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The Dormouse’s Desk
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Registrace 24. 08. 2006
Peaceful explorations of all things stationery.
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P.O. Box 2014
Garner, NC 27527
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P.O. Box 2014
Garner, NC 27527
2024 Triangle Pen Show Haul and Takeaways
In this video I'm sharing the things I've picked up at the Triangle Pen Show as well as how I felt it went.
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The Dormouse's Desk
PO Box 2014
Garner, NC 27529
If you'd like to support the channel I have products up on Etsy- Postcards and Ink Vial Labels-
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Check out The Write Stuff- www.thewritestuffonline.net for cute stationery, tees, pins, and tapes.
Be sure to visit @inkdependence and @FYC_Toni
Follow me on instagram- @thedormousesdesk
Send me snail mail-
The Dormouse's Desk
PO Box 2014
Garner, NC 27529
If you'd like to support the channel I have products up on Etsy- Postcards and Ink Vial Labels-
www.etsy.com/shop/thedormousesdesk
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NEW PEN DAY! Kaweco Piston Sport unboxing and 1st inking.
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If you're excited about the new Kaweco Piston Sport, then this video is for you! I'm excited too! Today we're unboxing my first order from Stilo e Stile, doing comparisons to other Kaweco sports and inking the pen up! Das is sehr spannend! Follow me on instagram- @thedormousesdesk Send me snail mail- The Dormouse's Desk PO Box 2014 Garner, NC 27529 If you'd like to support the channel I have pr...
2024 Hobonichi Weeks Update- Can you use it for school?
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Is the Hobonichi weeks useful for school? In this video I describe my experience and set up for using this planner this school term. Products in this video: Weeks- Tomitaro Makino: Shihai Sumire Bookband for Weeks- white Pencil Board for Weeks- Tomitaro Makino Mini Banana Hammer DX (I call it the bananahama). Be sure to follow me on Instagram @thedormousesdesk You can support the channel by vis...
New Pens! Twsbi, Benu & Leonardo
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I'm back, if not just momentarily- I missed ya'll and felt the need to prattle on for a while about a few pens that have excited me recently. ✒️ Pens in this video: Twsbi Eco Cream and Rose Gold Twsbi Eco Navy and Bronze Benu x Pen Addict Anniversary Euphoria Leonardo Momento Zero Grand 2.0 - Universe Follow me on instagram- @thedormousesdesk Send me snail mail- The Dormouse's Desk PO Box 2014 ...
My Hobonichi Setup and Prep for 2024- plus a side project
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This is an odd one. Today we're cleaning our leather Hobonichi cover, making an insert for page flags, and putting together our setup for 2024. Items here- Leather Honey leather cleaner and conditioner. Hobonichi Cousin A5 Galen Leather Slim A5 cover Oli Clips- Small and Large sized Hobonichi A5 notebook Midori Book Band and Pen holder Midori Page Clips J Herbin Blotting pages Go visit- @ChrisS...
Looking back through my Hobonichi Cousin '23- What worked and what didn't!
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Taking a flip through my planner set up. Items here- Hobonichi Cousin A5 Galen Leather Slim A5 cover Oli Clips- Small and Large sized Hobonichi A5 notebook Midori Book Band and Pen holder Midori Page Clips J Herbin Blotting pages Go visit- @ChrisSaenz13 @lakehousetarot7102 Follow me on instagram- @thedormousesdesk Send me snail mail- The Dormouse's Desk PO Box 2014 Garner, NC 27529 If you'd lik...
Currently Inked & Chat- Plus a Lookback! October 2023
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Currently Inked & Chat- Plus a Lookback! October 2023
Ink Flight October 2023- Unboxing & Swatching
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Ink Flight October 2023- Unboxing & Swatching
Currently Inked & Chat- September 2023
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Currently Inked & Chat- September 2023
SPOILERS: Ink Flight August 2023- Unboxing & Swatching
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SPOILERS: Ink Flight August 2023- Unboxing & Swatching
Vintage Fountain Pen's first inking- Chatty
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Vintage Fountain Pen's first inking- Chatty
Ink Flight June 2023- Unboxing & Swatching
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Ink Flight June 2023- Unboxing & Swatching
Ink Flight May 2023- Unboxing & Swatching
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Ink Flight May 2023- Unboxing & Swatching
New Stamps + New inks + New Technique= Fun
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New Stamps New inks New Technique= Fun
Ink Swatching- Vanness & Friends- TMKR, 3 Oysters, Kobe, Colorverse, Diamine, & Robert Oster
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Ink Swatching- Vanness & Friends- TMKR, 3 Oysters, Kobe, Colorverse, Diamine, & Robert Oster
Currently Inked & Chat March '23, the GugimFolio & #8penquestions
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Currently Inked & Chat March '23, the GugimFolio & #8penquestions
Ink Exploration- Robert Oster- Thunderstorm
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Ink Exploration- Robert Oster- Thunderstorm
Swatching Inks from Friends-TMKR, Montblanc, Sailor, & l'Artisan Pastillier
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Swatching Inks from Friends-TMKR, Montblanc, Sailor, & l'Artisan Pastillier
Ink Exploration- Wearingeul- The Song of Reed
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Ink Exploration- Wearingeul- The Song of Reed
Currently Inked & Chat- New Product! January 2023
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Currently Inked & Chat- New Product! January 2023
Ink Flight January 2023 Unboxing and Swatching
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Ink Flight January 2023 Unboxing and Swatching
Your nails match your notebook so well!
