Tomorrow morning I’m off on my next travels: a few days in Miami. Waiting for me there is my new Wahl Decoband Jade and Karas Re-Entry with Ti nib, so I’m travelling pretty light: just three pens, in my Franklin-Christoph “glasses case”. Here’s what I’ve picked:
Conid Kingsize, F Ti, Graf Burned Orange
Conid Regular,… Continue reading
Tag: conid
It’s been a quiet week on the blog, but a busy week in my mailbox. Here’re the headlines.
The return of the Conid
In my review of the Conid Regular you may remember me complaining about the slippery Delrin section. A friend on Instagram recommended that I order a separate titanium section, which would solve… Continue reading
It’s easy to get fatigued by all the new pen models that hit the market every month. Most new releases by Lamy, Sailor, Aurora, Conklin and co, let’s face it, are just the same pens in different colours, and they often run to the same basic designs, the same foundational principles, the same stock nibs.… Continue reading
12 weeks of anticipation
It took more than 12 weeks to get my Conid Regular Bulkfiller from the time I hit the ‘buy’ button (on the 3rd December 2018). I was mentally prepared for a wait of 8 weeks, but the last month of delays felt like agony.
When you anticipate a purchase for that… Continue reading
One of my most popular and contentious posts recently was my review of the Conid Minimalistica Monarch. It brought home to me just how fervently, zealously, people love their Conid pens. I liked it and could see sparks of genius in it, but there was enough about it that rubbed me up the wrong way… Continue reading
With every pen sold, it seems another pen shows up at the door. I could say it’s a kind of cosmic equilibrium, but the reality is I just have no self-control.
So while I’ve said goodbye to several pens recently (just yesterday I posted off my lovely Pilot Fermo), the collection is barely any smaller.… Continue reading
It normally doesn’t take me long to make up my mind about a pen. But the Conid Minimalistica is so different to anything I’ve owned before that it’s left me confused.
I bought this pen, the special edition “Monarch” Minimalistica, through a lucky accident that I’ll spare you from hearing.
The Monarch is a limited… Continue reading