Ikkaku By Nahvalur
Ikkaku By Nahvalur Ye-Yu Urushi Raden
Ikkaku By Nahvalur Ye-Yu Urushi Raden
Each Ikkaku By Nahvalur Urushi Raden Ye-Yu fountain pen is handcrafted by skilled artisans. 14k solid gold nibs are available in Fine or Medium, and we can also offer regrinds to finer tipping sizes.
Our complimentary nib tuning adjusts pressure and ink flow to your own personal preferences. These 14k solid gold nibs can also serve as an excellent starting point for many of our most popular customizations, including the modification for added Flex.
Ikkaku By Nahvalur introduces itself with the Ye-Yu, featuring handcrafted urushi raden over an ebonite cap and barrel. "Ye-Yu" translates into English as "night feathers," an appropriately evocative name for the interplay of black urushi and multi-colored inlaid raden on this pen.
The Ye-Yu can fill with any bottled fountain pen ink when fitted with the provided converter, and can also use standard international size cartridges, including the high-capacity long cartridges we offer from Pelikan. For those who want an even higher capacity, Ikkaku By Nahvalur indicates that the pen can be converted into an eyedropper filler by removing the converter and applying a small amount of silicone grease to the section threads.
The pen ships in a wooden Ikkaku gift box which includes the warranty card. 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.. |