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Platinum 3776 Century Chenoceau White
Platinum 3776 Century Chenoceau White
A follow-up to the popular Bourgogne and Chartres pens, the Platinum 3776 Century Chenoceau White adds a new soft ivory hue to the Century line of elegant but affordable fountain pens.
Provided with your choice of 14k solid gold nib, this pen qualifies for our complimentary nib tuning, which adjusts pressure and ink flow to your preferred specifications. Our optional nib customizations can further add to the distinctiveness of your writing on the page - choose the Fine Soft nib if you want our exclusive Mottishaw Spencerian modification for copperplate calligraphy.
The ivory color of this pen takes its inspiration from the white stone exterior of the 16th century Chateau de Chenoceau in the Loire Valley in France. Also known as the “Castle of Six Ladies” in honor of six different noblewomen who lived there over the centuries, including such famous figures as Diane de Poitiers and Catherine de Medici, the castle has survived wars and revolutions and legal battles and is now classified as a historic monument by the French Ministry of Culture.
The 3776 Century Chenoceau utilizes Platinum's convenient cartridge-converter system - it can fill with any bottled fountain pen ink when fitted with the provided reusable converter, and can also use Platinum brand disposable ink cartridges. Platinum's patented Slip and Seal mechanism helps guard against dry-out and allows for ink to remain fresh in the pen for longer than is usually possible. We are an authorized Platinum dealer.
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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.. |