Review by Tina Koyama For Part 2 of my TWSBI 1791 ink set reviews, I’m looking at Orange and Sky Blue (see Part 1 for images and comments on the gift set). Orange is vivid and vibrant as orange should be. I don’t see sheening, but there’s a bit of shading that shows more of…
I’m pretty sure everyone had their Wheaties this week because the post titles were first rate. Even if you don’t click through to every single one, you might want to with titles like “Notebook Turducken” and “The Jinhao 991 Is a Wolf in Uni-ball’s Clothing”. That’s just two of the gems this week. There’s more…
Guest review by Tina Koyama This fourth and final installment of the brush pen series reviews bristle-tip pens containing water-soluble ink. Similar to their waterproof ink counterparts, these 10 brush pens have actual synthetic hair tips that take a bit of practice to get the hang of controlling. However, I find their lines to be…
Guest review by Tina Koyama Within the brush pen series (Part 1: Waterproof Felt Tips and Part 2: Water-Soluble Felt Tips), the type of pens I’m reviewing today are probably the ones I use most often – hairy, bristle-tip brush pens containing waterproof ink. Designed to simulate sumi brush pens used for traditional Asian calligraphy,…
I was lucky enough to get a packet of pens to review from our friend and enabler The Poor Penman at the San Francisco Pen Show. Not only is he a pen enthusiast but also an employee at Pentel America. So, since this is Inktober month I decided this was a good time to try…
Sailor has released all of their ink colors in tiny 20ml bottles under the Shikiori sub-brand. But with this release, there are four new colors available only in this set and one of those colors is Shimoyo (20ml bottle for $15). The bottles are actually very elegant with a matte gold faceted plastic lid and a…
Pens: Cleo Skribent Series fountain pen (via United Inkdom) Sunderland MK1 Pen (via My Pen Needs Ink) Wing Sun 659 (via Write To Me Often) The Wing Sung 618 Is the Good Kind of Chimera (via Economical Penster) Six nibs to make you go “phwoar” (via UK Fountain Pens) Pens for Crappy Paper (via Comfortable…
