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Despite the active pen community existing in Tokyo, this big city lacks an international pen event. Sure there are small fairs ( ::1:: , ::2...

The ink business seems very attractive… even to companies with no interests in the fountain pen world. Such is the case of Nakabayashi , a...

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...

Few elements in a pen are really standardized. Each maker created –still creates– many of the components and they only had to match the othe...

At first, most of us stylophiles, follow the same pattern. At some point we became attracted to fountain pens and started buying and accumul...

The Pilot 65 –or Custom 65 as some called it—is a model I have mentioned a lot on these pages, but I have never described it in detail. Give...

Following the news and the movements in the market of fountain pens I can identify the following trends: 1. The Chinese invasion. Chines...