We got a couple of dip pens for the store – when we find a place in Toronto’s crazy real estate market – so people can come in and just dip in to test out the inks, rather than inking up and having to clean a pen. We’re learning a lot about how to make … [Read more…]
Many fountain pens are cartridge/converter fountain pens, which means you can use either disposable cartridges (pop a cartridge in the back and throw out when empty, or refill cartridges with syringe) or you can a converter. Here’s how you can fill a pen, a Jinhao 126, with Noodler’s Operation Overlord Orange, using a piston converter. … [Read more…]
Toronto Star wrote an article “In praise of the handwritten note” – which speaks perfectly to the vision of Wonder Pens. The article actually focuses on PAL-SAC, a social club that meets in Toronto and locations around the world to write handwritten letters to loved ones and important people in the world (and sometimes they … [Read more…]
…of what we hope is a long and exciting journey. The first of our shipments have begun arriving! We have currently placed orders or begun discussions with several companies, and the first three have arrived. It’s been a learning curve with UPS and getting through customs with brokerage fees and duties. We are putting Private … [Read more…]
In other parts of the world today, including Europe and Asia, and before my generation in North America, fountain pens were widely available in a much lower price range for both school-aged learning and everyday use. Higher-end fountain pens were and are seen as a status symbol, but the everyday use of fountain pens was … [Read more…]