Crónicas Estilográficas

I cannot say for sure that it was Nibmeister Nobuyoshi Nagahara's idea on the first place, but certainly it was him who popularized the ...

What single writing tool could produce ALL the lines shown on the following picture? All the strokes were done with the same writing too...

This is, lately, a recurrent topic of discussion: how important is to have a gold nib? What are the differences in performance between those...

Long time ago, at the beginning of this blog, I wrote a text vindicating the role of the nib –and of the feed—over the rest of the pen. A f...

Nibmeister Yamada is already well known to the readers of these pages. His innovative approach to nibs and his impressive skills to manipul...

We recently saw how nibmeister Yamada managed to turn the screw of the nib a little bit more. Opposing two nibs does indeed surprise whoeve...

The obvious alternative to the asymmetric configuration of the opposed nibs is bending both nibs in a similar fashion. However simple this ...

Blogs and fora and other Internet media are now re-broadcasting the news originally released by the BBC on the increasing popularity of fou...

Sailor’s specialty nibs , I have said on these chronicles , are arguably the most interesting innovation in fountain pens in recent years. T...

I have already complained on these Chronicles on the difficulties, on modern Japanese pens, to find interesting nibs combined with self-fill...