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Visconti Rembrandt-S Black - Fountain Pen
Visconti Rembrandt-S Black - Fountain Pen
Visconti is again inspired by one of the world's greatest painters, Rembrandt Van Rijn. Rembrandt succeeded like nobody else to meld into his works of art the earthly and spiritual aspects of the human being. New shades, new metal trims, new nib: this collection pays tribute not only to Rembrandt, icon of the Dutch Golden Age, but also to one of Visconti's most iconic collections. The four new colors, Orange, Blue, Bordeaux and Black, were often used by the Dutch painter and represent his use of chiaroscuro, the painting technique with strong contrasts of shadow and light. Just as the artist captured the emotions of his subjects with the chiaroscuro technique, the new metalwork in this collection is finished in ruthenium to accentuate the contrast with the colors of the resin. The ring, in particular, is finely decorated with a new engraving with a modern character. The fountain pen has a new large steel nib, finished in ruthenium and available in size Fine, Medium, Broad. Cartridge/converter fill.
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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. Â 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 Architectâs 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.. |