Crónicas Estilográficas

(You shall excuse my recent silence on these pages. Some personal issues came in my way and had to pay attention to them. Hopefully I will b...

Different craftsman, different quality. That is what we saw on the previous Chronicle Ôhashidô (III) . But was it just that? A tray o...

Some more on Ôhashidô ( ::1:: , ::2:: ), the small one-man operation from Sendai. We saw on past texts that Ôhashidô traces its history b...

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...

As I had said before , Ôhashidô pens, as of now, implement Sailor nibs of sizes medium and big (in Sailor terms) . These nibs are engraved i...

Besides the big three Japanese pen companies –Pilot-Namiki, Platinum-Nakaya, and Sailor– there are a bunch of small operations, some of whic...

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...

Some time ago I published several texts with information on how to date Platinum and Pilot pens. Sailor also has its own dating systems for...

Last week I described the case of the nibs made by the company Ishikawa-Kinpen Seisakushô for Ferme and how those nibs were labeled with th...