Lamy Crystal AMAZONITE ink

[Paul_LZ]

A beautiful tinge of Bluish green, nice flow and well lubricated. I LOVE the colour.

Used it in my Online Switch Plus, with an F nib

The image may not reflect the true colour, which I confirm, is absolutely gorgeous.

 

By the way, I also got myself some Lamy Red T10 Cartridges and the colour is more Coral colour than red, a bit disappointing, Saw a video by the Goulet Pen company featuring the Lamy Crystal inks, quite interesting.

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Thank you for showing me the color.....so I am in an hour or so when the pen is dry, going to load my semi-flex Geha 790 EF with Lamy AMAZONITE.

You should put this in Ink Reviews. Because it wasn't there, I almost loaded with Lamy Crystal Burple.

I'm sort of into green-greenish inks, having now 20.

In the first year after discovering the now discontinued 4001 Brilliant Green (a lively shading green replaced by a non-shading dull green that I unfortunately have) I got 14 green-greenish inks.

 

My wife bought me three Lamy Crystal inks at my B&M; and there are times when it takes longer than expected to try out new inks.

 

I find Benitoite a completely OK ink. I don't understand the complaints about Crystal Ink.............not when one prices MB...which I have to sell my Mercedes to buy a bottle. Same with Cd'A or GvFC.

 

[Paul_LZ]

1 hour ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Thank you for showing me the color.....so I am in an hour or so when the pen is dry, going to load my semi-flex Geha 790 EF with Lamy AMAZONITE.

You should put this in Ink Reviews. Because it wasn't there, I almost loaded with Lamy Crystal Burple.

I'm sort of into green-greenish inks, having now 20.

In the first year after discovering the now discontinued 4001 Brilliant Green (a lively shading green replaced by a non-shading dull green that I unfortunately have) I got 14 green-greenish inks.

 

My wife bought me three Lamy Crystal inks at my B&M; and there are times when it takes longer than expected to try out new inks.

 

I find Benitoite a completely OK ink. I don't understand the complaints about Crystal Ink.............not when one prices MB...which I have to sell my Mercedes to buy a bottle. Same with Cd'A or GvFC.

 

Glad you like the colour!

[Bo Bo Olson]

I'm very happy with this blue greenish (not tealish) ink, I have it in a semi-flex 1959 Geha 790 real three rings EF.

The rings do polish up better than the picture I took when I bought the pen.....I'd not used the pen in so long, the gold plating had tarnished again.

If held lightly, is narrower than my modern Pelikan 200 Marbled gold/brown EF. Is semi-flex so there is line variation should I want some.

This is the '60-72 standard 'three ring' 790. Standard size = Pelikan 400 also.

 

There is a 2 ring one, their equivalent of a Pelikan 140. They were main competitors of each other and both from Hannover. I was always too short of money to buy Geha's second best pens.

 

I bought some Mondi 100g Color Copy at my B&M, with out looking at the price, having gone looking for some 90g, decided to take the 100g....very good paper....very $$$$Verywhen I looked at the price when I got home.

[Paul_LZ]

By the way, I came across a video by the Goulet Pen company about a topic fairly new to me: eye dropper pens. Very interesting:

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

India still makes some very pretty Eyedroppers....I think regular rubber sacks couldn't take the climate back in the day, so Eyedroppers hung on.

There is much to do with the heat and how full they are to when they burp.

 

Waterman was famous for having his eyedropper burp at the wrong time.

 

So far burp free, but they are not a every day pen............even if the MB is still inked and handy.

 

I have two eyedropper pens. A '30's Fendomatic made in Milian.

My chasing pattern is just a tad different than this one with permission pf Penborad.de.

I'd seen an old pen offered by a live auction house i take my vacations in....I twisted off the cap and ....some sill SOB stole not only the nib but the feed.

I'll never play poker with that lady behind the counter. She twisted the bottom of the pen and the nib twisted up and out.

 

I sent it to Francis to get a new cork after all 90 years cork gets old. He had to do more work than expected, in some silly @#$%^, tried to superglue the spindle together and failed.

He had to build me a new spindle.

Fend is/was a good German pen company, that had a factory in Milan.

My second Eyedropper.....my wife was out at a street flea market and told a guy what his goods were worth....and asked if he had ink wells or fountain pens.

He went back into the house and brought one out he couldn't get the nib out. She got it for free in she 'could use it for spare parts.'

 

Having learned my lesson on how to make a eyedropper work with that Fendomatic...............the pre-23 MB Safety pens nib came right out.

