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

[PithyProlix]

On 9/26/2021 at 1:58 AM, essayfaire said:

Please pardon the shadows, but...

 

Thanks for the write up and the photos. We see things differently and that's OK!  

 

But that pen - what is it, please? It looks like the same material that an old Japanese pen I have is made of - an Aoshima Jewel that's shaped like a Parker Duofold.

[Bikerchick]

Finally caved and bought Sailor Manyo Haha. 

KWZ Walk Over Vistula

Pelikan Edelstein Topaz - I went back and forth on this ink a few dozen times. This is one of those inks that looks different in every review. I love cerulean blue inks and in some reviews this looked too turquoise, in others it looks a lot darker.  A lot will depend on the pen I'll use it in, I'm sure.

[AmandaW]

44 minutes ago, Bikerchick said:

Pelikan Edelstein Topaz - I went back and forth on this ink a few dozen times.

 

I tried Topaz at the last Pelikan Hub - remember those anyone? - but didn't write down what it was. The piece of paper floated around my desk driving me nuts for weeks until I caved and messaged the person who, I hoped, owned the pen. The reply came back: Topaz.

 

Finally ordered it a few months ago, on one of those LCdC 15% occasions...

[Bikerchick]

9 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

The piece of paper floated around my desk driving me nuts for weeks

Urgh. I know the feeling. I started this ink journal after really liking the color of an ink I had used in a previous entry in a notebook and not remembering for the life of me what it was. And this was back when I only had a dozen or so blue inks. Drove me bananas. 

 

[PithyProlix]

1 hour ago, Bikerchick said:

 

What do you think about the L'AP Classique Bleu? I believe it is their woad blue. It took me a while to grow into it but now I like it a lot and I have a blue Waterman dedicated to it. While it's a very 'blue' blue it has a softness to it that makes it different and quite nice, I think.

 

(Alas, on my recent shipment from L'AP the box appears to have been cut open mid-route and Bleu Mediterranee did not arrive 😢 but the 12 other items did, luckily!)

[Bikerchick]

27 minutes ago, PithyProlix said:

 

What do you think about the L'AP Classique Bleu? I believe it is their woad blue. It took me a while to grow into it but now I like it a lot and I have a blue Waterman dedicated to it. While it's a very 'blue' blue it has a softness to it that makes it different and quite nice, I think.

 

(Alas, on my recent shipment from L'AP the box appears to have been cut open mid-route and Bleu Mediterranee did not arrive 😢 but the 12 other items did, luckily!)

I love the color but I'm still a bit on the fence about it, to be honest. The first pen I inked with it was a Pelikan M150 (old style) with a Medium nib and I wasn't a fan. The nib wasn't exactly very wet but the ink would feather pretty badly, even on the likes of Tomoe River, Midori and Rhodia. I then tried it in a Sheaffer Prelude with an F nib and it was perfectly well-behaved there. 

 

 

[grainweevil]

4 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Finally ordered it a few months ago, on one of those LCdC 15% occasions...

 

So presumably you're still waiting for it... 😉

 

Rohrer and Klingner Sepia would be my latest, except technically I'm not waiting for it as it's here. Its maker saying it doesn't play nice with its fellows put me off for years, but finally I succumbed to the individuality. Not at all sure what to put it in though.

[PithyProlix]

34 minutes ago, Bikerchick said:

I love the color but I'm still a bit on the fence about it, to be honest. The first pen I inked with it was a Pelikan M150 (old style) with a Medium nib and I wasn't a fan. The nib wasn't exactly very wet but the ink would feather pretty badly, even on the likes of Tomoe River, Midori and Rhodia. I then tried it in a Sheaffer Prelude with an F nib and it was perfectly well-behaved there. 

 

 

 

Hmm, I have tried it in 2 pens, one Japanese fine and the Waterman, which must be an extra fine, and a tiny bit in a wide dip pen and have had no problems. I think it has met its mate in the Waterman so all good. 

 

Sorry it has been less than great for you. 

[Bikerchick]

1 minute ago, PithyProlix said:

 

Hmm, I have tried it in 2 pens, one Japanese fine and the Waterman, which must be an extra fine, and a tiny bit in a wide dip pen and have had no problems. I think it has met it mate in the Waterman so all good. 

 

Sorry it has been less than great for you. 

No worries. Plenty of other inks to play with.

 

Like L'AP Blue Méditerranée. Sorry to hear that it grew little feet on the way to your house. I think you should order it again when you get the chance because it really is a pretty color. 

[PithyProlix]

5 minutes ago, Bikerchick said:

No worries. Plenty of other inks to play with.

 

Like L'AP Blue Méditerranée. Sorry to hear that it grew little feet on the way to your house. I think you should order it again when you get the chance because it really is a pretty color. 

 

Yes, I've already planned the next order but, you know, that silly self-imposed moratorium on ink-buying for a while. 😖

 

I'm up to 17 Callifolios and 10 Classiques and it's likely the next order from Didier will be my last. So far I have only tried 3 colors from this recent order but I am totally digging Oconto and would be loving Bonne Esperance but it has had some flow issues in the 2 pens I have tried it in - I can write about 5 beautiful lines with great flow and then it suddenly totally stops... it's strange. 

