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Nakaya Naka-ai Cigar Palmet
Nakaya Naka-ai Cigar Palmet
A unique offering even by Nakaya standards, the Naka-ai Cigar Palmet features a black Maki-e palmet motif over an unusual white eggshell base. Each pen is hand-finished by skilled artists in the traditional craft center of Wajima on the west coast of Japan.
Our complimentary nib tuning completes the process by adjusting optimum pressure and ink flow to your personal writing characteristics. Optional nib customizations can then add to the character and distinctiveness of your writing on the page. We are the sole authorized Nakaya dealer in the English-speaking world.
Varied palmet motifs can be seen in many Nakaya pens, including many pens created using exacting chinkin technique. Here, the motif is created using black Maki-e over the unusual eggshell white base - please note that this base color is used only for higher-end Maki-e pens, and Nakaya does not make it available as a solid color finish without Maki-e.
This pen uses Nakaya's convenient cartridge-converter system - the pen can be filled with any bottled fountain pen ink when fitted with the reusable converter, provided by us free of charge with your order. Nakaya pens can also be filled with Platinum brand disposable ink cartridges, a great choice for those who want easy filling choices on the go.
Each Nakaya pen is packaged in a special paulownia softwood presentation box and also includes a fabric pen kimono and starter pack of ink cartridges.
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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.. |