Fountain Pens: Lamy Persona (via Alt. Haven) Lamy Al-Star Copperorange + Ink (via All Things Stationery) Vintage Pen Primer, Part IV: The Parker Vacumatic (via Gentleman Stationer) LAMY Dialog 3 Fountain Pen – F Nib Black Barrel (via Clicky Post) TWSBI Vac 700 (via Pens! Paper! Pencils!) Pens: Top 5 Pens Spring 2015 Update (via…
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Notebook: Calepino Pocket Books
I’ve been wanting to try out the Calepino pocket notebooks for a long time. Its been hard to find a US seller that stocks them though so I’d put if off until I discovered CW Pencil Enterprise. A set of three notebooks in the kraft box is $10 which is competitive with most other pocket…
Notebook Review (and Reveal): Code & Quill
The generous folks at Code & Quill “notebooks for creatives” sent me some of their prototype notebooks to check out. They are already making improvements which shows how fastidious they are about the quality and appearance of these books (see notes at the bottom of this review). The notebooks started out life as a Kickstarter…
Pens for Notebook Testing
All this week, I’ll be publishing reviews of an assortment of notebooks. I wanted to share all the pens I used in the writing tests. I tried to use a wide variety of pens from gel, ballpoint, rollerball, fountain and pencils. They were all oddly color coordinated too so I thought they were photo worthy.…
Pencil Review: Nataraj Platinum Extra Dark 2B
One of my other happy purchases from CW Pencil Enterprises was a dozen box of Indian-made Nataraj Platinum Extra Dark pencils ($0.30 each/ $3.60 per dozen). The package included a dozen pre-sharpened pencils and a plastic pencil sharpener. The pencils remind me a bit of the Staedtler Rally pencils with the alternating stripes of color…
Pencil Review: Ito-Ya
A big shoutout to Andy Welfle at Woodlcinched and the Erasable Podcast for sending me this treasure from San Francisco. The Ito-Ya pencil is a smooth round pencil with an almost red-lacquer-like finish and a black rubberized dip end. The only printing on the pencil is the gold foil “ITO-YA” close to the rubber dipped…
STAK Ceramics Phone Dock
When I was in Chicago at the Renegade Craft Fair last fall, I saw these beautiful ceramic desk accessories from STAK Ceramics. I was smitten with the Large Phone Dock ($50) in the mint green. It comfortably holds most mobile phones, a small plant and a little slot for paper clips or other little tidbits.…