I’m a sucker for blue-black inks. So when Nick Stewart offered me the chance to try a sample of his new ink, Randall (named after one of Nick’s aquatic adventurer friends), I jumped at it.
I don’t claim to the mastery of ink and lettering that Nick has, but even I can see that Randall… Continue reading
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Mabie Todd is one of those vintage pen manufacturers that everyone’s heard of, but I confess I’ve never used one, or even held one. A Google suggests that it started as an American company in NYC pre-1900, but became established as a quintessentially British brand that persisted until the 1950s, long after the American operations… Continue reading
I’ve gone a bit mad with ink purchases (and review samples) in the past few weeks.
You’ll no doubt have seen the Pure Pens roundup.
Well, I now have samples of six beautiful new Blackbird inks from British maker Mabie Todd. Here’s a sneak peek:
I can tell you now that a couple of these… Continue reading
Pure Pens inks: Celtic colours
In the UK we’re blessed with a number of wonderful stationery shops. Pure Pens, based in Wales, is one of them. They’re a fixture at pen shows and a stockist of unusual Noodler’s inks (I bought my bottle of Tianenmen from them back at the LWES). And, like me, they’re Pelikan addicts.
Pure Pens has… Continue reading
I like discovering new brands, particularly ones that approach well-trodden ground from a whole new angle. Colorverse is a Korean ink manufacturer that I encountered on Instagram a couple of weeks ago. I immediately got in touch to ask for some review samples. What caught my eye?
Space theme — done thoroughly
All of Colorverse’s… Continue reading
For a pen geek like me, few things are as agonising as choosing between inks. Picking one means consigning a dozen others to the shelf for weeks. I can prevaricate for a ludicrous amount of time choosing inks.
So I thought it would be a good test of my decisiveness to pick 10 inks from… Continue reading
I’ve got 11 inked pens. Right now, that’s feeling like an achievement. With new pens and new inks to try, I’m fighting to keep to a manageable number. But I’m pretty happy with this loadout.
Not quite my usual loadout. Where’s the turquoise?!
1: Visconti Homo Sapiens — Aurora Black
I admit, I’m struggling to… Continue reading
I have a sneaking adoration of orange inks, partly because they’re so different from the dark, heavy colours I normally write with; they’re like a palate-cleanser.
It’s also that they typically shade wonderfully, and are dark enough to use for writing (which yellow inks often aren’t).
So of my nearly 80 bottles of ink, I’ve… Continue reading
I’m a sucker for shading orange/red inks. One of my all-time favourites is Diamine Ancient Copper. Another is Diamine Autumn Oak. This ink, Monteverde Fire Opal, falls smack in between them.
It’s a relatively new ink, and until now wasn’t available in the UK. I’m heading out to California in a couple of weeks and… Continue reading
I’ve been writing as much as ever over the past couple of months, but there have been very few changes — partly because I’ve inked so many high-capacity piston fillers, and partly because my M805 got a complete writing dry before I reviewed it and sent it off for a nib swap.
As of yesterday… Continue reading