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Oldwin Paris Torpedo Arco Bronze Spina Limited Edition
Oldwin Paris Torpedo Arco Bronze Spina Limited Edition
A collaboration between Oldwin Paris and The Pen Family to celebrate the 44th anniversary of the Mora Stylos store in Paris, the Oldwin Paris Torpedo Arco Bronze Spina Limited Edition has been produced in just 44 numbered pieces worldwide. We have received just a small number of these beautiful fish-bone patterned celluloid pens that we can offer to our customers.
Our complimentary nib tuning adjusts optimum pressure and ink flow to your own personal preferences. Oldwin Paris 14k nibs also provide an excellent starting point for customizations such as Stub, Cursive Italic, and the modification for added Flex.
The new Oldwin Paris Torpedo Arco Bronze Spina Limited Edition is an instant classic - the design melds Oldwin Paris's familiar Torpedo profile with a minimalist aesthetic, eliminating all bands and rings from the body of the pen in order to focus attention on the undulating waves of fishbone-pattern handcrafted celluloid.
The convenient cartridge-converter filling system allows this pen to use any bottled fountain pen ink, as well as the standard international size cartridges we offer from Pelikan and Kaweco. In order to preserve the minimalist aesthetic, the limited edition number for each pen is carefully engraved on the nib itself.
Each pen ships in a special commemorative presentation box. We are an authorized Oldwin Paris 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.. |