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Pilot Vanishing Point Red Rhodium
Pilot Vanishing Point Red Rhodium
The popular Pilot Vanishing Point series combines the elegance of a fountain pen with the ease of a ballpoint, and all at a very attractive price. Each pen is equipped with a solid gold 18k nib, and utilizes a ballpoint-type mechanism that allows the pen to be ready to write with just one easy click.
The Pilot Vanishing Point in Red with Rhodium Trim is a study in balance, with the warm red body and the cool silver trim creating equilibrium through contrast. This is not the bright, fiery red of the Vivid Red 2009 Limited Edition, but is rather more subtle and quiet in its elegance.
One of the most innovative fountain pens available, the Vanishing Point utilizes a ballpoint-type mechanism that allows the pen to be ready to write with just one easy click. This makes it a great pen for students, engineers, doctors and lawyers, or just anyone with an on-the-go lifestyle.
The Pilot Vanishing Point Red with Rhodium Trim fountain pen is available with your choice of rhodium-plated 18k nib unit.
Extra nib units with converters are available and easily interchangeable in this beautiful and functional pen. Vanishing Point nib units are well-suited to customizations including Cursive Italic or Left Oblique - see our nib customizations page for more information.
The Pilot Vanishing Point is a cartridge-converter pen - it can be filled with any bottled fountain pen ink using the provided converter, and can also use Pilot-Namiki brand ink cartridges.
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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.. |