Crónicas Estilográficas

This text is long overdue. This is, in essence, a correction to a couple of old posts on the Pilot (and Namiki) pens with size 50 nibs ( ::1...

Besides all the big pen companies there are always some much smaller brands doing their best to stay alive in a very competitive market. In ...

I ended up my previous Chronicle with a call to myself—I should say something about the Pilot Custom 823. This is a pen I have avoided on t...

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 ...

Maruzen, founded in 1869, is one of the reference stationers in Japan . It was also a key actor in the introduction of fountain pens in this...

On this text, some more notes on Ban-ei (挽栄) pens, including some corrections to my own words. These pens made by Sakai Eisuke (酒井栄助) an...

This text is the result of several emails exchanged between fellow blogger KMPN and myself. KMPN was very generous providing the pictures a...