Your Most Recent Impulsive Ink Purchase? (Replacement Bottles Don't Count.. Only 1St Timers!)

[Penguincollector]

6 hours ago, RJS said:

Sounds good. Thanks. Fingers crossed 🤞🏼 

 Here’s the swatch card and some writing with an E.S. Perry MR3 dip pen:

 

[Penguincollector]

On 8/9/2024 at 5:56 AM, USG said:

 

 

Of the Columbia Blue-Bronze and Blue-Copper, which one do you like the best? I have some samples I'll take another look.

  They’re both different, I can’t really decide if I prefer one over the other. The Bronze is brighter, the Copper more subtle. Here’s both ink cards together:

 

   

[USG]

1 hour ago, Penguincollector said:

  They’re both different, I can’t really decide if I prefer one over the other. The Bronze is brighter, the Copper more subtle. Here’s both ink cards together:

 

   

 

IC, I think I'd like the Bronze better.

[USG]

3 hours ago, Uncial said:

I'd love to see a writing sample of this

+1 on the sample, but I saw your card

[Mercian]

17 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  It’s definitely a possibility. I have several varieties of these small blue flowered plants and I have forgotten which is which. The photo on their website could be any of them. 

Indeed the flowers could 

 

I cheated though - after reading the Linnaean binomial name of the plant species off the label on the bottle, I looked it up. Its leaves are smaller than the ones on your cretaceous behemoth.

And, as Brunnera macrophylla means ‘big-leaved Brunnera’, I reckon that your garden plant is a member of that species.

 

Whichever it is, the ink is certainly an attractive colour, and I love how you show it off on your swatch card  

[Penguincollector]

46 minutes ago, Mercian said:

Indeed the flowers could 

 

I cheated though - after reading the Linnaean binomial name of the plant species off the label on the bottle, I looked it up. Its leaves are smaller than the ones on your cretaceous behemoth.

And, as Brunnera macrophylla means ‘big-leaved Brunnera’, I reckon that your garden plant is a member of that species.

 

Whichever it is, the ink is certainly an attractive colour, and I love how you show it off on your swatch card  

    Oh that’s smart, I didn’t even notice that the Linnean nomenclature was on the bottle until you mentioned it (not being able to read without glasses takes some getting used to). It probably is a Brunnera macrophylla in that part of the yard. I have a garden that started out as exclusively blue flowers, so lots of different types of plants with similar blooms. 

[RJS]

18 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

 Here’s the swatch card and some writing with an E.S. Perry MR3 dip pen:

 

Looks pretty there. Thanks! Do you like it? Any thoughts?

[Penguincollector]

23 minutes ago, RJS said:

Looks pretty there. Thanks! Do you like it? Any thoughts?

    I like it so far, this is the extent of my experience with it, but I will be using it the next time I need a color in that range. I have 2 other turquoise/teal inks in use now. It’s well behaved and easy to clean off the brush and dip pen. 

[RJS]

1 hour ago, Penguincollector said:

    I like it so far, this is the extent of my experience with it, but I will be using it the next time I need a color in that range. I have 2 other turquoise/teal inks in use now. It’s well behaved and easy to clean off the brush and dip pen. 

Thanks for the info

 

Seems good, and I might have ordered it with my last stationary order a month ago. As it is, I'm not sure it's special enough to rush to buy before it inevitably sells out and disappears.

[Uncial]

Somehow I missed the swatch card. That is a lovely ink.

[Penguincollector]

On 8/13/2024 at 4:05 PM, Uncial said:

Somehow I missed the swatch card. That is a lovely ink.

   Thanks! I finally put it in my Wahl-Eversharp Skyline Fine Flex. It’s a little wet for this pen on certain papers, but it’s gorgeous. It’s coming out a bit greener than the card, but it’s a new used pen and I can’t for the life of me completely clean sacced pens. I’ll add a picture later. 
 

[Penguincollector]

  I’m confessing to recently indulging in several impulsive ink purchases. Today I bought Sailor Yurameku Kyokkou, and recently bought a few discontinued Iroshizuku inks: Tsuyu-Kusa, Kiri-Same, and Kosumosu. 

[Mark from Yorkshire]

On 8/12/2024 at 4:44 PM, Penguincollector said:

  That’s an unfortunate moniker for such pretty flowers. I have a monstrously large specimen in my backyard. It’s not in bloom at the moment, but it looks like something out of the Cretaceous period. 
 

Forget Cretaceous it’s more lime Something fro a lot earlier Niamey the Cambrian explosion when life really took off on Earth especially multi-cellular life. That or the the Carboniferous. In fact it takes me back to sitting through various lectures on the subject as an undergraduate geologist. Most of which I’ve long forgotten.

[Penguincollector]

 @Mark from Yorkshire 😆 

[AlexLeGrande]

As a replacement for Waterman Absolute Brown, I bought a bottle of Franklin-Christoph Brown 732.  It's a bit redder than the Waterman, but a lovely near-match in color ink.  I like it!

[Cassotto]

I suddenly decided I wanted a Ferris Wheel Press ink, and ordered a bottle of Edwards Gardens. I don't usually buy colours that are very similar to others I already own, and since I have got an almost full bottle of Emeraude de Chivor, this may have been a weird choice for me. I haven't tried it yet, and I'll possibly use it with a new TWSBI Diamond 580 I bought at the same time.

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Gutenberg Tinte Koenigsblau....in a Pelikan bottle.

Won't take an o with an umlaut, tried 4 times and was thrown out after K.

As soon as this Gutenberg bottle cleans out...should have done that years ago....so far vinegar and soap have not gotten rid of the antique caked on ink.

I can't get hold of my ammonia, in it's blocked in from 6 flea market boxes. There had been a re-modeling of the living room, and I got rid of a lazy boy, so that corner of my library den suddenly became free.

 

Sometime in the near future I will have to do a Koenigsblau test. My 4001, my Uhu from the '50's, and this 'new' Koenigsblau.

 

 

[StrawberryDaquiri]

Kinokuniya Seattle was having a members sale this week so i picked up a bottle of Chou Kuro, i gotta see how it handles "sub par" paper but it might be my new daily at work :3

[Penguincollector]

  I had to cancel my Amazon order for Tsutsuji, because it was almost at the 30 day mark and it hadn’t shipped yet. I reordered from Smurti Pens and found another bottle that I had my eye on: Taccia Ao.  Plus Midori foil penguin 🐧 stickers.

[I-am-not-really-here]

Waterman Havane (which is the French distribution of Havana Brown aka Absolute Brown)and Pelikan 4001 Pink.

 

@Bo Bo Olson ö.   Ö.   ö.     ö.    Ö.    Copy paste?