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An ode to an ink-pen: Mitsubishi uni Pin

November 21, 2018 by readydot

This might be a bit disappointing to people visiting this site in hopes of reading a new post about pencils. But for my first post in a long time I decided to write about the thing I use the most when drawing: my ink-pens. I have tried a lot of them and I will try to write about those in future articles, but I have been hooked on to the quality of the Mitsubishi “uni Pin”. So what makes these […]

Categories: Review • Tags: ink, Mitsubishi, pen, pin, review, test, uni

Review: Pentel Multi 8’s

June 2, 2016 by readydot

During the time I was scanning the internets for interesting bits of stationery (still do it but not as extensive as last year), I remembered that somebody offered me a LAMY “tri pen” a long time ago and I almost forgot I had it. So I went looking for it in my storage (I’m really organised, but the chaotic type..) and was pretty happy to find it still as I remembered it although I remembered also that I’d like to have a multi-pen […]

Categories: Geekery, Review • Tags: function, holder, lead, mechanical, multi, pen, Pencil, Pentel, super

Review: Caran D’Ache Swiss Wood HB

May 23, 2016 by readydot

It was kind of difficult to find a store that had the Swiss Wood, when you try to find it in a physical shop that is. I found it in a really nice little shop in Cologne called Papier Pop-Up. Maybe I didn’t look hard enough in the past, but they had the Black Wood on display so I asked if they were also carrying the Swiss Wood. The pencil is really a beautiful one. A bit larger than average, with […]

Categories: Review • Tags: caran d'ache, Pencil, review, shop, swiss wood

Review: Maruman Mnemosyne A4

March 6, 2015 by readydot

This is something I wanted to do for some time now. Writing a review about my favorite notebook. But mind you I never use it as a notebook, but as a drawing/sketch-book. If you’d use it as a notebook alone there are some warnings to consider. The first one is that the paper is quite thin and things shine through, and I believe if you’d use the pages on both sides things would become quite messy. Another annoyance is that […]

Categories: Review • Tags: drawing, Maruman, Mnemosyne, notebook, pen, Pencil, review, spiral, test

Review: Mitsu-Bishi Nano Dia B

August 15, 2014 by readydot

For a pencil-lover like myself the name Mitsu-Bishi stands for some of the best pencils in the world, and also maybe the most beautiful modern pencil IMHO: the Hi-Uni. Now the Uni brand, that operates at the foremost consumer front alongside the Posca brand, stands for quality at moderate prices. The Uni Pin fine-liners are amongst the most used in the domain of illustration, and probably the best. So I was pretty much surprised to find these Nano Dia pencils […]

Categories: Review • Tags: dia, Mitsubishi, nano, Pencil, uni

Review: Eberhard Faber MONGOL 482

June 11, 2014 by readydot

Life’s full of surprises. There are the ones you are planning for yourself and then there are those that simply happen. Most of these surprises in my life are of the second type, because I’m pretty bad at planning and bad at keeping deadlines. I organized most of what’s happening in my small cosmos around the fact that I’m sluggish most of the time. Writing a blog that asks for more than one action to be of interest is in […]

Categories: Review • Tags: 482, dragon, drawing, ebarhard, faber, Mongol, Pencil, Pencils

Review: Faber-Castell Blackwing 602

March 12, 2014 by readydot

The myth, the legend, the pencil of pencils, the pencil made famous through numerous illustrious people is… well, I think we’ll start at the beginning. So my love for pencils is an old one. This love was a practical love, a love for the medium rather than the product. As I probably said in other posts my first real good pencils were Lumographs and 9000s. Really good pencils, pencils for drawing on different papers, pencils for sketching, pencils for realistic […]

Categories: Review • Tags: 602, Blackwing, castell, faber, Palomino, Pencil, Pencils

Review: Palomino Blackwing Pearl

March 5, 2014 by readydot

I said to myself I’d never review the original Blackwing 602. Myths are narrated by a fireplace and not reviewed by some young ignorant. Well lucky for me Palomino set out to copy… erm, revive the legend and give me an opportunity to review a pencil that pretends to be another. I could have chosen to review the Palomino Blackwing 602 first, but by trying the three of them side by side I found more similarities between the Pearl […]

Categories: Review • Tags: 602, Blackwing, castell, faber, Palomino, pearl, Pencil

Review: Staedler Pencil Holder 900 25

February 27, 2014 by readydot

Pencil Holders are a pencil-lovers best friends, because they help you getting the most out of your beloved pencils. So I had been looking for pencil-holders for some time and bought some from Derwent which are quite nice simple stubby things that are too light and short for my gusto. Biggest complaint is that they can destroy the lacquer of pencils like the Mitsubishi Hi-Uni, especially on the top. (The MONO100 you see in the piture below wears the […]

Categories: Review • Tags: 900 25, 90025, holder, Pencil, Staedtler

Review: Mitsubishi Hi-Uni HB

February 25, 2014 by readydot

Reviewing one of the best pencils around, is like trying to convince a coffee-drinker to appreciate coffee. I always have a stock of Hi-Unis HB around, it’s one of my go-to-pencils for drawings, sketching and nose-picking… well, not really but the top of the pencil is so well made and nice looking that you have to touch it now and then. These pencils just scream of quality. The lacquer, the wood, the lead, the box they’re shipped in, the sharpening, […]

Categories: Review • Tags: HB, hi-uni, Mitsubishi, Pencil

My pencils draw worlds

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