Thanks to Alt Haven lending me this pen, I got a chance to review the Muji Aluminium Compact Fountain Pen. It is a modern long-short pen, and rather obviously, it’s made of aluminium metal. A long-short pen is a pen that has a long cap and short barrel, quite unlike the usual fountain pen which usually has a shorter cap than the barrel. The picture above is a comparison of the two Muji Aluminium Pens that have been available so far. I have done a review before of the Muji Aluminium Round fountain pen, so you can do a comparison. I have a preference toward short pens, and so of course I like this pen, being so small and very easy to slip into a pocket. The thing I didn’t like about it probably is the fact that, while it has a small barrel, it’s a little too small to be very well functional. I tend to grasp a pen in my palm on the barrel side, and pull the cap off. This Muji Compact has such a small barrel that it’s quite difficult for me to remove the cap in this way. Because of this, I have to […]
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I’m travelling to Spain and France for two weeks in early May, flying off on 28 April, so during that two weeks it is highly likely that I will have close to zero access to internet. So to make up for that lost time, I’m trying to work more on my blog these days and posting more stuff for readers like you! Today, I finally have another pen review on board: that of MUJI’S! Anyone around here likes Muji products? Let’s talk about the shape of this pen first. The first thing that comes to my mind is something that doesn’t sound very pleasant, but I just had to say it: If this pen were a woman, she would have the worst figure of all women on Earth. Wait a minute, I don’t mean that in a bad way. It’s just, you know, I’ve always had pens which have at least SOME variation in diameter at some location of the pen (excluding the nib and feed section), but this pen is so incredibly CYLINDRICAL, that even when the cap is posted like in the above picture, the whole pen stays cylindrical (well, except for the clip of course). How, […]
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