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Platinum 3776 Century Nice Pur Demonstrator
Platinum 3776 Century Nice Pur Demonstrator
Evocative of sunny days at the beach and the luxury of the French Riviera, the new Platinum 3776 Century Nice Pur fountain pen is a follow-up and successor to the original rose-hued Century Nice.
The Nice Pur features clear frosted resin, gleaming rhodium trim, and the superb writing qualities to be expected in a Platinum brand pen.
The frosted translucent cap and barrel showcase Platinum's cartridge-converter filling system - the Nice Pur can be filled with bottled ink using the provided converter, or with Platinum brand cartridges. It can also be filled using Nakaya's Maki-e converters - normally hidden inside the barrel of a standard pen, these hand-painted Maki-e converters can be seen while in use when utilized in this demonstrator pen.
The Platinum 3776 Century Nice Pur is offered with your choice of 14k solid gold rhodium-plated nib. These 14k Platinum nibs are well-suited to customizations including Stub, Cursive Italic, or Left Oblique, as well as the modification for added flex.
Platinum's new Slip and Seal cap system is designed to maximize ink freshness.
The 3776 Century Nice Pur fountain pen comes attractively packaged in a white satin-lined presentation case and includes converter and a starter ink cartridge.
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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.. |