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

[AmandaW]

3 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

it is grey, like Sydney weather today

 

I will happily trade. We have a fire weather warning.

[RJS]

I ordered Monteverde Brown Sugar this morning from Amazon, as it was briefly listed at half price, and it's already sitting on my desk. I wanted to thank whoever it was that recommended it to me, as first impressions are very good, but I can't see who it was that suggested it now! 😅

[AmandaW]

I'm not waiting for any inks at all. I have to fix this.

 

What I want is an ink to go in my Pilot Custom 74 Turquoise and I don't know whether to get Pilot Iroshizuku Ku-jaku or Syo-ro (or something else). It has an EF nib so I'm concerned about ending up with an ink that looks so dark I might as well have used black or so pale I can't see it!

 

[A Smug Dill]

1 hour ago, AmandaW said:

What I want is an ink to go in my Pilot Custom 74 Turquoise and I don't know whether to get Pilot Iroshizuku Ku-jaku or Syo-ro (or something else). It has an EF nib so I'm concerned about ending up with an ink that looks so dark I might as well have used black or so pale I can't see it!

 

I don't think you need to worry about that.

 

All done with a Pilot MR's steel F nib, mounted without a feed on a dip pen handle.

[AmandaW]

1 hour ago, A Smug Dill said:

I don't think you need to worry about that.

 

All those ink swatches... with no labels

[A Smug Dill]

3 hours ago, AmandaW said:

All those ink swatches... with no labels

 

*cough* The rows of stipples and (cross-)hatches are labelled, even if my handwriting is an illegible abomination. 👹

From bottom to top: Tsuki-yo 月夜, Syo-ro 松露, Ku-jaku 孔雀, Sui-gyoku 翠玉, Shin-ryoku 深緑

[AmandaW]

25 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

The rows of stipples and (cross-)hatches are labelled

 

Just not in English? Or invisible on my screen because the scan is small? What am I missing?

[A Smug Dill]

15 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

Just not in English?

 

Just not in English. I copied the kanji from the inks' product labels as supplied by Pilot. Otherwise, for Shin-ryoku, I would have written 深綠 instead of 深緑. I expected that even non-Japanese readers (and I don't actually understand Japanese myself) can use their visual pattern recognition capabilities to match against the inks' official names, easily seen on bottle labels and the manufacturer's website. 👺

 

(Yes, I'm being a smug dill. I didn't really want to include that panel of colour comparisons in an ink review of Sui-gyoku; but I wanted to see for myself, and I promised some time ago that I wouldn't withhold the information deliberately if I've already gone to the trouble and done the work of putting something on paper. Seeing as you've just mentioned Ku-jaku and Syo-ro as I finished taking photos of the review sheet, I thought I'd share that with you, ahead of publishing the ink review when I'm ready.)

 

[AmandaW]

 

1 hour ago, A Smug Dill said:

I expected that even non-Japanese readers (and I don't actually understand Japanese myself) can use their visual pattern recognition capabilities to match against the inks' official names

 

I can't read the names - way too small to pattern match (maybe you're seeing a cached image?) - and not trusting screen colour to make an informed choice, I did the next best thing, tossed a coin: Syo-ro it is. 

 

So there! I am now waiting for an ink. (Actually two: it's traveling with a backup bottle of Ina-ho. I needed to get two to qualify for included shipping. And even used a discount code that was at risk of going to waste.)

 

 

 

 

[RJS]

I tend to view this website on a phone, so for me it would be very difficult to match up the kanji with the English versions of those bottles. I think you set the bar a bit high for non Japanese readers, Dill

[pgcauk]

7 hours ago, AmandaW said:

 

All those ink swatches... with no labels

This is a useful tip:

Go to any search engine, type in "Syo Ro in Kanji" to find which row this is. Same with Ku Jaku.

Or, find pictures of the bottle labels and cross-reference from there.

 

I am not even a beginner at Japanese, but I have been learning the Kanji for lots of traditional Japanese Colors - it's really fun and worthwhile!

