Nakaya
Nakaya Neo Standard Matte Black Hairline
Nakaya Neo Standard Matte Black Hairline
The Neo Standard Matte Black Hairline fountain pen has a gentle softness both to the eye and the touch. The ruthenium plated clip and 14K ruthenium nib convey a quiet authority and could slip by unnoticed until it is used to write. Then the superior ink flow and smooth writing quality stand out.
Seen here with the ruthenium-plated clip and nib, this pen is a study in gray and silver. The black hairline surface reflects light not as a monotone black, but as a soft, lustrous gray.
The response to this design has been highly enthusiastic. One of our customers says, ""This is the best shape that Nakaya has ever made.""
The hairline surface is achieved first by applying many layers of carbon black urushi lacquer over the hard rubber. Then the surface is scarified with parallel ultra-fine lines. The result is soft in the fingers and easy on the eyes.
This pen also comes stock with a 14K gold nib and gold-plated clip. That combination adds further dash and flare to this elegantly-conceived pen.
The Nakaya nib bears the imprint ""Nakata"", the family name of the manufacturer. Made of solid 14K gold, it is seen here with the ruthenium- plated clip and broad nib.
Each of these nibs is suitable for our customization to extra flexible. The medium, broad, and extra broad tips can be customized into a cursive italic, stub, or oblique point. Note that Nakaya now offers a soft fine and soft medium nib, both of which are much more flexible than the their standard nibs.
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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.. |