It went right to Francis and

Before.......

Number 6 Simplo.....weak kneed wet noodle.

 

 

Francis said he had a lot of work getting it to clean up.....

 

All 4 repaired by Francis...the otehr MB is a very well balanced '50-60 medium-large 146 with a maxi-semi-flex nib.....that one I didn't take a before picture of before Francis walked on water.

I have three telescopic MB pens, a 234 1/2. rolled gold 742 and that grand balanced 146....much better balance than the large 146. I wouldn't dream of touching a telescopic piston pen for repair.

 

The old and new top.

[Paul_LZ]

12 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

India still makes some very pretty Eyedroppers....I think regular rubber sacks couldn't take the climate back in the day, so Eyedroppers hung on.

There is much to do with the heat and how full they are to when they burp.

 

Waterman was famous for having his eyedropper burp at the wrong time.

 

So far burp free, but they are not a every day pen............even if the MB is still inked and handy.

 

I have two eyedropper pens. A '30's Fendomatic made in Milian.

My chasing pattern is just a tad different than this one with permission pf Penborad.de.

I'd seen an old pen offered by a live auction house i take my vacations in....I twisted off the cap and ....some sill SOB stole not only the nib but the feed.

I'll never play poker with that lady behind the counter. She twisted the bottom of the pen and the nib twisted up and out.

 

I sent it to Francis to get a new cork after all 90 years cork gets old. He had to do more work than expected, in some silly @#$%^, tried to superglue the spindle together and failed.

He had to build me a new spindle.

Fend is/was a good German pen company, that had a factory in Milan.

My second Eyedropper.....my wife was out at a street flea market and told a guy what his goods were worth....and asked if he had ink wells or fountain pens.

He went back into the house and brought one out he couldn't get the nib out. She got it for free in she 'could use it for spare parts.'

 

Having learned my lesson on how to make a eyedropper work with that Fendomatic...............the pre-23 MB Safety pens nib came right out.

It went right to Francis and

Before.......

Number 6 Simplo.....weak kneed wet noodle.

 

 

Francis said he had a lot of work getting it to clean up.....

 

All 4 repaired by Francis...the otehr MB is a very well balanced '50-60 medium-large 146 with a maxi-semi-flex nib.....that one I didn't take a before picture of before Francis walked on water.

I have three telescopic MB pens, a 234 1/2. rolled gold 742 and that grand balanced 146....much better balance than the large 146. I wouldn't dream of touching a telescopic piston pen for repair.

 

The old and new top.

Greatt info, thanks for taking the trouble and time to share!

[Paul_LZ]

12 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

So far burp free,....

Burp? What does this exactly mean? A gush of ink being suddenly expelled?

[Bo Bo Olson]

Yes,

Legend has it Waterman was an insurance salesman in the 1880-90's, and in the midst of signing his pen, burped!!....so he had to go get a new contract. When he came back the man had changed his mind.

So Waterman invents a burp free pen.....which is not quite true.

Even then folks had been working on that for ages.

 

The first burp free pen was the Conklin where you pushed a half circle bump on your pen or a dime to load the rubber sac. In 1912 Sheaffer invented the lever sack pen and it was the death knoll of the Eyedropper.

(Before supersaturated inks, a rubber sac (outside of the tropics) would last 30-40 years***..........now I think 10. Unless you use supersaturated inks which can kill a rubber sack in days or weeks.)

 

Waterman did invent a better lever and metal lever holder.

 

According to my 1902 Sears and Robuck catalog replica, a Wirth pen was the best in the world....and it was still an eyedropper.

In the 100 years since, even in India, eyedroppers burp, from hand or day temperature, not filled fully and a few other things that kept me from buying a very pretty Indian pen* back when they were E-2 or 3....instead of the price they charge internationally now.

 

*and that they were real, real big, was deal breaker. I like middle sized pens. (That much too late they have.)

 

***In Germany was not a huge sac pen place like the states in the '50-60's, I had inherited a smoke gray Esterbrook DJ whose sac lever said '48-52. That sac was 60 years old when it slowly died.....It did sit empty for some 20-30 years....15 years in my wife's aunt's drawer and 15 in our drawer...before I got back into fountain pens.

So I think it was the original sac.

15 years or so there were lots of folks with 40 year or older sacs.

When White company came back to making sac's again, they didn't last as long as those from days of Yor.

[A Smug Dill]

3 hours ago, Paul_LZ said:

Burp? What does this exactly mean? A gush of ink being suddenly expelled?

