So recently I purchased a fairly vintage or retro set of technical drawing pens by the German brand Standograph. It's a three set of pens dating from the 1970s and there isn't much information about the brand other than what can be gathered from wiki and random Google searches.
All in all its the same technical drawing pen mechanics as it's modern rotring, faber castell and steadtler pals.
When I get round to using them ill make a post about filling them up and the basics of their use. But honestly it's pretty simple and most can do it themselves without much thought.
I do however think that the original use for these pens is a dying trade and other than some illustrators, drawing artists or those who still do technical drawing for architecture and interior design they're beginning to fall out of favour as computer programs replace the need of these tools.
Before you would spend several hours meticulously drawing out the details of an architectural view with these pens on a drawing board and it's now replaced with a one hour computer production. They certainly save time but they lack the charm of traditional illustration.
I could spend ages talking about the area of technical drawing pens but I'm probably best leaving that for another day.
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