The question always comes up, “Is it safe to use old ink in my fountain pens?” The answer: It depends. As you’ll find out below, there are certain things to be aware of when using vintage inks, including mold, sediment and evaporation. But those warnings apply to both vintage and modern inks. With that being said, the majority of old …
One of my favorite ways to use a fountain pen is to write letters. This year, I decided to participate in InCoWriMo for the first time. If you’re not familiar, InCoWriMo happens every February and stands for International Correspondence Writing Month. The goal is to write a letter every day of the month. When I started preparing all of my …
If you enjoy using vintage fountain pens, or any fountain pen that stores ink in a sac, you are probably very careful about what types of ink you use in those pens. They are typically more difficult to clean than a pen with a converter or piston fill mechanism. You might have also heard stories about ink sacs being destroyed …
If you are like most fountain pen users, you would probably like to improve your handwriting. I know from experience how frustrating it can be to scroll through photo after photo of images with beautiful handwriting on Instagram, only to pick up a pen and struggle to write consistently or legibly. While I definitely don’t have the best handwriting around, …
Here are just a few of the things I’m loving this week: 1. I’ve been purging quite a bit so far in 2019, but this week I decided to do a pen purge. I inked up the pens that I hadn’t used in a while to decide if I really needed to hang on to them. I was able to …
Writing with fountain pens can give your written words a lot of character. Some properties of fountain pen inks can give them even more character. In this post I want to discuss shading and suggest a few ways that you can get better shading from your fountain pen inks. What Is Fountain Pen Ink Shading? If you’re not clear on …
What am I loving this week? Glad you asked! Here’s a quick list of what I’m loving and what’s making me happy this week: 1. I’ve been working on improving my handwriting this year and recently decided to try out an all-capital letters writing style. I’m really enjoying it so far and am having fun every time I sit down …
From the first time I ever used a notebook from Life, I was a fan. Everything about them appeals to me. Their product design is top notch, their product quality is extremely high and their paper is a dream to write on. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever used a Life product that has disappointed me. Today I want …
Grey fountain pen ink is one of those things that it seems like few people are passionate about and many are clueless about. While everyone seems to have multiple bottles of teal, turquoise and purple ink, I’d bet that the majority of fountain pen users don’t have a single bottle of grey ink. Truth be told, it can be an …
What am I loving this week? Glad you asked! Here’s a quick list of what I’m loving and what’s making me happy this week: Pen and ink info: Title: TWSBI Eco 1.1 Stub with Diamine Autumn Oak 1. Cross ATX Medium Nib with Iroshizuku Yama-budo 2. Lamy Al-Star Medium Nib with J. Herbin Emerald of Chivor 3. Pelikan M200 Medium …