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

[Bo Bo Olson]

I had one purple inked this at the beginning of the month.

 

A decade and more ago, I was chasing purples, when a cheap bottle of the old discontinued Pelikan 4001 Brilliant green...a very nice shading green-green ink fell into my hands...who needs to use a green ink?

 

That year 12 green-greenish inks, then for a long time 19, and now twenty.

In the mean while I only got two purple inks....and a couple violet ones.

 

I do not like Wiki's definition pf purple and violet, in they don't match my crayon box of my childhood. It must be sad to write definitions for the world and having never had a crayon box.

[inkstainedruth]

Well, as I had to remind a friend on FB a few days ago -- Wikipedia is ONLY as good as whoever made the last entry....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[PithyProlix]

No longer waiting but notable:vintage Montblanc blue black ("Made in W. Germany"), bottle about 90% full. With its original box, in very good condition. Info on the web indicates it is iron gall and, given how old it is, I am grateful that there appear to be no precipitates or other issues. Not sure if there was evaporation - color is on the darker side compared to other blue blacks but still attractive. Goes on dark blue and fairly quickly morphs towards grey and a bit green, though not as much as the vintage Waterman, Parker, & Sheaffer blue blacks that go further towards teal. Love my blue blacks to be a bit grey. It also has wonderful shading. My kind of ink. 

[Runnin_Ute]

On 10/27/2023 at 10:07 PM, Runnin_Ute said:

Got tracking yesterday (10/26) confirming shipment. Last notification tells me it should arrive on Monday, October 30th.

Top 3 on this. Arrived Monday. 

[dimledger]

I took advantadge of the Anderson Pens Fountain Pen Day sale to get a few ink samples:

• Diamine Burnt Sienna and Monaco Red
• Kyo-iro Moonlight of Higashiyama
• Pelikan 4001 Blue Black and 4001 Pink (my first pink ink)
• Pilot Iroshizuku Fuyu-syogun (my first Iroshizuku)
• Platinum Carbon Black
• Sailor Manyo Shirikashi

[USG]

On 10/31/2023 at 10:45 PM, Runnin_Ute said:

Top 3 on this. Arrived Monday. 

 

Hi RU

That Topaz just jumps off the page... is it Edelstein Topaz? 

[Penguincollector]

Thanks to @carlos.q, I bought an NOS bottle of Skrip Peacock and eagerly await its arrival.

[inkstainedruth]

Awesome!  Skrip Peacock is a GORGEOUS color -- one of my favorite inks.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Runnin_Ute]

16 hours ago, USG said:

 

Hi RU

That Topaz just jumps off the page... is it Edelstein Topaz? 

It is

[USG]

9 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

Thanks to @carlos.q, I bought an NOS bottle of Skrip Peacock and eagerly await its arrival.

 

Loved the color.  It was one of my favorite inks in High School..... 🙃👍 

I still have the bottle but it's empty. 🙁

 

3 minutes ago, Runnin_Ute said:

It is

 

That settles it, I have it and I'm sure I have a pen loaded with it, somewhere...  time to write with it. 🙂👍

[Penguincollector]

3 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Awesome!  Skrip Peacock is a GORGEOUS color -- one of my favorite inks.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

  Thanks, can’t wait to get it, down to my last 6 cartridges. It was one of my favorite high school inks, in a Targa. Ha ha, me too, @USG!

[Doc Dan]

I'm awaiting Diamine Beethoven and Iris. They used the local mail instead of one of the plethora of currier services around here for some reason, otherwise I would have had them by now. 

[Surlyprof]

I’m bought two DeAtramentis Document inks on FPD, Black (refill) and my first true color ink, Violet.  Looking forward to sketching with the violet.

[Misfit]

I ordered a bottle of Graf von Faber-Castell Garnet. I ordered it on Amazon, not getting any price break. It is shipping from my local pen store The Pen Place. I used credit card rewards to get the price down $9.83. I was originally looking at Edelstein Garnet. It was my Dad’s birthstone, so that’s why. I have Edelstein Garnet already.  The GvFC Garnet looks very nice. I looked at some reviews. The Mountain of Inks blog called it a wintery red which seems fitting. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

A very nice poster sent me a couple cartridges of both, Edelstein Garnet & GvFC Garnet ...fearing red/redish inks for staining my piston pens...I don't get into reddish.......................oddly have no trouble with purples, in I clean the pen out after one load...purple also has a rep for staining.

I do have CC pens which I so seldom think of. I saw that GvFC Garnet yesterday when looking for a Kaweco brown that I didn't find. Must have been a thought of buying instead of doing it.

 

Down to 10 pens from 19, on my way to 7. I want to be at 7 pens inked so I use up more ink. At 17  some pens will just sit there.

[AmandaW]

Pilot Black shipped today.

[Misfit]

Hi @Bo Bo Olson I put Edelstein Star Ruby in a TWSBI Eco, and it did not stain. That’s a lot of ink in a pen, which takes time to use. Plus I’m not good at cleaning pens. Iroshizuku Yama Budo did not stain it either.  Strangely, a red ink is known as a cleaning ink.  Noodler’s eel ink red rattler has cleaned stains from pens. @amberleadavis I think started a thread years ago on cleaning inks. Sailor Do-you is another cleaning ink plus the old Quink inks. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

I got a P-75 Thuya to go with my first real fountain pen the silver P-75 bought new back about '71.

So I inked the Thuya with Lamy Crystal Topaz on Mondi 100g. It is not a shading monster but on good paper it shades.

Click to enlarge. i do like the Mondi 100g paper. The other ink is Quink black, in my P-75 cisele.

(I have to admit that Quink Black, is about as gray as a couple dark gray inks I tried just recently.)

The pens.

 

[SLinkster]

53 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Quink Black, is about as gray as a couple dark gray inks I tried just recently

What dark gray inks? I don't have many grays, but my bottle of quink black is pretty black. It's the third (and last) bottle I picked up at a stationer's going-out sale about 25 years ago. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

MB  90 year permanent grey, and Herbin Stormy Gray, glitter ink, are near as dark ad  Quink black.

 

Over the years I've read many comments of that Parker Quink was one of the lightest of the black inks.

All I had was some cartridges bought back  when i started this madness. My1971  P-75's squeeze gadget still worked, so it was as a spare.

Sending that off tomorrow to be re-sacked with my 1925 Waterman..the fact it was 14 K gold overlay slipped by the auction house....me too, to tell the truth. . The silver dip pen polished up nicely.