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Nakaya Long Cigar Nuno Kise Silver Tin Fabric
Nakaya Long Cigar Nuno Kise Silver Tin Fabric
The Nakaya Long Cigar Nuno Kise fountain pen provides a strking example of the innovation that regularly comes from Nakaya. This unique writing instrument is coated in fabric which is embedded in a layer of urushi lacquer. It is then over-coated in layers of silver tin and lacquer mix and is polished between applications. This painstaking process requires several months.
The Nakaya Long Cigar Nuno Kise fountain pen is handcrafted from ebonite, Urushi lacquer, silver tin, and fabric. It comes with solid gold 14k single-tone nib in your choice of tipping size.
The double slit Music nib is available at an added premium, as are plated nibs in Pink Gold, Rhodium, Ruthenium, or Two-Tone.
Many of Nakaya's special edition pens use unique combinations of technique which defy easy categorization by the traditional standards of Maki-e art. As always, Nakaya seeks to stretch the boundaries of what can be achieved both on and with a fountain pen.
The pen body is hand-turned from ebonite hard rubber which has been sustainably harvested from the rubber gum tree. Ebonite is the classic material for quality fountain pens - writing instruments created using this material have been in everyday usage for a hundred years or more. This is not a pen you would keep in a shirt pocket, yet it maintains excellent balance in the hand.
Applications of fabric, silver tin, and lacquer create a unique textural finish. The semi-gloss surface reflects the handmade process with its subtle ridges interspersed with smoother sections. This is truly a writing instrument you need to feel in the hands in order to appreciate the magnitude of its beauty.
Nakaya pens can be filled with bottled fountain pen ink using the provided converter and can also use Platinum brand ink cartridges. Hand-painted Maki-e converters are also available. The rounded end cap is not completely smooth and uniform but rather maintains the natural look of the Nuno Kise process.
Nakaya 14k nibs are well-suited to customizations including Stub, Cursive Italic, and Left Oblique, as well as the modification for added flex.
Though the entire range of Nakaya nibs is made available, the ruthenium-plated nib complements the deep silver of the Nuno Kise.
Note that the gripping section is finished in the same silver tin and lacquer mix in the stone textured Ishime kanshitsu surface, which feels wonderful between the fingers.
Nakaya pens ship in a solid softwood shipping box decorated with Japanese Kanji script and lined with decorative rice paper. A fabric pen ""kimono"" and starter box of Platinum brand cartridges are also included, making this pen a lovely presentation item. Sensible and elegant packaging has long been a hallmark of the Nakaya brand.
Nakaya pens are individually handcrafted in a process that requires a minimum of three to six months and often much longer.
Unless requested otherwise, each pen or nib you purchase from us will be carefully examined, tested, and optimized for your personal writing characteristics before it ships. See our nib set-up and optimization page for more details.
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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.. |