Category: Pen review

Diplomat Traveller Fountain Pen review

4 August 2014 By ian

The Diplomat Traveller fountain pen is a metal barrelled pen that, as far as I know, is available only with a medium steel nib. The nib is surprisingly good – I perhaps had low expectations but it’s smooth and very pleasant to write with. It takes international cartridges and my Monteverde converter fitted without any […]

Staedtler 308 Pigment Liner drawing pen review

21 July 2014 By ian

The Staedtler 308 pigment liner is a fibre-tipped drawing pen available in 9 different line widths (0.5mm to 0.8mm) with black ink. I’ve found it difficult to find very many good drawing pens. The Copic Multiliner is a great and so is the Sakura Pigma Micron but apart from those I’ve not found any that […]

Kaweco AC-Sport fountain pen review

14 July 2014 By ian

The Kaweco Classic Sport was the first pen I reviewed on Pens! Paper! Pencil! I love that pen. Until recently I kept it in my pocket and used it every single day. It got scuffed up but I didn’t care, although I did buy a lovely leather sleeve for it. It now sits stored away […]

Tactile Turn Mover pen review

7 July 2014 By ian

The Tactile Turn Mover is an aluminium pen made by Will Hodges. It was a Kickstarter project originally but it’s now available directly from the Tactile Turn website. It comes with a Pilot 0.38mm G2 refill but will take a large range of alternatives including my current favourite, the Pilot Juice. The refill is replaced […]

Franklin-Christoph Model 02 Intrinsic fountain pen review

30 June 2014 By ian

The Franklin-Christoph Model 02 ‘Intrinsic’ is an acrylic fountain pen that can be used as a standard international cartridge/converter or as an eye-dropper. It comes in three and a half different colours (black/maroon, black/cherry, smoke and ice, and emerald). This is the smoke and ice version. The barrel is the ice and the section is […]