Crónicas Estilográficas

Today I wanted to reflect on an old question about which recent developments are making it a bit more relevant. What do we mean when we...

I have often said that I just write about what I see. And then I publish my texts and wait to see how readers react to them. Not many com...

Some years ago I wrote about a nominally Spanish pen brand by the name of Presidente . Then, a fellow stylophile in Greece contacted me apro...

Exactly 10 years ago, on April 20th 2010 , I started this blog. Along this time I have published 659 texts where I tried to describe some ...

Some of you might have seen that I have joined the ranks of Instagram (IG) . That happened last October. Since then, I have published over 3...

Yes, a correction to a previous mistake. On a recent Chronicle I mentioned that a pen decorated by Mr. Iwase had its body made by lathe m...

Over seven years of writing… I struggle to provide accurate and reliable information. Sometimes, of course, I have made mistakes and I have ...

Now and then I need to rant. Or reflect aloud. Members of the stylophile community like to brag about how wonderful we are, about how we a...

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,...

Some housecleaning on recent posts: -- I changed the out-of-focus pictures of the Chronicle “Combo” . Sometimes, life gives you a second c...

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 ...

Je suis Charlie. I am Charlie. Soy Charlie. わたしはCharlieです。 Bruno Taut Nakano, January 9th 2015 etiquetas: metabitácora

Some weeks ago, Brad Dowdy of The Pen Addict contacted me to participate on his series “Three Questions with…” Needless to say, I was delig...

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 ...

Does anyone read my texts or looking at the pictures is mostly all we do when "reading" a blog, any blog? Inoxcrom 77, ste...

When writing the Chronicle on the actual origins of the nibs of many pen manufacturers, my intention was only to provide an introduction fo...

Shortly, but without any fixed periodicity, I will be publishing a series of files to document all the Pilot Capless models released along i...