Day: September 17, 2015

If you use brush tip felt pens, this might be helpful. When the tip gets mushy or worn or frayed, but there’s still ink left in the pen, try pulling out the tip and reversing it. I used my bare hands, but if you don’t want to get ink on your fingers, you could use tweezers or needle-nose pliers to gently remove, flip, and reinsert the tip.

If you look closely, you can see that the tip on the right end is worn, but the tip on the left end is in pristine condition.

I remember doing this with cheap felt tip markers, when I was a kid. I don’t know why it never occurred to me to do it with “grown up” felt tip pens. (Via Roz Wound Up, a blog I a million percent recommend if you have any interest in arting.)