few days ago I started writing a September ‘State of the Collection’ post. But the scale of the task has overwhelmed me. With more than 20 posts since the August SotC, and at least as many pens in and out… well, I figured nobody would want to read a post that long. But I… Continue reading
Oldwin and Onoto and Otto Hutt. Montegrappa and Monteverde and Montblanc. Edison, Desiderata, Franklin-Christoph, Newton, Birmingham. Caran d’Ache, Conway Stewart. Scribo, Cleo Skribent. Parker, Sheaffer, Waterman, Cross. ST Dupont, Graf von Faber-Castell. Tibaldi and Leonardo and the ghosts of Delta and Omas, and new Maiora and newly active Pineider. ASC, Bexley, Wahl-Eversharp. Esterbrook, Conklin. Nakaya… Continue reading
If you want a sterling silver pen, your options are limited — and they’re mostly pricey.
Pilot makes a range called ‘Silvern’, which is very nice, but I’m excluding those models from here because there is no way they’re solid silver: they’re simply too light.
So your options are some of the silver pens from… Continue reading