Frank recap and shares his experience with the recent California Pen Show.

Goods/Company mentioned:

ST Dupont 20000 leagues Under the Sea

Visconti - Van Gogh Dreaming Starry Snight

Maverickpens

Nahvalur Eclipse

Pelikan M600 LE Art-collection Rudi Rother

Think Pen - Andre the Giant LE

AP LE -Sakura Lacquer Rabbits in a summer garden

Skogsypens

Stationerystack

Grifos-pens

Nagomi wood Working

Hachimonjiya

Roses without thorns

Hello Everyone, I’m finally back to recording after some delays due work and getting sick.

Today’s let’s discuss all the new limited edition pen companies are pushing out to celebrate year of the Fire horse!

Goods mentioned:

Leuchtturm1917 Year-of-the-horse-limited-edition Notebook

Montblanc Legend-of-zodiacs-the-horse- 512 Limited Edition

Magna Carta Stainless Flex nib

Carandache - 849 Black Horse Mechanical Pencil

St-dupont Line-D-eternity Horse-red

Onoto - Year-of-the-horse-the-victory-horse

Stanford pen studio year of the fire horse

Yard-o-led the-grand-firehorse

Here is a more specialized episode for everyone.

Paper comparison!

Goods Used:

Yamamoto Fountain Pen Friendly Paper Collection Vol. 1 - A5

Yamamoto Fountain Pen Friendly Paper Collection Vol. 2 - A5

The holiday season is here! With it, many winter season theme pens has been released, let’s take a look at the new offering, along with some small update from Frank’s life.

Sailor Pro Gear Akita Shiba Hachiko LE

Sailor Pro Gear Slim Akita Shiba Inu limited edition-2025?_pos=3&_sid=cfaf406b1&_ss=r

Sailor 1911 Profit Jr Akita Shiba-inu-jr Special Edition

Vandiemansink 2025 boxed collection

Nahvalur 365 Anniversary LE 2025
Colorverse Red Horse SE 2025

Delta - Lago Di Como

Wearingeul Santa Color swatches

Wearingeul A Kidnapped Santa Claus

Opus 88 Holiday jazz

Frank discuss some of his recent activities and goes over some recently released fountain pens.

Vanishing point 20 year Anniversary Edition

New Benu Pen releases

New Pilot Custom 845 Color

VIsconti Maze

Sailor KOP - Umesaki LE

Evangelion 30 Year Anniversary

Ottohutt Closing down

Pilot Kakuno Madoromi

Frank talk about reasons of his delayed episode - his Taiwan Trip. Many things have changed, but the people there stayed the same.

Let’s take a scroll through Frank’s photo app and discusses what he saw and experience in Taiwan.

Goods Mentioned:

Novium Hover Pen

Mitasanshodo

22 Design Studio

Platinum PTA-350

Pilot S30 Mechanical Pencil

Peanuts X Easterbrook

Frank has two new stationery goodies for review today. Let’s spend some time and talk about the kokuyo scissor and Omas - Espresso Martini LE.

Lastly, let’s wrap up this episode with some recently announced Pelikan/Sailor pens.

Goods covered in today’s episode.

Omas - Espresso Martini Pen Review

Pelikan M805 metal-sleeve

KOKUYO-SAXA-Scissors-Titanium-Coating

Omas - Espresso Martini

Sailor-fountain- Tea Time 5 - Nerikiri

Sailor-fountain- Tea Time 5 - KOP Japanese Tea Ceremony Match Edition

The 2026 Hobonichi line out has been announced and released. Let’s take a brief look at what caught Frank’s attention and discuss what he has purchased along with this year’s release.

Goods mentioned:

Kokuyo Saxa Titanium Coated Glueless scissors

Pikachu Pichu Mimikyu Pokemo Mini Stamp

tamagaotchi Decorush

Special-limited-edition Pelikan-souveran-m600-art Rudi-Rother-special-edition

Sailor Tuzu Glassy

Omas 150625

DC pen show just happened and SF pen show is near. All of a sudden we are now facing many, many new design and release from pen companies around the globe, let’s pick a few fountain pens that has peaked my interest and talk about them.

Schon Monoc Evo

Visconti LE Homo Sapiens Full Demo

Lamy Safari - Kuromi LE

Opus-88-fountain-pen-mini-summer-strike

Origami ink 2025 Colorvent Calendar

Pilot US Exclusive - Custom-74 Lavender Fog

Frank discusses his new found hobby (caffeine source) and recent purchases and goes over some recently released fountain pens.

Something Blue - Yuri Pen Case

Sailor-1911- KOP - mono-no-aware-

Video that got co-worker interested

Leonardo Juma Dragon skin 2.0

Sailor Cross Eagle Nib release

Kaweco Skyline Sea Spray

Nahvalur Triad

Gravitas Monster