Crónicas Estilográficas

In many a pen forum, the Pilot Custom Urushi , marketed initially in 2016, raised a discussion—what is better, a Custom Urushi or a Sailor K...

The big three Japanese pen companies make their own nibs, and it seems very hard to get those nibs as spare parts or as third party nibs for...

Few elements in a pen are really standardized. Each maker created –still creates– many of the components and they only had to match the othe...

Few things are standard in the world of fountain pens. Each pen brand seems to create its small world with its own systems of names and meas...

Kuretake pens use Bock nibs. Kuretake is a very traditional company, founded in 1902, from Nara. Its original product was solid ink, sumi....

The history of fountain pens in Spain is the story of a frustration—a big number of operations that failed to create a sustainable activity....

Some months ago, over a year now, the Italian brand Delta launched a strange nib. Strange, but with a lot of hype on the benefits of its unu...

A simple and obvious observation for today. And an implicit classification as well. The number of fountain pen companies that actually ma...

Some reflections on the pen industry for today. I can find three categories among fountain pen manufacturing companies: 1. Companies tha...