Have you had an item with a rubberised surface that turned sticky after a few years?
Well, unfortunately branded pens aren’t immune to this issue ..as this is exactly what happened to this Faber-Castell rollerball.
I hope that has this happened often enough by now and has annoyed enough people so that manufacturers know what to do to avoid this happening to pens made today.
February’s pencil pot is, again, made from concrete.
I bought it on Etsy from seller COnCREtebEttY for £10, including postage. It arrived in record time.
The holes in this pen holder are ideal for pencils. I use the front of the holder to store an eraser, but haven’t found a good use for the slot in the back yet.
Currently this holder only seems to be available as a set.
Freshly re-inked: My Super5 fountain pen in green (Dublin) is now part of my current pen rotation. The other two currently inked pens include the Lamy 2000 with an EF nib and the re-release of the Parker 51 in Teal with an F nib.
Fitting with the Super5‘s colour I fed it one of Kaco’s “Leaf” green cartridges.
I won’t show how the ink looks on paper as I didn’t clean the Super5 since its last use, so the ink colour I get is still a mishmash.
After a rather long break, the pencil pot of the month category will be in use again, even if only temporarily.
Starting the pencil pots of 2023 off is a concrete pencil pot from Spanish company DOIY Design. I ordered this one from Zeitgeist London when it was on offer [1]At the time of writing this blog post it still is on offer..
This Spanish designed and Chinese made pencil pot has a slight hue of pink. I find the “stairs” of this pencil pot interesting. They can be used as pen holders to rest full length pens, but they really excel as a place to store used pencils that got shorter with time.
Be warned though if you want to use expensive pens with this pen holder: Concrete can be quite rough, so in my opinion there is a slightly increased possibility of scratching the surface of pens you store in this pen holder if you are not careful.
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| ↑1 | At the time of writing this blog post it still is on offer. |
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Out with the old, in this case my 2022 notebooks: The Monocle by Leuchtturm for work and the Hobonichi for non-work
…and in with the new.