[NumberSix]

Four inks:

• Vintage Waterman South Seas, Blue-Black, and Black
• Montblanc Royal Blue in the old shoe style (1980s according to guy I am trading with)

[Karmachanic]

Ina-ho.  Finally!  @Tas made me do it.

[essayfaire]

14 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

But that pen - what is it, please? It looks like the same material that an old Japanese pen I have is made of - an Aoshima Jewel that's shaped like a Parker Duofold.

It actually is a Parker Duofold; it was my Grandfather's.  I had it unused in my desk for years because it didn't behave properly, and a couple years ago I sent it off to Ron Zorn and now it works well!  Good eye.  Do you think your Japanese pen was a knockoff?

[essayfaire]

4 hours ago, Karmachanic said:

Ina-ho.  Finally!  @Tas made me do it.

You'll be happy you did!

[PithyProlix]

4 hours ago, essayfaire said:

It actually is a Parker Duofold; it was my Grandfather's.  I had it unused in my desk for years because it didn't behave properly, and a couple years ago I sent it off to Ron Zorn and now it works well!  Good eye.  Do you think your Japanese pen was a knockoff?

 

Nice pen and very cool to have a pen passed down to you within the family (I have a few of my father's pens).

 

Yes, mine looks close to a Duofold but, most notably, instead of the Duofold's button filler it is an eyedropper filler with a shutoff valve. The cap and barrel material looks identical to yours. It doesn't work - needs a new shutoff valve seal - and it's not worth restoring.

[chromantic]

Gmail says my bottle pf Sheaffer Turquoise is out for delivery today.

[Detman101]

On 9/25/2021 at 6:47 AM, PithyProlix said:

 

Well well, I received it today, wrote up a page for you with it, and, no matter what I tried, I couldn't get an image that looked much like the color at all, even with trying two different cameras and trying to color correct with software.

 

That said, while I don't have Iroshizuku Ina-ho, it looks a lot like the pictures I see of it online. But with Ina-ho, there's a kind of, well, sickly tinge to the color in the images I see and I've never put it on my want list because of that. PenBBS 269 45th POTUS does not have that sickly tinge. It shades pretty dramatically, though not untastefully, has a bit of the 'halo' effect. The darker parts of the shading look like the swatch I posted from deskbandit.com, but a slight more green. It shades to a kind of greenish khaki, not unlike the tint of dark khaki pants, but without the darkness. To me, it doesn't look anything like the really brown image at Vanness nor the grey-ish lean of the image here nor the orange look here. I don't think this is the same ink but it looks a lot like a lot like the image here but with a slight more of a mustardy green look. I think it has very natural, earthy look to it and I kinda love it - it looked great to me from when I first laid the ink on paper, and that doesn't happen too often. It's not really at all like Guilin but I think it would really appeal to fans of Guilin, as I know you are.

 

So far I've only used it with dip pens and, while I won't say anything with any certainty about the performance yet, I suspect it will behave much like my other PenBBS inks, which are all pretty darn solid. There was no feathering and very little bleed through where I really piled it up on a couple different papers.

 

So, in conclusion 😀, I say that, no matter the color of your politics, the color of PenBBS 269, 45th POTUS is awesome sauce to the power of infinity. Just get it! 

Awe-Some!!
Thank you for the detailed insight, I will definitely pick up a bottle. Anything based in brown with some green hints checks two of my boxes.

[IlikeInksandIcannotlie]

De Atramentis Standard Dark Blue.

[Sera13]

On 9/25/2021 at 11:44 PM, A Smug Dill said:

 

I'm still beating myself up for not having ordered more 30ml bottles of Herbin Cacao du Brésil when they were available to me at A$4.50 a bottle and with no additional shipping charge on top of my free-shipping-eligible order at the time. That ship has sailed.

Let me guess, milligram outlet? 

[PithyProlix]

9 hours ago, Detman101 said:

Awe-Some!!
Thank you for the detailed insight, I will definitely pick up a bottle. Anything based in brown with some green hints checks two of my boxes.

 

I've been using it in a few pens over the last few days and I'm thinking the closest ink I've seen in online photos might be Platinum Sepia Black, which I don't have, but only in some of the photos.

 

The color can vary greatly depending on the pen - one of them, an Osmiroid with a very fine italic nib which has a brand new ink sac and a nib unit which I thoroughly soaked for about 24 hours in water with dishwashing soap to make sure all the old ink was out - with that pen it appears somewhat like the writing in this review of Platinum Sepia Black (which also reminds me of how Diamine Salamander can look): https://fountainpenfollies.com/2017/06/17/ink-snippet-platinum-classic-sepia-black/2/. In one of my Platinum pocket pens it looks like a light walnut calligraphy ink. In one of my Sailor pocket pens it's a light-medium color that's generally midway between brown and green, but also shades a lot between the two. I spilled a little of it on some paper while filling a pen so I spread it around the paper and it looks a lot like the swatch on white paper in the same Platinum Sepia Black review but a bit more green - it gives the impression of a light walnut-black ink with a bit of grey olive-green ink added.

 

I like all the different combinations with pens so far, even if the result is unpredictable from pen to pen. Super interesting ink that I wish I could get a decent picture of - it certainly would be worth a lot more than the many words I've used trying to describe it ... 😅