Nakaya
Nakaya Long Cigar Ishime-Kanshitsu Heki-Tamenuri
Nakaya Long Cigar Ishime-Kanshitsu Heki-Tamenuri
With its textured stone finish, the Nakaya Long Cigar in Ishime Heki-tamenuri is a tactile as well as a visual experience. The sleek, rounded model provides an expansive surface area for a unique finish.
The beauty of the Long Cigar is its simple elegance. We find that posting the cap on the back of the barrel is unnecessary with a pen of this length, and the balance feels just right in the hand.
The long gripping section, also coated in the stone-finish (Ishi-me Kan-shitsu) has a sensuous feel between the fingers. This Long model, the ""Cigar"", without clip, reveals the form of the pen without encumbrance. We suggest a Pen Pillow with all ""Cigar"" models to keep them exactly where you want them on your desk.
The stone finish on this pen shows a big difference in color between the amoeba like high spots and the deeper lacquer color in between. This highly controlled surface is masterfully applied to the pen.
The solid gold 14K nib is imprinted with ""Nakata,"" the family name of the manufacturer.
Each of these nibs is suitable for our customization to extra flexible. The medium, broad and extra broad tip can be customized into a cursive italic, stub or oblique point.
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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.. |