S. T. Dupont Graphite Gul Black D Line Guilloché

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D-Line, Guilloche, S T Dupont, S T Dupont D-Line

Like many of its rivals, this Parisian originated luxury goods manufacturer has for several decades been selling fountain pens along side their other products to provide a complete service to their customers. The D-line is at the top of their regular range, though there are a couple of variants with other names (Eternity and Liberty). So having picked one up in a Cult Pens sale, just how does it fair.

London 2024 Spring Pen Show

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fountain pen, Fountain Pen Selling, Fountain Pen Show

So I wasn’t going, then I was. Next I was getting a table again, but this time by myself. So how did it go, what did I see, did the table work again, will I go for another. All these questions and more to be answered. Maybe.

Diamine/Papier & Stift A Night in Jodhpur

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A Night in Jodhpur, Blue Ink, Diamine, Diamine Ink, ink, Ink Review, Papier & Stift, Papier & Stift ink

While new to me, A Night in Jodhpur has been out for quite a while with is being launched in 2019. An exclusive ink for the German stationary store Papier & Stift where it is an on going line, as opposed to a short term special edition.

Ultem® Fountain Pens – Hype or Here to Stay

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fountain pen, musings

There is one repeating situation in the modern fountain pen community. Fads and hype. We see a brand become the ‘in pen’ or ‘in model’ with many buying just ‘because’ followed by many much reduced second hand pens going on sale when the new owners find what works for one does not necessarily for them. Nakaya and the Platinum 3776 have both fallen in to this bracket, as arguably would have Conid if the brand had not suddenly been put on hold in the early days of Covid.

Spring London Pen Show – Change of Plans

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Fountain Pen Selling, Fountain Pen Show, musings

Change of plans ….

You may remember I could not attend as I will be up north for a family stone setting. Well it turns out there are shipping problems with the actual stone (before engraving) so it has been put back two weeks. Net result I will now be at the show and … I’ve booked a table again.

Cheap French Supermarket Pocket Pen

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cheap, Cheap Fountain Pens, Cheap Pens, E.Leclerc, French, pocket pen

Back in August I was in an E.Leclerc hypermarket near Barjouville when back road travelling between Tours and Rouen. Browsing the stationary aisles (there were multiple) I spotted this ‘mini stylo-plume’, which came with iridium tipping for the princely sum of €1.43. Yes you read that correctly. So of course to the big question … is it junk or a great bargain.

Spring London Pen Show – 3rd of March

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Fountain Pen Show

Information has now been out for a short while about the upcoming London Pen Show, however an announcement email today could well be of interest to those of you in two minds.

Gravitas Ultimate Vac

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fountain pen, Gravitas, Gravitas Ultimate Vac, Ultem, Ultem Fountain Pens, Ultem Pens, Vac Filler

It could be argued that Ben Walsh has taken the fountain pen world by storm with his takes on materials, finishes, engineering and experimentation. How many of us would normally eschew the bright and the bling yet now possess a skittles finished pen. His experiments with concrete failed, yet this has not stopped him and we have now have his take on the bulk and vac fillers. It is the latter I review here.

Nakaya Hurt by Noto Earthquake

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Nakaya

1st of January this year an earthquake hit Japan and Wajima City was very heavily affected. Amongst those building heavily damaged and destroyed are the workshops of Nakaya.

How do you remove your pen cap…

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fountain pen, musings

So here is something you would never have thought could be a item of contemplation. Separating the cap of a pen from the barrel to allow us to write. Simple. We talk about removing the cap, yet for many of us it is actually the opposite. We remove the body.