Tag: Nakaya

  • My Pen Collection 2021

    My Pen Collection 2021

    In early January I wrote about my ink collection and I mentioned that I’d be writing an update on my pens as well. It’s taken a while because there has been a lot of photos taken for this! This is a long, so I’d understand if you skim the stats and my thoughts on the…

  • My Pen Collection 2019

    My Pen Collection 2019

    Within the theme of my ink collection, this is my pen collection. Over a year and a half ago I wrote about my pen collection and while a lot has changed, the collection has only grown by around 10 (in this post and the previous I have not counted cheap $5 Chinese pens but I…

  • Pen Review: Nakaya Decapod Writer Aka-tanemuri

    Pen Review: Nakaya Decapod Writer Aka-tanemuri

    On July 31st last 2017 I reviewed the Nakaya Piccolo Writer Kuro-tamenuri. Twenty-eight days before that review was published I had ordered my own Nakaya. Ten months later it finally arrived; the Nakaya Decapod Writer Aka-tamenuri with a broad bi-colour nib. It’s been a long wait but I think it was worth it and having this one…

  • Pen Review: Nakaya Piccolo Writer

    Pen Review: Nakaya Piccolo Writer

    I never fully appreciated Nakaya pens (or any of the artisan Japanese pen makers) but I’ve found myself looking at them closer and closer this year. I recently ordered a Nakaya Decapod Aka-tamenuri (it takes many months for them to be made) but in the mean time this Nakaya Piccolo Writer was very generously lent…