I’ve always found it fascinating, that Waterman color-coded their nibs. Richard Binder’s site, richardspens.com, features an ad from 1927 headlined “Pick your pen point by color.” It’s a concept alien to the one-ballpen-fits-all generation, and the what’s-a-ballpen generation just around the bend. It doesn’t have to be. Writing by hand is one of the last …
Month: December 2008
I can’t find my “upload image” button, my “add link” button, and all sorts of other useful things. WordPress 2.7, this had better be worth it. Ah, so. For some reason critical buttons like “upload/insert” and “screen options” weren’t loading. Now they are.
Oh brown, downtrodden, touted as the new black every three years but never given the uptown crown, you are my favorite ink color, if that counts for anything. Noodler’s Walnut is a blackish brown, Golden Brown is similar to Kiowa Pecan but a touch more brown than gold, Beaver is Pelikan Brilliant Brown with less …
Stubs are the smartly-cut jackets of the pen world. They can make anyone (and their signatures) look better. Stubs make broad vertical strokes and thinner horizontal strokes. Unlike italic nibs, the corners of the stub nib are rounded, so upward strokes don’t bite into the paper. Here’s a sampler of my stubs. They’re all factory …
Jupiter and Venus are the eyes, and the smile is the crescent moon. I hope everyone who saw it tonight smiled back.
A friend sent me a surprise in the mail. It was a Frankensnork. There are at least five different Sheaffer Snorkels in this Sheaffer Snorkel, and it makes me smile every time I pick it up and write with it. (On the permutations of “Franken:” in my line of work, we’re used to cobbling together …