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Platinum Maki-e #58 Red Mount Fuji
Platinum Maki-e #58 Red Mount Fuji
The Platinum Maki-e #58 Red Mount Fuji combines ease of use with hand-applied gold and silver leaf to create a writing instrument which can serve as a superb introduction to the world of Japanese fountain pens.
Each pen receives our complimentary nib tuning services and is also an excellent candidate for our optional nib customizations. We are an authorized Platinum dealer.
The Platinum #58 Red Mount Fuji offers an unusual combination of traditional craft and exceptional value - the pen surface features hand-applied gold and silver leaf from the traditional craft center of Kanazawa on the west coast of Japan, and each pen is equipped with your choice of 18k solid gold nib.
The motif depicts a red Mount Fuji at sunrise - gold leaf is used for the mountain itself, silver leaf for its snow-capped peak, and gold and silver leaf combined for the clouds overhead. Kanazawa gold and silver leaf craft has a history stretching back for more than four hundred years, and the region is now responsible for almost all gold and silver leaf production in Japan.
The Red Mount Fuji is a cartridge-converter pen which can use either Platinum brand disposable ink cartridges, or any bottled fountain pen ink when using the complimentary converter provided by us with your order. The snap-action cap adds to this pen's convenience, making it the perfect fountain pen for anyone with an on-the-go lifestyle.
Each pen arrives in a special presentation box, and we carefully inspect, test, and optimize each pen for your own personal writing characteristics before shipping.
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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.. |