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Yes, there’s another new Daiso fountain pen. A plastic barrel, cartridge-fill pen at Daiso’s typical price of $1.50, I was especially eager to try it out after the Rosso Bianco turned out to be a rebranded original Daiso fountain pen.
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The “regular” Daiso fountain pen has been in my rotation for a few years now. It’s honestly one of my favourite pens. So when Daiso added a whole tray of new fountain pens, marked at a premium of $5, I was honestly not too inclined. The other fountain pen is still available for $1.50; how much better could a $5 one be?
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Stumbled upon the Zebra Usu-Zumi grey brush pen at the Richmond Daiso. Very good pen overall, but hard to find and a little overkill for my normal uses.
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So the Ooly Splendid Pen is apparently just a repackaged version of the Monami Olika fountain pen, but the latter comes in more default color options and has an extra fine nib available in addition to the fine. The Ooly pen was impressive for the $5-6 price point and since
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I’ve wanted do some kind of “top pens” post for a while, and with Inktober just around the corner, I figure now is a great time to talk about pens for inking.
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I was up in Ballard recently to drop off copies of my new horror zine, SEARCH PARTY, at Push/Pull. Afterwards, I poked around the neighbourhood a little. Market Street is aptly named as there are tons of nice little shops lined up along it and near to it, including various
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The Ohuhu Calligraphy Brush is the first piston-fill brush pen I’ve encountered, and at $8, I figured it was a good deal even if it ended up being terrible.
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A few months ago I made an important discovery: international long and short standard ink refill cartridges fit the Daiso brand fountain pen.
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Review of the Akashiya Sai watercolor brush pen, specifically the one in mouse gray.
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As I’ve said, Kuretake’s brush pen numbering scheme really makes no sense. The Kuretake #13 is a cartridge-filled, synthetic hair brush, but the Kuretake #14 is a disposable felt tip, nevermind that Kuretake has several un-numbered lines of disposable felt tips??
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