Nakaya
Nakaya Portable Cigar Chinkin Cat With Wool Balls
Nakaya Portable Cigar Chinkin Cat With Wool Balls
The Nakaya Portable Cigar Cat With Wool Balls utilizes intricate, time-intensive chinkin technique to realize a lyrical motif. Gold powder and gold leaf are among the precious materials used on this pen, which usually requires up to a year or more to be produced.
Our complimentary nib tuning adjusts optimum pressure and ink flow to your personal preferences, and our optional nib customizations can add to the character of our writing on the page and can also make this pen a valuable tool for calligraphy and other skilled handwriting techniques. We are the sole Nakaya retailer in the English speaking world.
Chinkin technique has a history stretching back hundreds of years, and the skilled artisans in Wajima have here used it for an affectionate and colorful portrait of a family cat. Gold powder is used to fill in the carefully hand-etched chinkin lines, and a rare use of color is made for the yarn and wool balls.
Nakaya pens use a convenient cartridge-converter filling system - a reusable converter, provided by us free of charge with your purchase, can allow for the use of any bottled fountain pen ink, and the pen can also use Platinum brand disposable ink cartridges.
Each Nakaya pen ships in a special softwood presentation box which includes a fabric pen kimono and starter pack of ink cartridges along with the converter.
Couldn't load pickup availability
Customization Guide
Stub
 
|
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.
|
Cursive Italic
 
|
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.
|
Formal Italic
 |
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.
|
Left Oblique
 |
 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)
 |
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
 |
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.. |