Author: ian

Rules for Pens

20 October 2013 By ian

Stephanie over at Rhodia Drive recently asked how we chose which ink to use. I am the kind of person who spends way too much time thinking about these things and funnily enough a few days before Stephanie wrote about this I had written down some rules, for myself, in an attempt to stop myself […]

Inked on Saturday 19th October 2013

19 October 2013 By ian

I’ve been trying my new regime of not changing inks or pens every week just for the sake of it (watch out for a thrilling post about this soon). I’ve been very good but, you know, inks do run out, new pens mysteriously arrive in the post, old pens get dusted off. So quite a […]

Faber-Castell fountain pens

15 October 2013 By ian

While Faber-Castell pencils are frequent visitors to the online pen community their fountain pens are, on the whole, ignored. This is good for me because it means that on the odd occasion they come up on eBay I’ve sometimes (well, three times) been able to pick up an absolute bargain. But it’s a shame that […]