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ASC Studio Blue Lapis Rhodium
ASC Studio Blue Lapis Rhodium
The ASC Studio Blue Lapis Rhodium is the newest color of the Studio Line to arrive at Nibs.com. With a mixture of deep blue, black and white this pen is not only visually striking, but it is also comfortable to hold and use. This pen is available with a #6 Steel nib in both Fine and Medium sizes.
For this launch we are offering FREE CUSTOMIZATION on this pen with our complimentary nib tuning services, which adjusts optimum pressure and ink flow to your own personal preferences. This pen is a perfect everyday writer and provides an inexpensive way to try many of our nib customizations, including such popular modifications as Cursive Italic and Architects Point.
The Studio series offers a highly affordable introduction to ASC, renowned for its high end fountain pens usually crafted from Italian celluloid. The Studio series utilizes Italian-made precious resin for the cap and body of each pen, while the steel nibs are provided by one of the leading German nib manufacturers.
The piston-fill system provides for a generous capacity and allows this pen to fill with any bottled fountain pen ink. A stylish presentation box adds to the value of each pen and also makes this an excellent choice as a very special gift item. 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.. |