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Platinum 3776 Century Sakura
Platinum 3776 Century Sakura
Sakura Cherry Blossoms is a popular motif in Japanese Maki-e art, and the 3776 Century Sakura realizes this theme with style and restraint. Genuine urushi lacquer finish and Maki-e style technique combine to give this pen a memorable appearance - this will be a favorite go-to pen for many.
Normally provided with only limited nib choices, we are able to equip this pen with your choice of any Platinum 14k solid gold Century nib.
Featuring urushi lacquer finish and Maki-e style artwork over a resin body, the Platinum 3776 Century Sakura has an appearance similar to writing instruments costing three or four times as much.
Our nib tuning services adjust ink flow and pressure to your personal writing preferences, and Platinum 14k nibs make excellent starting points for our exclusive nib customizations, including, when choosing the Fine Soft nib, our well-known Spencerian modification. We are an authorized Platinum dealer.
Utilizing Platinum's convenient cartridge-converter fill system, the pen can use either Platinum brand disposable ink cartridges, or any bottled fountain pen ink when using the ink converter, provided by us free of charge with your order. The attractive presentation box includes a starter ink cartridge and all papers, making this an excellent gift item.
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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.. |