10 New Lamy Inks At The End Of The Year!

[Glenn-SC]

Sad, liked the colors but the descriptions said nothing about "sheen".

 

I don't care for shading, sparkles, sheen, or color shifting.

I just want the ink to be a consistent color, flow well, not clog, and not dry out.

[Honeybadgers]

The only two colors I've noticed with any real sheen are the pinks and the purple. I can't know for sure, but I think rhodonite (a hot pink) is actually a shimmer ink. I see very sparse fine sparkle particles in the ink but when it's on the page, all I see is a very good amount of vivid gold sheen. No sparkles. If anyone else gets this ink, can they confirm if it's got particles in it for them as well?

 

Beryl is analogous to Yama-budo. Magenta with vivid gold sheen in a flex nib.

 

Azurite has bonkers gold sheen on the swab but not in my F nib pilot capless. I'll try it in some broader nibs later (right now I have like 25 damn pens inked up since I got 12 new colors from Hero this last week too - all of those colors are home runs too, BTW)

 

There is a TINY bit of sheen with amazonite, but you shouldn't see it on anything but the wetter/broader/flex nibs on papers like tomoe. It's really like robert oster fire & ice sans sheen. Less red sheen than most blues.

 

I finally got my new col-o-ring book (up to three now) and got the final swabs done. The obsidian is a ludicrously saturated black. No shading. at all. Just black-hole levels of blackness. I dig it. Topaz is a slightly red, chocolatey brown. Peritot is like a more saturated monteverde emerald green (emerald is the color I'd have chosen for it, a peridot is usually darker)

 

 

The biggest disappointment is the Benzoite. It's fine. No sheen. Little shading. Smooth and consistent, not heavily saturated, not too pale. But it's analogous to pilot blue black, which is my most-often used ink, but that ink has more shading, a little sheen, great water resistance, and for the same price you get 3x more ink.

[Honeybadgers]

 

Water resistance of Benitoite since it is described as 'document proof'?

 

Are you referring to Ruby as 'pink' with the gold sheen?

I am still undecided on the Amazonite.

 

Compared to pilot BB in penBBS pens, they're a dead heat. The benitoite holds onto its darker color and shading, whereas pilot just becomes a deeper blue when soaked. Both are strongly water resistant. Overall, I still think pilot BB is a better ink. A little more shading, same behavior on bad paper, same degree of water resistance, and it has some nice subtle red sheen on good paper (and a 350mL bottle costs only $20)

[1nkulus]

The biggest disappointment is the Benzoite. It's fine. No sheen. Little shading. Smooth and consistent, not heavily saturated, not too pale. But it's analogous to pilot blue black, which is my most-often used ink, but that ink has more shading, a little sheen, great water resistance, and for the same price you get 3x more ink.

 

Shame, I had high hopes for it. Well then, Pilot BB it is.

Actually, Pilot Blue, Black and BB, all display similar characteristics IIRC.

 

Compared to pilot BB in penBBS pens, they're a dead heat. The benitoite holds onto its darker color and shading, whereas pilot just becomes a deeper blue when soaked. Both are strongly water resistant. Overall, I still think pilot BB is a better ink. A little more shading, same behavior on bad paper, same degree of water resistance, and it has some nice subtle red sheen on good paper (and a 350mL bottle costs only $20)

 

Thank you for the concise comparison.

[ErrantSmudge]

For those in the USA, Goulet Pens has just listed the new Lamy inks on their site as "Coming in December".

[Honeybadgers]

I highly recommend agate and ruby. Those are probably my two favorite of the set and actually bring something to the table that isn't already available in other common inks.

 

Either way the whole set looks really nice on my shelves. The bottles aren't super practical but they work well enough and they are quite pretty (though 2/10 had issues where the cap liner stuck to the bottle)

Edited November 22, 2018 by Honeybadgers

[1nkulus]

I am warming to Beryl and Agate, will take a punt on the Amazonite and Rhodonite.

Pleased with 4/10 inks, good job Lamy.

[minddance]

10 inks and not a single Dark Lilac. pass.

[inotrym]

The more I look at the bottles the more I think Faber-Castell should have come up with the idea instead. Missed opportunity...

[Anne-Sophie]

 

Could any of user of the new Lamy inks, hop on over the ink thread, to share with us a nice review?

Edited December 19, 2018 by Anne-Sophie

[1nkulus]

Could any of user of the new Lamy inks, hop on over the ink thread, to share with us a nice review?

 

@Honeybadgers has covered all the broad strokes, enough to make a purchase decision IMO.

 

OTOH, the detailed reviews will surely trickle through.

[inkstainedruth]

For those in the USA, Goulet Pens has just listed the new Lamy inks on their site as "Coming in December".

 

That's good to know -- I should check and see if they (and other online sellers) have an update on the ETA. I got a chance to go to the new Lamy Soho store in New York City today and was told that I could put in a pre-order (which I declined) -- the store wasn't getting them in till January; in case anyone's interested, they are also still waiting on the 2019 Pastel Safaris (I definitely do NOT want to get one of those before seeing one up close and personal, and strongly suspect that they will not be for me). But I was able to at least try the inks because they had tester pens for their counter display. Only now I can't remember if I tried Beryl.

I was told that the price in the store would be ~$16 US per bottle (not sure the bottle capacity) and am also not sure what NYC sales tax is these days.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ErrantSmudge]

I stopped in at the Lamy San Francisco store just a few days before Christmas, and they told me not until after the new year. At least their stories are consistent!

[Blackhorse]

Bought two of these...the Azurite and Topaz for about $15 shipped. One via Amazon Prime and the other on eBay. Amazed at how much some of this line are going for on eBay. At this time still not up at Goulet’s...and $18 plus shipping there.