[RJS]

As as English speaker that lived in China, learning random stuff like colours at the beginning, which likely won't come in handy at first and won't be used by you, isn't an easy way to begin, as without reinforcement it will slip out of your mind. Learn stuff you'll actually use, like the characters for foods, numbers and characters that help you get around, etc. I don't know how I'd force some random ink names into my long term memory!! 😅 They might as well be hieroglyphs...

[RJS]

A good alternative to fannying around trying to find translations of hand written characters is to Google "comparing iroshizuku inks" and go from there. A more efficient use of your time.

[InkyColors]

On 1/6/2022 at 9:40 PM, AmandaW said:

I'm not waiting for any inks at all. I have to fix this.

 

What I want is an ink to go in my Pilot Custom 74 Turquoise and I don't know whether to get Pilot Iroshizuku Ku-jaku or Syo-ro (or something else). It has an EF nib so I'm concerned about ending up with an ink that looks so dark I might as well have used black or so pale I can't see it!

 

I have a Pilot Custom 74 Turquoise with a fine nib. Mine is a very dry writer. Monteverde Iced Cookie works well and looks good to me. 

[AmandaW]

1 hour ago, InkyColors said:

I have a Pilot Custom 74 Turquoise with a fine nib. Mine is a very dry writer

Yes, mine is a dry writer too, I was hoping an Iroshizuku ink would help. I appreciate the recommendation and will go look cos I love the look of the pen and want to enjoy writing with it too. Thankyou.

[InkyColors]

7 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Yes, mine is a dry writer too, I was hoping an Iroshizuku ink would help. I appreciate the recommendation and will go look cos I love the look of the pen and want to enjoy writing with it too. Thankyou.

Frankly, I was disappointed in mine.  My Metropolitan fine nib writes well, but the Custom 74 fine nib is scratchy.  I was hoping to use Diamine Asa Blue, but in this pen it was unpleasant.  I have found that the lubricated inks (have only tried Monteverde Iced Cookie and Smoke Gray in that pen) work much better.  I purchased a Custom 74 in medium and that pen is pleasant to use - but writes a much wider line than any of my other mediums.

[PithyProlix]

8 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Yes, mine is a dry writer too, I was hoping an Iroshizuku ink would help. I appreciate the recommendation and will go look cos I love the look of the pen and want to enjoy writing with it too. Thankyou.

 

I got a Custom 74 ef about a month or so ago. I have been using L'Artisan Pastellier Callifolio Baikal in it since day one and have been happy with it. The pen is black so I don't have to worry much about the ink color. 😁 Not all pens bring out Baikal's subtle coloring but this pen, as a dry writer, does it well - looks like a grey blurple with this pen, at least on the paper I have tried it with. Baikal seems to be grey, grey blue, grey purple, or grey blurple depending on the pen.

[essayfaire]

On 1/6/2022 at 9:40 PM, AmandaW said:

What I want is an ink to go in my Pilot Custom 74 Turquoise and I don't know whether to get Pilot Iroshizuku Ku-jaku or Syo-ro

I find the Pilot Tsuki-yo is perfect for my Pilot turquoise-ish Blue Carbonesque Vanishing Point, and  I favor the no-longer-available Bungubox First Love Sapphire for another turquois-ish (the LE VP that looks like water)  pen.  F nibs.  I've tried many different turquoise inks, and these ink/pen pairings are permanent after much trial and effort.  Ku-jaku is lovely, the Tsuki-yo is just my personal preference.

[Recursion]

Diamine inks I’m expecting:

Ochre, Writers Blood, Monboddos Hat, Acient Copper, Autumn Oak, Monboddos Hat, Onyx Black, Woodland Green, Green Umber, Sherwood Green, Sapphire blue, Prussian Blue & Oxblood. 

[pgcauk]

I'm not waiting any longer! All the way from the Old Country I received today:

Robert Oster Tiverton Rust - a kind of seaside pink?
Deep Dark Orange - both Cult Pens exclusives

Diamine Music Vivaldi and Wagner
The oranges don't scan well but here are some first impressions:

 

I thought that Wagner would be another Alt GoldGrun, and Vivaldi another Chu Shu, but not at all - rather pleased!