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LAMY dialog 3 and dialog CC -- Award-Winning Design Details
Happy New Year, blog readers! The hectic, messy holiday season is over, and it feels good to step back from the overstimulation and excesses of the past several months and take a look at the world ...
Pen Boutique Holiday Gift Guide
It feels as though 2025 has gone by too quickly, but it's already December, the days are getting short, and there's a bracing crispness to the air. Holiday season is the busiest part of the year at...
Beginners and Beyond: the Steel Nib Pilots
Pilot pens are renowned throughout the fountain pen community for their smooth and consistent nibs, and that goes for the steel nib pens just as much as the gold nib ones. I've written a lot about ...
It's in the Details -- Montblanc's Great Characters Special Editions
If you know me, you know how much I love details. In fact, I'm so focused on small details that I'm usually more aware of them than I am the big picture. If I visit a large awe-inspiring monument,...
"Go #30 Or Go Home" -- What Makes Pilot's Custom Urushi and Aya So Special?
"Go #30 Or Go Home"
I'm not really a sticker person, but I do love Pilot, so when I saw that the Pilot team was giving out stickers at the 2024 Washington DC Fountain Pen Supershow, I had to choos...
Changing Seasons, Reliable Pens -- Laura's Fall Favorites
Happy Autumn! Here in Maryland, we are on the cusp of fall; the trees are still mostly green and the weather is mild, but I feel the days getting shorter and shorter, and a crisp chill in the morn...
Customer Favorite: Visconti Homo Sapiens
The Visconti Homo Sapiens is an iconic giant, omnipresent in discussions of fountain pen lovers' "holy grail" wishlist pens, and has reached an elevated status, grouping it with other extremely wel...
So Many Sailors... Part Six!
One of my all-time favorite blog article topics is Sailor fountain pens. Even before I bought Sailors of my own, I loved taking photos of Sailors and writing about what makes each one special and u...
Yes, Fountain Pens are for Lefties, Too!
In honor of International Left Handers Day on August 13th, it is my great pleasure to write an article celebrating the joys of fountain pens for left handers. Happy International Left Handers Day...
