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  • Musgrave Test Scoring 100 Wooden Pencil ReviewMusgrave Test Scoring 100 Wooden Pencil Review
    The Musgrave Test Scoring 100 is a budget wooden pencil in a distinctive silver finish. It’s designed for filling in those little boxes you get in multiple choice tests, with extra-reflective graphite meant to be picked up more reliably by scanners. Price: $0.70 Lead grade options: just this – feels like 2B or so Barrel colours: silver Barrel shape: ...
  • Faber-Castell CX Colour Ballpoint Pen ReviewFaber-Castell CX Colour Ballpoint Pen Review
    Like many people my passion for pens started with the revelation that there was something better than the average store cupboard ballpoint. This lead to a certain prejudice against ballpoints in general but the Uni Jetstream and my fairly recent discovery of the Schmidt 9000 EasyFlow have convinced me that it is possible to find ...
  • Staedtler Triplus Roller, Fineliner and Color PensStaedtler Triplus Roller, Fineliner and Color Pens
    Staedtler make just about every kind of pen and pencil in this Triplus range. The range is distinguished, unsurprisingly, by the triangular barrel. I’m taking a look at the Roller, Color and Fineliner pens. Thank you to Staedtler for sending me, a very lone time ago now, these pens to try out. Staedtler Triplus Fineliner Staedtler have really ...
  • Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-Budo Ink ReviewPilot Iroshizuku Yama-Budo Ink Review
    Very purple. Quick to dry, not a lot of shading, good flow. Yama-Budo means “Crimson Glory Vine“. Here I am doodling the Inkling. You can find some more reviews of Yama-Budo on Pennaquod.
  • Franklin-Christoph Pocket 40 Fountain Pen ReviewFranklin-Christoph Pocket 40 Fountain Pen Review
    Franklin-Christoph make distinctive looking pens and the Pocket 40 (sometimes known as the M40P) is no exception, particularly with the ice-effect barrel that has become one of their trademark materials. Price: $130 (steel nib) $210 (gold nib) Nib options: extra-fine, fine, medium, broad; 1.1mm & 1.4mm cursive calligraphy (steel only) Masuyama-ground nib options: needlepoint, medium cursive italic, broad ...