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I like Diamine colors, in fact Imperial Purple is still my favorite, even if I not used it in the past week, but the bottles are blah... Really love J. Herbin's but yeah, even the bottle looks nice, filling from them is a pain, so I use syringe for that purpose. Although my Sailor bottles are almost full, I think they will prevision some syringe requirements too...

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FloatingFountain Rare

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ESSRI.It comes in a tall plastic bottle, unfit for filling pens, while it *still* not fits into a Dutch mailbox.

 

You must have a spare glass bottle and a syringe with a 4 inch needle to make the ink usable.

 

(The same seems to go for Diamine Registrar's Ink.)

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Diamine 30ml bottles are great - you get a significant quantity of ink for not much more than the cost of many samples.

 

However, the bottles themselves have some drawbacks. I can't fill the oversized pen I use with many of these inks directly from the bottle as the neck is too narrow. Fortunately, it's a cartridge/convertor pen, so the easiest thing to do is pull out the converter, fill it directly from the bottle, wipe it clean and push it back into the section.

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I'm known to buy mini-bottles at the liquor store to put ink them... The starting product inside is just a bonus... :-D

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Yard-O-Led Sepia. If I could find any more of the homely little bottles, I think I'd buy as many as I could. It's spuh-tatchelar in my old Pelikan M&K 120.

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Agree totally. Awful bottles to fill from but some of my favourite inks. The 100ml bottles are even more unwieldy.

Good to know. I kinda like Lie de Thé but wasn't sure I liked it enough for that size bottle. OTOH, if Vert Empire had come in that size I would have bought it in a heartbeat.... Not looking forward to trying to fill shorter lever pens from even the small bottle -- I'm going to have to constantly refill a sample vial almost to the top to fill the Morrison ring top overlay pen easily.

As for me, I bought a NOS bottle (apparently never opened) of vintage Quink Violet, and it has a rubber stopper with some sort of wick attached. And apparently it *also* needs some sort of nozzle attachment -- when I unscrewed the small cap, it has a couple of small holes in the rubber nipple. I'm going to half to figure out if I can get some sort of equivalent size of glass bottle (preferably *not* clear glass) -- or better yet, two smaller bottles (less unwieldy -- I remember me and a 4-1/2 oz bottle of Kung Te Cheng and my bathroom floor; let's just say it wasn't pretty, and leave it at that, shall we? :blush:) and then transfer ink to a vial for actually filling pens.

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Yard-O-Led Sepia. If I could find any more of the homely little bottles, I think I'd buy as many as I could. It's spuh-tatchelar in my old Pelikan M&K 120.

 

As Yard-O-Led ink appears to be made by Diamine, it's probably Diamine Sepia. The small 1 fl oz bottle (28.4ml) is used by Diamine for some of its speciality inks - I believe they sometimes sell Registrar's Ink in that bottle.

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As Yard-O-Led ink appears to be made by Diamine, it's probably Diamine Sepia. The small 1 fl oz bottle (28.4ml) is used by Diamine for some of its speciality inks - I believe they sometimes sell Registrar's Ink in that bottle.

 

Yes, they have a 1oz RI bottle, but you're stupid if you buy that. It costs like £7.95, while the 100ml bottle costs £11.25.

 

(£0.28/ml vs. £0.11/ml. Less than half the price.)

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Diamine for me, love the ink, but the bottle doesn't do it for me :)

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As Yard-O-Led ink appears to be made by Diamine, it's probably Diamine Sepia. The small 1 fl oz bottle (28.4ml) is used by Diamine for some of its speciality inks - I believe they sometimes sell Registrar's Ink in that bottle.

Thanks! I am definitely going to look into that.

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Yes, they have a 1oz RI bottle, but you're stupid if you buy that. It costs like £7.95, while the 100ml bottle costs £11.25.

 

(£0.28/ml vs. £0.11/ml. Less than half the price.)

Well, I prefer to think of it as "wisdom impaired", but yes, mathematics is your fiend! :)

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As Yard-O-Led ink appears to be made by Diamine, it's probably Diamine Sepia. The small 1 fl oz bottle (28.4ml) is used by Diamine for some of its speciality inks - I believe they sometimes sell Registrar's Ink in that bottle.

 

I just had a look over here:

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/209494-sepia-toned-ink-comparison-32-inks/

 

And I think you may be right. Diamine Sepia looks very similar to Yard-O-Led Sepia. Awesome, thanks.

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I'll second the Noodlers 4.5oz bottles. I picked up a TWSBI inkewll, and it fixes that. Spendy, though. If I had the TWSBI pens that it would fill with no fuss I might feel better, but I don't.

 

(Anodized aluminum and glass, though. It is a cool bottle.)

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I'd go with pouches, some Paris ink maker ships that way....if I had empty bottles.

 

Being cheap, always in search of new inks....when the bottle gets low....it gets 'saved'. :doh:

An ink maker in Paris? What is his name?

Everything is impermanent.

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Sailor. The little plastic insert, which was added to remedy the poor design of the jar, is an insult. I save spent Visconti Blue bottles for inks that come in bad containers, and so Sailor Jentle Blue goes into one of these. Filled with sea salt, the Sailor jars make nice-looking paperweights.

I love the smell of fountain pen ink in the morning.

 

 

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An ink maker in Paris? What is his name?

Posted 05 March 2014 - 14:43

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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That is 700km south of Paris ;)

Thanks for the links though.

 

Ah, so like going to Reno from Vegas. :)

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ah, so like going to Reno from Vegas. :)

In terms of distance yes :D In terms of travelling effort, cultural and landscape changes... from what I remember of Nevada and from SW France... Considerably more. :)

Everything is impermanent.

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Oh dear, probably Private Reserve Rose Rage, the bottle is downright boring.

The PR bottles are kind of boring, but I really like their understated simplicity - no gimmicks, just great ink.

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