note taking & writing
It’s been quite a while since the last installment of The Essential Fountain Pen Guide, which is a special video-series in which I aim for covering some rather general ground on fountain pen usage (i.e. videos that are no specific…
I am certainly not the first person writing an article about why to write with a fountain pen. And I certainly won’t be the last one. Also, I am pretty sure that anyone that really appreciates writing with a fountain…
Just recently, I pulled the trigger on a lovely vintage Pelikan MK10 from around the 1970s. It is a pretty and lightweight piston filling pen with a blueish ink window, a semi-hooded gold-plated steel nib and a snap-on cap. The…
Converting a pen into an eyedropper, one of the probably oldest ways of how to get ink into a pen, is not half as scary as it may seem. In fact, it is even fairly easy and just takes a few…
When being new to fountain pens, a rather common question is the one of an appropriate beginners pen. The wide array of available pens might be confusing at first glance and there are less and less brick and mortar-stores out…
Fountain pens, to me, are the ultimate writing instrument and a great pleasure to use. They are, however, also a writing tool that is maybe not as straightforward to use as a ballpoint pen. Fountain pens are not a science,…