The Kaweco Dia 2 isn’t quite as well known as the Sport range but is, like the sport, an evolution of a design that has been around for a long time. It’s one of Kaweco’s classics. It’s only available in black but can be found with chrome-plated trim, like this one, or with gold-plated trim […]
The Pelikan M215 is an amazing pen. It is virtually faultless. It is a piston-filling pen that holds a good amount of ink. The piston mechanism is smooth and has the feel of precision engineering. There is not wiggle or wobble and it glides in the most luxurious way. There is a window just above […]
I blame A Fool With A Pen entirely for my buying this pen. His review sold me on the quality and a brief look at the Franklin-Christoph website sold me on the colour. This is the Franklin-Christoph Model 27 ‘Collegia’ in Tennessee Orange with an extra-fine steel nib. And it is almost, but not quite, […]
A good pen is a pen that brings you joy when you pick it up and write. That has nothing to do with price, nib goldiness, filling mechanism or any other objective quality. It’s hard to define and it will be different for every individual person. The Noodler’s Konrad is, in our little pen-world, dead […]
The TWSBI Diamond 580 frequently features in Top 5 lists and this is because it’s a very good pen. It’s a good size and weight. Everything about the pen suggests solid reliability. All clear fountain pens are described as demonstrators but in the TWSBI Diamond 580’s case the word really does seem apt: all the […]