Retrospective: Monday November 1

Fountain Pen Day! Tomorrow, November 2nd, is Fountain Pen Day 2018. Lots of fun and lots of sales so keep an eye out! Check out the Fountain Pen Day website and especially the sponsors page which has a list of deals down the bottom of the page.

• Pelikan M400 Special Edition Brown Tortoiseshell fountain pen review ✑Jenny has a great in-depth review of this special edition Pelikan M400.

• Danitrio Kama-nuri Kamakura-bori Blue Tame-nuri on Takumi Fountain Pen: A Review ✑ unique and beautiful but very expensive pen. Great to see a review of a pen I can only dream about right now.

• Fountain Pen Review: Birmingham Pen Co. Model-A Liquid Hot Magma ✑ Ana review’s the pretty yellow Birmingham pen.

• Traveler’s Notebooks Dated Inserts + Calendar Products ✑ I always love how Wonder Pens blog, which is still their to promote their store, is such a wealth of great writing and great information.

• review: franklin christoph midnight emerald ✑ June covers the Franklin-Christoph Midnight Emerald ink

Sponsors

• Pen Classics ✒︎Pen Classics have a great range of interesting and covetable pens and inks. Always a good port of call! Use code FPD18 for 15% off for Fountain Pen Day.

• Desk Bandit ✒︎ Desk Bandit recently got the Nagasawa Exclusive Pro Gear Rokko Shichidank in stock for a very good price. Lots of unique items for sale well worth checking out. Get 15% off inks for Fountain Pen Day with FPD15OFF

• La Couronne do Comte (10% off with MACCHIATOMAN10) ✒︎ LCdC are having a great sale with 50% off the Lamy Vibrant Pink Al-star and get a 20% off  for Fountain Pen Day with FPD2018

• Pen Chalet (10% off with MACCHIATOMAN) ✒︎ Pen Chalet are having a giveaway for Fountain Pen Day so be sure to enter.

• Pen Savings (12% off with MACCHIATOMAN) ✒︎ great international shipping prices and my go-to place for most American brands of inks including Noodler's and Organics Studio.

Weekly Retrospective: Monday October 15th

It’s been a very busy couple of weeks for me so I missed out on this last Monday, my apologies! I have also been quiet with proper articles but don’t worry I have three ink reviews ready to be photographed, and a pen review and a notebook review planned so lots to come!

• UK Fountain Pens: “The great uninking” ✑ Anthony seems to think eighteen inked pens is a lot (and in fact too many); I disagree! I have almost everything inked all the time!

• The Pelikan’s Perch: “News: Edelstein Garnet Added to the Standard Line-Up” ✑ I’m not a fan of this. Takes away from a collection and makes the ink less special.

• The Well-Appointed Desk: “Eye Candy: Birmingham Pen Co. Purplepalooza” ✑ Lots of lovely purple inks here (I love purple!)

• Hand Over That Pen: “2018 San Francisco Pen Show Quick Recap: Pay-It-Forward Table & Pen Dash Mixer” ✑ Franz goes over two interesting events at the 2018 San Fransisco Pen Show.

• UK Fountain Pens: “2018 London Writing Equipment Show: success!” ✑ Anthony goes over his experience at the London Writing Equipment Show.

• Fountain Pen Friendly: “Bookbinders Design: A Custom-Made Review” ✑ a review of the Bookbinders Design Cloth Notebook I reviewed this time last year.

• Mountain of Ink: “Ink Review #466: Robert Oster Carbon Fire” ✑ Kelli briefly covers the new Robert Oster Carbon Fire.

• Fountain PenArchy: ““That Looks Ugl-Nope, I Love It”- Sailor Rikyu-Cha” ✑ I definitely understand this title! Rikyu-Cha definitely isn’t the prettiest colour on first glance but really grows on you.

Sponsors

• La Couronne do Comte (10% off with MACCHIATOMAN10) ✒︎ LCdC recently got stock of the beautiful Platinum #3776 Celluloid models and they are stunners!

• Pen Chalet (10% off with MACCHIATOMAN)✒︎ Always some good sales going on at Pen Chalet including right now with a ver nice price on a Platinum Century Nice Lilas and Lavende.

• Pen Savings (12% off with MACCHIATOMAN) ✒︎ great international shipping prices and my go-to place for most American brands of inks including Noodler's and Organics Studio.

Weekly Retrospective: Monday October 1st

Old pens, new pens, and a database of pens.

• Too Many Pelikans: “September 2018 update on my fountain pen database” ✑ David goes over his impressive database of fountain pens (mostly Pelikan).

• Fountain Pen Love “Fountain Pen Shops In Paris” ✑ John was in Paris and covered the fountain pen stores that he visited in that beautiful city.

• Goulet Pens: “Galaxia, Edison Nouveau Premiere Fall 2018 Special Edition Fountain Pen” ✑ A new goulet Edison Nouveau. My favourite is still the Winter 2018 Nightfall. This one is similar to  Summer 2017 Delphinium.

• UK Fountain Pens: “A day with a Duofold” ✑ Anthony goes over the Parker Duofold International. My experience is quite similar with mine; extremely hard nib and very thin section but my nib doesn’t skip and is a very consistent writer.

• UK Fountain Pens: “The redesigned Galen Writing Box looks promising” ✑ I love the look of this Galen Writing Box and i’m glad to see that Galen are fixing the reported problems and seem to have great customer service.

• The Pencil Case Blog: “Review: Milim Fountain Pen” ✑ There are a lot of pens around like this these days but this one certainly stands out with it’s tiny inkwell!

• Wonder Pens: “How to Get Started with Daily Journaling” ✑ I’m definitely going to try and do some of this. I always want to Journal but just never get around to it!

Sponsors

• La Couronne do Comte (10% off with MACCHIATOMAN10) ✒︎ LCdC has a sale going right now and recently announced pre-orders for the new Lamy inks. They also have stock of re-released Noodler’s Russian series.

• Pen Chalet (10% off with MACCHIATOMAN)✒︎ Always some good sales going on at Pen Chalet including right now with a ver nice price on a Platinum Century Nice Lilas and Lavende.

• Pen Savings (12% off with MACCHIATOMAN) ✒︎ great international shipping prices and my go-to place for most American brands of inks including Noodler's and Organics Studio.