I was browsing Vanness last week, like you do, and I found some cute notebooks that I wanted to try. I ordered the Kokuyo Me Field Notebook ($6.50) in Purple (also known as Chic Plum) and a matching gel pen ($4.50). The Field Notebook is designed to be a slim, compact notebook to go with…
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Pen Review: Sakura Ballsign Knock Gel Pen (0.6 mm 5-Color Metallic Set)
Of all the gel pens currently available, the Sakura Ballsign Knock gel pens are not frequently mentioned. However, there is no good reason that these pens are not mentioned more frequently. Pentel, Uni, and Pilot are all regularly discussed but Sakura is only mentioned in regards to their Gelly Roll collection. So, let me remind…
Pen Review: Ohto Rays Flash Dry Gel Pen (0.5 mm Olive Body)
I’ve been binging on the TV series Endeavour on Amazon Prime the last few weeks and I immediately noticed that Inspector Morse continually uses a Parker Jotter to make notes in his not-entirely-period-accurate pocket Moleskine. Regardless of the slight period inaccuracies, I was getting itchy to use a classic Parker-style Jotter. Along comes the Ohto…
More Multipens!
I have a secret weakness for multipens. I love the idea of having several colors of ink, maybe a pencil, even a tiny eraser — in one pen barrel. Some of the Japanese multipens do all that, some allow for other types of refills. The other reason I like multipens is that when I run…
Best Micro Gel Pen: Choosing the Right One
I took fourteen of the most popular micro tip gel pens and tried to figure out which one is the “right one” for you. Some are hybrid ink, liquid ink or other modifications but I’m not a chemist so, from a layperson’s perspective, they are all appealing to the same consumer — someone looking for…
Pen Review: Sakura Gelly Roll Moonlight 1.0, set of 10
Review by Laura Cameron Recently I’ve been listening to a lot of Friend of the Show, The Pen Addict’s membership podcast where Brad interviews members of the pen community. One of the questions Brad always asks his guests is where their love for fountain pens started. You’ve already heard about how I started into fountain…
Top Ten Pens (Non-Fountain Pens)
With the top ten non-fountain pen list, I decided I needed to break it up into two categories, refillable pens and non-refillable. I didn’t want to call the first group disposable pens because, in some cases, the refill can be replaced, but generally speaking, they are sold to be used until the refill is empty…