With more and more people taking the plunge and making the switch from a ballpoint, rollerball or gel pen to a fountain pen, we are seeing more and more people reaching out and asking questions along the lines of “how to make a fountain pen write smoothly?” each month. It doesn’t matter if you have…
The Lamy 2000 is the flagship pen model of the Lamy range and with the pen offering excellent performance with a great build quality and one of the best writing experiences available for its price point on the market, it is not surprising that we see so many people reaching out with questions about the…
The Wacom digital drawing tablet range are absolutely dominating the landscape right now and continuously increase their market share year on year and there are no signs of this growth slowing down. With more and more people switching over to using a Wacom drawing tablet each year, we often see a number of questions relating…
There has been a huge surge in the popularity of fountain pens over the last few years with more and more people moving over from using a ballpoint, rollerball, or gel pen to using a fountain pen. As you would expect from such a huge influx in the number of people starting to use fountain…
With the Sailor 1911 being such a popular premium fountain pen, we constantly see people from the fountain pen community asking questions based around a Sailor 1911 standard vs large comparison. Although both variants of the 1911 are extremely similar, they do have some small subtle differences that can actually make a surprising difference for…
Both the Sailor 1911 and the Platinum 3776 are very popular fountain pens that fall within the intermediate price range depending on the specific variant of the pen that you purchase. With both pens being so popular and often being pitched as direct competitors to each other, we often see people reaching out and specifically…
With more and more people taking to writing for pleasure using a pen and paper, a wide range of pen types have seen a huge spike in popularity in recent months. Although in the grand scheme of things, dip pen usage is dwarfed by other pen types such as ballpoint, gel, rollerball, and fountain, we…
If you are interested in mechanical pencils for drawing, you probably know that rOtring and are the two biggest brands. Both are incredibly durable, with longstanding histories and quite a few supporters. Because of both pencil brands’ wild popularity, it can be difficult to know which one you should get. In this article, we are…
The problem with finding a decent fountain pen nowadays is the fact that there simply aren’t that many of them about. People aren’t really buying fountain pens in the same way that they did in the past. As a result, most of the options tend to be cheaper ones. Thankfully, there are still some companies…