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Pelikan Souverän M805 Black - Fountain Pen
Pelikan Souverän M805 Black - Fountain Pen
The Pelikan M800 Black with Rhodium Trim is recognized as a new classic standard for the M800 line of fountain pens. With its black resin body and white metal on the clip and ring bands, this fountain pen is elegant as a black tie formal yet simple, making it a versatile choice for any occasion.
The Pelikan M805 Black with Rhodium Trim is a classic, elegant pen. With its black resin body and contrasting silver on the clip and ring bands, this fountain pen evokes images of a sharp, crisp tuxedo - this is a pen for black-tie affairs. Its understated simplicity, however, makes the the M805 an ideal everyday writer as well.
This is a full but not over-sized pen that will be a comfortable fit for most users. The M805 is a generous capacity piston-filler, able to draw up any bottled fountain pen ink.
Note the attention to detail in the fit and finish of this pen. Superb production quality is a hallmark of the Pelikan brand.
These 18k Pelikan nib units are well-suited to customizations including Stub, Cursive Italic, or Left Oblique - see our nib customizations page for more information.
Unless requested otherwise, each pen or nib you purchase from us will be carefully examined, tested, and optimized for your personal writing characteristics. If handled with care this Pelikan Souverän will provide many years of great service.
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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.. |