Start with one
good pen

Everything here is under twenty dollars. Pick a colour, pick a nib, and see if you like it.

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A range of Jinhao 82s with various colours on a linen cloth with wattle flowers

Fountain pens

Four pens, all under twenty dollars. The Jinhao 82 is where most people start.

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Karkos ink bottles lined up on linen

Karkos ink in ten colours, thirty millilitres, ten dollars

Well behaved, quick to flush, and fine in every pen we sell.

All inks

Looking after a pen

Flushing, filling and smoothing. Most of it costs less than a coffee.

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Portrait of Karen

Meet Karen

Karen earned her pen licence in primary school in the 1960s, and fountain pens stuck with her. She learnt italic calligraphy as a teenager and came back to pens years later as a hobby. When she saw how hard good entry-level pens were to find in Australia, she started Blue Wattle Pens.

“We're pen enthusiasts first. The shop just made sense.”
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