[Pen/Pencil Review] The Cross Contour Ballpoint Pen
This week’s pen blog is one of the pens I got received for Christmas, the Cross Contour in the Satin Chrome finish. This pen is lovely. The body has the satin finish. The top and clip are shiny chrome. The base of the pen is chrome with black rubber grips. It’s a ball point with […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] A Halloween Broomstick Novelty Ballpoint Pen – black ink
This Halloween Season, I’m featuring a novelty pen I found at Walgreens. This one is a “Broom Penâ€. It’s a plastic body that looks like wood with the old fashioned broom end. It called to me from the seasonal aisle. This inexpensive pen is too much fun. For a ballpoint, it actually writes pretty well. […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The UT Tyler Library Giveaway Ergonomic Retractable BallPoint Pen
This past weekend, I participated in The East Texas Book Festival. I’ll be talking more about that on Wednesday, but in the goodie bag they gave everyone was a promotional pen from the major sponsor, UT Tyler Library. I don’t even know what to call this thing to find it online. If anyone comes up […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The Bic Cristal Classic Bold 1.6mm Ballpoint Pen
I know I’ve complained loudly about pen manufactures (BIC and Papermate, I’m looking at you) defaulting to larger and larger ballpoint sizes. I’ve been quite vocal about my love of fine points. But to be fair, I hadn’t actually used one of the “new” 1.6mm “Bold” points. I needed to give them a try. So […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The BIC Biro Fine Point Easy Glide in Blue Ink
Seriously, I wish the BIC Biro Easy Glide fine point (or any BIC fine point) ball point pens were available in the US. They would be one of my every day, always have one on me, pens. I’m constantly frustrated that BIC and Papermate and other manufacturers have arbitrarily decided the default pen point is […]
[Pen/Pencil Revew] Blue Timber Wood Studios Cigar Style Artisan Pen
This week’s pen blog begins with an announcement, then a review of a pen I’ll not get to use again until July… what a way to start a week. The announcement: This weekend, I received an email from Pen World Magazine. They liked an essay I submitted to them, and if I agreed to the […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The TomBow Airpress Ballpoint Pen 0.7mm – Green Body
I picked up a TomBow Airpress 0.7mm ballpoint pen from JetPens to give it a try. The selling point on this pen is to give it a run for the money to a Space Pen. It’s also a true (in my mind) medium point ballpoint pen – 0.7mm – which most pen companies have now […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The Monteverde One Touch Ballpoint Pen
Back in September of 2011, I hit up the Dallas Pen Show for a whopping two hours. I would’ve spent a lot more time there if it weren’t for the fact that it was (and will be) the same weekend as FenCon -which takes over my life (in a good way). However, in my limited […]
[Pen Review] The PaperMate InkJoy White Barrell/Red Ink – Some Holiday Joy(ish)
Since it’s Christmas, I thought I’d continue (sort of) the holiday theme with pens (sort of). This week I’m taking a look at the PaperMate InkJoy 700 RT 1.0mm ball point pen – silver and white body with red ink. And there would be your holiday connection. The white body InkJoy retractable pen is pretty […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The UNI Jetstream Premier 1.0 mm Ballpoint
Last week we were graced with an Office Depot reward certificate, which meant I was given about $27 with which to buy some new writing instruments to review. I’m starting with a UNI-ball Jetstream Premier. The UNI Jetstream Premier is a retractable ballpoint 1.0 mm pen. It runs 5.5″ long with a slick clip and […]