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Montblanc JFK Navy Blue (Limited Edition)
Okay, day 2 of the Montblanc Limited Edition Week! This is another ink sent to me from Appelboom Pennen in Netherlands. The JFK ink is an interesting ink. It's a dark blue whose colors vary depending...
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Montblanc Daniel Defoe Palm Green
A year or so ago I reviewed a weird grey/green called Swift Seaweed Green. It was a Montblanc Limited Edition that I just don't like all that much. I'm happy to report that this new Limited Edition...
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Pilot Acroball
Ready for some ballpoints? You know...those things that you sometimes use when a fountain pen just won't work, or those things that you had to other people when they ask to borrow a pen? Well, some of...
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Uni-Ball Signo 307
So, I'm on a roll with non-fountain pens this week, and I have a TON of them, so I'm going to keep this rollin'.This is a new model of the popular Signo. Signo has been my favorite gel pen for a long...
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Coming soon on the blog:
Franklin-Christoph inks! Yep, they've got 6 new inks for me to show you, and they all look kinda rad. One blue/black, one blue/green, two browns, a green and a red? That's a solid collection of inks....
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Franklin-Christoph Midnight Emerald
So, as promised, here's the first of the Franklin-Christoph inks. They had some a couple of years back, but this is an all new set. Different colors, different properties. They're still made by someone...
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Franklin-Christoph Noir et Bleu
This is the second of the six Franklin Christoph inks that I have to show. This one is a deep blue-black that verges on purple. It's far darker than most blue-blacks, I think, and it doesn't tend...
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Franklin-Christoph Emerald 357
My new favorite green ink? Yep. this one is a bright, rich green that works perfectly well even on copy paper. I've not used it in a fine nib, yet, but it works really well in mediums and huges (the...
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Franklin-Christoph Red 187
I'm finishing up the inks from Franklin-Christoph this week, and two of my favorites are in this set. Today's is one of those inks.Red 187 is a straight-up red. It's not bloody and it's not dark or...
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Franklin-Christoph Dark Chocolate
Hey! A brown ink! I love brown inks. This is one of two brown inks in this collection, and it's a deep brown. Probably as deep a brown as you can get and still call it a brown. It's also...
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Franklin-Christoph Brown 732
Well, there it is. That's the last of the Franklin-Christoph inks that I have to review. (Though I hear that there are a couple more coming out in the near future.) This is one of my favorites. I love...
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The Uni-ball Air Rollerball
This is a pen that came out around the same time as the Signo 307 pens that I talked about here. It's a rollerball, but it claims to have the same kind of "Super Ink" as the 207 and 307 pens. They...
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Pelikan Edelstein Amethyst
I almost forgot about this ink! It's one that Appelboom Pennen sent me back when I reviewed the Montblanc Pink and JFK inks. I put it off when I did the others because these Ink of the Year inks are...
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Noodler's Air Corp Blue Black
This is an ink that I reviewed a long time ago. I think it was actually one of my first. I really don't want that to be the only time that I visit this ink, though, so I'm re-reviewing it now in my...
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Montblanc's Blue Hour Limited Edition
Another Montblanc Limited Edition? Yep! This one is a stand-out, too. It's a blue that's supposed to remind us of twilight, and I suppose that it does. I do know that this is an excellent ink with a...
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A visit to Anderson Pens in WI!
Hey folks! I know, I've been gone for a week or so. We were on a road-trip with the family that went from NC to TN to WI to OH and then back through TN to NC. It was a whirlwind tour, but we got to see...
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Lamy Blue (cartridge)
This is an ink that most everyone has, I bet, but I don't know if most really use it. I know I hadn't used it until just recently. We ended up with one more Lamy than we had converter, so I popped in...
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Akkerman #04 Nassaus Blauw
The first of many Akkerman inks!I was given this sample a really long time ago by Celeste from our Triangle Pen Club, and I'm only just now getting around to using it. Thanks for the sample,...
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Franklin-Christoph Model 02 Intrinsic
I've got a couple of Franklin-Christoph pens to show you this week. These are my wife's pens, so I hadn't had all that much time to use them. She left them with me this last week, though, so I've had...
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Franklin-Christoph Model 20 Marietta
As soon as I saw this pen, I knew my wife was going to have to have one of them. She uses her pens for notes, and that means sporadic cappings and uncappings. This slip-cap pen is kinda perfect for...
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