Pens and Pencils: Paper Mate Flair, Brown (UPS Edition) (via Clickypost) My Fountain Pen Evolution (via Fountain Pen Quest) TWSBI Vac 700 Review (via Ed Jelley) Retro 51 Tornado Vintage Surf Review (via From the Pen Cup) Tale of Two Nibs: Lamy Safari Edition (via From The Pen Cup) Bic Exact Tip Roller 0.6 Review…
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Review: Classroom Friendly Pencil Sharpener
The nice folks over at Classroom Friendly Supplies sent me one of their desktop pencil sharpeners to review — in green, of course! It is a perfectly vintage shade of green too. This sharpener has a clamp to attach to the table so there is no drilling necessary to keep it from moving. The only…
Link Love: Paper, Ink and Pencil Shavings
Pencils: Picking the perfect lead hardness (via JetPens Blog) Pencils and Camping (and pencil shavings as tinder) (via Pencil Revolution) Deli Pencil Sharpener (via Bleistift) Pens and ink: Pen currently in use by DaveyB Noodlers Bernake Blue Ink Review (via Pen Addict) Platinum Carbon Black vs Sailor Utlra Nano Black (via East, West, Everywhere) Paper:…
Video: BEGIN Japanology
I forgot to include a link to these videos in yesterday’s Link Love but this is more of a Friday waste-a-few-minutes-on-the-company’s-dime activities anyway. Tipping my hat to Brad at Pen Addict for posting these videos. If you’re a fan of shows like “How Things Are Made” AND you like pens and stationery, especially from Japan,…
Coming Soon: New Postal-themed Rubber Stamps
Just wanted to let you know that I’ve got new stamp designs coming to the shop in the next week or so. The designs are postally-themed like the ones shown here plus a couple other new designs. These are all original designs based on the looks of vintage air mail envelopes and postage. Some will…
Link Love: Eraser Day and His Bradness Goes to a Pen Show
For me, the big news this week was The Pen Addict’s trip to the Atlanta Pen Show so if you read nothing else, check out both of his recaps from the show. Atlanta Pen Show Recap, Part 1 (via Pen Addict) Atlanta Pen Show Recap, Part 2 (via Pen Addict) Pens and Pencils Pens and…
Instagram Loves Office Supplies
I have been following lots of office supply geeks and letter writers, artists and designers and I just thought I’d share some of my favorite Instagram photos from the last few weeks. Clockwise from top right: Uppercase’s Crafting Supplies, Pencil drawing of Sug-ums by Eabaddeley, Caran D’ache candy colored mechanical pencils found at Greer Chicago…