Misfill, Mitsubishi Anniversary Edition

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links:

— Mitsubishi Anniversary Editions (Pencil Fodder)

— If Not a Fountain Pen, Then What…? (Line Variation)

— Cult Pens Deep Dark Purple (Inkcredible Colours)

— Two fun nibs for lefties. (Fountain pen blog)

— Beastie Boys Unveil 'Hello Nasty' 25th Anniversary Reissue (The Quietus)

— “Pencil Vs Camera”: Artist Ben Heine Creates Surreal and Stunning Images with Photography and Illustration (Design You Trust)

— Aurora Optima Auroloide Green (996V) (dapprman)

— Liew Kwai Fei’s 'Pencil Exercises' is having a second showing in ChinaHouse, Penang (Options)

— Talking Music With Spencer Strider, Baseball’s Resident Indie Rock Head (GQ)

— Ink Review #2259: Colorverse Photo Black (Mountain of Ink)

— Ink Review: Sailor x Tinterias Inks (The Well-Appointed Desk)

— Galen Leather Everyday Notebook Review | Tomoe River Notebook (Blake's Broadcast)

— To Ease Global Warming, the Whitest of Paints (The New York Times)

— Pages from Tokyo Manga-kai (1921), a collection of manga sketches of the Tokyo Tokaido (Zen in Technicolor)

— Pen Porn: Stanford Pen Studio Hummingbirds (Rachel's Reflections)

— Demystifying the Activist Graffiti Art of Keith Haring: A Video Essay (Open Culture)

— Weekly Update: Reading and Pen Inking (Writing at Large)

— The Sailor Promenade (Left Hook Pens)

— inkxpired : Pelikan Edelstein Garnet (inkxplorations)

— Lamy Joy Strawberry Fountain Pen Review (SBREBrown)

— Ink Review #769: Diamine Snowstorm (Fountain Pen Pharmacist)

— The Ryan Krusac Dragon Slayer is to fountain pens what Italian dwarf metal is to music (Extra Fine Writing)

— Papersmiths Notebook Review (Notebook Stories)

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Wearingeul 7 Colored Ocean Ink Giveaway

This ink was part of my review earlier this week, so I’ve taken a small drink from it, but Wearingeul 7 Colored Ocean is too good to let sit on my shelf. The winner is:

Congrats Richsticks! I’ve sent you an email to collect your shipping address.

Wearingeul Macbeth & The Phantom of the Opera - A Review, Part 2

(Kimberly (she/her) took the express train down the fountain pen/stationery rabbit hole and doesn't want to be rescued. She can be found on Instagram @allthehobbies because there really are many, many hobbies!.)

Last time, I did a review of Wearingeul Macbeth & The Phantom of the Opera but you may recall that I wasn’t done! Sure, I finished the ink review portion but there was more that I wanted to share, so here we are!

In addition to the inks he picked up at the Atlanta show, Brad also got some other fun swatching items from Dromgoole’s. They include the Wearingeul Color Chart Cards, Instant Film Color Swatch cards, and Clear Chart book/binder.

Clockwise from upper left: Instant Film Color Swatch cards, Clear Chart Book, and Color Chart Cards.

100 Color Chart Cards cards come in a plastic card case and measure approximately 3.5” x 2” (90mm x 50 mm). They have a bottle printed on the front as well as two dots on the right, one on top of the other. I’m not sure what the dots are for, so I just wrote next to them. On the back of each card is the word ‘Jaquere’, which is Wearingeul’s sister stationery brand that “aims to provide a better writing experience through Quality Writing”. The Color Chart Cards are available in a Horizontal and Vertical orientation; this is the Horizontal version.

Color Chart Cards.

The Instant Film cards come in a pack of 50 and are approximately 3.75” x 2.25” (87mm x 53mm). They have this shiny, slightly textured border around the swatch (not the entire card) and feels similar to the edge of a Polaroid picture.

Shiny but unobtrusive border around the Instant Film cards.

I compared the swatches on the Color Chart Cards and Instant Film cards to swatches made on Col-O-Ring swatch cards using both the Wearingeul inks from the last review as well as non-Wearingeul inks - Jacques Herbin Violet Imperial (shimmer) and Robert Oster Napa (non-shimmer). The colors were true to the swatches I had made on the Col-O-Ring.

Comparison with Wearingeul Macbeth & The Phantom of the Opera.

Comparison with Jacques Herbin Violet Imperial and Robert Oster Napa.

Now that I had these swatches done, I wanted to see if they would fit in the binder! I’m calling it a binder even though the pages aren’t removable and it doesn’t have rings. It measures approximately 7.5”L x 4.5”W x 0.75”D (195mm x 110mm x 20mm) and has a pliable but firm plastic cover with a button closure. There are 40 sheets (80 pages) of sleeves, each containing 6 slots (3 on the front and 3 on the back), so you can put 240 swatch cards in here!.

The binder, also made by Jaquere, was designed to hold the horizontal or vertical Ink Color Chart Cards.

It can also fit the Instant Film swatch cards, but the Col-O-Rings are a bit too long. They do fit, but I think the ends would start to curl as you put more cards in the sleeves.

This is gonna get nice and thick once it’s filled!

These stickers are “DIY” (Do-It-Yourself) because they aren’t pre-cut. You can cut them to any shape/size you’d like and decorate your binder!

The Color Chart Cards are available for $6, the Instant Film Swatch cards for $5, and the Binder for $6. They can be found in the Wearingeul paper section on the Dromgoole’s website. I’m still going to stick with my tried-and-true Col-O-Rings for all my swatching, but I might use this for all of my Wearingeul swatches!

(Disclaimer: The Wearingeul products were purchased from Dromgoole’s for a discount at the 2023 Atlanta Pen Show. The Jacques Herbin and Robert Oster inks as well as the Col-O-Rings are my own purchases.)

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