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Pilot Sterling Collection Toki
Pilot Sterling Collection Toki
Made of hand-fashioned sterling silver, Pilot Sterling Silver Collection fountain pens, formerly Namiki Sterling Silver Collection fountain pens, offer streamlined beauty at a surprisingly reasonable price. Engraved motifs accent the attractive surface of these pens, which are available with your choice of 18k solid gold rhodium-plated inlaid nib.
The Pilot Sterling Collection Toki fountain pen features one of the most lyric and evocative motifs yet seen on this series of pens.
The Pilot Sterling Collection Toki fountain pen is hand-made from sterling silver.
The Toki, or Crested Ibis, has the scientific name of nipponia nippon and is a wading shore bird that is often associated with Asian mythological themes. The representation it is given on this pen evokes its natural beauty, its cultural significance, and also its fragile place in a troubled ecosystem.
While the remaining wild population of the Toki was at one point restricted to the Shaanxi province of China, breeding and habitat restoration programs have made great strides, with the result that the Toki has now been reintroduced into the wild in Japan. Namiki's creation of this pen celebrates this hopeful step forward for this beautiful and noble bird.
Note the attention to detail on both the cap and barrel as the Toki is depicted both on land and in flight. Silver oxide is used to create a patina for shading and depth effects.
Pilot Sterling Collection series pens utilize a cartridge-converter filling system - pens can be filled with any bottled fountain pen ink by using the provided converter, or can use Pilot-Namiki brand cartridges.
These 18k inlaid nib units are well-suited to customizations including Stub, Cursive Italic, and Left Oblique - see our nib customizations page for more details.
The Pilot Sterling Toki fountain pen arrives in an elegant presentation box with a converter and starter cartridge.
Unless requested otherwise, each pen or nib you purchase from us will be carefully examined, tested, and optimized for your personal writing characteristics before it ships. See our nib set-up and optimization page for more details.
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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.. |