Diamine Registrar's Ink

[mangobait]

Yes, beautiful ink but do not, repeat DO NOT use with a Lamy 2000. I've just saved my pen from a long ordeal with this ink.

 

I bought the Lamy 2000 and the Diamine Registrar's ink at the same time. It was the only permanent ink they sold. After it started to clog the pen, the store kindly switched my "fine" nib to a "medium" one. Then that started clogging up. The ink is beautiful but I don't know what I'll do with it. The owner of the the store speculated that the iron oxide was reacting with the gold nib. Now I'm using Noodler's Black in the pen and it is writing smoothly. It has a lot less character but it writes smoothly with my pen.

 

I don't know if this would be an issue with all gold nib pens or if it is the lamination process that Lamy uses to coat the gold nib. I just know I will never mix the pen with this ink again.