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Platinum 3776 Century Nice Lavande
Platinum 3776 Century Nice Lavande
The latest in Platinum's series of stylish demonstrator pens inspired by the beauty of the Mediterranean coast, the Nice Lavande combines a semi-transparent purple body with rich warm rose gold trim to create a pen that embodies luxury, taste, and beauty. The first three thousand pens released include a special blotter card with a limited edition serial number.
Our complimentary nib tuning ensures that your Nice Lavande will have writing qualities equal to its elegant appearance, and our optional nib customizations can additional style and distinctiveness to your writing on the page.
Inspired by the beauty of the Cote D'Azur on the French Mediterranean coast, the Platinum 3776 Century Nice Lavande is a luxurious pen at a surprisingly affordable price. The blooming fields of lavender that surround the city of Nice provide a particular inspiration for the appearance of this pen, which features hand cut facets and a sandblasted surface.
Each pen arrives in a special presentation box which includes a starter ink cartridge, complimentary rhodium-trim converter, and all papers. We are an authorized Platinum dealer, and we carefully inspect and test each pen before it ships to make sure that you have the best writing experience possible.
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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.. |