 

Yes, exactly, although in reality it usually isn't so dramatic as to cause ink droplets to shoot out of the nib and splatter on the page.

[Bill P]

This thread sure got off topic...

 

Original topic:  Lamy Crystal AMAZONITE ink

 

I purchased most of the LamyCrystal Inks when they were first introduced.  I really enjoy each of them and find them to be excellent value.  The Ammonite is one of my favorites! 

[Paul_LZ]

6 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Yes, exactly, although in reality it usually isn't so dramatic as to cause ink droplets to shoot out of the nib and splatter on the page.

Cheers!

[Paul_LZ]

1 hour ago, Bill P said:

This thread sure got off topic...

 

Original topic:  Lamy Crystal AMAZONITE ink

 

I purchased most of the LamyCrystal Inks when they were first introduced.  I really enjoy each of them and find them to be excellent value.  The Ammonite is one of my favorites! 

You meant Amazonite, right? You do have a good taste 😉

[Bo Bo Olson]

2 hours ago, Bill P said:

This thread sure got off topic...

This is not the office, but a BS factory, with no punch clocks.

 

We stayed on topic....ink was mentioned, and Eyedroppers are filled with ink..........then there are nibs. Yep, my standard sized vintage semi-flex Geha 790 14 K  EF, shades very well with this Lamy ink.

 

Got to have paper, in there is few good ones and lots of poor paper.

 

IMO staying on topic leads to six one sentence posts.

 

My part time job is making flinders out of bushes.

[bunnspecial]

8 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Yes, exactly, although in reality it usually isn't so dramatic as to cause ink droplets to shoot out of the nib and splatter on the page.

Not only that, but as I'm sure you know they can often be prevented with a bit of care.

 

I handle my eyedroppers and safeties(which to me are just fancy eyedroppers) pretty much the same way. BTW, my only safety and most of my eyedroppers are Watermans, and they can/do still burp.

 

In any case, I hold them nib up in my hand for a minute to warm the pen body up, and I periodically flip the pen nib up just as a precaution or if I see the pen suddenly start writing wetter(which is a sign of an impending burp). Flipping nib-up allows the air pressure to equalize.

 

I'll also mention that I've only really had burping issues with really old pens. Modern Indian eyedroppers with Bock/Jowo etc plastic buffered feeds tend to be fairly tolerant of pressure changes. Eyedropper converted Preppies are really tolerant.

[Paul_LZ]

8 hours ago, bunnspecial said:

Not only that, but as I'm sure you know they can often be prevented with a bit of care.

 

I handle my eyedroppers and safeties(which to me are just fancy eyedroppers) pretty much the same way. BTW, my only safety and most of my eyedroppers are Watermans, and they can/do still burp.

 

In any case, I hold them nib up in my hand for a minute to warm the pen body up, and I periodically flip the pen nib up just as a precaution or if I see the pen suddenly start writing wetter(which is a sign of an impending burp). Flipping nib-up allows the air pressure to equalize.

 

I'll also mention that I've only really had burping issues with really old pens. Modern Indian eyedroppers with Bock/Jowo etc plastic buffered feeds tend to be fairly tolerant of pressure changes. Eyedropper converted Preppies are really tolerant.

Thank you, good to know!

[Paul_LZ]

8 hours ago, bunnspecial said:

Not only that, but as I'm sure you know they can often be prevented with a bit of care.

 

I handle my eyedroppers and safeties(which to me are just fancy eyedroppers) pretty much the same way. BTW, my only safety and most of my eyedroppers are Watermans, and they can/do still burp.

 

In any case, I hold them nib up in my hand for a minute to warm the pen body up, and I periodically flip the pen nib up just as a precaution or if I see the pen suddenly start writing wetter(which is a sign of an impending burp). Flipping nib-up allows the air pressure to equalize.

 

I'll also mention that I've only really had burping issues with really old pens. Modern Indian eyedroppers with Bock/Jowo etc plastic buffered feeds tend to be fairly tolerant of pressure changes. Eyedropper converted Preppies are really tolerant.

Thanks!

[Bo Bo Olson]

Overly saturated in it is a maxi-semi-flex, OBBB., 500 Pelikan. So very little shading though there is some, If you can see the small print that is a Geha 790 EF semi-flex, which I find shades well.

The picture of the ink didn't come out as main as I'd hoped.

I can't wait to test this ink with a drier regular flex.

It wasn't me making the pictures so one can ask only so much sharing some CC/Canadian Club with a good bitter German beer.

Click for bigger.

Well it was the nib I had someone with a much better phone make pictures of.