Author: Charlie Rufus

For a while now I have been interested in a Pelikan fountain pen; I tried the Stola but was not very impressed, too many hard starts and skips for my liking. I may go back to it one day but it’s not on my ‘to do’ list at the present time. A word of advice if you are thinking of a Stola; make sure you by the boxed version and not the one packaged in a plastic tube, mine came in the tube and the plastic clip employed to secure the pen had marked the surface of the pen, so buy boxed versions only. Continue reading “Pelikan M205 Clear Demonstrator” →

Somewhere around the beginning of April I decided my notebook collection need an upgrade (this also led to the purchase of the Mulberry Traveller) as I had noticed that life in my bags/pockets was hard on pocket notebooks and that the covers started to give up way before I had finished the notebook. Continue reading “Pocket Notebook Cover By Pilgrim Leathercraft” →

For anyone not familiar with Tiger stores (flyingtiger.com) they are an absolute joy to visit; they are bright, colourful and full of the everyday and the unusual but all of it is fun. All of the stores I have visited have a route that you follow to ensure you get to see everything they have to offer, and the stock changes quite regularly so for an infrequent visitor, like me, there is always something new to see. Continue reading “A Trip To The Tiger Store” →

For a long time, I have looked at the ‘Traveller’ notebooks both the original Midori and those inspired by them; but what annoyed me about them, especially the Midori, is that once you jump down the rabbit hole and commit you are tied in to bespoke refills which tend to be more expensive than standard sizes. Continue reading “The Mulberry Pocket Traveller” →

 

Ok so this isn’t one of the biggest selling albums of all time, incidentally Back In Black is the best of the biggest selling albums; what it is, is a very very nice black fountain pen made by the lovely people at PenBBS. Continue reading “Back In Black – The PenBBS 349” →

This was a pen I came across a while ago whilst looking to increase my collection of demonstrator pens but at the time it wasn’t a make I’d heard of and it seemed quite expensive compared to other pens from China, so I took a rain check on it. Continue reading “The PenBBS 323 – A Truly Unique Pen” →

As I said in an earlier post I seem to be veering towards a sub collection of metal pens, particularly brass pens, so it was no surprise when I saw the PenBBS 350 that the moment they came back into stock I ordered one. Continue reading “The PenBBS 350 – An Affordable Brass Pen” →

 

Some time ago when I was considering buying some pen blanks I came across The Turners Workshop and browsing the site I found they stock a range of pen storage solutions; however, the five pen leather pen roll, by The Northumbrian Pen Company, caught my eye. I didn’t buy one at the time but filed away a mental note to go back one day and have a second look at this pen roll. Continue reading “The Northumbrian Pen Company – Pen Roll For Five Pens” →