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Nakaya Piccolo Cigar Midori-tamenuri
Nakaya Piccolo Cigar Midori-tamenuri
The Nakaya Piccolo Cigar in Midori-tamenuri brings this popular finish to Nakaya's most compact pen model. Each pen requires up to a year to be produced.
Our complimentary nib tuning completes the pen production process by adjusting optimum pressure and ink flow to your personal writing characteristics. Optional nib customizations can also add to the character of your writing on the page - choose the Fine Soft nib for our noted Spencerian modification, or a broader nib for best results with our popular Architects Point customization.
Luminous layered Midori-tamenuri finish has quickly become a favorite among Nakaya users. The bright green under-layer will grow brighter with time as outer layer of clear urushi lacquer matures. Ebonite hard rubber, used for the cap and barrel, is a classic material for quality fountain pens - many vintage pens in this material are still in daily use a hundred years or more after being originally produced.
The pen can fill with any bottled fountain pen ink when fitted with a converter, provided by us free of charge with your purchase. Convenient disposable Platinum brand ink cartridges can also be used. The softwood presentation box also includes a fabric pen kimono and starter pack of cartridges. We are an authorized Nakaya dealer.
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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.. |