Weekly Retrospective: Monday October 1st

Old pens, new pens, and a database of pens.

• Too Many Pelikans: “September 2018 update on my fountain pen database” ✑ David goes over his impressive database of fountain pens (mostly Pelikan).

• Fountain Pen Love “Fountain Pen Shops In Paris” ✑ John was in Paris and covered the fountain pen stores that he visited in that beautiful city.

• Goulet Pens: “Galaxia, Edison Nouveau Premiere Fall 2018 Special Edition Fountain Pen” ✑ A new goulet Edison Nouveau. My favourite is still the Winter 2018 Nightfall. This one is similar to  Summer 2017 Delphinium.

• UK Fountain Pens: “A day with a Duofold” ✑ Anthony goes over the Parker Duofold International. My experience is quite similar with mine; extremely hard nib and very thin section but my nib doesn’t skip and is a very consistent writer.

• UK Fountain Pens: “The redesigned Galen Writing Box looks promising” ✑ I love the look of this Galen Writing Box and i’m glad to see that Galen are fixing the reported problems and seem to have great customer service.

• The Pencil Case Blog: “Review: Milim Fountain Pen” ✑ There are a lot of pens around like this these days but this one certainly stands out with it’s tiny inkwell!

• Wonder Pens: “How to Get Started with Daily Journaling” ✑ I’m definitely going to try and do some of this. I always want to Journal but just never get around to it!

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