It all started one fateful evening. I was planning to head to the 2018 DC Fountain Pen Supershow and love cheesecake. Veniero’s cheesecake. If you know it…

The Namiki Yukari Royale is one of the most impressive pens I've seen to date. With a gorgeous urushi finish coating a brass body…

Some of my favorite Nakaya colors are the single-color variants, with Ama-iro leading the pack. A gorgeous shade of teal, it's stuck with me since…

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Ralph at Regalia Writing Labs is a mad genius.

Ralph sent me a Slack a few months back before his flight to New York…

Finding true Japanese urushi that's done truly well is a rarity these days and few companies do it better than Nakaya. This beauty…

Ralph of Regalia Writing Labs is a mad genius. Sitting at Golden Unicorn eating dim sum in Chinatown, Manhattan, I asked…

Montblanc's Starwalker line a line of pens I couldn't possibly imagine coming out of Montblanc. The standard Starwalker never did much for me…

Here, I'll say it. I. Love. CONID. It all started one fateful March night in 2016 when I stumbled across CONID's website and couldn't help myself. The engineering, the Bulkfiller system, the industrial profile, their logo; it…

Nakaya is a special pen company that makes some incredible pens. My first exposure to the brand was a Piccolo Writer in their now discontinued Ama-iro finish. Unfortunately for me...

Wahl-Eversharp DECOBAND Gold Seal Oversized Rosewood SUPERFLEX. That is one hell of a name for a pen.

My first experience with the Eversharp...

I'm in the middle of a love affair with Sailor's pens. I'm not and have never been a huge fan of cigar-shaped pens, nor do...