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Meanwhile ( ::1:: , ::2:: ), what is Pilot doing besides raising prices at a spectacular pace? The basic Pilot Capless introduced in 1998...

We have seen several Chinese manufacturers release capless fountain pens in recent years. Moonman (Majohn) introduced the A1 , A2 , and A3 ,...

Things always come in threes—or so they say—and after the Moonman capless A1 and A2, the A3 was bound to appear. As was described on prev...

The Parker T1 briefly described on the previous text speaks of both the material –titanium-- and of the nib geometry –the integral nib confo...

In issue 76 (January 2026) of Shumi-no Bungubako (趣味の文具箱), I published the second instalment of the Confessions of a Spanish Pen Addict. On...

New pens are widely advertised―and that makes sense. Makers need to recoup the investment made to develop and market them. The fanfare and d...

Chinese pen companies have certainly felt the appeal of the capless idea. More so, dare I say, than any other country manufacturing pens. ...

Today I woke up to very sad news: Mr. Niikura has passed away. He was 84 years old. Mr. Niikura teaching at a Wagner meeting in 2010....

Pen boxes―love them, ignore them, hate them. Boxes―thrown away or kept? A lot can be said about them, but today I am not speaking about t...

In the year 89 of the Pilot era, that is, 2007, Pilot released the Pilot Quattro 89, this time with two t. The Quatro (1984) and the ...

Or, in English, fashionable, stylish. That is what the ad claims about the Pilot Quatro in 1985, a year after the release of the model . ...

Now and then, pen companies try to reinvent the wheel and in their strive for originality depart from the traditional well proven cylindrica...