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Nakaya Naka-ai Writer Pen of the Year 2022 - Orange Tiger (Clip Version)
Nakaya Naka-ai Writer Pen of the Year 2022 - Orange Tiger (Clip Version)
Made exclusively for Nibs.com, the Nakaya Naka-ai Writer Pen of the Year 2022 Orange Tiger is a limited edition of just 22 numbered pieces, and we are now offering the final remaining piece of this special series. This final pen features a standard Nakaya gold clip instead of the Tiger roll stopper, and it comes with a 14k solid gold nib in your choice of tipping size.
This special edition was created to celebrate 2022 as the Year of the Tiger on the Asian calendar and to commemorate Nibs.com's 27th anniversary. The striking stripes on the Orange Tiger are skillfully crafted using black Kuro-roiro and orange Araishu urushi finishes, with the kanji symbol for "Tiger" subtly hidden among the stripes. Each pen is inscribed with "Nibs.com Pen of the Year" on the barrel, along with its limited edition number.
The Naka-ai is an exclusive Nakaya model, designed by Nibs.com founder John Mottishaw in collaboration with renowned designer Shinichi Yoshida. The pen is compatible with any standard fountain pen ink, using the included converter or disposable Platinum ink cartridges.
Each Nakaya pen is beautifully presented in a paulownia softwood box adorned with kanji script, and it comes with a fabric pen kimono and a starter pack of Platinum ink cartridges. As always, our complimentary nib tuning service ensures the best writing experience tailored to your 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. 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.. |