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Maiora Ogiva Racing
Maiora Ogiva Racing
The "Racing" fountain pen is crafted to embody the essence of the racing world through its design and technical specifications. Here are the key features highlighted:
1. Design Aesthetics: The pen is made from special hand-turned matte black resin, signifying its solid construction and quality craftsmanship.
2. Material Composition: It incorporates genuine 925 sterling silver plated with precious ruthenium, adding a luxurious touch and durability to the pen's body and fittings.
3. Nib and Feeder: The pen boasts a #8 (large) 14-carat bicolour gold nib, plated with precious ruthenium, which features the classic checkered flag design. This design symbolizes speed, competition, and triumph—key elements of racing culture. The nib is complemented by a red ebonite feeder (#8 large), enhancing both functionality and aesthetics.
4. Ink Mechanism: It utilizes a piston ink filling mechanism, known for its reliability and large ink capacity. Additionally, a transparent red window allows for easy monitoring of the ink level, ensuring a seamless writing experience.
5. Symbolic Connection: The pen aims to create a bond between the worlds of racing and fine writing, celebrating their shared values of perfection, innovation, and pushing boundaries.
Overall, the "Racing" fountain pen not only serves as a functional writing instrument but also as a tribute to the dynamic and exhilarating world of racing, embodying its spirit through its design and technical features.
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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.. |