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Namiki Emperor Black Urushi
Namiki Emperor Black Urushi
The Namiki Emperor Black Urushi fountain pen makes a powerful statement. Hand-turned ebonite and natural urushi finish combine to make this large eyedropper-filled a pen equally suited to both the collector and the everyday user. It has an unsurpassed ink capacity.
The Namiki Emperor Black Urushi fountain pen is finished in natural Urushi lacquer and is provided with a generous #50 Namiki 18k solid gold nib in your choice of tipping size. Please note that the Fine nibs are identified as "FM" on the nib itself.
Dressed up in classic black and gold, the Namiki Emperor Black urushi fountain pen is a pen with presence. Smooth black urushi lacquer envelops the pen from tip to tail, demonstrating quality lacquer craft.
The Namiki Emperor revives the large size #50 fountain pen nib in this flagship model.
Not only is this eyedropper filler pleasing, but it also possesses an impressive ink capacity, allowing you to write for hours in luxury without interruption. It has an ink shut-off to seal the nib from the barrel when not in use.
A matching polished black feed on the underside of the nib adds a unique detail to this Black Urushi writing instrument.
The silky black finish is achieved using the Roiro Urushi Shiage method in which raw non-oil lacquer is rubbed into the Emperor after polishing it with special charcoal.
A gold pocket clip bears the Namiki name and pentagon and serves as a built in roll-stopper.
The Namiki Emperor Black urushi fountain pen arrives in an elegant softwood presentation box and includes a bottle of ink, eyedropper, and documentation.
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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.. |