Category Archives: Information

What do I Look For in a Fountain Pen?

Let’s have a bit of a theoretical discussion.

Consult the Doctor Episode 7

Let’s answer some questions, with today: removing Visconti inner caps, pens that run dry after a few lines of writing, illegal celluloid and thoughts on cleaning Aurora piston-fillers.

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Consult the Doctor Episode 6

Time stamps on YouTube. With today: why are finer nibs scratchy, wet ink vs. dry ink, good and affordable ultra-broad nibs, and why is a fountain pen called a fountain pen?

Consult the Doctor Episode 5

Time stamps can be found on YouTube. Today: thoughts on the Montblanc flex nib, modern vs. vintage flex nibs, swapping out Leonardo Grande nibs, and why does ink keep showing up in a cleaned pen?

Greatest of All Time 2020

Here is my annual list of favourite pens!

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What Drives Us to Collect?

Just a video with some thoughts.

Why Are We Attracted to Expensive Pens?

Just a video with some thoughts.

On Nibmeisters

I thought that today, we would talk a bit about nibmeisters: people who tune and grind nibs.

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Here are some of my favourite nibmeisters:

Michael Masuyama
Dan Smith
Mark Bacas
John Mottishaw
Linda and Mike Kennedy
Pendleton Brown
Richard Binder, retired, but great reference pages
And many others: run a google search for nibmeister…

Reminiscing About Fountain Pen Reviews

A kind viewer sent me a request for this video, and I really liked the idea, so here we go.