Bauhaus is my kryptonite

[daidoji_gisei]

I bought myself a TWSBI Vac 700 tonight. This was entirely unexpected. But I had gotten through my annual evaluation today without wanting to stab myself, TWSBI was running an interesting sale, and I happened across a review of the Vac 700 which said, basically, that this was a pen that put functional design over pretty styling and I was sold. It also helped that the pen has a novel filling system that excites my inner physicist!

I ordered it as a demonstrator. I'm neither hot nor cold on demonstrators, and the smoke version of the Vac 700 is very stylish, but in this particular case I'm buying the pen because of its engineering so that's what I wanted to see. I'm looking forward to putting ink in it, though due to its filling method it looks essentially useless as a way of using up ink samples: I'll have to feed it from ink bottles only. Not that I lack for those....

Comments

[yhlee]

It really kind of is. There are still whole gigantic areas of fountain pen geekitude I haven't even touched (how does a Snorkel filling mechanism work?) but fortunately there's not a test.