Post of the Week: When Your Grail Pen Is F**king Expensive (via The Economical Penster) Pens: LAMY Aion in Black (via The Clumsy Penman’s Inkfusion Site) Re-Review: Edison Collier Fountain Pen (via Pencilcase Blog) TactileTurn Mover & Shaker – New Click Mechanism on Kickstarter (via Gourmet Pens) Sailor L’ecoule (via Write to Me Often) The…
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Review: Sheaffer Star Wars Rollerball Pen and Pencil Case
If you’ve ever encountered me at the airport or a pen show, you may have uncovered my other obsession besides pens… I’m a Star Wars nerd, so much so that my suitcase is R2-D2. So, when I got upset last year about the Cross Star Wars pens, it wasn’t an act. I can go off…
New Products: Inkello Letterpress
A couple weeks ago I got a chance to purchase a whole bunch of products from Inkello Letterpress in Lawrence, KS. And now I can share my finds with you. Christine M. Schneider is an illustrator and designer running creating beautiful paper goods in her print shop when she’s not illustrating children’s books and art…
Review: Rickshaw Pen Sleeves
I had a total fan girl moment at the San Francisco Pen Show when I saw Mark Dwight of Rickshaw Bags walking the show floor. I wanted to run up to him and tell him how I’d followed his company since he first launched it in 2007 and I had a very early Moleskine notebook…
Link Love: For the love of bound books
Post of the week: Beatrix (for the win!) and her excellent drawings of donuts and ice cream in her video review of the Baron Fig School Set. Pens: My Fountain Pen Best Friends (via Fueled by Clouds and Coffee) Kaweco Perkeo (via Alt. Haven) Pilot Justus Semi-Flex Fountain Pen (via Write to Me Often) Video:…
Preview: Baron Fig School Set
The latest limited release from Baron Fig in their Vanguard and Archer lines were meant to be together. They are the Archer Number 2 Pencil set ($15 for a dozen pencils) and the Vanguard Composition Notebook Set ($14 for 3-pack of notebooks), known together as the School Set ($26 for the set, 10% discount for…
Ask The Desk: Adapting Lever Fillers, Leaky Gel Pens & More
Aaron asks: Have you ever heard of adapting an old lever bladder filling pen into a converter set up? I had a suspicion that making this sort of adaptation was not exactly possible but I reached out to Nibgrinder and pen expert Mark Bacas to get a bigger brain in on this and here’s what he…