This has nothing to do with fountain pens whatever, except to point out one of the ways of using them in a highly tangential manner– I’ve opened a new site at which my fiction writing (generally creepy) can be seen. Unlike the writing you’ll find lying in drifts at this site, what I post there …
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Back To School Pen Tuning Festival
On Saturday, 29 August, I will be holding the third of my free pen-tuning clinics in the front window of Paper Umbrella (or, as they’re known on Facebook, Paper Umbrella). That’s free flow adjustments, point smoothings, and minor cleaning, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., offered to everyone that comes to the store with a fountain pen. …
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A false flag exposed, and other treats
I often begin these update announcements with a revelation of my own fallibility, and this one adds to that heap. It seems for years I’ve been applying the name of Pennant to one of Wearever’s pens which is no such thing. The Saber (which, I explain for non-US readers, is how they spelled it) just …
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Summer Breaking the Silence.
A few days off of The Regular Job allows me to finish off a couple of updates, although the regular examiner of this site will spot that some of this has been public for a while… …like the “new” page for the Faber-Castell e-motion, which I got as a Christmas gift but which was not …
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Error Code O-U-DMMY
I’ve recently been handed some extra resources for a vexing patch of history; Sheaffer in the 1940s. As a result, I have found several embarrassing errors in my pages for the Triumph years (and if you want to imagine me pulling nervously on my collar while a comically large sweat drop appears on my forehead, …
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The Long, The Short, and the French
Since the last update, I’ve had a chance to look into Japan of the previous generation. From the era of the The Great Japanese Pocket Drought (when pockets were withered, stunted, and shallow), there’s two new pens of the “pocket” type, the Platinum PKB-2000 and the Sailor 102 (although I’m not absolutely certain that is …
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Fall Harvest
Thanksgiving is, in the Canadian context, properly digested, the weather has been uncommonly cheerful, and I’ve got a basket of new developments on the site: New pens! Both low end, for the youth market– the Twist from Pelikan, and the Kakuno from Pilot. Each has amusement to offer, but of different flavours, shapes and sizes. …
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Nothing to brag about
As I’ve just posted a page for a vintage Faber-Castell pen, I feel I should put up an update… even though there’s not a lot of depth to that page. I’ll also mention that since the last update announcement, I’ve added a non-junior Waterman X-Pen to that page (and slightly un-illuminating shot of same to …
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Things for the desk, some hope, and The Mountain
New since last I updated the news: Imperial desk pens, which is fairly self-explanatory. The Espero, about which I make up stories somewhat more than I report facts. The Pelikan Level, about which I say rather unflattering things. The Montblanc Meisterstück 149, which the maker has laboured long years to render “iconic”.
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