Throwback Thursday: Quick Look at Kaweco Brass Sport + KWZ Brown Pink
So it's officially the first day of fall. Hard to believe since the days keep ticking off so fast. For this Throwback Thursday, I take a look at another pen & ink combo from my July loadout.
Handwritten Review
Pen: Kaweco Brass Sport EF
Ink: KWZ Brown Pink
Paper: Rhodia No. 16 Grid
Well this is another ink that is very popular. Lots of comments on Instagram when I use it. I think it's a great colour. To be honest, I don't think I would have got this on my own. It just looked so good whenever people posted Instagram photos of it.
I love the ink. I think looks pretty darn cool paired with the Kaweco Brass Sport. The combo is smooth. It's great.
So how much of it is left? Should not be much. Write more to dry the pen. It's time to change. July 31st. Last day of the month. I need to post some stuff on the blog including a look at the weird yet beautiful ink. My brain is running out of words to say. Duh.
Closing Comments
I can't believe I wrote those words! But, I was vacationing at the cottage at the time I did the handwritten review and drunk on sun, surf and all sorts of beverages.
I should add that I really love unique personality of this ink. It's weird and quirky. Not brown, not pink. Yet, very much what brown + pink must look like when mixed together. It reminds me of red velvet ice cream. I got some great shading on Tomoe River paper with KWZ Brown Pink. But, in general, the ink was very well behaved on all sorts of paper, but especially on Rhodia.
It's been a few months since I last posted a Currently Inked. Over this time, I've experimented with the number of pens I have inked up at any time. At one point I had as many as 12 pens inked. It got to be a bit too much to manage. Too many pens to track and maintain. Now I'm trying to keep to 6 inked pens with a complete refresh every month.
Well, Thanksgiving is over. Cyber Monday is done. Now that we are heading into the holiday season, my mind turns to chocolate. Who am I kidding? Any time is chocolate time.
The days are shorter and the weather is cooler. But thankfully, I still have pen + ink combos from the summer to look back on. This week it’s a match up from my August line-up.
Handwritten Review
Pen: Bexley Gaston’s Special Reserve M
Ink: Diamine Ancient Copper
Paper: Rhodia No. 16 Grid
October came and went in a flash! With the Scriptus pen showthis past Sunday and yesterday being Halloween, I didn't have much time to prepare my pen + ink combos for November. Without further ado, here they are...
October has been fairly light in terms of travel but duty called. This time the duties as a hockey mom which involved going with my son and his team to the city of Kitchener for a hockey tournament. Originally this was supposed to be a 3 day trip but cut short by the sad reality that our team did not make it into the final day of the tournament. On a positive note, it gave me an opportunity to plan another pen + ink load out.
Apart from my must-bring Hobo and TN, I wanted to bring whatever pens and paper I could fit inside a larger case. The case I had in mind was the A5 sized Lihit Lab Teffa Bag in Bag. I was expecting to travel a lot from rink to rink and I wanted a self-contained writing tool kit that I could bring along.
Last Wednesday, I posted some picturesI took on a recent hike. In fact, I went on a 1 night, 1 day get away trip to the cottage with the family. To be precise, we headed up on Friday night, September 30th. And headed back home on October 1st. I pondered a bit on what pens I should take seeing as I still had a couple of September inked pens to use up and my planned pens for October were only partially inked up. So, I did what any rational pen addict would do for a 1 day trip that starts at the last day of one month and ends on the first day of the next month: I took all pens in sight!
The arrival of October brings to mind fall colours capped off with Halloween. So, my pen and ink line up for the month rich reds, oranges and brown. The one limitation was that the ink had to come stored in plastic bottles. This was because October 1 fell on Sunday but I headed up to our family cottage for the weekend on Friday. I didn't have time to ink up before leaving for our trip hence, I tried to choose ink bottles that wouldn't crack.