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The Wing Sung 601a
There are many Chinese Parker 51 clone pens available on online shopping platforms such as Amazon, Ali Express, EBay, and Etsy, and some of them are better than others. Wing Sung has the 601 with a hooded nib, but they also have the 601a with a Sheaffer-like stainless steel conical nib. I needed to try…
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The Sakura Retrico Ballpoint
Somebody told me that you had a ballpoint, that looked like a pencil, that I had in February of last year. It’s not confidential, it’s got potential, a-rushin’ in rushin’ arooOuund. For real though, the Sakura Retrico Ballpoint looks a lot like a Pentel P205 mechanical pencil. They both have similarly geometrically ribbed grip sections,…
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#21PenQuestions
This 21 pen questions tag was started by Ana of The Well Appointed Desk a while ago, and I recently found out about it via a Pen Addict post. It’s been interesting reading other people’s answers, so I thought it would be fun to answer these questions myself. 1: What is the pen they’ll have…
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The Sailor Promenade
While Sailor is known for its Pro Gear and 1911 series of fountain pens, they’ve had several other models that have come and gone. A few years ago Sailor made the Promenade, which is basically just their version of Platinum’s 3776. The Promenade looks like a 1911 but with a different clip, slightly wider body,…
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The Lihit Lab Hinemo Stand Pen Pouch
Pen cases can be almost as important as the pens and pencils in them (especially for bag people). I’m a bag person and pretty much always have been. Zippered bags, backpacks, pen cases, pen sleeves… I love them all. But some cases work better than others for different people, and this Lihit Lab stand-up pen…
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The Kaweco Student
Kaweco is very good at taking pen designs from their archive and updating them just enough for today’s fountain pen market. In the case of the Student, Kaweco took the popular flat top design and made it their own. The Student comes standard in black and clear, and is also available in neat retro themed…
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A Left Handed Guide For New Fountain Pen Users (2023)
I’ve tried a lot of fountain pens at this point, and even started this blog to publish more information online about the fountain pen experience for lefties. When I got in to pens in 2019 there wasn’t that much about tips or “things I wish I knew” for lefties, and there still isn’t in 2023,…
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The Pacific Arc H-1304 Lead Holder
This is the lead holder that got me into mechanical pencils. After discovering erasable pens in the 7th grade I viewed pencils in general as a necessary evil for scantron testing and drawing. The only mechanical pencils available near me were very cheap and the lead would break and retract on me while writing. But…
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The Noodler’s L’Ahab Frankenpen
It’s Saturday the 14th, and on this special day I would like to present a cursed frankenpen that I’ve named the L’Ahab. It’s a Noodler’s Ahab with a Lamy Safari nib and feed. The Ahab is a flex pen with an ebonite feed and Noodler’s stock flex nib. The body and cap of the pen…
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The Best of Left Hook Pens
As 2022 comes to a close, many websites republish popular and/or well written pieces from throughout the year, and this blog is no different. I recently went through my stats and tallied which posts you lovely readers have decided to view the most over the past 3 calendar years, so here are the top 10…
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