Crónicas Estilográficas

While preparing the previous post , I had to revisit an old piece I wrote in 2013 . It ended with this sentence: “Nebotek pens are indeed...

Before Eboya, there was Nebotek. Nebotek was the pen brand that Nikko Ebonite created in 2009 to market pens made from its own ebonite, f...

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...