It’s amazing how fountain pen day took off. It’s not even ten years since Cary and Aaron started it, but stationery fans and companies took to it like a fountain pen takes to ink.
If you can’t get enough of fountain pens have a look at my fountain pen video list to celebrate the occasion.
After seeing Brad’s tweet about the new Kaweco Student colours, see below..
New colors of the Kaweco Student announcing at Paperworld. The blue one is called the 50's Rock (pictured), along with a green one called 60's Swing. pic.twitter.com/6CyprX3Yc0
— Brad Dowdy – The Pen Addict (@dowdyism) January 28, 2020
.. I couldn’t resist showing you my Kawecco Student 70s Soul again.
I have more fountain pens than I dare to admit and love EF nibs. The Soul has the smoothest and ‘finest’, in both senses of the word, EF nib of all my fountain pens.
PS: Nice naming scheme, Kaweco.
Since last Autumn I have used one fountain pen as my daily companion: The Kaweco Student 70’s Soul. A fountain pen with an amazing EF nib.
By coincidence it also fits quite well with my 2018 Hobonichi ‘hazelnut’ cover.
The Kaweco Student 70s Soul on a 2018 Hobonichi ‘hazelnut’ cover
Below is a quick look at this fantastic fountain pen in the form of a video. I published it last November, so if you follow my YouTube channel you might have spotted this video before.
Lamy’s store in K11 (on HuaiHai Road)
Like last year I found new special editions from Lamy in Shanghai, not available in the West.. This time it’s another Line Friends edition: LAMY BROWN The Black Edition.
The amazing aluminium container
The one comes in an amazing packaging: a thick-walled aluminium tube (with screw lid). I haven’t seen any packaging like this for a Pen before.
The Lamy Safari itself is the Matte type with the Line character’s name BROWN embossed in the cap.
The cardboard packaging that goes around the aluminium tube container
It also comes with a leather strap and metal buttons with browns face. The leather strap can be used to attach it to your belt, etc. The Lamy employee wore it around his neck.
Here’s a link to the official web page for this pen.
The Safari with the leather strap, if worn as a necklace
In previous year’s people contacted me to ask whether I can get them the special edition, but I already left Shanghai at that time. To avoid this happening again I bought two of these special edition pens for interested readers. I hope I won’t regret this decision. If you are interested let me know as soon as possible by leaving a comment here or by emailing me (if you know my email address).
The price is £65 plus postage. The item is in the UK.
Here’s a video showing the aluminium tube.
Watch the aluminium tube on YouTube for HD video.
I will add this Special Edition to the list of Lamy Special Editions on stationery.wiki in a few days (if no one else has done it by then). That list contains (so far) 26 Special Editions of the Lamy Safari.
Line Friends are popular in East Asia
Line Friends are popular in East Asia
What a cruel world:
…people seem to be taking planes hostage with fountain pens.
Look at this headline from Sky News:
An Air China flight had to be diverted after a passenger held a crew member hostage using a fountain pen as a weapon.
Picture from Sky News (Image © Sky News)
..people seem to get tortured with pencils. In the TV series Bosch this pencil is referred to as the Black Guardian Pencil.
You might think the torture is down to the pencil being so scratchy – or so overpriced and doesn’t keep it’s point …but the fictional world is far more physical when it comes to stationery torture.
Last chance to look away…
Bosch: The Black Guardian Pencil
The images in this blog post have been taken from Sky News and from the second episode of the fourth season of the TV series Bosch. I believe that the use of the images shown in this blog post falls under “fair dealing” as described by the UK Copyright service.