Nettuno
Nettuno Superba Celluloid Limited Edition
Nettuno Superba Celluloid Limited Edition
Produced in just 188 numbered pieces worldwide, the Nettuno Superba Celluloid Limited Edition is a quintessential example of Italian pen design. This elegant button-filler is available in a wide variety of tipping sizes ranging from Extra Fine to Broad and 1.5 mm Stub, along with stock Flex variants.
Our complimentary nib tuning adjusts optimum pressure and ink flow to your own personal preferences. Nettuno 14k nibs also make excellent starting points for our most popular nib customizations - choose the Extra Fine Flex or Fine Flex for our noted Spencerian customization, and broader nibs for the best results with customizations such as Cursive Italic and Architects Point.
Founded in 1911, Nettuno was the first Italian manufacturer of fountain pens and has now been reborn for the 21st century. The new Superba model combines a classic profile with modern expertise to create a uniquely memorable and versatile writing instrument.
The reliable and easy to use button filling system allows this pen to use any bottled fountain pen ink and provides for a generous capacity. A stylish presentation box is included with each pen. We are an authorized Nettuno dealer.
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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.. |