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Nakaya Long Writer Midori-tamenuri
Nakaya Long Writer Midori-tamenuri
The Nakaya Long Writer in Midori-tamenuri is hand-crafted from natural ebonite hard rubber and urushi lacquer. The pen is hand-turned at the Nakaya workshop in Tokyo, then sent to Wajima on the west coast of Japan for application of the urushi lacquer finish.
Final nib set-up and optimization takes place in the nibs.com workshop in Los Angeles, where each pen is specially tuned for the end user. Optional nib customizations are also available - choose the Fine Soft for Spencerian, or a broader nib for best results with the popular Architects Point modification.
Each Nakaya pen is individually produced in an artisanal process that can require up to a year to be completed. Layered Midori-tamenuri is a particularly challenging and time-intensive finish to produce, even for the skilled artisans of the traditional craft center of Wajima, but the luminous results are treasured by Nakaya users.
An ink converter, provided by us free of charge with your order, allows for the use of any bottled fountain pen ink. Convenient Platinum brand disposable ink cartridges can also be used.
A softwood presentation box with kanji-style script includes a fabric pen kimono and starter pack of ink cartridges as well as the converter. We are an authorized Nakaya 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. 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.. |