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Leonardo Officina Italiana Momento Zero Hawaii

19 Friday Apr 2019

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The Momento Zero was the first pen released by Leonardo Officina Italiana under their own banner. An affordable resin pen in a number of attractive colours, all with a good level of chatoyance. Over time more resins were used and a celluloid piston filler with a gold nib also came in to being. Now a year or two down the line, with a new similarly priced model, the Furore, coming out, a number of new versions of the Momento Zero have been produced including the Hawaii, a multi-coloured pen based on a hotchpotch of previously used resins.
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Italix Parson’s Essential

07 Sunday Apr 2019

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Continuing with my cover of English pens, it’s time to look at a modern ‘oldie’ and stalwart of the industry.  The Italix Parson’s Essential from Mr. Pen.  Back when I first started going to the London, UK Fountain Pen Club about three years ago this was still a ‘must have’ pen within the community, and for good reasons as it was cheap, good value for money, and with the availability of a very large number of hand ground and tested nibs (Peter Ford from Mr. Pen being the nibmeister).  I tried one at the time, actually I tried this specific one at the time, and decided that maybe I would get one further down the line.

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OPUS 88 OMAR

22 Friday Mar 2019

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I’d been contemplating buying an OPUS 88 for a while.  It was to be a Demonstrator, or once they were first shown, a colour demonstrator.  In late January/early February this year the OMAR model was previewed and something about it grabbed me and my target purchase changed.  Roll round March and the Spring Pen Show in London, I took the opportunity to buy one from Write Here.

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PIF Kickstarter Franklin Christoph Model 31

15 Friday Mar 2019

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OK I admit it.  I’m a bit of a Franklin Christoph fanboi.  There said it.  Being the wrong side of the pond to attend US pen shows, means most of mine have been bought directly from the website, so purchases tend to be carefully thought out and I wait for specific colours, rather than just going for what is available.  However, the limited editions, in more recent times made from Jonathon Brooks acrylic rods, can grab me.   I ignored two of real interest as I had this pen lined up and all things Kickstarter take time and tend to run late.

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Wancher True Urushi Dream Pen

08 Friday Mar 2019

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On the 25th of January 2018, Wancher launched the Kickstarter project ‘The Dream Pen‘, with three options, True Ebonite, True Urushi, and True Maki-E.  The launch was accompanied by a series of very positive reviews by various bloggers and vbloggers, resulting in a heavy subscription, including from yours truly (I blame you Figboot).  A year and a bit later mine arrived and has been used for the last three weeks.

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ScriBo Feel

17 Sunday Feb 2019

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One thing Luca Baglione, CEO of Srittura Bolognese (ScriBo) is keen to point out is, while he and many of the staff came from OMAS after it’s closure, ScriBo is not a phoenix or a restart, but a new company which is built upon the DNA of the former company (along with some of the manufacturing tools).  Initially we first saw a new  pen materialise as a store specific limited edition for Write Here in Shrewsbury, UK, a new looking pen using the OMAS specified Bock nibs we saw and loved from the latter days of OMAS.  During the summer of 2018, post a couple of high end collector models, ScriBo announced a new consumer model, the Feel, which I saw at the London Writing Equipment Show.  My first impressions were captured here (note I’ve since found out the nibs are now produced by Scribo themselves using the old OMAS machinery, and not by Bock) and also in this video of myself and Penultimate Dave interviewing Luca.  There are two versions, one in the ScriBo corporate colours of blue/grey, and the other a dark blue.  Both look very smart and could be used in any business environment as well as casually. The pens are made from resin, as are those from a number of top German manufacturers, and each one is turned by hand from an individual rod.

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Powerful Signature Marine Ltd Edition

03 Sunday Feb 2019

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I first came across Rob van Nigtevecht and Powerful Signature on a UK based Facebook fountain pen group, where he posted pictures of pens he was making in various stages of creation and assembly.  In early 2018 he produced a dark blue pen with appropriate roundels on both finials to help celebrate the centenary of the RAF.  This attracted my attention and stirred me on to look at his website.  I think by then both RAF pens may already have been sold, but he also had a Marine edition, made from Conway Stewart rods which caught my eye and the rest, as they say, was history.

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