What's In My Pen Case? Checking in After Pen Show Season on My Favorite 2026 Finds!

From left: Opus 88 Koloro, seY Pen Tsugaru-Nuri Urushi, Bonecrusher7 Studios, Nagasawa Pilot Decimo Sengara Bay, Pilot Custom 845 Urushi in Prussian Blue. From left: Opus 88 Koloro, seY Pen Tsugaru-Nuri Urushi, Bonecrusher7 Studios, Nagasawa Pilot Decimo Sengara Bay, Pilot Custom 845 Urushi in Prussian Blue. Formal “Pen Show Season” is mostly over, with the big shows (California, D.C., and San Francisco) in the books. It’s been a busy year, to say the least. T.G.S. has attended the California Pen Show, the Arkansas Pen Show, the D.C. Pen Show, the San Francisco Pen Show, and the Dallas Pen Show. I also took separate trips to the San Francisco Stationery Fest, plus a trip to Japan in May. We capped off October with our On The Paper Trail Live Event in Nashville! Since running a store - as well as our own recent event -has been time consuming to say the least, I haven’t yet had the opportunity to recap my favorite finds from my 2026 travels. seY Pen Tsugaru-Nuri (left) next to my…