note taking & writing
Platinum, beside Sailor and Pilot, is one of the “big three” Japanese fountain pen manufacturers and said to produce some of the finest writing instruments out there. One of them being their famous Century 3776-series, which in my honest opinion…
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…
I am a great fan of pencils, but there were two things that have always bothered me: One, how to transport them while keeping the pencil point safe, and two, what to do with the nubs once the pencils are half-way…
On Scrively’s Ink Reviews – Background Information (click to expand) Lefties, Ink, and Fountain Pens Why is there a need for an explanation of the format of an ink-review, you might ask?! Well, because the ink reviews on Scrively are not like all…
Among the many notebooks available out there, few have caught me eyes in the recent time more than the ones of Portugal-based mishmash. The company takes pride in designing creative and minimalist notebooks, which I think they succeed in. I…
On Scrively’s Ink Reviews – Background Information (click to expand) Lefties, Ink, and Fountain Pens Why is there a need for an explanation of the format of an ink-review, you might ask?! Well, because the ink reviews on Scrively are not like all…
There are some pens that do not get an awful lot of attention in the fountain pen community (sometimes for no apparent reason), while others are pretty popular. The Lamy Studio is such a pen, for instance. Another pen in…
If you treasure your writing instruments, it is always a good idea to have some pen pouches around in order to keep them safe and sound. To me, it does not make any sense to spend a fortune on a pen and…
On Scrively’s Ink Reviews – Background Information (click to expand) Lefties, Ink, and Fountain Pens Why is there a need for an explanation of the format of an ink-review, you might ask?! Well, because the ink reviews on Scrively are not like…
Here and there I do really enjoy a nice creativity tool – i.e. beside the usual suspects of fountain pens, ink, and the like. After having played around with waterbrushes and watercolor in the recent time, I somehow liked the…
I am a great fan of both, piston filling fountain pens and demonstrator pens. Hence, it might not come as a surprise that I did find the rather recently released TWSBI Eco in all clear pretty tempting (there was a white and…