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Lamy Dialog 3 Piano White
Lamy Dialog 3 Piano White
A study in sleek minimalism, the Lamy Dialog 3 Piano White is also one of the most versatile and creatively engineered fountain pens currently available. With a twist mechanism that simultaneously extends the nib and retracts the clip, this is a fountain pen with all the convenience and ease of use of a ballpoint.
Lamy 14k solid gold nibs serve as excellent starting points for many of our popular nib customizations. We carefully inspect and test each pen prior to shipping, adjusting ink flow and pressure to your personal writing preferences.
The Lamy design ethos is heavily influenced by the Bauhaus school of the 1920's, and the Dialog 3 Piano White offers a superb example of this approach. White lacquer highlights the clean lines and minimalist design of this ingeniously engineered writing instrument.
Lamy's convenient cartridge-converter system, which allows the use of either bottled fountain pen ink or disposable Lamy brand cartridges, adds to the utility of this pen - this is a perfect writing instrument for doctors, technicians, engineers, or just anybody who needs a fountain pen that operates with the ease of a ballpoint.
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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.. |