Sailor New Naginata Line Annouced

[freakman]

http://www.sailor.co.jp/pdf/release/specialnib_20180928.pdf

New nib imprint, packaging and cap ring.

NMF NM NB price doubled.

Cross, Cross Music and Cross Emperor priced around $700. So the new MSRP is lower than the current market price. If you can get a discount from store, then it's a lot lower.

No news on Eagle and Cobra nib, since Cobra nib has been discontinued for a very long time. It's likely to remain its current state.

 

[zaddick]

Thank you for posting this. Any news on if the nibs will also be available for Kingetting Profit size pens or just standard large Profit?

[mehandiratta]

Ohh... the prices

[freakman]

Thank you for posting this. Any news on if the nibs will also be available for Kingetting Profit size pens or just standard large Profit?

No，but my friend will attend the Tokyo International Pen Show tomorrow and he will ask Yukio Nagahara about this.

[minddance]

Will the new nibs feel and write different?

[25_15_3]

Looks like the pen internals will be different. Something about metal parts to improve balance. Perhaps something like the KOP or the some iterations of limited profits with the metal tube.

[msum]

Thanks for the information thus far everyone.

 

Ill be interested to hear reports from the Tokyo show.

[zaddick]

No，but my friend will attend the Tokyo International Pen Show tomorrow and he will ask Yukio Nagahara about this.

I look forward to the update. Thank you!

[25_15_3]

Some better pictures of the new nibs at http://kobe-nagasawa.co.jp/blog-umedachayamachi/sailor-specalnib2018/ and https://www.instagram.com/p/BoiTr5zlQ3y/

 

I honestly was a bit disappointed with how they looked in the original pdf announcement. With the new pictures, the nib design does not look as bad. I still miss the scrollwork however.

 

There is also the picture of metal threads on the barrel which is not a currently on the regular Sailor lines. Can't tell if the whole barrel inside is metal as well.

 

For those wanting to import these pens from Japan, it is not possible for export as noted in the announcement. Still no announcement on foreign shops that will carry the pens; the Japan domestic shops are already neatly noted on Sailor's site http://www.sailor.co.jp/specialnib_shops

Edited October 5, 2018 by 25_15_3

[hungrynerd]

Zenmarket/Buyee/white rabbit should still work to get these out, I hope?

[25_15_3]

The stock is very limited, and I'm guessing that no online sales will be available. You would need a person to buy the pen in person which is not available in every proxy service site if it is in-store only.

[Paperlate]

I think Brian Anderson has already mentioned he will be selling these new bespoke pens/nibs here in the US.

[The-Thinker]

Do you think they will bring the sailor specialty nibs in the KOP model ?