And your Little pen too!
I love it. It is the best sport. Writes smooth. Feels and Look great. Fantastic quality and work. Bought two. One for me and one for my son's high school graduation. Thank you for your review
Thank you!
I was there as well. Great show!!
Loved your haul! Thank you so much for the shoutout 😊🖋
Thank you! It was so nice to meet you.
What grinds do you have on your Pelikans? I have a medium nib that I need to get tweaked because it's just too broad for me.
I have a cursive italic and an architect. My other m400 is vintage with a bit of flex.
@@TheDormousesDesk Nice! Do you have a favorite? I know people say that the cursive italic is hard to write with, but I love the way people's penmanship look with that grind.
I don’t think Kirk Spear is capable of selling a poorly performing nib. I purchased two pens at the Triangle Pen Show. An Artcraft Celtic Dragon from Kirk. The tactile feel of this pen is fantastic, and the John, the maker of the pen, is very responsive and easy to work with. I also bought a beautiful Red & Black Ebonite pen from DarailPenz. Nice haul.
Nice! I had chatted with him a bit about the mini Wancher and asked if he tuned it, and he said he doesn’t. They’re just that good out of the box. My Nahvalur I bought from him also has a great nib. So I think you may be onto something.
I was actually at this show! It was so much fun! Thanks for sharing :)
I need to find a better way of telling folks I’m there, but I’m just so shy. 🙈
Great products. I love nahvalur pens.
This is my first one! I like it so far.
What a fun haul!!!! The cat and wave stationery and pin are so cool...and you tiny mini pen!!!!❤😂 I'm glad you got to enjoy the pen show and get some goodies!!!
I’m hoping the paper holds up under FPs. It was a really nice show this year. I hope you can get to one yourself. It’s so nice to be able to hold the pens before you buy.
Great haul! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching! It was a fun show.
Nice haul! Love going to pen shows, I can see all the pens!
It’s so much better to be able to handle them in person. Especially if you’re not sure if it’ll fit your hand.
OMG I love this! What a fun pen show! I am very enabled with your stationery purchases, and so glad you got nib time with Kirk. What a bummer about the Pelikan, but I’m so excited about your oblique grind on the Kaweco. I have a couple of oblique nibs and I definitely need to explore them further. I have one of the F-C pocket notebook covers and they are so well made. I hope your husband loves it. That tiny pen is awesome, and I love your Little Pen Designs pen. Totally gorgeous! And your labels! I need to check my stock. 😹 Thank you so much for sharing! 🤘🏼😸🧡🖋
Pen shows are the best! Yeah, I’ve been trying to force myself to love that Pelikan, but I think it’s time to pass it along to someone it’ll work for. That oblique is so pleasant. Actually, I’m going to go clean out Kirk’s ink and ink it right now!
Thank you for sharing your experience. I hope to make it to a pen show one of these days 😊 Take care and have a good week!
Pen shows are so much fun. I hope you can make it to one too!
Yay! I’m excited to hear about your experience at the show!
I had a good time this year!
Gorgeous! I’m a “regular” watercolorist but have never tried ink art. I am also a fountain pen enthusiast and use them for both writing and sketching. I actually live within an easy drive to Thoreau’s Walden Pond and have walked around it. What dilution of bleach water do you use? You don’t seem to worry about leaving it on the paper.
How neat to live near Walden Pond! For bleach water, I just sort of eyeball it at around 20% bleach.
