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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...

With this short Chronicle I just wanted to direct your attention to a recent text published by Jim Momoulides on PenHero.com on the Pilot S...

Regular commenter Saltire Turquoise posed a very interesting question to my initial description of Sakai Eisuke's prototypes made for P...

So, these prototypes were made by Sakai Eisuke. Then, how are they compared to other pens made by this master? Needless to say, Mr. Saka...

The size 3 nib we saw on the previous text makes that pen a strange creature with no clear counterpart in the general catalog of Pilot. ...

On the previous text I spoke about a couple of Pilot prototypes made by Sakai Eisuke in the early 1980s. These pens are urushi-coated balan...

The world of prototypes is an uncharted one. And that despite the fact that we certainly know that they existed and how the final result –th...

The Japanese word “kanreki” refers to the celebration of the 60th birthday. For the occasion, the birthday guy wears a red outfit composed b...

We have just seen that the Pilot's model Custom 74 has been in the market for over 30 years . But what about the direct competitors in t...