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Along these past months there have been a number of events that might show something is changing in the stylographic scene. Isolated, these ...

What is the value of writing a blog about fountain pens? This blog is about to enter into its seventh year of existence . Along this time,...

This story is already old and well known, and many a commentator and stylophile have voiced their opinions and views. But I am slow and had ...

I owe an explanation and a word of thanks to the readers of these texts and, more in particular, to those who took the effort to comment on ...

I think I should start by apologizing before all those who read these texts and who do not care much about fountain pen fora, and for whom t...

I have already spoken about fora and their problems on these Chronicles . Fora, I concluded , were not free. They do belong to some people w...

The mystery, apparently, has been solved—the pen to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Pilot Capless will be a modern Capless pen (1998 ...

Blogs and fora are the main channels that keep any cyber-community connected. Both allow, although in different degrees, the exchange of in...

Evaluación de la pluma Twsbi Diamond 530. Posiblemente sea hora de hacer una evaluación de una pluma que ya ha aparecido mucho en estas cr...

The Súper T ads in the 1940s and 1950s spoke of twenty different possible nibs for its pens. The Kaweco Sport in the 1930s had the option of...

Spanish fountain pens are basically unknown outside Spain. Their history, actually, has not yet been written and it might very well be the h...

Recently I wrote a chronicle to report on the new release of Sailor seasonal inks. On that text I also criticized that company for its poli...

The debate is always open: how far can anyone go in copying things? Where do we set the line between inspiration and counterfeiting? Is it h...

Some weeks ago there was a somehow bitter discussion on the Fountain Pen Network (FPN) about the American company Danitrio . It all started...

Itoya’s Maki-e Fair 2010 (This event was celebrated in a shop, and unfortunately the management did not authorized pictures. However, this b...