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Platinum 3776 Century Oshino
Platinum 3776 Century Oshino
The most recent in a series of demonstrator pens inspired by the bodies of water near Mt. Fuji, the Platinum 3776 Century Oshino offers a stylish and highly affordable introduction to the world of quality fountain pens.
Normally made available with only a limited nib selection, we are able to offer the Oshino with your choice from among the full range of Platinum Century 14k solid gold rhodium-plated nibs.
The village of Oshino in the Fuji Five Lakes region of Yamanashi Prefecture is famous for a series of eight fresh water ponds fed by natural springs from the snow melt on Mt. Fuji. The Oshino Demonstrator is inspired by these natural springs, known for their cool, clear water. The first three thousand pens include a special blotter card with serial number, adding to the pen's collectability.
The Oshino utilizes Platinum's convenient cartridge-converter system - the pen can be filled with any bottled fountain pen ink when using the provided converter, and can also use disposable Platinum brand cartridges.
Each pen will be inspected, tested, and adjusted for your personal writing characteristics by us before shipping to you. Platinum's 14k nibs also make an excellent starting point for many our nib customizations, including, when the Fine Soft nib is selected, our well-known Spencerian modification. 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.. |