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Piccolo Fountain Pen
Ishi-me Kanshitsu (Stone Finish)
If simplicity is the highest form of elegance, this is it. Nakaya pens achieve greatness by virtue of its streamlined design, excellent materials, flawless surface and saturated colors. Shown here is the Piccolo Writer (With Clip) fountain pen in Ishime Kanshitsu (Stone Finish).
Below is the Piccolo Cigar (Without Clip).
This Nakaya fountain pen is made of a Stone Finish urushi, a material made from the sap of a Japanese lacquer tree. The process of collecting the Urushi (sap) and applying many layers of lacquer to this fountain pen takes three months to complete. The craftsman sows Urushi powder onto the body, which makes a lot of grains on the surface due to surface density. After settled, he varnishes the body with lacquer several times to make the body harden. He sharpens these grains with charcoal and finishes with a lacquer. It is truly an artistic craftsmanship to decorate a stone-like appearance on a pen true to its name ('Ishi" means a stone in Japanese).
The Urushi tradition is historic and profound in Japan, where lacquer ware has adorned utilitarian objects for centuries. This technique, though painstaking, gives this fountain pens its deep lustrous sheen and subtle color shift.
The Nakaya nib, imprinted Nakata, the family name of the
manufacturer is made of solid 14K gold. Each of these nibs
is suitable for our customization to extra flexible (an additional
$65 charge). The medium and broad tip can be customized into
cursive italic, stub or oblique points (an additional $55
for these customizations).
Below are the basic tip sizes of Nakaya nibs, as reported off of their web
site (http://www.nakaya.org/eindex.html). Nakaya nibs run a little finer than most
Japanese nibs, like Sailor or Pilot-Namiki.
To see what Nakaya
nibs are available and compare them to other nibs that we offer
please click this link: TippingSizesPage
To see pictures of the
range of Nakaya nibs that we offer click this link: Nakaya
Nibs Page
We do not feature all Nakaya nib sizes and colors
on our website. Please let us know if there is a pen, or nib, you are interested
in. If we do not have it in stock, we can certainly place an order for you. Since Nakaya pens are hand-crafted, the turnaround on non-stock orders is 1-3
months.
Please email us at info@nibs.com or call us, Monday-Friday 8am-5pm PST, for more information or to place an order.