29 Friday Nov 2024
OK I admit I am starting this piece with a guilt trip. Mid this year Ben of Gravitas Pens was indicating he had a new piston filler on the way and chatting with him it sounded like it was due out early October, before the London Pen Show so I asked if I could borrow one for review …
Continue reading05 Friday Jul 2024
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The Gravitas Quark fountain pen has been out for a while and as I have heard good things about it, when this Ultem® one unexpectedly arrived with my Dinkey who was I to object. It is presently it is the smallest pen (capped) in the Gravitas range, though for how long we shall see as we know Ben Walsh likes a design challenge.
Continue reading07 Friday Jun 2024
Ben Walsh loves designing new models and also seems to have a thing for pocket pens as he has just released his fourth, the Dinkey, following on from the Pocket Pen, the Pocket Dropper, and the Quark. Over the last few months a few have already become available in limited numbers and I have managed to get my hands on one to test.
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I think most of you will know about this by now, but for those of you who do not, Ben Walsh of Gravitas Pens has gone in to partnership with Pen Venture, where Emy and his team will now deal with orders and communications.
Continue reading19 Friday Jan 2024
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It could be argued that Ben Walsh has taken the fountain pen world by storm with his takes on materials, finishes, engineering and experimentation. How many of us would normally eschew the bright and the bling yet now possess a skittles finished pen. His experiments with concrete failed, yet this has not stopped him and we have now have his take on the bulk and vac fillers. It is the latter I review here.
Continue reading28 Monday Jun 2021
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Shiny rainbow colours have always appealed to me. Be it looking through the coloured cellophane outer wrappers of Quality Street as a kid, Cokin coloured diffuser filter sheets (082A) (see pictures at the end) when I was experimenting with photography as a student, the TWSBI VAC 700R Iris from a few months back, and now the Gravitas Skittle. To be honest the first time I saw a picture of Ben Walsh’s multicoloured creation I felt the pangs of want. The inner Gollum in me whispered ‘my precious’. Sure it was available in both matt and shiny forms, but to me those rainbow colours must cry out loud, not stay muted. Just a shame he sold out quickly. Very quickly.
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