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Practical writing on choosing, filling and keeping a fountain pen in Australian heat and humidity, from a first Metropolitan to a demonstrator you can watch.
Fountain pens · 11 August 2024
Pilot is the brand we could put in a beginner’s hand and in a collector’s, without changing the sentence about feedback, cartridges and service. Here is the family as it actually arrives here.
Fountain pens · 3 July 2024
A clear piston you could actually afford made ink visible, capacity ordinary, and maintenance a conversation. It also taught a generation about cracks, grease and patience.
Fountain pens · 18 June 2024
Heat, salt air and a January glovebox will teach you more about feeds than any forum. This is the maintenance we used to write on the back of an Aspley receipt.
Fountain pens · 9 May 2024
Cartridge, converter, piston, vacuum and eyedropper are just ways of getting ink from a bottle into a feed. Here is how they behave in Australian heat, and which ones we trusted on the counter.
Fountain pens · 2 April 2024
Nib sizes are not international, Japanese fines are not European fines, and a stub is not a calligraphy toy. Here is how to read the stamp on the nib in an Australian shop.
Fountain pens · 12 March 2024
A first fountain pen should survive a humid bag, a supermarket refill run, and the particular impatience of someone who still has to write a form. Here is how we used to sell them from Aspley.
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