The Basics:
- Pencil Hardnesses
- 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 Steel Blue
- Diamine Terracotta
- Fountain Pen Inks for Christmas Cards
- Inks for your Special Valentine
- J. Herbin Inks + Cornaline d’Egypte
- J. Herbin 1670 Anniversary Ink Bleu Ocean
- J. Herbin 1670 Anniversary Ink Emeraude de Chivor (Emerald of Chivor)
- J. Herbin 1798 Amethyste de l’Oural
- J. Herbin Orange Indien Ink Review
- J. Herbin Perle Noire Ink Review
- Kyo Iro Inks
- Kyo No Oto Inks
- Kyo No Oto Adzukiiro + Hisoku
- Lamy Petrol Bottled Ink + Cartridges
- Lamy Vibrant Pink
- Noodler’s Army Green Ink Review
- Noodler’s Black Swan in English Roses
- 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
- Pelikan Edelstein Smoky Quartz Ink of the Year 2017
- Platinum Classic Iron Gall Inks
- 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 Inks
- Sailor Jentle Black Ink Review
- Sailor Kiwa-Guro Carbon Nano Black
- New Sailor Kobe Inks
- Sailor Kobe Inks
- Sailor Souboku
- Waterproof Fountain Pen Inks
Paper
- Clairefontaine Flying Spirit
- E. Frances Paper
- Field Notes Brand Memo Books
- Field Notes Signature
- 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 (!!!)
- Leuchtturm1917 Red Dot Special Edition
- Life Kappan Writing Stationery
- Life Japanese Stationery Noble Note Ruled Book
- Life Airmail Stationery
- Maruman Mnemosyne
- Midori – How I use my Midori Traveler’s Notebook – Passport Size
- Midori – Traveler’s Notebooks Dated Inserts + Calendar Products
- Midori MD Notebooks
- Midori – Set-up for my Regular Size Midori (+ re-stock of Special Edition Blue Pan Am!)
- Original Crown Mill Classic Laid Writing Paper
- Rhodia 80gsm Paper
- Rhodia Heritage Line
- Rhodia Premium “R” Paper
- Tomoe River Paper
- Tomoe River Paper Notebooks
Pen
- Aurora Duo Cart Fountain Pen
- Edison Limited Edition Collier in Black Rose Acrylic
- Edison – New Beaumonts
- Edison Pearlette – Aztec Gold Flake
- Faber-Castell School Pen
- Franklin-Christoph Exclusive Model 20
- Franklin-Christoph Exclusive Model 45
- 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 Al-Star Charged Green – 2016
- Lamy Al-Star Pacific Blue – 2017
- Lamy Safari 2016 Special Edition Dark Lilac
- Lamy Safari vs. Lamy Al-Star – What’s the Difference?
- Noodler’s Nib Creaper Flex Fountain Pen Review
- Opus 88 Fountain Pens
- Parker Sonnet
- Parker Vintage Parker True Blue Lucky Curve
- Pelikan M200 Smoky Quartz
- Pilot 78G
- Pilot Falcon
- Pilot Kakuno 🙂
- Pilot Parallel as a Highlighter
- Pilot Retro Pop
- Pilot Sign Pen and Fineliner Marker
- Platinum Cool Fountain Pen
- Platinum Preppy Fountain Pen with Platinum Red Ink
- Sailor 1911 Anchor Gray – a North American Exclusive
- Sailor 1911 Maki-e Fountain Pen Review
- Sailor 1911 Royal Tangerine
- Sailor 1911S Demonstrator with Gold Trim
- TWSBI GO
- TWSBI Precision
- TWSBI 580 ALR
- TWSBI 580 AL-Turquoise
- TWSBI ECO vs. 580 vs. 580 AL Comparison
- Waterman Carene
- Waterman Hemisphere
Pencil
Accessories
- Backtozero Co. Wax Seals
- Classiky Sewing Box
- Classiky 5×5 Grid Washi Tape
- Christmas Washi Tape
- Glassine Envelopes
- Italic Calligraphy & Handwriting, Exercises & Text by Lloyd J. Reynolds
- J. Herbin Wax Seals – Supple Wax and Brass Seals
- Wax Seal Inspiration
- Life Japanese Airmail Envelopes
- Midori Brass Index Clips
- Midori D-Clips
- Midori Leather Covers for MD Notebooks
- Milltown Pen Case
- Peg and Awl Bags and Pouches
- Quiver Pen Holder
- Superior Labor Brass Clipboard
- Superior Labor Leather Portfolios
- Superior Labor Pen Cases
- Uppercase Magazine Issue 23: The Calligraphy & Lettering Issue
- Yamato Glues and Adhesives