India’s artisanal fountain pens
Earlier today the BBC published an article about India’s artisanal fountain pens. You can read the article at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-55314701.
Fountain pens
Happy fountain pen day
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.
More student colours
After seeing Brad’s tweet about the new Kaweco Student colours, see below..
.. 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.
The Kaweco Student 70’s Soul and its amazing EF nib 5
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.
A New Special Edition Lamy Safari: LAMY BROWN The Black Edition 4
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