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  • Kaweco Sketch Up Clutch Pencil Review and GiveawayKaweco Sketch Up Clutch Pencil Review and Giveaway
    The Kaweco Sketch Up line is a range of clutch pencils available in a variety of finishes, mostly taking 5.6mm lead. (Some take 2mm lead.) There are two kinds, one with a grip section (costing around £30 in the UK) and one without (costing about £27). Here I’m reviewing an aluminium pencil with a grip ...
  • Caran d’Ache Swiss Wood Pencil ReviewCaran d'Ache Swiss Wood Pencil Review
    The Caran d’Ache Swiss Wood pencil is available just in HB. It’s quite expensive, for a pencil: £3.50 in the UK, $4.50 in the USA. That’s each. According to CW Pencils, the Swiss Wood is made from wood. From Switzerland. More specifically, dark beech wood from the Swiss Jura. This is such a beautiful part of ...
  • Montblanc Royal Blue Ink ReviewMontblanc Royal Blue Ink Review
    This is a good royal blue shade – a shade I don’t particular enjoy myself but there are so many versions people must like it. It’s fairly slow to dry but not disastrously so. Here I am doodling the Inkling. Thank you Chris Stafford for sending me this sample!
  • Yoropen Z3 Ballpoint Pen ReviewYoropen Z3 Ballpoint Pen Review
    I remember trying the original Yoropen when it first appeared in the UK. I think this was around 10 years ago. At the time it caused quite a stir in education because it purported to help just about every writing problem going: RSI, dyslexia, dyspraxia or just rubbish handwriting. I didn’t get on with it ...
  • Roterfaden Taschenbegleiter Organiser and Notebook Cover ReviewRoterfaden Taschenbegleiter Organiser and Notebook Cover Review
    The Roterfaden Taschenbegleiter is a notebook cover/organiser on steroids. It costs anything from €69 to the equivalent of a small house, depending on your configuration (more on that later). The one I’m reviewing here cost €109. The Taschenbegleiter has a huge number of options. So many, in fact, that Roterfaden provide a TASCHENBEGLEITER KONFIGURATOR. The Konfigurator is ...