Ink Nouveau

Many of you are aware of the legendary packing that we do at the Goulet Pen Company, and an integral part of that is our bubblewrap. In an effort to be more eco-friendly, we want to consider switching to biodegradeable bubblewrap. We don't want to just do it willy-nilly, so we're soliciting for your feedback during a trial period while we try shipping with this new stuff.

Yama-Budo is one of the more popular Pilot Iroshizuku colors, and for good reason. It's vibrant, dries fast, and is very smooth. See my full thoughts in the video.

There has been some debate over our newest exclusive Noodler's ink, and we wanted to clear some stuff up and tell what's going on with this exciting blue ink.

Noodler's has (yet again) come out with more pen colors, this time in all three pen models. in the Nib Creaper Flex, there's Red, Navy, Turquoise, Green Mountain, and Burgundy. The Ahab is seeing Gray Fox, Green Mountain, and Tiger, and the Konrad has some exciting smoke and blue demonstrators!

What's the best way to store your fountain pens? Well, that depends on what you feel like doing....but I'll at least show you the method to my own madness...

Our second Goulet-exclusive Noodler's ink, Liberty's Elysium is a vibrant, bulletproof blue ink, something never developed before from Noodler's. See the meaning behind the label as well as the ink's performance in my video here.

The TWSBI VAC-700 is a cool pen with a vacuum-filling mechanism. You can get 1.5ml in a normal fill, but using this technique you can get up to 2.3ml!

Here I show you examples of basic fountain pen/ink/paper terminology, including: Feathering (0:53), Bleedthrough (1:24), Ghosting/Show-through/Echo (1:41), Spread (1:53), Dry Time (2:40), Feedback/Tooth (3:18), G/GSM (paper weight) (4:18), Sizing (paper coating) (5:11), Absorbency (5:53), Nib Creep (6:29), Saturation (6:51), Shading (7:42), Flow (8:23), Skipping (8:36), Starting (9:17), Flex/Spring/Softness (9:45), (Nib) Grind (9:50)

Stillman & Birn makes some pretty classy sketchbooks that are laid out in a pretty sensical series arrangement. I'm covering the whole series here, as well as testing the paper with inks.

There are a lot of parts to a fountain pen! Here they all are, explained for you.

I finally got my hands on the long-awaited TWSBI VAC-700, so I show you how it compares to the 540, as well as how it fills, and I bust out some classic dance moves. Yes, dance moves.

In this video, I cover the basics of how a ballpoint, rollerball, and fountain pen all work, and break down the essence of how a fountain pen functions.

The Noodler's Konrad Flex pen is the 3rd flex pen to come out from Noodler's, and is a mid-size pen in between the Piston-Fill and Ahab flex pens. Nice size, good ink capacity, and attractive design makes this the latest evolution in the Noodler's flex pen lines.

I'm launching a new series called Fountain Pen 101, where every Friday I will post videos of helpful introductory-level fountain pen education.

Quo Vadis now has an A4 blank bound Habana journal available in the US. 85g paper, very fountain pen friendly, and lays very flat. Great A4 journal, if this is what you were waiting for.