Link of the Week: This is the best, most-thorough and accurate review of the Platinum Classic inks I’ve seen yet. It’s also stunningly beautiful. I wholeheartedly agree that the Platinum Classic inks exhibit iron gall-like properties but are not true iron gall inks. My impressions on Platinum Classic (‘iron gall’) inks (via The Clumsy Penman’s…
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Fountain Pen Review: Noodler’s Ink Neponset with Music Nib
Review by Tina Koyama I think it was Azizah of Gourmet Pens who said that one can never have too many music nibs. If my handwriting were as beautiful as hers, I could rationalize having as many music nibs as I damn well please. Alas, it’s not (in fact, I usually print in a utilitarian…
Book Review: The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting
The title of the book, The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting by Anne Trubek did not instill a lot of confidence that I was going to see eye to eye with the opinions of the author. The urge to make marks to communicate seems hardwired into the human DNA, in my humble opinion. How…
Book Review: The Pencil Perfect
I was tickled pink (cover pun entirely intended!) to be able to read The Pencil Perfect: The Untold Story of a Cultural Icon by Caroline Weaver. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when the book arrived but it turned out to be about the size and shape of a text book with a black…
Photo of the Day: Wallace Motif Pencils
While at the D.C. Pen Show, my good friend John Martinson gave me a beautiful tin box of vintage pencils. It was a Wallace Motif box with nine unsharpened No. 2 pencils and three Eagle Mikado No. 3 pencils. I’ve never seen Wallace pencils before but the company was in Saint Louis so they were…
Link Love: Operation Kitten
Pens: YStudio Portable Fountain Pens (via Gentleman Stationer) Aurora 88 Demonstrator Fountain Pen (via Clicky Post) Ink: Robert Oster Lake of Fire (via Pen Chalet Blog) Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown (via Pen Habit) Blackstone Scented Inks and Ink Concentrate (via Fountain Pen Inks & Bleach) Blackstone Ink CMYK Kit (via Fountain Pen Inks & Bleach)…
Notebook Review: Pebble Paper Design A6 Notebook
Review by Laura Cameron One of the perks of writing for “the Desk” is that occasionally I get to pick some samples from the review box and give them a go. One of these such finds is a cute mint A6 notebook from Pebble Paper Design. Pebble Paper Design was started in 2015 by Rachel…