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The Great Inkwell Experiment Part Two—The Subjects

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We are happy to announce that the experiment is up and running, starting on February 18, 2011. Details of the Inkwells are as follows: glass well with a simple gravity-closing hinged lid metal well with… 

The Great Inkwell Experiment

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There have been several thoughts expressed to us recently, showing concern about how useful old inkwells actually are, due to evaporation rates. It occurred to us that it might be useful to have some empirical… 

The Fountain Pen Convert: A Cautionary Tale

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Messy stainsfingers Leaky scratchy Bleeds-through-the-paper Old-fashioned To me, that was the fountain pen. Dip pens were worse. When I was a teenager, I was into calligraphy, and had a beautiful old dip pen with many…