note taking & writing
Pelikan seems to be on somewhat of a brown-run those days. After the release of the M400 Brown Tortoise a while back there was the M200 Smoky Quartz (incl. matching ink), then the M800 Renaissance Brown, and last but not…
Opus 88 is a Taiwanese company (such as TWSBI, for instance) that has been active since 1988 as an OEM/ODM supplier, but only recently has caught the attention of many fountain pen enthusiasts in the end consumer-world. The reason for that…
The Lamy Safari is one of the best and most frequently recommended entry level fountain pens, an absolute design icon, and generally probably one of the most sold fountain pens overall. Add it’s collectability through a myriad of colors, and it’s…
When I say “German fountain pen”, the name “Cleo Skribent” is most likely not the first thing that you will think of. Unrightfully so, I shall add here, because Cleo does make some really fantastic pens worth taking a closer…
The company Verge has recently contacted me and asked me if I would be interested in doing a review of a rollerball pen – the so called “Sens Pen” – that came out of a Kickstarter campaign. I had a…
It’s been a while that I had a review of the Faber-Castell Loom here on the blog. Back then I had looked at the piano white-finish – and if I recall it correctly, I was full of praise for the pen.…
I have already reviewed a number of pen cases, and some of them are really good. But when it comes to those that really made the cut in the long run, there are only two that I would consider my…
The Sailor 1911 L(arge) essentially is the bigger sibling of the Sailor 1911 S(tandard) and/or the same pen as the Sailor Pro Gear – just without the flat top, capped-off ends. These ‘end tips’ added, the 1911 L makes a cigar-shaped…
As promised on these pages here at some point, I intended to give Japanese pens and stationery a little more room and attention, since my personal interest somehow has gone that route – which coincided with increasing review requests in…
Scrively and the Bullet Journal – Background (click to expand) I have become a user of the analogue Bullet Journal organization system in the beginning of this year. For that, I have configured a Leuchtturm1917 A5 dot-grid (often the to-go notebook for Bullet Journalers)…
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…