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Ink Drop Soup: The Curious Case of the Moldy Sheaffer
This story begins the slow summer of my first job, when I and my lab-mates tackled the task of cleaning up the lab and discovered, tucked away abandoned in a drawer, a few old Sheaffers that probably...
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Ink Drop Soup: Pen Chalet Giveaway!
A giveaway that I don’t have to run??? Yes, awesome, sign me up and sign you up, too. The folks at Pen Chalet are having a gift card giveaway which you can enter here. They’re also offering a 10%...
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Ink Drop Soup: Someone Buy Me One (HMM RULE/ONE Kickstarter)
This Kickstarter for the HMM RULE/ONE is so close to almost funded with six days to go…and it looks so sweet…look at it! It’s magnet close (a feature that was added thanks to backer feedback), and the...
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Ink Drop Soup: Shout out to Michigan!
If you follow my Twitter, you’d have pieced together that I recently visited Michigan. For those of you not familiar with Michigan, it is a state made up of two landmasses (one shaped like a mitten,...
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Ink Drop Soup: The Raleigh Pen Show
Another great pen show was had! It only took me, uh, about a couple months to remember to write about it? Even though I was only able to make it for Friday and Saturday, I saw lots of cool pens, talked...
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Ink Drop Soup: The Terror & Triumph of the Bent Nib
I don’t know what happened. I don’t know how it happened. Wednesday, my Pilot Vanishing Point M nib was completely normal. Friday, I clicked the plunger and the nib came out looking like this: You will...
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Ink Drop Soup: CursiveLogic
Most Kickstarter projects, at their heart, are a delightfully selfish proposition. I give you money, but you give me a sweet pen, which I will then lord over everyone else in my day-to-day activities....
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Ink Drop Soup: A Couple More Kickstarters
Everywhere, all the time, Kickstarters! I have a few Kickstarterized pens in the wings waiting to be reviewed, but in the meantime, here are a couple more new Kickstarter pens you can choose to throw...
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Ink Drop Soup: More Pens to Throw Money At
Two new crowdfunding pens to throw on your radar. Will you risk your hard-earned moneydollars? PERHAPS! First up, the WINKpen. It’s got nine days left and still about $17,000 to go, so I’m starting to...
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Ink Drop Soup: Did I Mention the Instagram?
Last DC Pen Show it was brought to my attention that all the cool kids were on Instagram. I promptly went to sign up, realized someone stole my handle before I could sign up, then re-realized the...
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