Kaweco Paradise Blue is a pretty good match for my TWSBI Diamond 580 in Christmas Green. The pen body is a little more green than the ink color but not too bad a match. Kaweco Paradise Blue ($17.50 for a 30ml bottle) is a turquoise ink that leans a bit more green than most turquoise…
Showing all posts in 2015
Link Love: Get Indxd
Link of the Week: Indxd, a digital tool for indexing all the content in all your notebooks, created by David Rea. Pens: Eight Reasons Why You Should Write with a Fountain Pen (via Ed Jelley) Video: Delta Unica (via The Pen Habit) Video: Ti2 TechLiner Review (via Clicky Post) The Ti2 Techliner (Gonzodized Shorty) (via…
Pencil Review: Kaweco Special 0.7mm Mechanical Pencil
The Kaweco Special 0.7mm mechanical pencil is a bit wider pencil than I expected. It feels in the hand like a jumbo pencil. Luckily the anodized metal, hexagonal octagonal finish is warm and soft in the hand and quite comfortable. I thought the metal finish might be too slick but its not a shiny finish…
Ask The Desk: TARDIS Blue Ink?
This message popped up in my Twitter this morning, which I found was very timely after my outrage at the lack of pop culture-themed inks. @JetPens asked: @wellapptdesk Just last week, @DQuartermane asked us what fountain pen ink is closest to TARDIS blue 😛 We said Sargasso Sea. Thoughts?? I hate to be too picky…
Top 5: Pens Under $30
It might seem like a big jump between the $5 and under pens to a pen that costs upwards of $30, but it really opens the options for materials other than plastic and introduces some refill and filling mechanisms that allow for longer-term cost effectiveness. Rollerball: Retro 51 Tornado Classic Lacquers start at $21. There…
Black Erasers vs. Black Pencils
You know you’re a pencil nerd when you think to yourself, “How well do black erasers perform?” And then you think, “I’ll test them with all BLACK pencils!” Yep, that’s how I think. So, which erasers did I put into my black eraser head-to-head? The classic Papermate Black Pearl (2-pack for $2.39), the Uni Boxy…
Fashionable Friday: Planet Comic-Con Edition
This weekend is the annual Kansas City Planet Comicon and I’m so excited (yet again). So, this week’s “Fashionable Friday” is geek-centric. Apologies to the liberties I took with the color names. But it did make me think, “Why isn’t anyone doing any geek-themed ink colors?” This is a niche that NEEDS to be filled.…