Nakaya
Nakaya Neo Standard Bamboo Woods
Nakaya Neo Standard Bamboo Woods
The Nakaya Neo Standard Bamboo Woods manages to capture both the humble, delicate nature of the bamboo plant as well as its unshakable strength and hardiness. Please note that this pen is provided standard with the hand-painted clip seen here.
If you stand amidst a grove of bamboo plants you will notice that though the stalks will sway with the gentlest breeze, the plants remain firmly rooted in the ground despite the strongest winds. With a painted motif of amber leaves, a mahogany background, and gold dust details, this Neo Standard is as much a work of art as a fully functional writing instrument.
The conical Neo Standard model showcases the Tame-sukashi technique, in which clear Urushi lacquer is painted over the motif. Over time the bamboo woods will become more clear as the outer layers of Urushi mature.
A fine mist of gold dust adds texture to the color of this pen. See the stunning shades of amber, brown, and gold that reflect off of the light and bring the Bamboo Woods fountain pen to life.
The Nakaya Neo Standard Bamboo Woods is provided standard with your choice of solid gold 14k single-tone nib. These 14k nibs are well-suited to customizations including Stub, Cursive Italic, and Left Oblique, as well as the modification for added flex.
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.
Because the Neo Standard model only comes as a Writer with a clip, Nakaya has also applied Tame-sukashi to the clip in order to ensure fluidity of the Maki-e design. It almost appears as if the clip camouflages into the bamboo woods itself.
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.. |