I’m calling it “apple green” because, officially, it just seems to be called “green”, which is boring. Actually, no real apple looks like that. It is more like an apple sweet. So, Haribo Apple Green Safari. The new one is, funnily enough, the green one – I include the others for comparison. The blue there [...]
I posted last year about the Airmail 69L eyedropper – a simple, well made, large capacity pen – and I thought I would write a little follow-up. Since then my journalling and writing practices have become a bit more regular. There are three pens that I need at any one time to be fully efficient: [...]
Platinum #3776 with music nib One of the few types of nib that I don’t – or didn’t – own and might actually want to use is a music nib. I can’t even read music, let alone write it, but to summarise, a music nib is a type of stub designed to have a particularly [...]
Even given all of the pens and inks that I own, the one that I most often find myself picking up is a Safari with an F nib, with Noodler’s Black.
I recently took possession of what is, basically, the largest pen ever. I’m not entirely sure why I did: I did want to try writing with a really fat pen, as people say that they’re more comfortable, and the Tombow Egg Pen is not available as a fountain pen any more. I ordered it from [...]
This speciality fountain pen was released by Pelikan last year, but I hadn’t ordered one until now, when I just gave up trying not to. The concept is that it is (a) a demonstrator – i.e. has a transparent outer casing (b) has a BB (double broad) nib and (c) is to be loaded with [...]
I promised myself that I would not buy any more stationery until I had reviewed all of the items I had already bought, which is to be honest a ridiculous requirement, and the consequence is that I have just ordered some more. Perhaps this will teach me not to set myself such impossible goals to [...]
(Flickr slideshow) Whilst on eBay I decided to risk the enormous sum of $4.90 on the pictured Jinhao Missile fountain pen, delivered from Hong Kong by this seller who appears to deal in smoking accessories and fountain pens. This seems like a line in stock that would be approved of by many writers, perhaps with [...]
A compact fountain pen that looks a bit like a cuttlefish. Do people actually want compact pens with italic nibs? Well, if they do, this is one.
This morning I received a brand new Pilot Decimo Capless, with an F nib. I was aware that the Japanese do tend to produce nibs with much finer grades than the European equivalent, but in this case I was really quite surprised; this is easily the finest fountain pen I have used, and in fact [...]