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Penthusiasm!

December 2, 2011

Margana at Inkophile offers her tips for buying pens, paper and ink online. Rori at Rori Rants writes her way through a huge sampling of Noodler’s and other fountain pen inks. Andrew at Stationery Review tries out Paper Mate’s new range of InkJoy ballpoint pens and is suitably impressed. Terri at Filofax Fixation digs into [...]

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Penthusiasm!

November 18, 2011

Quinn at QuinnCreative experiments with refilling the versatile Pilot Parallel Pen for artwork. Mark at Good Kit names the Sharpie Stainless Steel as the best cheap alternative to a tactical self-defense pen. Rhonda at the Blog of Rhonda Eudaly points out the benefits of the micro Pilot Hi-Tec-C 0.25 mm in editing. Nancy at Tattered Garden [...]

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Pilot FriXion Goes Retractable in the UK (And There’s a Contest, Too)

November 17, 2011

The Pilot FriXion is a nifty little erasable ink pen that has gotten lots of love since it was launched a few years ago. It’s popular with editors, artists, quilters and most every kind of writer, and has consistently received decent reviews. Except for one common complaint – the positioning of the eraser. The FriXion, [...]

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How Do You Recycle Ink Pens?

November 16, 2011

What do you do when you’ve finished with a used ink pen – toss it in the trash? Probably, because that’s what we all do. It’s about the only thing you can do with an old pen. Complete pens can’t go into normal plastic recycling bins because they contain bits of metal, as well as [...]

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Penthusiasm!

November 11, 2011

Yochanan at Multi-Pen Dimensions revels in the intricacies of the ACME 4FP Multi Pen. Judith at Kats-in-Klompen shares her Moleskine notebook drawings from a vacation in France. Tyler at 777 Pen Repair reviews the Pilot Vanishing Point fountain pen in painstaking detail. Keep on Truckin’, Nattosoup briefly explains how to refill the Kuretake and Pentel brush [...]

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November Carnival of Pen, Pencil and Paper is up at Journaling Arts

November 8, 2011

The pen carnival is up with lots of good reads. Be sure to check out the broad range of red ink samples and the Midori Traveler’s Notebook review, both at Rants of the Archer.

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Penthusiasm!

November 4, 2011

Rodney at GreaseMonkeyHands discovers that his son enjoys cursive handwriting. Nifty at Notebook Stories points out a notebook that looks like a VHS tape. Dowdy at The Pen Addict hosts a guest review of the Zebra Regal Liquid Ink NR5. Alex at Economy Pens finds that the Dong-a Comssa Computer Sign Pen fails to impress. [...]

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Artist Reproduces Masterpieces with One Line from a Faber-Castell

November 2, 2011

Faber-Castell has done something extraordinary to promote its Pitt Artist Pens. The German writing instrument maker had an artist recreate three famous paintings – Van Gogh’s self-portrait, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring – using the popular drawing pens. In and of itself, that’s nothing unusual. Except that artist Chan [...]

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Blog Review: Multi Pen Dimensions

October 26, 2011

Here at Tiger Pens, we all love our G2s and Jetstreams and EnerGels – but we also love the unusual and unique pens that exist only because someone said, ‘Hey, what if…’ You know the ones, those Swiss Army pens that combine writing instruments, tools and toys into one cool little piece that are always fun [...]

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Totally Random Pen Stuff

October 24, 2011

• PC World magazine is reporting that Wacom has introduced the first digital pen designed specifically for artists. The Inkling uses a receiver that clips onto the top of the page and records the signal from the pressure-sensitive pen. Then, the receiver connects by USB to your computer, where the images can be turned into bitmap [...]

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