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The Pelikan Souverän M805 Review
To tell you the truth, I am heavily biased towards two of my pelicans - one is a M400 white tortoise, other is the blue striated M805. The M8XX usually considered to be the logical next step to...
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The Sailor Pro Gear with a Naginata Togi Nib
PRELUDEWhat would be the one Sailor pen within my budget, which I could keep even if I am letting go of all the other Sailors? Having not quite a smooth experience with a few Sailor nibs, I decided...
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A Montblanc Meisterstück 149 in Red Gold
PRELUDEI was looking to gift my dad with a Montblanc pen for a long time. And it had to be a new one. Personally, I had bought a pre-owned MB 146 (the only pre-owned in my small collection), and I am...
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A Review of Namiki Emperor in Vermillion Urushi
Dazzled by the resplendent allure of a Japanese ED (with the concept of a shut-off valve mechanism), the lust for an urushi lacquered pen vis-a-vis plain ebonite ones (seemingly susceptible to lose...
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The Platinum #3776 Century Review
The #3776 is a marvellous piece of writing instrument that any passionate fountain pen lover would consider absolutely essential, for building up a collection. Sometimes, it’s one of the top five must...
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The Pelikan Souverän M1000 Review
As most of you would know, Pelikan is a 180 year old maker of fountain pens and paraphernalia. It had launched its first fountain pen in 1929. Prior to that Pelikan manufactured dyes, inks and...
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The Traveler’s Notebook (Passport) Review
A year of travel with my regular brown MTN (Midori Traveler’s Notebook) has gone by and I could not resist an urge to get another, this time perhaps a more portable one. Not the ultra portable (thumb...
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Review of a TWSBI VAC 700 with a VAC 20 Travel Inkwell
Over time, I observed that the 580 did not find much use, primarily because my writing preferences have graduated towards softer and larger nibs along with time. So here comes the saviour from TWSBI -...
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MOD FOR TWSBI VAC 700 - BOCK#6 TITAN (Ti) NIB
This is an addendum to a more elaborate review of the TWSBI VAC700 fountain pen with a stock nib. You can find the VAC700 along with the VAC20 Inkwell reviewed here. Perhaps like many...
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The Visconti Homo Sapiens Florentine Hills Review
THE HOMO SAPIENS In late 2009, Florence-based luxury pen maker Visconti announced in a press-release covering a nib made of 95% Palladium (23k) alloy. Commonly available nibs are 14k/18k/21k Gold alloy...
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A Review of Namiki Yukari Royale in Vermillion(Red) Urushi
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Sailor Jentle Sky High Ink (Old) Review
Sailor, as most of you are aware is one of the Big 3 companies in Japanese fountain pen industry. Apart from some great nibs, Sailor does manufacture some amazing inks. Probably, Sailor is the only...
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Montblanc Toffee Brown Ink Review
Montblanc Toffee Brown (Ident No: U0105188) is one of my favourite dark inks. It was added as part of the MB ink collection in 2010, when Montblanc launched eight colours (Burgundy Red, Irish Green,...
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rOtring Rapid PRO BP Review
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Review of the Cross Peerless 125 Tokyo Edition
PRELUDE Plurality of singularities Among many other fountain pen lovers, I do retain a high level of adoration for the way the Sailor nibs look, aren’t they just beautiful? Paradoxically enough, there...
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A review of the Wahl Eversharp Decoband in rosewood
PRELUDEThe search for a delectable nibAfter a brief hiatus from fountain pens, and a seemingly eternal interlude from reviewing pens, I was somehow on a lookout of a novel pen, which harnessed the...
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A Spanish sail with a Moroccan excursion
MUMBAI – DELHI – MADRID – RABAT – MADRID – DELHI – MUMBAIThe trip to Spain & Morocco was a long awaited one for both of us. Especially since it was a year, when we had gone out for a holiday...
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Panchu Pandava Caves @ Bhubaneswar
T-1500 years into the valour of the last Dwapara A chance discovery yesterday, led us to a rather impromptu visit to Panchu Pandava Caves today. It's located in Old Bhubaneswar, Odisha not far off from...
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A Review of the Montblanc M in Red
PRELUDEIn the search of suitable replacements for a Meisterstuck Doue FP 145My meticulously planned fountain pen hiatuses are occasionally disrupted by the well-meaning members of my family. Instead of...
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A Review of the Conid Minimalistica
PRELUDEAn Intrigue with Scarcity MarketingThere are some days in life when scarcity marketing absolutely triumphs over our emotions, and this was one of those days where all my rationality seemed to...
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Pursuit of an almost elusive Pilot Bamboo
PRELUDEA sharp twist in the clipThis is going to be an unrated review in addition to an eulogy for one of my beloved blue Pilot Bamboo pens, which met its ultimate demise at the hands of an evil FedEx...
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Review of the SCRIBO Feel Melograno : My search for an Omas-worthy nib
PRELUDECompensating for missing out on an Omas Extra Flessible nibI managed to snag an Omas Arte Italiana Vision fountain pen back in 2015 when Omas was still around. The Art Vision in green/emerald...
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A utilitarian review of a few pen cases
PRELUDEA search loop for the perfect ONE and then the more perfect OTHERWith great fountain pens comes an even greater responsibility of carrying them around in this mortal world, where inadvertent...
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A quick preview of Kyuseido Kakari with double-stack reverse tousen grind
FIRST IMPRESSIONSI finally got my hands on the almost famous Kyuseido Kakari. I chose the double stack nib, because I was enamoured by the idea of regular writing, and partly because I was fascinated...
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Pursuit of an almost elusive Omas 360
PRELUDEThe never ending search of NOS Omas-esMy love with Omas began with a dodecagonal (12-faceted) Omas Vision back in 2015. Like a fleeting teenage romance, it turned out to be as ephemeral as it...
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