Paperchase Olive Metal Tiffin Box - Agenzio

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Perhaps it was partly out of nostalgia, as well as being a bargain, but in January 2019, I found myself again in John Lewis Brent Cross where I bought a new Expert in light blue with a shiny chrome cap. The only caveat is that with 29 rows to the page, you are a couple of days short of a month (or a few sandwiches short of a picnic) but you could add an extra row at the top and another at the bottom of the page, if this is your chosen use. This niggles at me occasionally, as being wasteful, rather like having a car parked outside but not driving it. For larger, A5 journals, Paperchase once sold journals with bonded black leather covers, with 384 pages of smooth, lined paper, with a generous 10mm row height. I then cut out a small wedge shape, like a piece of pizza, then drew the sides together so that the disc was pulled into a cone.

A sheet of rubbery material, sometimes sold to help unscrew jars, but which can be useful when pulling out a friction-fit nib and feed from a section, for cleaning or maintenance. The problem I soon found was that it was difficult to avoid reflections of all of these LEDs in the pens.A short glide down on the escalator and you enter a world of Montegrappas, Graf, Caran d’Ache and other exotica.

However it is bleed-through that renders a paper unsuitable for double-sided writing with a fountain pen.

This was no hardship and I anticipate that most fountain pen enthusiasts can find several combinations that work well from their own selections. A Slice of Green is designed and distributed by Green Pioneer Ltd who are based in the middle of beautiful countryside in Wiltshire, UK. I had one which got ruined by absorbing the black dye from a pen case, but recently I bought a replacement, tempted by a 25% discount in Rymans. All performed beautifully on the silky smooth paper with no bleed through and very minimal show through.

I thought that it would be good to drill out the acrylic cap, just by about half a millimetre to get a little more headroom for my new nib. Under the tray is the booklet, comprising the instructions for use, care guide and guarantee (two years against any defective materials and workmanship). I should point out that the fifteen inked pens at home is not quite the end of the story and that I counted a further four fountain pens in my pen cup at work.Mine range from zippered faux-leather cases holding 24 pens to leather pouches to carry one, two or three pens. But what is so touching is the fact that it was an unexpected gift picked out for me at the Tokyo National Museum, by Yoshino, a charming Japanese music student in London, whose parents have been friends of our family for many years. A handy “eye-dropper” type device to transfer ink from a bottle, directly into the barrel of an eye-dropper pen. Admittedly I have filled far more pages with idle paragraphs of pen and ink sampling from the back, than I have with any meaningful writing from the front, but then it has been a source of recreation, reached for often when tired from the working day and in need of some pen-time escapism, writing simply for the joy of using a fountain pen on nice quality paper and seeing paragraphs of handwriting from different pens, nibs, and inks and in different writing styles.

Great for small product photography such as pens, at any time of day or night when you need a stable light source for photos. Whilst my needs are more than satisfied by what I have on the table right now, I expect to be there and will probably be tempted by something. One of the first things to be done of course when trying a new notebook, is to test the paper for fountain pen ink.It has a marbled or variegated pattern which looks very pretty as you turn it in your hand to see the different tones. It turns out that the nearby Shendish Manor had belonged to John Dickinson’s business partner Charles Longman, who in 1853 bought the Shendish estate on the western side of the valley in Apsley and built the house there in 1854-56. There is a ribbon bookmark, an expanding pocket in the back cover, an elastic closer, and three sheets of sticker symbols which can be used in the diary, or elsewhere. Whilst browsing, and after circling the racks of roller-balls and fine-liners to check out the fountain pens (mostly Lamy, Parker and Sheaffer), I ventured on to the shelves of journals.