Which Inks Are You Using Today?

[white_lotus]

Today it is Sailor Takelen Tetsukon "Iron Blue" in the Edison Collier 2020 LE in "Metallurgy".

 

I'm not precisely sure of the name of the Japanese vendor but it's in an unlabeled vase bottle, with the cap having some Japanese characters. It is definitely not the Nakabayashi ink of the same name, but the color is very similar; a deep rich dark blue. The actual ink is bluer than what I captured in the image. It can have a bit of shading, but it's the solid rich color that I like. And I've always loved blue-blacks. A "real" ink. A "serious" ink. One's notes and scribbles seem so much more profound when written in blue-black ink. ymmv.

 

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been diluted Robert Oster Carbon Fire, in the Vibrant Pink al-Star, 1.1 mm stub nib; and vintage Quink Microfilm Black, in the Silver Pearl Vac Major, F nib.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[A Smug Dill]

Today it is Sailor Takelen Tetsukon "Iron Blue" in the Edison Collier 2020 LE in "Metallurgy".

Awesome-looking pen!

 

I'm not precisely sure of the name of the Japanese vendor but it's in an unlabeled vase bottle, with the cap having some Japanese characters.

 

This? https://www.sailor.co.jp/limited/mitsukoshi-baikoucha-tekkon

Source: Sailor Pen

 

Edit: Not that one then.

Edited September 9, 2020 by A Smug Dill

[white_lotus]

Thanks on the pen. It's a fine one, and will become a regular EDC.

 

There was a time when Sailor wasn't putting custom labels (or any labels) on the vase bottles or even the boxes. I think this was to reduce their "collectible" character. Sailor said at the time these products were for the local market. But I think the real reason was the Ink Master was being overworked making endless micro batches of "Cigar", "Hakodate Twilight", and so many other inks that were selling so much. Now I'm sure he has a more sedate life.

 

 

 

[A Smug Dill]

Today it is Sailor Takelen Tetsukon "Iron Blue" in the Edison Collier 2020 LE in "Metallurgy".

 

I'm not precisely sure of the name of the Japanese vendor but it's in an unlabeled vase bottle, with the cap having some Japanese characters.

Thanks for posting photos of the bottle, so that I could visually match the label.

• https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/272272-sailors-full-ink-lines-including-shop-exclusives-compiled-in-a-post/?p=3744804
• https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/272272-sailors-full-ink-lines-including-shop-exclusives-compiled-in-a-post/?p=3746111
• https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/315009-iron-dark-blue-sailor-exclusive/

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been Akkermann Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indigo, in the M600 Violet and White; and later it will be KWZI Standard Turquoise, as the inaugural ink in the new pen I got last week: A Pilot Metropolitan Retro Pop -- grey, Herringbone trim -- with a stub/calligraphy nib. I've been wanting one of these for a long time now, and had also wanted to see whether I liked the stub nib (my other Metropolitan is an M -- when I got that, I also tested an F and found the F to be scratchy).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[white_lotus]

 

Thanks for posting photos of the bottle, so that I could visually match the label.

• https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/272272-sailors-full-ink-lines-including-shop-exclusives-compiled-in-a-post/?p=3744804
• https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/272272-sailors-full-ink-lines-including-shop-exclusives-compiled-in-a-post/?p=3746111
• https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/315009-iron-dark-blue-sailor-exclusive/

 

Yup. That's it. Thanks for researching for us all! I'm not even sure this ink is available any longer.

[avlisyar]

Today is Sailor day:

 

Epinard Green

Doyou Brown

Black

[ENewton]

Today is Sailor day:

 

 

For me, every day is Sailor day. The pen I always have inked is a Sailor 1911S with Sailor Kobe #9 Suma Purple.

 

I am also using Birmingham Waterfront Dusk, in a Kaweco Sport with a fine nib that writes like a broad nib with this ink.

[amberleadavis]

I've been using Diamine Winter Miracle. It is delightfully obnoxious. It is a nearly black purple with blue sheen. The blue is really visible in person.

 

[GardenWeasel]

Monteverde Olivine & Diamine Eclipse.

[GardenWeasel]

Harrumph! Just your description resulted in ordering a sample...along with a sample of Diamine 1864 Blue Black. obnoxious is a challenge.

I've been using Diamine Winter Miracle. It is delightfully obnoxious. It is a nearly black purple with blue sheen. The blue is really visible in person.

 

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been:

Kyo-no-oto Sakuranezemi, in the Sailor Pro-Gear Slim, zoom nib.

Iroshizuku Tsuyu-kusa, in the Pilot Decimo, F nib.

Vintage Quink Microfilm Black, in the Silver Pearl Parker Vacumatic, F nib.

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ENewton]

Birmingham Waterfront Dusk in my Kaweco Sport F

 

Sailor Shigure in my Sailor 1911S Wicked Witch of the West M

 

Some selection of Birmingham Pen Company inks on a brush, for a calligraphy project

[MBDostoevsky]

Dollar Red in a Piano Fountain Pen... the ink is more of a pinkish red and somewhat close to Diamine's Poppy Red

[NumberSix]

Noodler's Texas Navy - Parker 51 Special

Sheaffer Skrip Black - Parker 51 Demi

 

 

Both inks are new to me. In my APICA journal, the Texas Navy is almost a perfect match for Namiki Blue, which I have in another pen. It feathers a bit in my 1917 Bullet Journal, though, so I will probably keep it for long-form journaling.

[white_lotus]

The current new fill is Sailor Kingdom Note Birgus latro (a dark brown) from the Crustaceans series in a Pelikan M400 Brown tortoise.

 

Still working through the Hakodate twilight ink in the new Edison.

[inkstainedruth]

Birmingham Waterfront Dusk in my Kaweco Sport F

 

I keep meaning to try the bottle I have of Waterfont Dusk and keep getting sidetracked.... And I bought it when they still had the B&M store in Pittsburgh....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[A Smug Dill]

Harrumph! Just your description resulted in ordering a sample...along with a sample of Diamine 1864 Blue Black. obnoxious is a challenge.

 

 

Yes, @amberleadavis really knows how to 'sell' an ink! I now have it in my shopping cart, and would have already pulled the trigger if I didn't get waylaid (looking at an answer to where PenBBS ink can be bought) and end up spending A$100 on PenBBS inks, including a blue-purple-black shimmer ink that looks like a demented version of Diamine Winter Miracle, I suppose.

 

I might yet order the latter yet, since I need to pad a half-finished order for a Pelikan M200 Moonstone pen anyway.

[silverlifter]

• Akkerman #10 IJzer-Galnoten
• Diamine Registrars

Allegedly, both made by Diamine; but sufficiently different in character to be enjoyed in tandem.