Crónicas Estilográficas

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 know of the existence of Sailor nibs labeled as S –particularly in the 1990s- instead of as H, as is more common. The obvious understand...

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...

If only for the sake of documenting Ban-ei (挽栄) pens at large, it might be worth to publish a family picture of nibs used on them. Ban-e...

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...

This text is just an addendum to the previous Chronicle . Soon after publishing it I could get my hands on another Precious Wood pen by S...

Dating Sailor pens in often tricky. As I have shown previously, the date stamped on their nibs between the late 1960s and 2017 wa...

The father was, obviously, Nobuyoshi Nagahara. He created the Naginata Togi nib—a variable nib with longer tines. And he also set the basis ...

The Japanese idea of pocket pen –also known as long-short in the West- was invented by Sailor in 1963. Three Sailor Mini manufactured...