Some Information About Bespoke Pen

[WillyVanDerKuijlen]

Lettering is not customized service.

 

1 Basic bespoke

If you are good at hand making and a small machine tool, you can actually make some wood or resin pen body and cap for yourself. Or you can buy some pen body you like to match your own pen.

Or you can choose some different color you like.

 

2 Advanced Limited Bespoke

Nakaya is a typical example, you can choose the material and the picture they offer. But if you want to have a 904L or C276 clip, it is impossible because they only have 18k gold, sterling silver and xxx plated brass clip.

The same as Montegrappa, which also offer us different patterns' design for Extra series.

Bepoke Nib is also included, It is way to match your personal writing style after hand-made crafting on nib.

Montblanc, Pelikan and Nakaya have this service.

 

3 Ultimate Bespoke

It is extremely expensive. however, your imagination is the only limit.

You can designed every part of the pen (material length and the way to absorption ink)

Montblanc, S.T.Dupont, CurtisAustralia, Onoto and Bespoke British Fountain pen offer this service. Sailor may have this in the future.

 

Welcome to share your ideas about it!

Edited December 17, 2016 by WillyVanDerKuijlen

[katanankes]

So you would like to create a classification of pen customizations? Good start, but I see the first category as overlapping the others (it is about the maker and not the amount of customization as in the second and third category). I would stick to one criterion (amount of customization), then you can have

 

1. Standard pen offering: you can choose the nib and maybe the body color among a set of fixed choices. This is what most manufacturers offer and it does not represent any bespoke service.

 

2. Fine tuned pens: Nakaya is probably the most notable (if not only) example. You can change a variety of features in addition to nib and body (i.e. clip). The nib will be tuned according to your writing preferences.

 

3. Fully bespoke; this is the service offered by professional artisan pen tuners such as Edisonl Hakase, Newton etc. in which you can design any aspect of the pen.

[WillyVanDerKuijlen]

So you would like to create a classification of pen customizations? Good start, but I see the first category as overlapping the others (it is about the maker and not the amount of customization as in the second and third category). I would stick to one criterion (amount of customization), then you can have

 

1. Standard pen offering: you can choose the nib and maybe the body color among a set of fixed choices. This is what most manufacturers offer and it does not represent any bespoke service.

 

2. Fine tuned pens: Nakaya is probably the most notable (if not only) example. You can change a variety of features in addition to nib and body (i.e. clip). The nib will be tuned according to your writing preferences.

 

3. Fully bespoke; this is the service offered by professional artisan pen tuners such as Edisonl Hakase, Newton etc. in which you can design any aspect of the pen.

Thanks for sharing!