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Platinum Izumo Urushi Biwatame
Platinum Izumo Urushi Biwatame
The Platinum Izumo Urushi in dark layered Biwatame finish showcases Platinum urushi work at its finest. Each pen is hand-crafted from ebonite hard rubber and natural urushi finish and is provided with your choice of Platinum 18k solid gold nib.
Our complimentary nib tuning services ensure that your Platinum pen will have writing qualities equal to its appearance. Platinum nibs also provide an excellent starting point for many of our exclusive nib customizations. We are an authorized Platinum dealer.
Platinum is the parent company to artisanal offshoot Nakaya, and while the aesthetics of the two companies often diverge, the similarities are more apparent in the Izumo Urushi series - though different in style from any specific Nakaya model, the Izumo's emphasis on simple, elegant lines and urushi lacquer finish will remind many of the Nakaya approach. Biwatame finish is described by Platinum as tan, and may call to mind similar finishes such as Ki-dame and Toki-tamenuri.
Each Izumo Urushi pen includes a wood presentation box lined with green velvet and with a green fabric pen kimono. The ink converter, provided by us with your purchase, allows for the use of any bottled fountain pen ink, and the pen can also use Platinum's own disposable ink cartridges. A starter cartridge is also included with your purchase.
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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.. |