Platinum
Platinum 3776 Century Black Gold Music Pen
Platinum 3776 Century Black Gold Music Pen
The Platinum Century Black Music Pen offers a true double-slit solid gold Music nib at a very reasonable price. With its sleek black resin and gold trim, this pen is identical to the Platinum 3776 Century Black on the outside.
Under the cap, however, this specialized nib offers a unique writing experience. Extremely rare today, double slit Music nibs were commonly offered by major pen makers in the 1920s. Smooth-writing and full of character, the Music nib offers a juicy, broad, expressive line.
This is a durable and well-designed cartridge-converter pen. For the same pen with the full range of Platinum's 3776 series nibs, see the Platinum 3776 Century Black. The compact shape fits comfortably in most hands.
The line width on the music tip is around 1.0 to 1.3mm on the broadest down-stroke and as fine as .3mm on the thinnest cross stroke. Because it is double slit, twice as much ink is available to the tip.
Take a closer look at the rich black finish and the classic gold trim in the barrel detail. You can see that ""3776"" is etched into the wide cap band, adding a personalized touch. ""3776"" refers to the height in meters of Mt. Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan.
The Music Pen comes attractively packaged in a brown velvet presentation case and includes converter and a starter ink cartridge.
Please note that the Platinum Music nib is only available on the Century Music Pens and not on any other model. Those wishing to use a true double-slit Music nib of this kind might also consider any Nakaya brand pen with Music nib.
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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.. |