Month: April 2011

A little waterbrush hack.

I couldn’t resist making my own pigment ink waterbrushes, because I had waterbrushes to spare. From left to right: a Sakura waterbrush filled with highly diluted Platinum Carbon Black; Pentel Aquash with Platinum Pigment ink in Sepia; Pentel Aquash with water; mini Pentel Aquash; and the Pentel Aquash watercolor brush I previously reviewed. This quick …

I subvert a Maxpedition knife collector’s bag into a pen carrier.

Maxpedition doesn’t make bags. They make carrying tools wrought from 1,000 denier lightweight ballistic nylon fabric, AS-100 high-grade closed cell foam padding material for superior shock protection, high tensile strength composite nylon webbing, triple-distilled ink of Kraken and the heartsblood of dragons. I got their knife collector’s bag because I was curious to see if …