Raffle for Liberia - Ebola Medical Supplies

A friend and colleague of mine is originally from Liberia and still has family there.  If you are up on the current news, there is what is being considered the worst Ebola outbreak in history which is affecting families, my friend included, as he and his wife lost a brother recently to the illness.

He and his wife have been working on accepting donations to purchase much needed medical supplies to send back to their community like masks, gloves, and the like.

I feel compelled to help in ways that I can, and I figured doing a raffle on The Clicky Post would be something that would fit and will be donating a pen holder of winner's choice (Cube, Block, Groove, or Display) as well as an aluminum Karas Kustoms G2 Render K!  Special thanks to Karas Kustoms for donating a pen for the cause.

HOW TO ENTER:

Entry into the raffle is minimum of $1.00 which will be processed through PayPal and can be done through the button below.  All proceeds from the raffle will be donated to the cause.

If you wish to do multiple donations/entries, feel free to donate as much as you'd like as each dollar will count as an entry into the raffle.  (whole dollars please)

The raffle will run for 10 days ending on Friday August 15th at midnight Arizona time.

I will choose a winner on Saturday the 16th and announce it on The Clicky Post as well as email them at their PayPal email address.

Open to both US and International entries!

RAFFLE HAS ENDED

Thank you so much for your consideration!

- Mike Dudek

 

 

Nock Co. "Dusty Blue" DotDash Note Cards - Fountain Pen Test

My good friends Brad, Jeff, and the crew over at Nock Co recently released their second colorway of their DotDash Note Cards, Dusty Blue.  Being a "blue" man myself, I was very excited about these.  Not that the orange or "Amber" color doesn't pop, blue really is more of my comfort zone.

The guys were kind enough to send me over a pack of these to try as well as their case called the Fodderstack (which will have it's own review in the future) that holds a pen of choice as well as a little stack of their cards.  Brad eluded to a prototype on the Erasable Podcast this past week of a Fodderstack that holds a Field Notes sized book... such a tease that Dowdy...

With each product I ship I send a little hand written note and I've found myself reaching for these as my go-to recently, so the guys should expect orders from me...  They are small, stiff (80 lb paper), and generally do pretty awesome with all pens so I don't worry so much about what I'm grabbing to write on them with.

For the review I wanted to do a pretty strong comparison of a variety of fountain pen nibs, brands, and inks to see the outcome.  Also, to compare the new colorway to the previous.

I've been due to clean a few fountain pens, but having too many inked up actually made for a great selection to test with.

What I threw at it:

From the list there are a lot of F nibs, but being a good mix of Asia and Europe I felt it a good test group for diversity.

What I found is that with the really wet nibs, the Falcon M nib in particular did not do well and tended to feather terribly, but the smaller F or EF nibs did good overall.  Not sure if the paper is different, but I actually found the Amber colorway to have crisper lines.  Maybe my imagination?  

These obviously aren't Tomoe River or Rhodia glossy, but are note cards that are meant to be used.  They are in many cases, portable, which warrants a certain amount of ink absorption otherwise you'd have wet ink for minutes that you'd be stuffing back into a bag or Fodderstack which would not be good.  I think they chose a good mix of durable, yet fountain pen friendly paper for all around use.

Great stuff guys!  If you're interested in picking up a pack, visit nockco.com to view their wares.

Last Day for 10% off Sale for Dudek Modern Goods

Just wanted to do one last post reminding everyone that today, July 31st, is the last day to order one of my Dudek Modern Goods pen holders with the July 10% off promo before I take a break from the shop in August.

The support has been tremendous!  Thank you! 

Orders placed today will still be fulfilled on into early to mid August, but new orders will resume in September when I reopen the shop.

- Mike