OHTO began in 1929 making dyes and ink. In 1963, they produced the world’s first rollerball pen. Their Graphic Liner was the pen that opened my eyes to the world of pens beyond the Bic ballpoint. They have a fine history. However, their fountain pens have a mixed reputation, to say the least. I was […]
Platinum make some very beautiful and very expensive pens and some very ugly and very cheap pens. The Plaisir is an attempt to make a pen that’s relatively cheap yet not ugly. Thank you to Cult Pens for sending me this pen in exchange for an honest review. These are my own opinions. Price: £9.45 […]
Fountain Pen Revolution is a family run company that specialises in sourcing and selling Indian-made fountain pens. If having read the following, taken from their website, you don’t instantly want to try out something that FPR have to offer, I don’t know what to say to you: FPR was founded in 2011 and is family […]
The Platinum Carbon Pen is a bit of a legend amongst artists, being recommended by, for example, one of my personal artistic heroes Marc Taro Holmes. Therefore I’m doing something a little different with this review and looking at this pen is for sketching. If you’re wanting to know what it’s like to write with […]
Dex is a range of pens from Kingsley. I’d not heard of Kingsley before the Pen Shop sent me this pen to review. This is how they describe themselves: At Kingsley, we’re experts in designing, sourcing and producing a range of high quality, great value fashionable writing instruments and accessories that appeal to everyone. Thus […]