PR Velvet Black

[Ghost Plane]

+1 for what JDE said and Pear Tree Pens is another source.

 

You can get larger sheets and cut it down to match, get a rocker blotter to keep on your desk, or I use the blotter paper card Pear Tree sent me with a purchase and keep it tucked in my notebook.

[inkspot]

Thanks for the review! What a lovely black - so rich with a touch of warmth! Looking forward to adding it to my collection.

[lovemy51]

it is my fav black, but mine developed SITB. i tried everything imagined to save it, but it grew back!!!

 

pity!

[lapis]

Thanks for the review. Very well done and very informative.

But... I think I don't like the colour of this ink. It is by no means (IMO) a "black" but rather a very reddish brown black with a big tad of blue. Ach, ja, to each his own.

 

Joan

[Roberto_Notecardo]

Sorry to bring this back up but I'd like to see if someone else has this same issue as me.

 

My experience with this ink is not only that it takes forever to dry but also that certain areas don't dry at all. I've left the sample out overnight to dry but the start/finish or every letter tends to remain tacky and semi-wet. I live thetrue black color of this ink but every page I write with this ink ends up smearing onto the backside of the previous page. Or just smears all over my hand.

 

I've used this ink on a Rotring 600 with a fine nib as well as a Pelikan M600 with semiflex nib. Granted I have more issues on the flex nib but thr fine nib still exhibits this annoying feature. Anyone else? Maybe I just got an old crappy bottle of Velvet Black?

 

 

I'm happy to learn I am not the only one that has this trouble. I bought a sample of PR Velvet Black and fell in love with the darkness of it, but noticed a slow drying time. When used on Clairefontaine paper, I gave it 15 minutes before I had to dab it with another piece of paper. I was using a Waterman Hemisphere with a fine nib, too. Great dark black, but dries too sloooooooowwwwwwlllllyyyyy for me.

 

Bob

[Senate1123]

Most annoying thing of all, I wrote a snail mail letter to an FPN letter with PR Velvet Black. I let it dry a couple hours before stuffing into an envelope. Well I just received word that the ink still transferred onto itself. (I folded the letter in half over itself, so the top half transferred to bottom half and vice versa.)

 

Love the color but prob will not use this ink too often. Sad to say.

[OCDGuy]

I have also has problems with slow dry time on this ink, both in a Moleskine and Clairefontaine. Also, for me, it bled and feathered badly on all but the Clairefontaine. A friend of mine has also had really bad creeping and blotting issues in some of his cheaper pens. I liked the color, a good smooth black, but will probably not put this one into rotation often.

[JamieWG]

For an artist using ink and wash, this is a fabulous black ink. I think it does have a rather long dry time and because of that, shading can be easily done with a waterbrush and the ink moves quite freely. It has beautiful, subtle purple overtones. I love it to bits as a drawing ink.

[inksmears]

I like PR Velvet Black a lot on cheap paper and it does real nice in my Safari (where Noodler's creeps badly). I don't really see the issue with drying times. Must just be me - but I don't use a lot of heavy/premium paper.

[nostalgic]

I hadn't noticed any smearing of my Velvet Black so I decided to give it a test on Clairfontaine 90 gm paper--the slickest, non-absorbent paper I use. I was writing with a vintage Parker with a F/M nib. With this pen on this paper the ink is wet and glistens on the page for up to several seconds. But after that it did not smear when I rubbed my finger over the lines of writing. Overall, it is a nice dark (but not the darkest) black ink that has been very well behaved in a variety of pens.

[lovemy51]

since the thread is still around i will add that PR sent me a new bottle of VB - great service PR, THX!!!

 

still my fav black. and to me it's "da blackest"!!

[stevlight]

PR velvet black is a nice--very black ink on Moleskine sketchbooks--most blacks turn grey on Moleskine sketch paper even aurora(which beads up) and Platinum carbon black turns very grey!! PCB turning grey surprised me.

[lovemy51]

this and the Ultra Black from PR are my fav blacks!!