[Pen/Pencil Review] Holiday Rerun – Mad Moravian Cigar Style Ballpoint Pen
Please forgive the rerun, not only is it the Labor Day holiday here in the US, I’ve been sick this lovely 3-day weekend. So I’m going to repost this review… Don’t go looking for this pen at your local Office Supply Chain Store or even your favorite online source. You won’t find it. In fact, […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The Office Depot Multi-Function Pen
This week’s pen review is on a more gimmicky, but useful thing. Office Depot has a store brand “multi-pen” in their back-to-school section. I picked one up on sale, and it’s not bad. For what it is. This multi-pen isn’t the standard 3 or 4 color pen like BIC makes. This one does have a […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The Staples Strata Liquid Rollerball 0.5mm in Blue Ink
Today’s pen is the Staples Strata 0.5mm rollerball with blue ink. Strata is Staples’s “house” brand of pen. It’s a fairly typical, disposable rollerball, but has something last week’s pen didn’t, a “true” 0.5mm point feel. The Strata is 5.5″ long capped and just at 6″ with the cap posted. It has a slightly squishy […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The Schneider Xtra Document 0.6mm Rollerball in Black Ink
My favorite, local Office Depot is moving to another spot in its shopping center. In anticipation of this, they’re having Moving Sales. Which means I can buy random stuff to review for cheaper than I would normally–and makes me almost as happy as Back-to-School sales. One of the pens I bought to test out that […]
[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 Platinum Preppy Fountain Pen — Rerun
Because I’m hitting conventions hard this month (SoonerCon is over, ApolloCon Looms), I’m going to rerun a couple of early pen reviews – yes, the ones from way before I came up with a system. Also… a challenge has been thrown by author, Lou Antonelli, to find The BIC BRIO fine point (orange/yellow) barrel GREEN […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The MonAmi Essenti Soft Highlighter in Evergreen from JetPens.Com
Apparently I totally spaced on the fact I signed up for another random sample giveaway at Jetpens.com–until I pulled a package out of my mailbox on Friday. That was a nice surprise. This time JetPens sent me the Essenti Soft Highlighter in Evergreen by MonAmi. I’ve never reviewed a highlighter before, so this is going […]
[Pen/Pencil Post] The Pentel Hybrid Technica 0.3 mm in Black
This week, I’m reviewing the Pentel Hybrid Technica 0.3mm gel ink pen in black. I found this pen at both Hobby Lobby and Asel Art Supply. I’ll probably buy more of these pens at Asel Art Supply because they ran a little bit cheaper because they were “loose” and not in Pentel packaging. They’re also […]
[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 Stabilo Bionic Worker – Medium Point – Blue Ink
This week’s pen is the Stabilo Bionic Worker in the Medium Point. This was on my JetPens wish list and given to me for my birthday. This was a pen I wanted to check out but had to wait until they became available on JetPens. I haven’t found them in any US stores yet-they’re still […]