Nakaya
Nakaya Neo Standard Toki-tamenuri
Nakaya Neo Standard Toki-tamenuri
The Nakaya Neo Standard in Toki-tamenuri is a classic example of this Japanese's company's approach to finish and design. Each handcrafted ebonite pen requires a minimum of six months to be completed, including lacquering in natural Urushi finish.
Any Nakaya pen you purchase from us qualifies for our complimentary nib tuning services, as well as our optional nib customizations. We are the exclusive retailer for Nakaya pens in the English-speaking world.
The ebonite used in Nakaya fountain pens is sustainably harvested from the Asian rubber gum tree, and the Urushi lacquer finish is also a natural tree-derived product. Each Nakaya pen is hand made on an individual basis, and no two will ever be exactly alike.
The pen fills using Nakaya's convenient cartridge-converter system, which allows for the use of Platinum brand cartridges or any bottled fountain pen ink. Each pen ships in a special soft wood presentation box which includes kanji-style decoration, a fabric pen kimono, a starter pack of cartridges, and a complimentary converter. The tasteful and attractive packaging adds to the value of Nakaya pens as beautiful and unique gift items.
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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.. |