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ASC Gladiatore Medio Bespoke Black Lucens Celluloid
ASC Gladiatore Medio Bespoke Black Lucens Celluloid
Produced in just 23 numbered pieces worldwide, the new ASC Gladiatore Medio Bespoke Black Lucens Celluloid utilizes original black translucent celluloid stock created by legendary Italian pen manufacturer OMAS. Each pen is equipped with a 14k solid gold nib in your choice of Fine, Medium, or true double-slit Music nib. Regrinds to finer tipping sizes are also available from us.
Our complimentary nib tuning adjusts optimum pressure and ink flow to your own personal preferences. ASC 14k nibs also make an excellent starting point for many of our most popular nib customizations, including the modifications for Flex, Stub, and Cursive Italic.
There is simply nothing else like handcrafted Italian celluloid as a material for fountain pen caps and barrels, and even more so when it is legacy material originally produced by the now-legendary OMAS pen company. The mottled, semi-translucent Lucens has always been one of the most sought-after celluloid patterns - because of the unique processes involved, no two pens will ever be exactly alike.
The high capacity piston-filler system allows this pen to use any bottled fountain pen ink - for best results, choose from among the wide selection of bottled inks we offer. The gold trim pen bands feature ASC's inverted triangle pattern, and the serial number for each pen is engraved on the cap ring.
A special presentation box is included with each order. We are an authorized ASC dealer.
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Customization Guide
Stub
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Above is the same size nib after a regrind to Stub. A regrind to Stub is often a good place to start for your first customization. A Stub nib provides broad down-strokes and narrow cross-strokes while writing, and is less position-sensitive on the paper than the crisper and slightly more demanding cursive italic.
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Cursive Italic
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More demanding, but also providing crisper edges and more line-width variation, is the very popular customization to Cursive Italic. This also provides broad down-strokes and narrow cross-strokes, but is also more position-sensitive in terms of how the pen is held and requires more skill on the part of the user. This is a common customization for artists and calligraphers, but is still smooth enough to make for a good everyday writer.
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Formal Italic
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Formal Italic is an even crisper and more demanding customization than either cursive italic or left oblique, and is usually utilized for calligraphy and by the most experienced users. This provides broad down-strokes and narrow cross-strokes, with even crisper corners and edges than a cursive italic - this is an extremely position-sensitive customization.
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Left Oblique
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Commonly used for signatures and correspondence, the Left Oblique customization provides broad diagonal strokes and narrow cross-strokes, and like a cursive italic, is more position-sensitive and demanding than a stub. The whole pen must be rotated to the left in order to write smoothly, without skipping. The "Left" in Left Oblique refers to the cut of the nib itself, and does not refer to the handedness of the writer. |
Architect's Point (Also for Arabic and Hebraic writing)
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A more exotic regrind is that to Architect’s Point. Named after the style of writing used by Frank Lloyd Wright, this regrind is the opposite of cursive italic, and provides for broad cross-strokes and narrow down-strokes. This also tends to be a particularly useful customization for those practicing Arabic or Hebraic calligraphy. |
Spencerian
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Perhaps our most popular customization, but also one of the most advanced, the Mottishaw Spencerian Customization has gained special attention from being featured in a customer's YouTube video which has now received over twelve million views! The Spencerian starts from a semi-soft 14k nib and adds additional flex and a regrind to needlepoint to create a specialized writing point used for copperplate calligraphy. For more details, visit our special Spencerian page.. |