This new Kaweco fountain pen with piston mechanism is a charming and coherent continuation of the Sport series. The design is an absolute success, but it has one flaw that surprises me. The dimensions of the new Kaweco are identical to those of the regular Sport model, with one exception: the section goes deeper into the cap. On the regular Sport model, it measures 3.7 cm, while on the Sport Piston, it measures 4.3 cm. For this reason, the fountain pen is 6 mm shorter. This inexplicable fact reduces writing comfort, giving the strange impression that something is wrong. That's very unfortunate...
That’s a fascinating bit of info. I do believe the nib sections on these are different from the regular al sports. Now that you’ve mentioned this, I feel like I’ll need to compare the two models again.
Oh…, Thanks for your response! Tell me the result after you have taken measurements please 🙏
Did you go to 2023 show? If so, was Sam Flax there?
I didn't so I can't say.
Love that ink. Glad I bought a bottle.
It's fantastic, but you really have to be prepared for how wet it is!
@@TheDormousesDesk yes and I accidentally dropped my pen and knocked the nib loose. Bloody mess indeed.
Twisbi Eco medium.
and after 8 minutes, still has not opened the box.
What nib size ❤❤
Double broad! It’s the best Kaweco nib size imo.
Will it write just as good for left handers , I want one , it looks beautiful , I love small pens xxx
Yes! If you watch @inksplat she’s a lefty and uses all sorts of fountain pens.
Thanks for the low tech , and excited energy.
Absolutely 👍
I've watched a lot of videos on this pen and yours is the best one. But I cant decide between a Fine or Medium nib.
That’s a huge compliment, thank you! My favorite nib from Kaweco is BB, but it’s not for everyone. If I had to choose fine or medium, I’d go with medium. It honestly depends on your writing style and how you think you’ll most use it.
@TheDormousesDesk You're very welcome. I ended up ordering one with a Fine nib. I have a Kaweco Dia 2 that came with an Extra Fine nib and I thought it was too scratchy so I ordered a Medium and a Fine nib, and between the two, I liked the Fine the best. I don't know yet how much this will write like the Dia, but I'd assume it's similar. I hope you can get replacement nibs for this because I may end up ordering a Medium.
That's a really nice Kaweco collection. Is that a violet Al Sport, and what is the color of the other greenish one you have?
It’s the vibrant violet with an iguana blue section, the other is the Aurora Borealis. The AB is gorgeous and I adore it.
@@TheDormousesDesk Beautiful, thanks for sharing
I ordered the exact pen with the same nib size from the same store in Italy. However, mine comes with the 30ml blue ink bottle and is halfway on it’s journey to me, l’m excited.
I considered ordering the one with the ink, and then remembered all the ink I already have. that’s what I considered to be a “responsible pen purchase.” 🤣 I hope you love it! Shipping for me was pretty quick.
if I hadn't *just* bought an AL-Sport...
The piston costs about twice a regular Al-Sport. You can use pen addict math here and say that you got your sport at half off! This means you can buy another pen. 😜
I was really surprised when someone from a popular pen company when I talk to him could not pronounce Kaweco correctly. He said. Kaw wake oh! Ugh! This guy is a professional. And I even pronounced it properly just to give him a little clue. And he pronounced it back to me the other way lol 😆 I think you may have just penabled me to get this pen, but then again, I do collect Kaweco pens!
🤔 I’m not German, but from my German studies, I always understood that w’s should sound like v’s, it’s the vowel after that w that I’m unsure of. Either way you say it though, their pens are fun. I hope you love yours!
I agree : it’s maddening to hear professionals mispronounce well known brand names. I’ve heard professionals say “Scry-bo” rather than “Scree-bo”. (!)
8 and a half minutes to get to the product??
That can happen in an unboxing video. CZcams has fast forward if you’re in a hurry.
Congrats on the new pen!
Thanks!
Ahhhhh! So exciting! The tiny scissors could have been comical. 🤔🤭 But finding no knife and then asking about the possibilities of the bananahama had me rolling. That last pen you bought before this one was also pretty exciting! 😹 I totally would’ve stuck that packing peanut on my tongue too. I think we might also be cats. 😹 And every once in a while we need an exciting chaos video! That is such a cute scale. 😻 Thanks for the wiper Lamy! And I love your low budget zoom! 😹🧐 Overall, this was exciting video from an excited friend that covered this pen perfectly. 🤩 Go b-broad or go home. 🤘🏼😸🧡🖋
I mean, if I really had to, those tiny scissors would have had to do. I’d be ok being a cat. Especially one in my house. Did you get excited watching the video?
That depression in the tin is to hold the ink bottle while you fill the pen. I’ve seen a review of the version that came with a bottle of ink and the bottle fits neatly in there.
Does the ink come in one of those FWP type chargers? Because that round hole is really only big enough for the pen.
