Sunday Reads: Pen Paper, Oysters, And Vandalism

Crazy busy headed into the holidays, but snagged a few choice bits for you…

• Jet Pens: The Best Fountain Pen Paper
• The Well-Appointed Desk: Inkmas Day 10: 3 Oysters Doldam (I would buy it for the name alone.)
• Stay with it to the end. His presence and connection with both the audience and the orchestra are a joy to watch.
• Making Monograph: The Hardcover Journal from Dapper Notes
• Random Acts of Genius Vandalism
• 116 Amazing Facts for People Who Like Amazing Facts

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Sunday Reads: Pens, Memes, And Sherlock Holmes

There is no connecting the dots between these links, except that they were some of the most interesting ones from this past week.

• Jet Pens: Top 10 Fountain Pen Releases of 2018
• Internet Meme Database
• Dear Holmes
• J. Herbin Inks For 2018
• Make Use Of: Good News! 5 Places to Read or Hear Positive and Uplifting News
• Stillman & Birn Nova Series

Noodler’s Standard Flex Pen With Apache Sunset Ink

Sunday Reads: Ink, Pens And Paper

A few on-topic links…

• The Well-Appointed Desk: Eye Candy: Penlux Inks (My fave is Rouge.)
• Fountain Pen Follies: Five Months: an Extended Test of Platinum Carbon Black Pigment Ink
• The Pelikan’s Perch: News: Pelikan Raises U.S. Prices
• The Pencilcase Blog: Review: Scribo Write Here Fountain Pen
• inksharks: review: diamine teal (Mirrors my own experience.)
• Hand Over That Pen: Review: Platinum Izumo (Soratame, Broad Nib)
• The Well-Appointed Desk: Planner Review: Easy Tiger Pocket Planner

From the archives:

Sunday Reads: Searchable Handwritten Notes And Pen Links

Absolutely any fountain pen user can make use of the first article. Evernote has been in my arsenal for years, but archiving handwritten notes elevates it to a whole new level of usefulness.

• dottotech: Make your handwritten journal searchable with Evernote
• Fountain Pen Quest: A Medium Bias
• Pen Chalet: Colorverse Wisdom of Trees Methuselah Grove Ink (Don’t you just love the exotic name?)
• Teoh: How Waterproof is Noodlers Bulletproof Black Ink? (Read some of the comments for what others have experienced.)
• The Pen Addict: Maruman Into-One Binder Review
• The Gentleman Stationer: Testing Out Tester Pens

From the archives:

Sunday Reads: Ink, Journals, And Cursive

Over the summer, my laptop exhibited all sorts of troubled behavior that culminated in a meltdown of its hard drive and failure of its flash drive, the one that was used for backups. Restoration is a work-in-progress. Even so, there are a few links that did not disappear down the rabbit hole that I hope you enjoy.

• WaPo: how cursive writing is looping back into our hearts
• Shaunta Grimes: A new (to me) concept for keeping a notebook. (h/t Nero’s Notes ) (Comp books work well for this.)
• Jose Naranja tests some Noodler’s Inks
• Sandra Strait at Doodlewash reviews Hahnemühle journals that work well with fountain pen ink.

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Sunday Reads: Pen, Paper, Ink, and Pretty Pit Bulls

Curious about the new TWSBI Go? Pure Pens has the details for you. Mountain of Ink explains ink properties and The Well-Appointed Desk discovered a couple of worthy comp books. As if I need more paper…

• The Well-Appointed Desk: Pen Review: Platinum PTL 5000A Balance Fountain Pen
• Nib Grinder (In case you have a nib that needs tuning.)
• Pure Pens reviews the brand new TWSBI Go
• Mountain of Ink: Fountain Pen Ink Properties
• The Well-Appointed Desk: Paper Review: Composition Books (Loved the form since high school.)
• This Photographer Is Changing People’s Perceptions of Pit Bulls

Sunday Reads: Flex Nibs, Ink, And Stifflexible

Pen links and other goodies…

• The Inkluminati: Fountain Pen Revolution flex nibs and pens
• Draw Tip Tuesday – How to Draw Perspective (A short video that will make it easy to add perspective to your doodles.)
• Openbook wants to take on Facebook
• As fake social media posts explode, watch how easy it is to manipulate posts without photo-editors
• Where were you?
• Rachel’s Reflections: Wendy Van Camp on Fountain Pens in the Creative Process
• The Well-Appointed Desk: Ink Review: Robert Oster Australian Opal Mauve
• My Pen Needs Ink: Giuliano Mazzuoli Stifflexible Notebook Review

Four years on, these writing tools remain favorites.

 

Clairefontaine, Stillman & Birn, Platinum #3776 Century Nice and Nice Pur, Conklin Durograph Stub, Iroshizuku, J. Herbin, Noodler’s Ink, Sailor Ink, Tomoe River paper.