have you ever purchased a pen for one ink?

[Bo Bo Olson]

Why don't I have that 200????????

until I read 101........................... ................I do have a couple blue 200's.

also a 100 and a 100n, but they are green.

[lamarax]

9 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Why don't I have that 200????????

until I read 101........................... ................I do have a couple blue 200's.

also a 100 and a 100n, but they are green.

 

Well, this one's a 2019 SE "inspired" by the classic 101N models, although the nomenclature is not really true to the originals (as attested by the cap material being different from the barrel, whereas the 101 designation traditionally meant the exact opposite).

[Portia_of_Belmont]

On 8/20/2024 at 10:26 AM, Glyph said:

I recently purchased a bottle of Troublemaker Petrichor from Shigure. It is the driest ink I have ever tried...Thoughts?  I guess I could just keep using the globe...

Far be it for me to discourage you from purchasing a new pen for any reason 😉, but have you considered trying to make the ink wetter?  Vanness sells a product called White Lightning that many love, but I haven't tried it.  Instead, I've used the tiniest drop of dish soap (Dawn) added to a fill, and it makes a HUGE difference in flow and wetness.  With a converter fill pen, I'll take the teeniest-tiniest drop of Dawn on the tip of a toothpick, stick it in the converter and swirl it around a bit to incorporate it into the ink. It will take a few lines for the newly wettened ink to make it's way into the feed, but you should notice a difference when it gets there.

 

If you try it, go slow and add the smallest amount possible.  The first time I tried it I added too much and the ink became so wet it feathered on Tomoe River paper.  

[inkstainedruth]

On 9/9/2024 at 9:25 PM, lamarax said:

Today Tonight (with everything the word entails) I purchased this new in <EF>:

 

 

...just to have somewhere to put J. Herbin Vert de Gris 🤡

 

I should have it by Thursday, then I shall post my... sober assessment 🙂

Oooooh!!!!  Pretty! 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ruby.monkey]

I came -->this<-- close to buying a GvFC Tamitio just to have a pen with which to test some Diamine Imperial Purple cartridges, but then I came to my senses and cleaned out my Kaweco Special instead. I really must get some more ink...

[Bo Bo Olson]

After you have a basic 10 inks............Stay Far, Far Away from Ink Reviews....or Inky Thoughts.............one can have a hundred inks and want 25 others......and I'm sure at 150, one will need 25 more inks.

[lamarax]

 

The light here just kills the color (and awesome shading) of Vert de Gris 🙁

 

Here's a great review of the pen by Joshua Danley on Pelikan's Perch, since my "photography" doesn't do it any justice 🙂

[lamarax]

7 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

After you have a basic 10 inks............Stay Far, Far Away from Ink Reviews....or Inky Thoughts.............one can have a hundred inks and want 25 others......and I'm sure at 150, one will need 25 more inks.

 

Heed Bo Bo's wisdom, or you'll soon be ruined both financially and mentally! 😄

[Glyph]

Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but in case someone wanted the results. A twsbi go in broad was much better with the petrichor, but what eventually worked the best with it was a hongdian m2 in fine. It is so much drier even than diamine registrar's and the m2 will even go up to bb with its soft nib and not railroad. I put a wet ink (troublemaker blueberry, also true to the name) in the m2 first and had to dump the converter it was unusably wet.  I keep registrar's in a prera with an ef nib, I'd love to get some essri, but I don't want to pay the shipping. When the diamine runs out I think I'll try akkerman 10 it is supposedly the same thing. So anyway, if you get some petrichor and can't find a pen wet enough, try the m2.

[Mercian]

15 hours ago, Glyph said:

Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but in case someone wanted the results.

 

Thank you for updating the thread with your own findings/solution to your original question

This post is indeed a useful resource for anyone in the future who is looking for the answer to the same question.