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Platinum 3776 Century Laurel Green
Platinum 3776 Century Laurel Green
The Platinum 3776 Century Laurel Green is the latest in a series of new releases adding a variety of colors to the versatile and affordable Century line. The rich green body and gold trim combine to give this pen a pleasingly warm and evocative appearance.
Our complimentary nib tuning adjusts optimum pressure and ink flow to your personal preferences, and our optional nib customizations add to the character and distinctivess of your writing on the page - choose the Fine Soft nib if you want our exclusive Mottishaw Spencerian modification, which turns this nib into a specialized tool for copperplate calligraphy.
Inspired by the laurel leaf as a symbol of victory and gold as the color of medals and insignias, the Platinum 3776 Century Laurel Green is an attractive and versatile writing instrument which will become a favorite for many. As always, Platinum offers tremendous value for the money - this pen could easily be mistaken for writing instruments costing two or three times as much.
The Laurel Green uses Platinum's convenient cartridge-converter system - any bottled fountain pen ink can be used when the pen is fitted with the provided converter, and Platinum brand disposable ink cartridges can also be used. 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.. |