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Nakaya Naka-ai Writer Pen of the Year 2022 - Orange Tiger
Nakaya Naka-ai Writer Pen of the Year 2022 - Orange Tiger
Made exclusively for Nibs.com, the Nakaya Naka-ai Writer Pen of the Year 2022 Orange Tiger is being produced in just 22 numbered pieces. A special Tiger rolling stopper is installed on each pen, which is also provided with a 14k solid gold nib in your choice of tipping size. Limit one pen per customer.
Celebrating both 2022 as the Year of the Tiger on the Asian calendar and also the 27th anniversary of the founding of Nibs.com, the 2022 Pen of the Year is being produced in 22 pieces in the Orange Tiger version and 5 pieces in the White Tiger version. Each pen is equipped with a special Tiger roll stopper, vermeil gold for the Orange Tiger and rhodium-plated sterling silver for the White Tiger. Nakaya 14k solid gold nibs provide a variety of tipping sizes - choose a broader nib for best results with our popular customizations such as Left Oblique, Cursive Italic, or Architects Point, or the Fine Soft for our famous Spencerian customization.
The stripes on the Orange Tiger have been realized using black Kuro-roio urushi and orange Araishu urushi finishes - the kanji symbol for ""Tiger"" is even hidden among the stripes! The extended kanji on the barrel of each pen reads, ""Nibs.com Pen of the Year,"" followed by the limited edition number of the individual pen.
The Naka-ai is Nibs.com's exclusive Nakaya model, created by company founder John Mottishaw in collabration with legendary designer Shinichi Yoshida of Nakaya. Nakaya pens can fill using any standard fountain pen ink when fitted with the easy to use converter, provided by us free of charge with your purchase. Consult our bottled ink offerings for a wide variety of inks we can recommend. The pen can also fill using convenient disposable Platinum brand ink cartridges.
Each Nakaya pen ships in a special paulownia softwood presentation box decorated with kanji-style script. A fabric pen kimono and starter pack of Platinum ink cartridges are included along with the converter. As always, our complimentary nib tuning adjusts pressure and optimum ink flow to your own personal preferences.
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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.. |