I don’t have too many matching sets. There’s a Waterman 100-year in red, and there’s this, a Conway Stewart Dinkie No. 526 with a matching No. 2R Â pencil. That’s about it. I imagine a lady carried these in a matching purse – oh, or even a reticule (I like that word, no one uses it …
One of the Japanese big three, Sailor’s reputation rests solidly on its nibs. It’s no slouch in the design department either. The Susutake and Arita series take reimagine traditional Japanese elements into pens – bamboo taken from century-old chimneys, enamelled porcelain. (On a side note – and I am always going off into side notes …
I first had two lists: top ten modern pens and top ten vintage pens. That I had acquired enough pens in 2008 to make two lists plus have others that didn’t make it to either list gave me pause. I decided to stick to one list. That was harder than I’d expected. What about the …
If you can gauge a pen by its name, then this pen has to be a heavy hitter. You can’t tell by the way it looks, though. The name refers to the nib, not to the body. A nib that deserves three nouns should be able to do anything short of tweeze eyebrows and squeeze …
Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. The Hannya Sutra, also known as the Heart Sutra, is one of the most known of all Buddhist sutras. Pilot and Sailor each released pens with the Hannya Sutra engraved on the cap and barrel. Most recently, Kamakura Pens sold out their limited edition Hannya Sutra pen based on …
Actually, it’s eleven, but one of my pens is back at the shop, waiting for a nib exchange. I bought more than ten modern pens this year, many pre-owned, and while I liked them all well enough in the first place to buy them, inevitably favorites emerge. The Pilot Bamboo didn’t make it to the …