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Very often, speaking about Eboya implies some element of frustration—that of Eboya pens being exclusively cartridge-converters. And when not...

Eboya , the pen brand of Nikko Ebonite, shifted gears in 2016 . Lathe master Noritoshi Kanesaki left the company and the production moved to...

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...

In 2016, Eboya stopped the production of Japanese eyedropper pens. These pens were always more expensive that the equivalent versions with c...

The so-called Japanese eyedropper system – inki-dome shiki (インキ止め式) in Japanese— was in fact invented by Onoto in the beginning of the 20th...

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...

Stylophiles are a special bunch. Driven by our anachronistic passion we often crave for certain features: gold nibs, self-filling mechanisms...

This text is long overdue. This is, in essence, a correction to a couple of old posts on the Pilot (and Namiki) pens with size 50 nibs ( ::1...

Noritoshi Kanesaki, the master behind Eboya Pens stopped working for the company (Nikko Ebonite) this past August. The company has hired ne...