Link Love: Inky Overload or is it Overlords?

Article(s) of the Week:

• At 92, Seattle’s Last Typewriter Repair (via Seattle Times)

A shoutout to Tina at Fueled by Clouds & Coffee for the tip. Tina creates gorgeous watercolor drawings with fountain pen ink. Definitely worth a peek!

And, in contrast to the recent “pens are dead” tirade,

• Creative Types From Manolo Blahnik to Milton Glaser on Their Favorite Writing and Drawing Instruments (via NYTimes)

Pens:

• [Guest Post] Pilot Custom 74 Fountain Pen Review (via Ed Jelley)
• Esterbrook Dip-Less Pen and #7550 Firm Extra Fine Nib (via Fountain Pen Quest)
• Retro 51 Tornado Touch (via From The Pen Cup)
• Pilot Knight Fountain Pen Medium Nib (via Gourmet Pens)
• Diplomat Traveller Fountain Pen (via Pens! Paper! Pencils!)
• Muji Fountain Pens (via Modern Stationer)
• How to Fix an Air Bubble in an Ink Cartridge (via Office Supply Geek)
• The five pens in your daily carry (via Fountain Pen Physicist)
• Kickstarter Pen Projects Watchlist (via Pen Pursuit)
• Pilot Falcon (via Pen Pursuit)
• Pilot Choose gel ink pen 0.7 green (via Pens! Paper! Pencils!)
• Sailor Pro Gear Colors Series Fountain Pen Orange Barrel M Nib (via Clicky Post)

Inks:

• A Comparison of Green Inks (via The Pen Habit)
• Comparison of 73 Bottled Fountain Pen Inks (via Unroyal Warrant)
• Kaweco Palm Green ink (via Pens! Paper! Pencils!)
• Sailor Kobe Inks Tamon Purple (via Write to Me Often)
• Pilot Iroshizuku Ina Ho (via Alt. Haven)
• Graf von Faber-Castell Hazelnut Brown (via Fountain Pen Quest)
• Private Reserve’s American Blue (via Inkdependence)
• Kaweco Elite Fountain Pen (via My Pen Needs Ink)
• Sharpie Metallics (via All Things Stationery)
• Montblanc Jonathan Swift Seaweed Green (via Inkdependence)

Pencils:

• Staedtler WOPEX Eco Pencils (via Office Supply Geek)
• A Proper Pencil Sharpener (via All Things Stationery)
• The Blackwing Slate: The pencil-optimized notebook (via Woodclinched)

Paper & Notebooks:

• Paper Notebooks Explained (via Jet Pens Blog)
• Clairefontaine Triomphe Stationery (via My Pen Needs Ink)
• Marie Curie’s Radioactive Notebook (via Notebook Stories)
• Ardium Classic Notebook (via Office Supply Geek)
• Rhodia Ice Pad (via The Pen Addict)
• Requested: Fountain Pen Friendly Sticky Notes (via Rhodia Drive)
• Nock Co. “Dusty Blue” DotDash Note Cards (via Clicky Post)
• Baron Fig Confidant (via The Newsprint)
• Tomoe River Paper Review (via FP Geeks)

Other Stuff:

• Nock Co. x Dudek Modern Goods Idea Dock (via Modern Stationer)
• Bostitch Executive Stapler (via My Supply Room)
• Does Writing Things Down Make You Smarter? (via Rhodia Drive)
• The Handwriting of Type Designers (via The Cramped)
• D.C. Pen Show 2014 Recap (via Gentleman Stationer)
• Isaac Asimov’s Typewriter (via To Type, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth…)