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

[Misfit]

@Bo Bo Olsonthose are beautiful Parker 75s. 

[USG]

15 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

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

14 hours ago, SLinkster said:

 

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. 

 

Hi SLKr

Back in the day,I remember Quink Black as being a cool lighter shade of black leaning toward gray, Waterman Black a darker shade leaning toward blue and Pelikan Black being the darkest and the warmest.

 

That said, my vintage Quink black, which is around the age of your Quink Black has condensed over the years to a very jet black like yours, but the question I wanted to as you is this:  Does your Quink Black say Solv-x on the box or the bottle.  I have some that do and some that don't.

 

I also see you're using Kokuyo paper.  Which version?  I have 52gsm Thin Kokuyo and 64gsm KB.  There might be others I don't know about.

[Stompie]

Waiting for delivery:

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

8 hours ago, USG said:

Does your Quink Black say Solv-x on the box

Yes...

Made in France. And What it is and how to use it is in 6 languages.

Down to two cartridges.

 

Misfit, thank you.

In I wanted to show off the silver Parkers to the widow selling me the Thuya's, I polished them with the silver cloth, in normally I let them be gunmetal gray**....which prevents folks from asking, is that chrome?

 

**If used often, the pens are normally from finger oils, in between dull gunmetal and brighter silver.

[Jadie]

J Herbin Caroube de Chypre

 

I purchased Goulet’s shimmering inks sampler set a few years ago (!) and only tried it last week because I wanted a brown. I was worried about sediment and flow but it’s actually one of the wetter flowing inks and the color is amazing, even if I’ve yet to see the green sheen some versions have (need wider nib + better paper I expect). Now looking forward to a full bottle for regular use!

[Stompie]

6 hours ago, Stompie said:

Waiting for delivery:

 

 

Forgot to mention Cocoa Shimmer

[SLinkster]

12 hours ago, USG said:

Kokuyo paper

I caught a ream of A3 64gsm KB on Amazon as a discounted like-new item. It's a good weight and plays well with the pens and inks I like to use.  I have a few sheets of the 52gsm, it's ok paper but a bit thin for my taste. 

[SLinkster]

Sailor workshop 670, 770 and 970. Edelstein Topaz (can't have too much blue). Iroshizuku yu-yake. 

[SLinkster]

15 hours ago, USG said:

my vintage Quink black, which is around the age of your Quink Black has condensed over the years to a very jet black like yours, but the question I wanted to as you is this:  Does your Quink Black say Solv-x on the box or the bottle.

 

My bottle of ~25-year old Quink says nothing about Solv-X. I've got an o-ring in the lid in an effort to prevent evaporation but I'm sure some of that has happened in the 6 or so years since I first cracked the lid. 

 

I made a sample sheet using all the black inks I currently have on hand. This is scanned, then converted to great scale. X-feather appears to be the most saturated BUT that may be due to the wider lines. Quink has been my go-to black since Granny gave me her kitchen drawer pen nearly 50 years ago. However, after making this sample page I  think the Aurora has moved into that position, followed by Pelikan BB. 

[Misfit]

My GvFC Garnet arrived today. I was hoping as I opened the box that the label on the ink box would be the old version with fruit. It was!  The new version is basically a color swatch. Of course fruit is not necessarily what I’d expect for a gemstone, but I still like it. 
 

Once my Monteverde Mountains of the World Ruby Mountain is empty, I’ll fill it with GvFC Garnet. Why fill Ruby mountain with Garnet? Because the gemstones the mountain had were garnets. 

[USG]

😲

7 hours ago, SLinkster said:

 

My bottle of ~25-year old Quink says nothing about Solv-X. I've got an o-ring in the lid in an effort to prevent evaporation but I'm sure some of that has happened in the 6 or so years since I first cracked the lid. 

 

I made a sample sheet using all the black inks I currently have on hand. This is scanned, then converted to great scale. X-feather appears to be the most saturated BUT that may be due to the wider lines. Quink has been my go-to black since Granny gave me her kitchen drawer pen nearly 50 years ago. However, after making this sample page I  think the Aurora has moved into that position, followed by Pelikan BB. 

