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Yet again, Palomino wows us with another great looking Blackwing Volume. The Blackwing 344 draws inspiration from the art of photography, paying tribute to American photographer and photo journalist Dorothea Lange. To celebrate this new release, we are offering 10% off the 344, or any order of $25 or more, for one week only. Use coupon code "10OFF344" at checkout to get your discount. As always, Volumes pencils are limited, and once they sell out, they're gone forever. Get yours now!
Once again, Fresh Stock is moving shop! California was never meant to be a long term stay, but it was fun while it lasted. We will eventually land in Chicago, with a short stopover in Oklahoma along the way. Orders received through May 27 will be shipped on May 28. Orders received after May 27 will not be fulfilled before June 6. After a couple of weeks catching up with friends and family in the OKC metro, we'll take one last jog up to Chicagoland, where we hope to lay down roots for the long-term. This should be the end of our nomadic lifestyle and the beginning of lots of new developments at Fresh Stock.
The boat from Japan has arrived, bringing us both new products and a resupply of products that were running low or sold out. We are adding two new products from Craft Design Technology, the CDT A5 Notepad and the CDT Brush Pen (plus refill), which happens to be our first brush pen. We have added the very iconic Mitsubishi No. 772 Red-Blue Pencils, the Dog Ear Notebook by Hum, and the Legno Pen and Acro Drive Pen from Pilot. Finally, we are adding the Nähe General Purpose Case. Nähe is yet another great brand by Hightide (creators of the Penco, PH, and Hum brands). The Nähe line is mostly storage and organizational products drawing inspiration from German stationers. We specifically chose this Nähe case to accommodate full-sized colored pencils, like our Mitsubishi No. 850s that are too long for many other pen and pencil cases. It'll hold about a dozen pencils, so a whole box of Mitsubishi No. 101s, or a nice array of individual pens, pencils, or erasers. New ProductsBack in StockThe only downside to having a small operation is that we sometimes have to step away from the business entirely. This is the case this April. Orders received after April 1 will not be fulfilled before April 13. We're also happy to say we have a shipment arriving from Japan this week. So upon our return to business as usual, we will be restocking a number of sold-out products and announcing a handful of new ones. Please check back for our product announcements. In addition to the standard Palomino Blackwing, Palomino Blackwing Pearl, and Palomino Blackwing 602, we have added the two latest releases from Palomino's Volumes series. Palomino is creating limited edition versions of their premium pencils and distributing them through a subscription program and in limited quantities to retailers. We picked up a handful of their third Volumes release, the Palomino Blackwing 1138, and their just released Palomino Blackwing 24. You can read more about each pencil on their product pages, but sufficed to say, Palomino is setting a new standard for creative pencil design.
We also added the rest of Palomino Blackwing Replacement Erasers to our collection (except green, which is on backorder). Whether it's a regular Blackwing or a Volumes Blackwing, customizing erasers is just one more way to make one of the best pencils available a little bit better. We were very excited to have the Metaphys Locus 3Way Pen featured in Uncrate as part of one of their recent EDC (Everyday Carry) posts that routinely showcase great pens, notebooks, pocket knives, earphones, and many other accessories that you might carry on your person or in your bag. Customer response was tremendous. We contacted Metaphys for more inventory and learned they themselves were almost out of regular 3Way Pens. We quickly sold through their remaining stock, but they were able to restock us with a special version of the 3Way Pen that includes a replacement ink cartridge and eraser (the same two items in our 3Way Pen - Refill Set) and also a mechanical pencil replacement unit. We will be selling this special set until either we or Metaphys run out of stock and Metaphys produces a new run of the standard pen. Get yours while you can! If you follow us on Facebook, you'll know we participated in local pop-up market twice in December in our current home base of Redding, CA. It was a great time to meet customers face to face and let them handle our products. We love being able to share the stories behind each product we select to sell, and that includes answering questions via email as well. We plan to do more pop-ups in 2016, and having a brick and mortar store is definitely something we foresee down the road.
Along with our restock from Japan, we also received some new products that we are very excited about. The Midori Brass Pen and Midori Brass Pencil are two items we have wanted to carry since we first started Fresh Stock. While Midori has countless great products, these are definitely our favorites. We're also very pleased to be adding another Trusco Tool Box to our lineup. We've added our first product from Kutsuwa Stad: one of their latest pencil sharpeners that offers another clever design. From our good friends at CDT, we are adding a pack of clear files to keep all of your documents crisp. Finally we are offering our first cutter from Olfa, the original inventor of the snap-off utility knife. Midori |
AuthorBenjamin Stock founded Fresh Stock in Kobe, Japan and now runs it in the U.S. along with his wife, Rebecca. Archives
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