I
recently noticed that as well as this blog, our Pinterest boards were looking a little
neglected. This just wouldn’t do….
Cue revamp!
As
well as adding some of the best snaps we’ve taken in the shop, I’ve snuck in
some shots of out-of-edition Conway Stewarts, some of the Omas limited editions, as well as some pen gift recommendations for her and for him if you
were looking for some gift inspiration…
If
you have ideas for boards that you’d like to see, let me know. And of course,
if you have any of your own Pinterest boards (and especially pictures of pens, we like those) that you’d like to share!
Being primarily in the business of fountain pens, we tend to be traditionalists, but this week
we have some strange looking pens to show you. If you shut some people who had
never seen a pen before in a room and asked them to design something to write with, well… I’m still not
sure if they would have arrived at the design for PenAgain and Yoropen, at
least until the coffee had dried up for a good few days.
"Write the
Future"... I think it also came from the future
Yoropen
were founded by Mr. Bao-shen Liu, a father from Taiwan, who sought to improve
pen design and produce something more ergonomic. And to teach good writing habits to children who traditional pens might not suit. It worked, and the Yoropen has
won many international design awards for innovation including the Geneva Salon
2002 International Invention Gold Medal Award. It can be twisted to suit lefties
and righties. It is now spreading worldwide,
finding its way into classrooms, offices and homes – and into our Shrewsbury
shop.
PenAgain
The
PenAgain pen, I think is even more peculiar looking, and approaches pen design
from the other side of the board. I tried it, a just a little sceptically, and it is possible
to write with, and very strange. Here is a good demonstration of how it’s done:
Though
it looks like trying to write vertically, it’s actually quite normal when you’ve
gotten used to it. A conversation starting pen, at £8.25. The PenAgain encouranges
a healthy, natural wrist posture, and minimises writing cramp. And it’s also
good if you want to give that gnarly bit of skin on your middle finger a bit of
a break from your other pens.
Since
the Scala Piano Black, we have been waiting for what seems like forever for
some new Lamy pens to add to the shop collection. Well it turns out what they
say about buses is true about pens too – we waited for even one, and now have
three to show you. Here they are:
The
Lamy Safari Pink
Originally
Lamy released a pink Safari as a limited edition pen. They were very popular, and have been released for a second round to give more people the chance to snap one up. Available in all four writing systems. You can find them all in the Safari section of our website.
The
Al Star Blue Green
Like
the Safari, but the surface of the Lamy Al Star is cooler to the touch and also weighs a little
more. I really love this colour, more green than blue especially in this product shot, but in the hand the blue is more visible.
The
Nexx neon orange special edition.
One of the heftier Lamy pens in size, but surprisingly light. The special edition orange Lamy Nexx reminds
me of a pen from the future.
Hello!
It has been a while since we’ve posted here, but luckily one of our resolutions
for the New Year is to update you all more often…
So,
happily, the first piece of news for the new year is some good news – we have
expanded our offering of Omas pens to include speciality nibs.
For
the most discerning of writing connoisseurs, we now offer an extended selection
of nibs from Omas on many of our Arte Italiana and Limited Edition pens. We
have added:
The left-handed medium nib (OM)
Extra
flexible nibs in extra fine, fine, medium and broad.
Right
oblique broad and right oblique extra broad (OBD, OBBD)
Stub(0.9, 0.4mm)
Italico (0.8, 0.3)
52°
You
can find these lurking around on our website. Bear in mind that not all Omas pens
are available with all of these nibs. If you have a preference but not the time
to do the detective work hunting around the website, let us do the legwork by
filling out the contact form on the blog and telling us what nib you’d like, and we'll get back to you with the choices.
In-depth
blog post on speciality nibs coming up soon. In the meantime, let us know which particular nib you’d most like
to try, and if you have any questions that you'd like answered in our blog!
