I haven’t had a good idea (yet?)…
…but there’s still time to enter The Pen Company’s Pimp My Pen competition, where you can win a £100 (~$155; €135) voucher to spend on pens.
Today is also the last day of JetPens’ 10 days of giveaways.
Exchange rates: February 2015.
The Pen Company’s competition is open to the entire world. JetPens’ competition is open to U.S. residents.
Happy Birthday Mars plastic eraser!
You’ve helped us out of our misery for 50 years.
To celebrate this occasion there’s an anniversary edition
To the next 50 years!
I’d like to thank Mr Schindler from Staedtler for sending me the free samples that can be seen in the picture.
You can read more about the wedge sharpener in this blog post and more about the the stick version of the Mars plastic in this blog post.
How could I resist… I never had much of a chance, did I?
…not with Gunther touting his readers with his beautiful S20, again and again and again.
I gave in…
…and bought the S20 in dark brown and in 0.3mm from WAKU1(Japan Store) for £13.52 (~$20.80; €18.20), including postage. I got it twelve days later. A great price, especially when keeping in mind that it costs more than twice as much in the UK (because it is imported) and you will have problems finding the 0.3mm version. I bought from WAKU1 in the past, but more about that in a future blog post.
The wood of the pen is beautiful and reminds me of the ONLINE All Wood Marone.
Pilot is a bit optimistic though, offering an F in their lead grade indicator. Is there an 0.3mm lead in F? When I see F it’s usually for 0.5mm.
Please let me know if you know of a 0.3mm lead in F – I do prefer harder leads, so F would be great, even though I have to say the 0.3mm leads you get with many Faber-Castell pencils are a bit too hard and too light for my taste.
Price and exchange rates: February 2015
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I’ve started my search for good coloured pencils, i.e. coloured pencils that are suitable for writing, many years before I started this blog. Eventually, my dissatisfaction with coloured pencils led me to coloured leads for mechanical pencils – though marginally better than coloured pencils coloured leads aren’t great either and the only hard ones I found so far are so poor you can’t enjoy writing with them either.
…but then Lexikaliker gave me new hope with his article about the Paperworld 2015 and his confirmation that you can use the new Wopex coloured pencil, the Noris colour, for writing. An extruded lead might have very different properties – maybe….
…maybe this is it. Maybe this is the holy grail of colour pencils!
Two days ago, on Tuesday, I ordered a pack of six Noris colour from eBay and they have arrived this morning, two days later. It really has been a great stationery week for me. Earlier this week I got a package from California and this morning I got one from Canada as well as the Noris colour mentioned earlier. So many things to try out.
I hope my journey of many years to find a nice coloured pencil, suitable for writing has come to an end. I will report soon.
