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Platinum Izumo Hon-Urushi Hira Maki-e Hama no Matsu Shore Pine
Platinum Izumo Hon-Urushi Hira Maki-e Hama no Matsu Shore Pine
The Platinum Izumo Hon-Urushi Hira Maki-e Hama no Matsu Shore Pine fountain pen has been handcrafted by Maki-e artist Sohkou Ooshita using time intensive Kaga and Hira Maki-e techniques. Gold and silver powders have been applied to the urushi base of this ebonite body pen to realize the lyrical motif of a pine shore and ocean waves.
Not just a beautiful work of art in its own right, this pen is provided with your choice of 18k solid gold nib and qualifies for our complimentary nib tuning services. Platinum's 18k nibs also serve as excellent starting points for many of our exclusive nib customizations.
Kaga Maki-e arose during the Edo period in Japan and was favored by the feudal patrons of Maki-e artists as one of the most favored techniques for decorating precious lacquer ware. Hira Maki-e technique involves sealing the gold and silver powders used with an added layer of urushi, and provides a smoother surface than raised Taka Maki-e technique.
The pen ships in a paulownia softwood presentation box with decorative kanji script, and includes a complimentary ink bottle, ink cartridge, and converter. Platinum takes care to make sure that the presentation of this writing instrument is as elegant and tasteful as the pen itself, 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.. |