How not to store a fountain pen...

If you're going to put a red cartridge into a fountain pen that's been stored for the past few months with a half-full black cartridge, it's going to come out crap brown until you actually clean the pen. After two rinses now (I don't have an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner), it's a rather pleasing rust colour. But it's still not the bright red I want it to be.

Formulating a JetPens order...

I've been lusting over various JetPens products for some time now, but I haven't had the money to buy anything. Now with the divestment of several old tchotchkes that comes with our annual spring cleaning, I may have sufficient cashular resources. So this is what I've been thinking about:

• Dong-A Comssa 12-pack


• Pentel Tradio Stylo


• Pelikan Pelikano Junior left-handed


• Nomadic Easy Classification pencil case, yellow


• Uni-ball colour pencil lead variety pack 0,7mm


• Pilot Frixion Colour-Pencil-Like Tea Brown

That's all I can really think of right now. I'd also like recommendations for inexpensive fountain pens that take short international cartridges, and black paper filler paper or notebooks.

Thanks in advance!

Green Pilot VBall review

I really like this pen. Too bad it is not always appropriate to write in green.