Graphite Fine Art
If you walk into any UK high street stationery shop you’re likely to find Stabilo Point 88 Fineliners for sale, often near to some Staedtler Triplus Fineliners. They are, apparently, Europe’s best-selling fineliner. I picked up these pens at a discount thanks to the support Cult Pens give this site. These are my own opinions.…
The Uni Pin is a drawing pen that’s readily available in the UK, being stocked by many high street chains. Price: £1.75 (UK) Tip size options: 005, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 08 Barrel options: just black Ink type: fade-resistant and waterproof black The plastic tip is sleeved in steel to help keep it steady.…
With all the attention TWSBI’s Vac Mini is getting it might be easy to forget that TWSBI made a pocket-sized pen before, the piston-filling Diamond Mini. Price: $50 (USA) £42 (UK) Nib options: extra-fine, fine, medium, broad, 1.1mm stub, 1.5mm stub (all steel) Barrel options: black, clear, classic (clear barrel, black ends and cap) Filling…
Fosfor is the work of one man named Manoj, based in India. Manoj combines his own combinations of acrylic to make unique designs and then makes each pen by hand. He also makes many pens from wood (and, I can assure you, I will be buying one soon). You would expect such a pen to…
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…