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.
In Europe Staedtler stationery is a familiar and regular special buy at Lidl, a discount supermarket chain.
I’m happy to see that Staedtler stationery is now also available at their competitor Aldi, a similar and probably better known discount supermarket chain. I don’t remember seeing Staedtler products at Aldi UK before.
It’s of course no wonder that all the pencils where sold out when I saw the Staedtler stationery. There were only a few erasers left.
If you’re in the UK you might be interested in Lidl’s recent offers, including eraser tipped coloured pencils from Staedtler.
I didn’t buy them, but will probably go back to get a pack. They might be quite useful as I use coloured pencils for writing in notebooks I use at work.
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.
The video for the Kaweco Special 0.5 Push Pencil Black has been added to my YouTube channel in April, so it’s high time to follow with the blog post for this nice mechanical pencil.
All the useful bits of information about this pencil can be found in the video itself, where I had a look at the 0.5mm version. There is also a 0.7 mm, a 0.9 mm and a 2 mm version.
I only cover the black aluminium version, but there is also a brass version.
While the body is made from aluminium, the front section seems tobe made from plastic. It does look pretty sturdy, though.
The pencil doesn’t come with the clip. If you like the clip you have to order it separately.
Compared to other mechanical pencils I reviewed recently the Kaweco Special has a larger diameter (so is furthest right in the chart below).
Compared to a selection of other mechanical pencils the Kaweco Special has the largest body diameter
There is no ‘dedicated grip section’, it’s just the front of the body, so this pencil is again leading the pack in terms of diameter.
Compared to a selection of other mechanical pencils the Kaweco Special has the largest grip diameter
The actual mechanism in the Special is from Japan and does contain plastic parts, but seems quite sturdy and should last many decades.