Fountain Pens and Stationery

The Basics:

• Holiday Gift Guide for Fountain Pen Lovers (When You Don’t Know Anything About Pens)
• Fountain Pen Cleaning & Maintenance – Some General Advice
• How to Fill a Fountain Pen with Ink
• Filling a Converter with Ink
• How to Use Your Kaweco Squeeze Converter
• Cleaning a Fountain Pen with a Converter
• Filling a Piston Fountain Pen with Ink
• Bottled Ink or Cartridges?
• Fountain Pens for Kids
• Fountain Pens & Paper
• Kaweco Fountain Pen Nib Sizes
• Lamy Nib Sizes – What Nib Size Should I Get?

How To:

• How to Change the Elastic for Midori Traveler’s Notebooks
• On Filling your TWSBI Vac-700 or Vac-Mini with the Vac-20 Inkwell
• Swapping Nibs on Kaweco Fountain Pens
• Kaweco Sport Eyedropper Conversion – A How-To
• How to Adjust a Noodler’s Ahab Flex Pen (or Konrad, or Nib Creaper)
• How to Make a Wax Seal
• How to Use Seyes or French Ruling for Handwriting
• How to Sharpen a Palomino Blackwing Pencil
• How to Wash Inky Fingers Clean

Reviews

Ink

• Diamine Ancient Copper
• Diamine Ochre
• Diamine Salamander
• Diamine Sargasso Sea
• Diamine Terracotta
• Fountain Pen Inks for Christmas Cards
• Inks for your Special Valentine
• J. Herbin 1670 Anniversary Ink Bleu Ocean
• J. Herbin 1670 Anniversary Ink Emeraude de Chivor (Emerald of Chivor)
• J. Herbin Orange Indien Ink Review
• J. Herbin Perle Noire Ink Review
• Noodler’s Army Green Ink Review
• Noodler’s Blue Upon The Plains of Abraham – Canadian Exclusive
• Noodler’s Lexington Gray Ink with a Dip Pen
• Noodler’s Raven Black – Canadian Exclusive
• Noodler’s Tiananmen Ink Review
• Noodler’s X-Feather Ink Review
• Private Reserve Sonic Blue Ink Review
• Rohrer & Klingner Alt Goldgrun Ink Review
• Rohrer & Klingner Konigsblau Ink Review
• Rohrer & Klingner Leipziger Schwarz (Leipsician Black) Ink Review
• Rohrer & Klingner Verdigris Ink Review
• Sailor Jentle Black Ink Review
• Sailor Kiwa-Guro Carbon Nano Black
• Waterproof Fountain Pen Inks

Paper

• Original Crown Mill Classic Laid Writing Paper
• Field Notes Brand Memo Books
• Fountain Pen Friendly Notebooks for School (or When You’re on a Budget)
• G. Lalo Verge de France Paper Review
• G. Lalo Papers – Toile Imperiale, Velin de France, Velin pur coton
• Hobonichi Techos (!!!)
• Life Kappan Writing Stationery
• Life Japanese Stationery Noble Note Ruled Book
• Midori – How I use my Midori Traveler’s Notebook – Passport Size
• Midori MD Notebooks
• Midori – Set-up for my Regular Size Midori (+ re-stock of Special Edition Blue Pan Am!)
• Rhodia 80gsm Paper
• Rhodia Premium “R” Paper
• Tomoe River Paper
• Tomoe River Paper Notebooks

Pen

• Edison Limited Edition Collier in Black Rose Acrylic
• Jinhao 165 Fountain Pen
• Kaweco Italic or Calligraphy Nibs – 1.1, 1.5, 1.9, 2.3
• The (Discontinued) Kaweco Sport Luxe Fountain Pen
• Kaweco Sport Brown Edition
• Kaweco Sport and Al Sport Review
• Kaweco Student Fountain Pen
• Lamy 2000
• Lamy Safari vs. Lamy Al-Star – What’s the Difference?
• Noodler’s Nib Creaper Flex Fountain Pen Review
• Parker Sonnet
• Parker Vintage Parker True Blue Lucky Curve
• Pilot 78G
• Pilot Falcon
• Pilot Kakuno 🙂
• Pilot Parallel as a Highlighter
• Pilot Sign Pen and Fineliner Marker
• Platinum Cool Fountain Pen
• Platinum Preppy Fountain Pen with Platinum Red Ink
• Sailor 1911 Maki-e Fountain Pen Review
• Waterman Hemisphere

Pencil

• Palomino Pencil Review

Accessories

• Ellepi Metal Staplers
• Glassine Envelopes
• Italic Calligraphy & Handwriting, Exercises & Text by Lloyd J. Reynolds
• J. Herbin Wax Seals – Supple Wax and Brass Seals
• Life Japanese Airmail Envelopes
• Midori Brass Index Clips
• Midori D-Clips
• Midori Leather Covers for MD Notebooks
• Milltown Pen Case
• Quiver Pen Holder
• Superior Labor Brass Clipboard
• Superior Labor Pen Cases
• Uppercase Magazine Issue 23: The Calligraphy & Lettering Issue

Calligraphy Tools

• Higgins Eternal Calligraphy Dip Pen Ink