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Aurora Optima Resin Black Gold
Aurora Optima Resin Black Gold
Gold trim and black resin are a classic combination, giving the Aurora Optima Black Resin with Gold-Filled Trim fountain pen a quiet, understated authority. This pen has its roots in the 1930s, but the styling is truly timeless.
The Aurora Optima Black Resin with Gold Trim fountain pen is made of high-quality black resin with gold-plated trim and is made available with your choice of solid 14k gold large nib.
Aurora Optima Black Resin GFT Fountain Pen
Aurora's piston-filler system allows this pen to utilize any standard bottled fountain pen ink, including Aurora's own richly-hued inks in Black and in Blue. The transparent ink window gives advance notice when the pen is ready for a refill.
Aurora Optima Black Resin GFT Fountain Pen
Aurora Optima Black Resin GFT Fountain PenFeaturing the signature Optima flat-top cap and an elegant gold-plated clip, the Black Resin GFT is an upscale writing instrument.
Aurora Optima Black Resin GFT Fountain PenAurora nib units are designed to be easily interchangeable and are well-suited for many customizations.
Aurora Optima Black Resin GFT Fountain Pen
The pen ships in a black hinged presentation box.
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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. Ā 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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Ā Commonly used for signatures and correspondence, the Left ObliqueĀ 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 toĀ Architectās 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.Ā This also tends to be a particularly useful customization for those practicing Arabic or HebraicĀ calligraphy. |
Spencerian
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Perhaps our most popular customization, but also one of the most advanced, theĀ Mottishaw Spencerian CustomizationĀ 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 specialĀ Spencerian page.. |