What ink(s) are you waiting for in the mail?

[inkstainedruth]

Should have these next week:

 

KWZ Dromgoole's Exclusive Discovery Green (another sheen ink)

Dromgoole's Noodler's Churchill's True Blue Anti-Fascist (that's a mouthful)

Both looked too interesting to pass up when I put in an order earlier today.

I could have sworn I picked up a bottle of the Churchill True Blue last fall at the Noodler's table at the Commonwealth Pen Show. But what I've done with it since? Anyone's guess. So looking forward to the review.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[jmccarty3]

Two bottles each of Iroshizuku Tsuyu-kusa and Sailor's Sailor.

[XYZZY]

Pilot Blue Black, because I was excited to ink up the new Emperor with it and bummed to discover it comes with Blue. No, the ink in the package was not a deciding factor on the pen :-)

 

Pelikan Violet and Edelstein Tanzanite. A spur of the moment thing: while ordering my first Pelikan pen I figured it would be reasonable to get my first couple of Pelikan inks at the same time. Saves on shipping, right?

[bayindirh]

 

Edelstein Tanzanite

 

The box says "Extra soft ink". I've said "meh, marketing", then filled my pen & understood what they've meant.

It's indeed an extra soft ink with lovely color.

[XYZZY]

The box says "Extra soft ink". I've said "meh, marketing", then filled my pen & understood what they've meant.

It's indeed an extra soft ink with lovely color.

Not sure what to think of that but I'll find out soon. The pen has been back-ordered for two+ months and to be honest I have no recollection of why I picked those two inks other than being Pelikan. I might have spent time reading reviews and decided they met my interest du jour. Or maybe it was just a brief moment of "ooh pretty" while scrolling through swabs on that vendor's web site.

[bayindirh]

Not sure what to think of that but I'll find out soon. The pen has been back-ordered for two+ months and to be honest I have no recollection of why I picked those two inks other than being Pelikan. I might have spent time reading reviews and decided they met my interest du jour. Or maybe it was just a brief moment of "ooh pretty" while scrolling through swabs on that vendor's web site.

If you don't mind, what's the name of your new (or first) bird?

 

Pelikan Violet also looks nice. I have a bottle but didn't try that one yet. I also have a m205 Olivine sitting in its box but, I want to empty a couple of pens first to fill it with something.

[XYZZY]

If you don't mind, what's the name of your new (or first) bird?

 

M1005. But I haven't named it

[Barkingpig]

A bottle of Diamine's Lion Rock, a Hong Kong exclusive from a US Seller on Ebay.

 

I had watched the ink for a bit & thought about it until I realised they were down to the last bottle they had on offer. It seemed like the time for another dark brown ink & with metallic green sheen. I know it will arrive more promptly from within the US that trying to find a Seller in Hong Kong!

[A Smug Dill]

This PenBBS shimmer ink:

Source: AliExpress
 
I can't wait to see it next to Diamine Arabian Nights, which seems to lack the separation (shading?) of blue-black and purple-black.
 

A bottle of Diamine's Lion Rock, a Hong Kong exclusive

 
That looks like a very attractive colour, but I just couldn't bring myself to pay exorbitant shipping charges when I heard about the ink being a shop- or regional exclusive not obtainable from outlets such as Cult Pens (with free shipping, if you order enough stuff in one go) or Fountainfeder.eu (with reasonable international shipping charges, even if applying 19% local VAT regardless to the price of exports isn't reasonable).

 

I struggled internally badly enough to pull the trigger on my recent purchase of the PenBBS inks, given the per-bottle price is now more expensive than I paid last year, and now I don't get the benefit of 'free' shipping included in the price — but the world has changed greatly since (though not Cult Pens's terms and offers, nor the base price of most Diamine inks).

Edited September 21, 2020 by A Smug Dill

[inkstainedruth]

Pelikan Violet and Edelstein Tanzanite. A spur of the moment thing: while ordering my first Pelikan pen I figured it would be reasonable to get my first couple of Pelikan inks at the same time. Saves on shipping, right?

I think you'll like both of those. I know I certainly do.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[NumberSix]

Looks like Pen Chalet has changed their ink points program from a $20 bottle of ink to just a $20 discount on the next order. Works for me! I cashed in may credits and ordered:

• Quink Blue, Black, and Blue-Black
• Waterman Serenity Blue, Brown
• Waterman Black, Mysterious Blue samples - to get up to free shipping

 

Needed to restock some essentials. The only ones I have not tried are the Waterman Black and Brown, so I am looking forward to those.

[A Smug Dill]

I just tried Monteverde Brown Sugar (by dipping a pen only and not properly filling it). Looks somewhat like De Atramentis J.S. Bach,

Hmm. De Atramentis Bach is apparently relabeled De Atramentis Ebony, which (according to their website) appears to be a deep burgundy red/brown. Is that what Monteverde Brown Sugar is like?

 

 

I was wrong. Monteverde Brown Sugar is more like Diamine Bach from the Music set, and less like De Atramentis J.S. Bach. Still a good colour.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/279274-inky-t-o-d-color-swatches-brown-please-post-your-pictures-and-tell-us-your-thoughts/?p=4360067

[Runnin_Ute]

Just ordered two 62.5 ml bottles of Pelikan 4001 Blue Black from Cult Pens. My current bottle is getting rather low.

[Hallel]

Placed an order at Shigure Inks for Sailor Manyo Haha, Vinta Julio, Sirena and Perya. I am on the pastels train. Also I am going through a Grey moment and I might need to get some samples.

[silverlifter]

In addition to the inks from EU that I bought on 9 May that still hasn't shipped, I have an unopened bottle of Montblanc's IG Blue Black due this week. So, there is that...

[Thymen]

Sailor Seiboku, my first pigmented ink.

[KaB]

Last weekend, lCdC received my order for

- coupon to fill a 30ml bottle with any Herbin at their shop

- Les Couleurs du Comte Surprise ink

- KWZ green #3

- Noodler's Aircorp Blue Black

- Noodler's Apache Sunset

- Noodler's Zhivago

- Diamine Scribble Purple

(oh, and a pen of course )

[AndyYNWA]

Sailor Seiboku, my first pigmented ink.

 

Great ink!

[Intensity]

Taccia Ukiyo-e SabiMidori

Sailor nano-pigment Kiwa Guro

[DilettanteG]

So much for, "I have enough inks. I'll never need to buy anymore!"

 

I just ordered:

1. Jacques Herbin 350 Vert Atlantide

2. Cult Pens Iridescink Henry

3. KWZ Sheen Machine Blue

4. KWZ Sheen Machine Green

5. Pelikan Edelstein Moonstone

 

That will bring me up 238 bottles. Please help me rationalize this!