Montegrappa
Montegrappa Chef Pen
Montegrappa Chef Pen
Montegrappa celebrates the culture of high cuisine with the new Chef Limited Edition, being made available in just 999 numbered pieces worldwide. Each pen is equipped with your choice of 18k solid gold rhodium-plated nib.
Our complimentary nib tuning ensures your Montegrappa fountain pen will have writing qualities equal to its appearance, and our exclusive nib customizations can further personalize your writing experience by increasing line-width variation and adding to the character and distinctiveness of your writing on the page.
A convergence between fine dining and fine writing instruments seems natural for Italian pen manufacturer Montegrappa, and the result is the Chef Limited Edition. The white resin cap, complete with pleats, is in the shape of a chef's hat, and the accompanying stainless steel clip is in the shape of a culinary knife. The wood-facsimile barrel has also been decorated with metal pegs to resemble the handle of a chef's blade.
Not just imaginatively designed, the Montegrappa Chef Limited Edition is also a highly practical writing instrument - Montegrappa's generous capacity piston-fill system allows the use of any bottled fountain pen ink, and the 18k solid gold nib is designed to last for a lifetime or more.
Each pen ships in a special presentation case designed to resemble a plate under glass, adding to the piece's collectibility and its value as a very special gift item. We are an authorized Montegrappa 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. 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.. |