@@TheDormousesDesk Hmmm… no. I don’t think so. Maybe the tin that comes with the bottle has two depressions - one for the bottle and one for the pen. It does seem a bit odd!
"Tasted like corn too" lol, this unboxing was hilarious
Glad I could give you a chuckle. 🤭
I see your from Garner! It’s nice to know a local Pen and Ink enthusiast!
I don’t go to the meetings because they’re a bit far for me, but I always go to the Triangle Pen show.
I have to tell you, i live close to the fisical shop and love their way of dealing with customers. Highly recommended place!
That’s amazing to hear! They really seem top notch.
Omg this was absolutely hilarious! One could totally tell how EXCITED you were! - the excited counter… the best! You make me want to ink up one of my vintage ones, haven’t used them in a while, except for the Dia that needs to be filled all the time. And BB is the way to go, I love the Kaweco brass with the double broad too! 🙌🏻🖋😘
Kawecos double broads are their best nibs imo. This one is no different. Have you done any videos on your vintage ones? I’m going to have to go over and take a look. 😘
@@TheDormousesDesk good and valid! BB is the way to go! I wonder if I ever showed the very old ones? I did the unboxing of my treasures I brought from Germany last summer, but none inked and one Kaweco Sport was with an EF nib.. (I should sell it.. I’m such a pen hoarder..), the other needed repair and I just sent it off to my man Joel! 😘💕
I want to get my hands on one…but I think I might wait a bit to see if the do other colors.
I’d love a different color too, but, I figured I wanted to encourage the company on this first round. Plus, I do like black.
I believe it is pronounced stilo & stile
Pen looks awesome!
Ok, you can leave now. 🤣
@@TheDormousesDesk 😘😘😘
I'm just not sure whether you're excited about this pen or not...
I’m so so about it.
"They need to teach americans how to pronounce the brand name" It's actually ka-vay-ko, not ka-vehk-o, if we want to get really super particular about it
More so, I hear it as ka-wee-ko.
Or Kaw wake oh!
YAY! Finally got to see it in action! I love the idea but I am going to hold out and wait for better colors. ENJOY!
Better than black? That’s a thing?
@@TheDormousesDesk I get what you're saying. Any ink would work. It's a self imposed restriction- we all gotta draw the line somewhere... 😂
0:13 🤭 "This is my desk." That made me giggle out loud. 6:03 The Kaweco cartridge is a standard international cartridge, also called international short cartridge. The second one you showed is an international long cartridge.
They don’t hold the same amount of ink, do they? Which is my question. If the piston hold a converter amount, which converter?
@@TheDormousesDeskI'm guessing the short version of the international cartridge, since that is what they usually ship with on the regular pens. That's more than their tiny converter, but I wish it was the long version for a piston filler. We need someone to measure. 😏
Came here from scanning the QR code on one of your postcards. Your ink art is lovely. Thank you for documenting it's creation! It's tremendously inspiring. 🙌🏼
Thank you so much! I love hearing that people came to the videos from the postcards. There’s not really any technique to what I’m doing so I encourage everyone to play with ink and water. It’s so fascinating to see how many other colors you can get from one ink. Go play!
Good luck in school!!! I love your setup. This is a great use of the built in guides. You’re right, 3 classes is perfect in here. And having some inky goodness in the back to admire during your roughest times would be awesome. Maybe you could swatch pen friend samples back there, so when you look at them you know we’re thinking of you and cheering you on. 🎉 Congrats on 1K! 🥳🎉 You’re wonderful! 🤘🏼😸🧡🖋
I hope you know how much I love you. You constantly lift me up. 🥰 I usually swatch pen friend samples in the notebook of my Cousin (those thin supplementary books), but I prefer your idea more. It’s good to be reminded of our friends when we’re riding the struggle bus.
Congratulations on your milestone! 🎉
Thank you Marsha! You’ve been hugely supportive and encouraging. You’re what makes this community so special and I so thankful to be a small part of it. 🥰
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@TheDormousesDesk Good grief! I suck! I cannot believe I wasn't officially subscribed!!!! I thought I subscribed Christmas last year when I first clicked over on recommendation from Matthew of The Wet Pen. I can't tell if I am subscribed on my phone app, where I do all my YT watching, because I am never logged-in there due to conflicting Apple accounts with my old phone. Now that I am on my pc, I corrected my egregious error, and earlier this afternoon I also made sure Mike subscribed, too. APOLOGIES!
I laughed so hard at this. No worries at all, my dear. Thank you for watching for so long, and hanging out with me. 😘