Namiki
Namiki Aya Akatsuki Red
Namiki Aya Akatsuki Red
The Namiki Aya Akatsuki Red uses dark burnished urushi lacquer and gold powder to evoke the moments just before dawn. Each ebonite body pen has been hand-finished and is provided with your choice of Namiki #30 18k solid gold two-tone nib in Fine, Medium, or Broad.
Regrinds to finer tipping sizes are available from us, as well as our exclusive nib customizations - choose broader nibs for best results with such popular modifications as Stub, Cursive Italic, and Architects Point. Whether or not you choose a customization or regrind, our complimentary nib tuning adjusts optimum pressure and ink flow to your own personal preferences.
The Namiki Aya Collection offers ebonite body urushi Maki-e pens hand-finished by members of the renowned Kokkai artisans collective in Kanagawa. Gold and silver powders are hand applied using painstaking togidashi technique. Each pen requires up to a year to be produced.
The pens can fill with any bottled fountain pen ink using the high capacity CON-70 converter included with your purchase. The pens can also use convenient Pilot brand disposable ink cartridges, now available in nineteen different carefully nuanced hues. The pen ships in a traditionally styled wooden presentation box and a special maroon polishing cloth is also included.
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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. 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.. |