Review by Tina Koyama Ana warned me. When I said I wanted to review the Kum Lefty Aluminum Can pencil sharpener, she said she had found it difficult to get used to reversing her hand when she used a sharpener made for lefties. I was so tickled to see any sharpener made for lefties that…
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Link Love: Chinese Pen New Year!
Posts of the Week: I am really enjoying learning more about the world of Chinese pens through the posts on Frank Underwater’s site. And with Chinese New Year just around the corner, it seemed perfectly appropriate to celebrate them, Check out his two posts this week: Chinese Pens You Need to Know | Feb 2018…
Ink Review: Colorverse Proxima B, Saturn V & Crystal Planet
(This is part three of a series of reviews about the new Colorverse ink line. Please refer to the overview for details about the whole collection.) For the second collection of Colorverse that I’m going to review, I decided to focus on the blues. I got all three shades of blue from the Season One:…
Ink Review: Colorverse Mars Curiosity, Hubble Zoom & Space Laika
(This is part two of a series of reviews about the new Colorverse ink line. Please refer to the overview for details about the whole collection.) It was so hard to decide which set of Colorverse ink colors to review first so I decided to go with the colors I was most surprised about. First,…
Colorverse Inks Overview
I thought I’d start my massive review series of the Colorverse Ink collection ($36 per set) with an overview of the product. If you’re not familiar with Colorverse inks yet, they have recently come onto the pen and ink scene by way of Korea. The original series of inks, Season 1, started as a Kickstarter…
Housekeeping: Ink Reviews & Pen Shows
Just thought I’d drop a little housekeeping post today to let everybody know what’s going on around here. Ink Review Week First, between Laura and I, there are going to be a ton of ink reviews in the next week or so. I have over a dozen Colorverse inks to review which I’ve decided to…
Ink Review: Sailor Shikiori Yodaki
This is the last of the Sailor Shikiori colors and I saved what I think it the best for last. I don’t know how widely known it is but when we were cooking up the Col-o-ring, I used Sailor Jentle Irori as my litmus test color for paper testing. It has a gold sheen that…