BONUS
Two ink swabs today!
Organics Studio is responsible for my policy of not using new or very small brands of ink in my fountain pens. I’ll write more about this another time, but for now here are the swabs.
Diamine Eau de Nil
Noodler’s 54th Massachusetts seems to be a very popular ink. I’ve not written with it.
Maybe you can tell me – is it the color, the way it behaves, something else?
Scribal Workshop has stopped making inks and Damselfish is no longer available. Such a beautiful, rich shade of blue, too.
I sort of have a policy against putting very new or very small brands of ink into my fountain pens. Do you have the same policy?
January 2015 Ink Drop from Goulet Pens
I received January’s Ink Drop from Goulet Pens earlier this week.
I usually super-saturate cotton swabs with ink before swiping across the paper, but this time, I barely barely got the cotton wet with ink. I thinking maybe this gives a more accurate idea of what the ink would look like from a pen? If you have thoughts, I’d love to hear them.
I’m about to reveal the inks from top to bottom. If you don’t want to know, this is the time to look away.
And the theme? Safe for Work
I like most of these inks – going to have to look at the De Atramentis a bit more, though. What are you thinking? Safe for work?
I love this ink. The Sailor Kobe line has lots of great colors and (so far) the ones I’ve tried perform well. I got mine on eBay.
If you know of other places to get the Kobe line, please leave a comment below.
I found Candyology over the holidays. I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing. Mmm…chocolate.
xo
Day three of ink swabs makes me feel like this is really happening. Only 362 days to go!
Private Reserve’s Black Magic Blue is an ink I’ve reviewed in the past. Spoiler: I love it. The name doesn’t exactly match the color as I see a bunch of purple in both the swab above and the samples in the review.
It’s been awhile since I’ve inked a pen with this ink and seeing it again here is making me hunger (thirst?) for it a bit.
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Montegrappa Blue looks like it has some red in it – making it appear somewhat purple.
I don’t have much experience with Montegrappa inks in general. Do you?
Do you like the way it looks?
