Thanks to Julie of Whatever I have a Noodler’s Creaper flexible nib fountain pen. She gave it good marks in her review and that made me look forward to trying it. It really is the creepy, is-my-nib-going-to-split-in-two slit responsible for the tines being able to spread. The steel itself looks slightly thicker than the Tachikawa School-G …
Even if I went to Parker 51 Appreciation Class, I don’t think I’d ever warm up to a fountain pen that a) looks like a ballpen and b) basks in looking like a ballpen. However, a Parker 51 with a Nathan Tardiff flex nib is an altogether different animal. (Nathan Tardiff, the man behind the …
In the last gasps of the final showdown between fountain pens and ballpoints, Pilot introduced the Pilot Justus. Today, the Justus model commands eyebrow-raising prices on eBay. When it was launched, it tanked. It’s not hard to see why. When mobile phones became as accessible as pagers, pager manufacturers introduced transparent pagers, pagers with flashing …