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Namiki Yukari Royale Black Urushi
Namiki Yukari Royale Black Urushi
The Namiki Yukari Royale Black Urushi fountain pen makes a powerful statement. This hand-finished full-size writing instrument is available with your choice of Namiki's top quality 18k solid gold nib.
This solid black lacquer Namiki Yukari Royale Urushi is the quietest of the Yukari Royale collection. Unlike the Urushi Vermilion, whose most unmistakable feature is its red body and feed, this Urushi makes a statement in black. The black color appears to both simplify and amplify the fountain pen's design, and most clearly showcases the form of the pen. The gold metal cap lip is functional here as well, giving protection to an otherwise fragile part of the pen.
The traditional black lacquer surface is made from urushi lacquer applied in many layers over a period of several months. This technique used by Namiki craftsmen since 1918 gives this fountain pens its deep lustrous sheen.
The streamline and subtle torpedo form of this fountain pen is a study in balance. Even though this is a relatively large pen, users will find this pen enjoyable and easy to control.
Available with your choice of 18k single-tone nib, this pen is a superb writer, both smooth and consistent.
The pentagonal Namiki logo appears on the clip as well as on the nib along with a gold Mt. Fuji. Provided with Namiki's highest quality converter the Yukari Royale Urushi Black also comes with a bottle of Namiki ink and an ink cartridge. A beautifully designed softwood inner presentation box surrounds this pen.
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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.. |