note taking & writing
The Waterman Exception is a fairly special fountain pen, and very unique in its design. I have reviewed it (in black) already back in the year 2017. To commemorate the fact that, from 2022 onwards, all Waterman pens are fully…
A while ago I have reviewed the Caran d’Ache Ecridor mechanical pencil – back then in the “Retro finish”. Ever since, I was eager to review an Ecridor in some of the other guilloche-finishes that are available, as they all…
I am still contemplating of pulling together a series on “iconic stationery objects”. By now, I would at least have a pretty good list to start with. One pen that would surely make it onto this list is the Caran…
As I have written in my review of the Aurora 88 (which is already 1.5 years ago – wow, time flies!), Italian pens often fall through my review grid – likely as a bit of a result of selection bias.…
The main writing implements that I personally use are what I call ‘the king and queen of writing’: fountain pens (ink) and (mechanical) pencils (graphite). There is little else I use – if you don’t count highlighters and the occasional…
Scrively exists since about five and a half years now. In this time, I managed to review quite a range of products – mostly fountain pens – of all sorts and makes. Looking into the rear mirror, however, there seems to…
There is quite a few new pen models that Pelikan has announced in the most recent time. Among others, there was the M205 Moonstone, the M405 Silver-White (I will have a review of this one coming, soon), as well as…
There is loads of Kaweco that I have reviewed over the years. Some inks. Some ballpoint and rollerball pens. Some mechanical pencils. But mostly fountain pens. All with steel nibs. Wait! What? Yeah. You know, when you look at pen…
Here comes another installment of the “Comparative Overview-Series” that already has quite a few episodes. This series intends to help with a side-by-side of some pens whose differences, at least at a first initial glance, may not be entirely obvious.…
Montblanc is a very interesting (pen) maker in many ways. One of the ways I find particularly noticeable is that their cigar shaped 146 & 149 Meisterstück series pens are probably the only model(s) that most people know well and…
The recent review of the Otto Hutt Design 07 somehow made me realise that there are still some reputable German pen manufacturers out there of which I actually never held a make in hand. Needless to say that there is…