Crónicas Estilográficas

There are some people, mostly outside Japan, for whom anything related to urushi acquires a semi-mythical value. In Japan, some companies d...

What's the difference between the following pens? A Platinum Izumo (top) and a President. In essence, they are the same pen—a...

The following two pens were available in the market in the year 1993, the year of the 75th anniversary of the company. Pilot Custom 748 ...

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...

NOTE added on July 23rd, 2018. The body of this pen is not a creation of Mr. Momose, but an old and unused stock of pen bodies of Ishi Shote...

Sometimes reading the pen is truly helpful. Well, mostly always. At the past Madrid Pen Show I saw the pen on the photograph. A Visco...

It is already here—the announced Pilot Custom Urushi in vermillion is already in the shops. The new, although not so much of a novelty, ...

The big news in the world of fountain pens in 2016 –at least in Japan— was the release of the Pilot Custom Urushi . The three points of ...

NOTE: On January 13th (2017) I have made some minor additions to this text following the indications of some commentators. Pilot has ofte...

Some weeks ago, my fellow blogger and friend Pedro Haddock published a very interesting article on a Danitrio pen on his blog “El pajarete ...