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You seem to be well stocked in Black inks.  I agree with you about Aurora. Over the years it became my go to black. 😀👍

That's an interesting bottle of Quink you have.  Must be after they stopped using Solv-X. 

 

8 hours ago, SLinkster said:

I caught a ream of A3 64gsm KB on Amazon as a discounted like-new item. It's a good weight and plays well with the pens and inks I like to use.  I have a few sheets of the 52gsm, it's ok paper but a bit thin for my taste. 

 

Wow, A3, that's big paper... 😲 What size do you write on?    I have the A4 size and I cut it down to A5.  I also have the Thin, but I like thin paper..... 👍😀  I like thick paper too but lately I've developed a bad attitude toward yellow and cream. 😄

[USG]

13 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Yes...

Made in France. And What it is and how to use it is in 6 languages.

Down to two cartridges.

 

+1👍

[Particular_Song3539]

Van Dieman's November special ink and their new product - Fusion FP ink mixing Kit.
I am being excited. Should be arriving early next week.

[SLinkster]

11 hours ago, USG said:

A3, that's big paper... 😲 What size do you write on?

Hehehe... I use A3 sheets to make A6 and A7 pamphlet-style notebooks with greeting card covers. Two sheets, sometimes three, per notebook. I have 93 ready to go to a local nursing home, must remember to buy some golf pencils too go with them.

 

My bottle of quink is what it is. I bought it not long before my youngest kid started preschool, so in early 2000. I have a freshly-purchased bottle of blue-black sitting on my desk next to a Parker Gray Pearl standard vacumatic. Pretty sure I'm filling that pen with that ink after I manage to write out and clean two of the current rotation. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Not in the mail, but local pick up.

 

Baroque Inks are carried by a local large grocery store, so I'll start getting bottles at €12.95.

It's an old company, that had been nationalized by the Communists.

Western Germany's government killed off any East German company that threatened a western manufacture, when Germany re-united.

 

It has been years since the reviews,and some two new factory start ups since the Wall fell, that failed because of bad businessmen, looking for a tax loss.

 

It was once a real huge factory, making ink, typewriter bands, and the then new computer printing inks. So huge, Dresden had a Huge sign Baroque on the over passes entering and leaving the city.

 

Just yesterday watched on German TV, the ink is filled by hand one bottle at a time on a small filling line band, the cap put on and the label pasted on by hand.

 

I don't know which one to start with. I have too many greens, so a purple-'caviar' or a brown will check to see if the ink, don't feather or leave a woolly line.

I have semi-vintage tear drop or stubbed vintage nibs that write with a clean line, if the ink and I will be using my Mondi 100g paper.

[txomsy]

I will have to look into those inks, that they still have a hand manufacturing process makes them even more valuable (for me) and is good to know your money is going to help workers' living. Thanks for letting us now.

[Bo Bo Olson]

As far as I can tell from TV, one retired machinist, who maintains part of an old factory for the love of a dead company...and an younger guy, doing the ink.

 

The tax man bill has turned careful into scrimping, so it may be an ink a month....and that will get me interested in the ever so many new inks, I've been avoiding because of lack $ and having boxes/shelves of inks.

 

When I die they can make a pyramid out of my inks.....small pyramid, but what the hell.

[Doc Dan]

I got my Diamine inks. The Beethoven is a nice forest green. It is dark and nice. 

 

The Iris is  DAH DAH DAH, DAH DAH DAH DAH, DAH DAH DAH, DAH DAH.

 

If you are my age you will get it. 

 

It is deep purple. 

[Stompie]

55 minutes ago, Doc Dan said:

I got my Diamine inks. The Beethoven is a nice forest green. It is dark and nice. 

 

The Iris is  DAH DAH DAH, DAH DAH DAH DAH, DAH DAH DAH, DAH DAH.

 

If you are my age you will get it. 

 

It is deep purple. 

Smoking baby! Oh yeah!

[welch]

Waiting for my second bottle of Scribe Indigo, the blue ink made by the ink-designer who created Parker Penman Sapphire.