Saturday, April 16th, 6:00 pm (Doors at 5:30): The Pen Addict Podcast, Episode #200 LIVE Brad and Myke are recording episode #200 of the Pen Addict podcast and I have the honor of sitting third chair beside two of the best guys in the pen community. If you are in Atlanta AND attending the Pens…
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Ink Review: Sailor Bungbox Blue Black
Sailor Bung Box Blue Black is also called “4B” and boy, is it another one of those colors I just love. Its a rich indigo blue with a halo of red that gives it such a pop. I decided to test it in the teeny, tiniest pen I own, my Kaweco Liliput with an EF…
Link Love: Don’t Let the Ink DROP!
Pens: Kaweco Classic Sport vs Lamy Vista (via Stationery Wednesday) Lefties and fountain pens. (via The Ink Smudge) Reflections of a Left Handed Writer (via Writer’s Bloc) Faber-Castell Ambition Blue Ocean OpArt Fountain Pen (via Pen Addict) Pilot Petit1 (via Pen Habit) Lamy Imporium Fountain Pen (via The PencilCase blog) Visconti Millennium Arc Moonlight (via…
Hmmm… Moleskine gets into the Digital Pen Market
Moleskine has introduced its Smart Writing Set, a notebook and digitally-enabled pen that works in combination with an app that syncs with the Moleskine Notes app, Google Drive or Evernote. The notebook is designed with rounded pages to look more like the shape of a tablet. Maybe to visually differeniate it from the regular notebooks?…
Review: Jinhao Fountain Pens
I received these two little lemon-lime treats from a Desk reader to try out and I’ve been delighted to take them for a test drive. They are the Jinhao 886 “bullet” fountain pens. They are small well-weighted, metal enamel fountain pens at a budget price. They kind of remind me of jelly beans. It looks…
Ink Review: Pelikan Edelstein Aquamarine – Ink of the Year 2016
Oooooo, Pelikan Edelstein Aquamarine – Ink of the Year 2016 ($28 for 50ml bottle)! I don’t know what it is with me and the Pelikan Edelstein Ink of the Year Colors. Since I discovered that there was such a thing as a special color each year, I’ve pretty much made a point of either buying…
Pen Review: Baron Fig Squire
I recently received the Kickstarter edition Baron Fig Squire in silver aluminum. The pen came in the Baron Fig signature wine soft-touch box, similar to the box that the Baron Fig Confidant notebooks are shipped, nestled in carved black foam. The packaging is appropriate to the pen without being too over-the-top. Generally, as long as…