Posts by Tim Hofmann
New Pen Day!
From Pierre over at Desiderata… the BAMF.
Read MoreI like these TWSBI 5X0 Fountain Pens.
I like the TWSBI pens. I think TWSBI is a cool company that’s been doing a very good job designing really nice pens that many of the times outperform European pens that cost over twice as much, and sometimes a lot more. So the pen currently known as the 580 started life as the 530…
Read More2018 Annual Review Rundown…
Sometimes I talk about the annual review process in December. Tis the season and all. It’s a decent way to mark the years, plus I personally click over another year in December so there ya go. So this week it’s time to sit down with a dedicated notebook and a pile of freshly-inked pens and…
Read MoreA Pen Review: Penlux Big Ebonite with Regalia Crossflex Nib!
This Penlux was a surprise (to me) purchase at the 2018 DC Pen Show. It was Sunday and we were leaving later that day to head back to Ohio after a very long vacation that started with a drive to Manhattan (we got there at rush hour) and included a week in South Jersey hanging…
Read MoreCurrently Inked!
Reviews for many of these pens are forthcoming… Hit me if you’d like to see anything in particular!
Read MoreI like this Kaweco Special Fountain Pen.
Kaweco Special W/Crispy BB Italic This one is narrow and fun. I like lots of these Kaweco pens, and this one is super cool. It’s metal (brass I b’lieve) with a black anodized finish. I picked this up used for fifty bucks or so and it’s a happy purchase. First things first: it’s knurled near…
Read MoreA Pen I like: Omas 360 Review
Omas 360, White, F nib Here’s a pen I came by quite by accident. Back in 2014 I bought a guy’s entire collection, not quite knowing what I was getting into. I thought it was going to be about 50 pens, but it was well over a hundred- there were a lot of really nice…
Read More2018 Ohio Pen Show Recap and Conclusions: Day 4, Sunday
Day Four: Sunday By Sunday, everybody’s tired. We’d had an extra hour of sleep or whatever with the time change. I’d gotten up around the same time as usual, and read a book with muh kids before heading in to work. I did much the same routine as I did Saturday, hitting the donutland to…
Read More2018 Ohio Pen Show Recap– Day 3, Saturday.
Day Three: Saturday Saturday was a doozy! I got up on time and headed in to the Donutland to get muh stuff together for the show. I brewed a pot of coffee to give myself a headstart on brewing at the ‘otel, grabbed the donuts and drove to the Crowne Plaza. Once there I started…
Read More2018 Ohio Pen Show Recap– Day 2, Friday.
Day Two: Friday Friday I got up, not singing the Hot Cheetohs song. You can’t really sing that song every morning. I went in to the shop and started gathering the things I’d need to serve coffee to the peoples of the Pen Show, who generally speaking like coffee quite a bit, and are glad…
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