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Nakaya Piccolo Writer Midori-tamenuri
Nakaya Piccolo Writer Midori-tamenuri
The Nakaya Piccolo Writer in layered Midori-tamenuri finish is available with the full range of Nakaya 14k solid gold nibs. Each pen is hand-finished in the traditional craft center of Wajima on the west coast of Japan.
Our complimentary nib tuning adjusts optimum pressure and ink flow to your own personal preferences. Nakaya 14k nibs also make an excellent starting point for our exclusive nib customizations - choose a 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 has quickly become one of the most popular and in demand Nakaya finishes. Each individual pen can require up to a year to be completed.
Nakaya pens use a convenient cartridge-converter filling system - any bottled fountain pen ink can be used when the pen is fitted with the reusable converter, provided by us free of charge with your order. Easy to use Platinum brand disposable ink cartridges can also be used.
Each pen ships in a special softwood presentation box with kanji-style script. A fabric pen kimono and starter pack of cartridges are included along with the converter. 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.. |