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A common question I receive from friends, family, and prospective customers is how to choose their first fountain pen. Those not familiar with fountain pens aren’t conversant with the intricacies of converters, nib sizes, line widths and inks. The length of the barrel, the cap, the manufacturing material, the size of your hand and whether you are … Read more
In the Fall of 2015 Ling and I were very happy to attend Scriptus Toronto. This wonderful fountain pen show is going a long way to bring pen enthusiasts, manufacturers, and retailers together to share their love for writing instruments and the products associated with them.Some wonder why on earth any manufacturer would want to sell fountain pens … Read more
We had the great fortune of meeting the folks from Staedtler at Scriptus Toronto last year. We chatted for a while and agreed to meet up to go through their products and see if we could bring them to Knight’s Writing Company. I’m glad to say that we will shortly be introducing the Initium range to … Read more
Here’s an email I shared with a customer just the other day. Enjoy, and hopefully you can gain some insight into Noodler’s Ink Pens that aren’t quite performing as expected:Hey Bob,Noodler’s Ink pens are ‘finicky’ I do know that, but we have not had comments regarding leaking on the pens we have sold as yet. … Read more
Oftentimes things that are ever so slightly out of the ordinary attract my attention. The dark coloured BMW of a successful businessman but with pink wheel rims. The girl walking a dog that is twice her size. A small cat chasing that same large dog the next day.And so when we received our recent shipment … Read more
I’m very happy to report that after a busy day out and about, I came into the office and found a package full of ink bottles… nothing less than Emerald of Chivor by J. Herbin!Wow oh wow! What a gorgeous ink!! I have two posts to add to the blog within the next few days but this … Read more