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Parker Duofold Centennial Prestige Black Chevron RT
Parker Duofold Centennial Prestige Black Chevron RT
Parker brings the classic Duofold design into the 21st century with the new Duofold Centennial Prestige Black Chevron RT, the first contemporary Duofold in smoky ruthenium trim. Laser etching is used to create the chevron pattern on the metal cap and barrel.
Equipped with your choice of matching 18k solid gold ruthenium-plated nib, this pen qualifies for our complimentary nib tuning services, which help ensure that your pen will be an excellent everyday writer from the day you receive it. Parker 18k nibs also serve as excellent starting points for many of our exclusive nib customizations.
France-based Parker seems to delight in imaginative combinations of classic and contemporary designs, and the Duofold Centennial Prestige Black Chevron RT is perhaps the most distinctive example of this approach to date. Durable and reliable, this pen uses Parker's convenient cartridge-converter filling system - both Parker and Aurora brand cartridges can be used, and these large-size cartridges provide the pen with an ink capacity rivaling that of many piston-fillers.
The pen arrives in a stylish and understated presentation box which includes two starter ink cartridges, an owner's manual, and a complimentary ink converter for the use of bottled fountain pen ink. Parker pens always make for lovely and appropriate gift items.
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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.. |