Crónicas Estilográficas

If only for the sake of documenting Ban-ei (挽栄) pens at large, it might be worth to publish a family picture of nibs used on them. Ban-e...

Ban-ei (挽栄) , as we know by now, was a pen brand created by Sakai Eisuke (酒井栄助) with the collaboration of a number of expert craftsmen--Tak...

In many a pen forum, the Pilot Custom Urushi , marketed initially in 2016, raised a discussion—what is better, a Custom Urushi or a Sailor K...

This text is just an addendum to the previous Chronicle . Soon after publishing it I could get my hands on another Precious Wood pen by S...

Dating Sailor pens in often tricky. As I have shown previously, the date stamped on their nibs between the late 1960s and 2017 wa...

It was about this time last year when the Platinum Curidas became available in the market. It was released after a lot of hype and some de...

This is not new, and years ago I already argued in favor of the original model over the opportunistic re-issue: Against marketing, histo...