The coming Lunar Year is the Year of the Water Dragon, so I thought that needed appropriate wallpaper. For fans of geomancy and dragons, here it is.
Brown urushi over light turquoise becomes the popular heki-tame finish. I picked the Neo Standard form, one of Nakaya’s 2009 releases along with the Decapod Piccolo and the Equilibrium Piccolo. Mrs. Tan removed the matte gold clip and replaced it with the dragon stopper I’d been wanting for ages. The Neo Standard gently tapers along …
This was my first Danitrio. I haven’t seen another pen similar to it, so perhaps it never passed the prototype stage. The entire pen is ebonite, except the feed. The barrel features sterling silver inserts: one engraved with a phoenix, the other with a dragon. I’ve had it a couple of years, and it shows. …
Another dragon joins the collection. This time it’s Italian. Claudio Mazzi is best known for his airbrushed Zippos. This was his first collaboration with Visconti. His style reminds me of Heavy Metal covers and 80’s posters beloved of teenage fanboys. The pen’s clip is the classic Visconti arc. The capband is inscribed with “Visconti” and …