Efnir: Sailor Tokiwa-Matsu

[LizEF]

... You can never have enough greens!

Amen to that!

[yazeh]

Liz, I tried a sample of this ink recently. I had flow issues and start up problems. Frankly, if I hadn't known, I would've thought it was a pigmented/ bulletproof ink.... Was that your experience?

[LizEF]

9 hours ago, yazeh said:

Liz, I tried a sample of this ink recently. I had flow issues and start up problems. Frankly, if I hadn't known, I would've thought it was a pigmented/ bulletproof ink.... Was that your experience?

I don't remember ever having any flow problems with this ink.  I used a fair amount of it when I first got it, then my use dropped off.  Looks like I used it in 2018 in my Wing Sung 601 and Lamy Al-Star EF.  Then not again until my review here.  No telling how much I used it prior to 2018 as I wasn't keeping an ink log.  But the ink logs I have don't indicate any problems.

 

I've since sent it to a fellow in Germany who is madly in love with it, but couldn't get it at an affordable price, and I prefer murkier inks.  (I did keep a few mL for myself, but sent the bottle away.)  He wrote back a letter with it and had nothing negative to say about flow.  Looked like he also used an F or EF nib.

 

FWIW.

[A Smug Dill]

31 minutes ago, LizEF said:

I don't remember ever having any flow problems with this ink.

 

No problems here either. My Platinum #3776 Century ‘Matsu-tora’ Kanazawa-haku pen is filled with this ink practically full-time, and the pen never hard-starts no matter for how long I leave it undisturbed between uses.

[ridiculopathy]

To add on, I inked a Pelikan M400 EF with Tokiwa-matsu a couple months ago, and it's still working fine even with infrequent use (a little scribble once a week).

[yazeh]

Great thank you all so much. Then it must be the pen. And not the ink....  

 

Did any of you find the ink dry?

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Did any of you find the ink dry?

Not me - a bit opposite, it was to the wet side of average.

[yazeh]

7 hours ago, LizEF said:

Not me - a bit opposite, it was to the wet side of average.

Thanks a lot! 

[LizEF]

Here's the line width measurement. The line is one of those used for dry time.  Magnification is 100x.  The grid is 100x100µm.  The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each.  The line width for this ink is roughly 270µm.