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Top three grinds in 2024

I sold a pen: an ode to a vintage Parker Vacumatic

The Addams Family of pens aka my top spooky pens

State of the collection: a thought, and which pens to save in a natural disaster

Pelikan Hub 2024

Van Dieman’s Prickly Pear Dupe: the experiment

Pen and ink review: Sailor Manyo series #3

Pen Review: Darailz Pens Naomi

2024 Orlando Pen Show recap

A scientific comparison of filling mechanisms

Frankenpens: the good, the baddies, and the hecking awesome

Pen review: Ensso Bolt Fountain Pen

Pen review: Golem Pens Spindle

Does size really matter? A scientific comparison of #5, #6, and #8 nibs (part 1)

If fountain pens were coffee

I used my wife’s favorite pen so you don’t have to

What your favorite ink bottle says about you

Red, White, and Avengers Blue: 3d Printed Fountain Pen

Disposable fountain pens don’t exist

Hot pen summer: Penbbs 309 Hawaii

Triangle Pen Show haul

Triangle Pen Show checklist

Bed, Wed, or Behead: fountain pen edition

Conklin Nighthawk Carbon Fiber: forgotten… or just forgettable?

Space Pen? Space pen! Benu Astrogem Midas

The three impulsive buys I want to hate

On a less positive note: burnout (not the house this time I promise)

Fountain pen review: 4th Kind Pens Lava (honey spoon)

Mystery pen reveal (and review): @idipbananasintocoffee’s very own Bananas and Coffee Pen

The five* pens I would save from a house fire

Hot take: Van Dieman’s Prickly Pear is better than Lamy Dark Lilac

If a fountain pen could be the mysterious, attractive stranger in the spring…

Pen review: BENU Talisman aka lucky charms and pen spotlights

Pen review: Zodiac Pen Co Capricorn

Birthday pens? TWSBI ECOs?! Pen review?!?

Pen review: Pilot Custom 91 in SFM, the best intro to gold nibs

Pen review: Retro 51 P-51 Mustang

FP 101: Converters are for cool kids

I am just three addictions in a trench coat

Top 10.67 inks I would recommend as the absolute expert on inks, bar none

Top four* pens I have never inked

Fountain pen resolutions for 2024

Pen review: Drewnem Pisane Orion — Zlatibor

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