Video Review: Pilot Custom 845 Urushi
I just checked the search function of my own website, and was myself surprised by how much Pilot stuff I actually have reviewed over the years. Still, for a long time, there was a pen on the list that I…
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Video-Review: Lamy cp1
It has been a little while I had some Lamy on those pages here. At least in product reviews, as the most recent Lamy related post was a original interview that I conducted with the Safari-Designer himself, Wolfgang Fabian, in…
Comparative Overview: Pilot Capless – Metal vs Wood
Here comes another installment of the “Comparative Overview-Series” that already has quite a few episodes. This is not the first comparative overview here on Scrively that looks at the Pilot Capless. A previous video has seen me comparing the Capless…
Inside Stationery (Pt. 02): Wolfgang Fabian – Lamy Safari
Inside Stationery – series background (click to expand) I have been doing stationery reviews for a few years now. While I will continue making these, I sometimes feel that the focus on the products and their specs tends to take…
Video-Review: Otto Hutt Design 07
There is a first time for everything. Or so they say. And I know this surely also applies to fountain pen reviews. It is almost like the more you review, the more you realise how much you actually have not…
Video-Review: Namisu Nova Brass
Namisu is an interesting UK-based company that has successfully come up with a range of writing instruments – especially fountain pens – that excel first and foremost through their built quality as well as a unique, clipless, minimalist design. The…
Video-Review: Ystudio Brassing Fountain Pen
Ystudio is a Taiwanese stationery design studio. Over the past ca. one year, the company has gained quite a lot of attention in the pen community – especially for their hexagonal pen model that seems to sort of surf the…
Video-Review: Verge Style “Sens Pen”
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…
Video-Review: Namisu Nova Studio (ebonite)
Namisu is a UK-based company that makes some fairly interesting pen designs. I have already reviewed the Orion pen as well as a titanium version of the Nova. The Nova Studio that we have a look at in this review is…
Video-Review: Lamy Aion
The Lamy Aion is Lamys latest addition to the lineup. The writing instrument is very much signature Lamy – a minimalist, modern, no frills design. While Lamy didn’t reinvent the pen-wheel with the Aion – and some do rightly say that…