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Platinum 3776 Century Senmen
Platinum 3776 Century Senmen
The Platinum 3776 Century Senmen offers Maki-e technique at a highly affordable price. Hand-finished in urushi lacquer and featuring a beautifully realized fan motif, this will be a favored writing instrument for many.
Normally made available with only limited nib choices, we are able to provide your choice from among the full range of Platinum 14k solid gold nibs. We are an authorized Platinum dealer.
Fans are frequently turned into exquisite works of art in Japanese culture, and, as is the case here, the fan itself can also become the subject for a work of art. Gold and silver powders are applied over natural urushi lacquer to give this high quality resin body pen an appearance that could be mistaken for writing instruments costing hundreds of dollars more.
Our complimentary nib tuning services ensure that your Platinum pen will have writing qualities equal to its beautiful appearance. Platinum's 14k solid gold nibs can also serve as excellent starting points for our exclusive nib customizations, including, when selecting the Fine Soft nib, our noted Spencerian modification.
The Senmen uses Platinum's convenient cartridge-converter system - it can use Platinum brand disposable ink cartridges, and can also be filled with any bottled fountain pen ink when using a reusable converter, provided by us free of charge with your order. A starter ink cartridge is also included.
Each pen ships in a tasteful wooden presentation box, making this an excellent gift item and adding to the piece's long-term value and collectability.
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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.. |