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Platinum Izumo Bamboo Weaving Gozame #15 Benikabairo
Platinum Izumo Bamboo Weaving Gozame #15 Benikabairo
The Platinum Izumo Bamboo Weaving Gozame #15 Benikabairo has been hand-crafted utilizing traditional Japanese bamboo craft technique. Platinum's 18k solid gold nibs assure that his beautiful pen will also be a superb writing instrument, highly suitable for everyday usage.
The Bamboo Weaving Bamboo Weaving Gozame #15 Benikabairo qualifies for our complimentary nib set-up and optimization services, and the 18k solid gold nibs also provide an excellent starting point for many of our unique nib customizations. We also provide a complimentary ink converter with your order.
Highly regarded in Japan, bamboo craft has a history that stretches back for centuries. In typically inventive fashion, Platinum here applies this traditional craft to create a distinctive and yet highly practical writing instrument. The finish in benikabairo, literally ""traditional red color,"" adds to the unique appearance of this pen.
As with all Izumo series pens, this is a cartridge-converter pen able to use either the supplied converter or Platinum brand cartridges. Each pen is hand-crafted in a process that requires months to be completed.
The pen ships in a special paulownia soft wood presentation box and includes a pen kimono and complimentary bottle of ink.
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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.. |