Lamy Logo Fountain Pen Review

Lamy Logo Fountain Pen Review

The Lamy Logo is a stainless steel fountain pen. It’s available with a wide range of nibs and will take Lamy’s proprietary cartridges or converter. It costs £29.50 from The Pen Company, who originally sent me this pen (some time ago) to review for their own blog. I’m republishing that review here more or less…

TWSBI Diamond Mini Fountain Pen Review

TWSBI Diamond Mini Fountain Pen Review

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 Bangalore Fountain Pen Review

Fosfor Bangalore Fountain Pen Review

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…

Franklin-Christoph Pocket 40 Fountain Pen Review

Franklin-Christoph Pocket 40 Fountain Pen Review

Franklin-Christoph make distinctive looking pens and the Pocket 40 (sometimes known as the M40P) is no exception, particularly with the ice-effect barrel that has become one of their trademark materials. Price: $130 (steel nib) $210 (gold nib) Nib options: extra-fine, fine, medium, broad; 1.1mm & 1.4mm cursive calligraphy (steel only) Masuyama-ground nib options: needlepoint, medium…

Platinum PTL-5000 Fountain Pen Review

Platinum PTL-5000 Fountain Pen Review

Gold nibs are hard to find for less than £50 and usually cost an awful lot more, so a whole pen for less than that, featuring a gold nib, is going to be either something rather special or a golden turkey. Thank you to Cult Pens for sending me this pen to review. These are…

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