Ikkaku By Nahvalur
Ikkaku By Nahvalur Raden Eggshell Black Urushi Limited Edition
Ikkaku By Nahvalur Raden Eggshell Black Urushi Limited Edition
Produced in an edition of just nine pens, the new Ikkaku By Nahvalur Raden Eggshell Black Urushi Limited Edition is available exclusively from us here at Nibs.com. Each ebonite body pen is hand-finished by skilled artisans, and 14k solid gold nibs are available in your choice of 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. The 14k Medium nib also makes an excellent starting point for many of our most popular customizations, including modifications for Flex, Stub, and Cursive Italic.
Ikkaku By Nahvalur is quickly gaining a reputation for producing handcrafted fountain pens of great beauty and superb writing qualities, and which also offer superb value at the price. The new Ikkaku By Nahvalur Raden Eggshell Black Urushi Limited Edition is a prime example of the company's approach to design and craftsmanship. Hand-placed raden and eggshell are carefully aligned on the pen body, while rose gold trim accentuates the warm beauty of this exceptional writing instrument.
The piston filling system provides a very generous ink capacity, and allows this pen to fill using any bottled fountain pen ink. Each pen ships in a special presentation box.
Our very limited quantities of this pen are expected to sell very quickly, and we strongly advise placing your order as soon as possible. We are an authorized Ikkaku by Nahvalur 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. Â 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.. |