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Namiki Yukari Royale Vermilion
Namiki Yukari Royale Vermilion
The Namiki Yukari Royale Collection Vermilion offers a bright introduction to this line of hand-finished fountain pens. Natural urushi lacquer provides an impeccable finish. We make this pen available with your choice from among Namiki's solid gold 18k nibs. These nibs are easily among the top quality nibs in the world today.
Taking the same large, robust format as the other Yukari Royale fountain pens, this one makes a simpler statement. Only the slender cap lip band and pocket clip complicate this iconic shape. This particular color red, pigmented with highly stable red iron oxide, has been used since early times.
The red is deep and rich, reminiscent of the dye that was used to color the fabrics of Japanese royalty. This vermilion evokes a quiet passion, ancient and simple.
Urushi, the red material that forms the surface of this pen, is made from the sap from the Japanese lacquer tree. The process of collecting the urushi (sap) refining it, compounding it with powdered pigment and applying many successive layers of lacquer to this fountain pen takes three months or longer to complete. This technique, though painstaking, gives this fountain pen its deep lustrous sheen and has been used by Namiki craftsmen since 1918.
This streamlined and subtle torpedo form is a study in balance. Even though this is a relatively large pen, users will find this pen enjoyable and easy to control. Sporting the Namiki pentagonal logo the cap clip reinforces the simplicity of this design while holding firm to a shirt pocket.
A most unmistakable feature about this pen is its feed. Namiki has successfully created an entirely monochromatic fountain pen. Long, slender and red: this pen is simple, yet stunning. Perhaps this is what a haiku would look like if it took the shape of a fountain pen? The Yukari Royale fountain pen comes with Namiki's highest capacity converter available on any fountain pen that we know of.
Available with your choice of 18k single-tone nib, this pen is a superb writer; smooth and consistent. Namiki has the deserved reputation of making among the finest nibs in the world. (we think so.) The pentagonal Namiki logo appears on the clip as well as on the nib along with a gold Mt. Fuji.
The pen is delivered to you in a beautifully finished softwood box, lined with satin and includes a bottle of Namiki ink.
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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.. |