Sheaffer Inks

[amberleadavis]

 

 

Thanks for confirming that I have not totally lost my color sense in my old age. Nobody else I've seen has complained about the greenish gray tint so I was beginning to think I must have imagined the old color I thought I remembered.

 

 

I had to ask around too.

[Gilberto Castaneda]

I have been using Brown since 1973.

I recently added Turquoise, Red and Green.

All very nice colours

I like the way they name their inks: By color name. It is easier to know what you get.

[kokopelli_TR]

I love them. Green isn't much green but a bit too blue for my taste but they definitely work really well in any pen and any paper even the cheap office copier papers. Very very good flow and very little bleed through. I love blue, turquoise and black at the moment. Haven't tried blue black though.

[cellmatrix]

I enjoy them, sheaffer blue black is my favorite.

[Aurko]

Also, thoughts and experience with shading on Sheaffer inks?

[ac12]

I tried the turquoise in my Esterbrook and it shaded, whereas it did not shade in my Parker 45.

However to do that the Esterbrook was a WET pen, and the ink line was a dark teal color vs. the clean turquoise out of the P45.

[kokopelli_TR]

I tried the turquoise in my Esterbrook and it shaded, whereas it did not shade in my Parker 45.

However to do that the Esterbrook was a WET pen, and the ink line was a dark teal color vs. the clean turquoise out of the P45.

It is nothing like a Lamy Turquoise which is a way brighter turquoise in my opinion. Sheaffer Turqoiose is much usable for me as it appears more like teal out of my pens too. Not the best color fidelity unfortunately, not really a turquoise.

 

Like the Green Skrip. It also runs more like a light teal.

[kp288908]

Sheaffer Blue-Black and Turquoise are all-time favorites.

[Nib Joy]

I love the blue-black as well, especially the vintage. The new Slovenian red is great standard red. The older inks were more washy/watery which I LIKED. The new ones especially the blue seems more lubricated, a slippery thicker feel. I used to love the old black also and the old peacock blue.

[WirsPlm]

I like them well enough but they don't really have any special properties to make me search them out or talk about them and I wouldn't use them if I hadn't gotten a whole bunch of Sheaffer cartridges when buying italic pens.

[Charles Rice]

Way back when, they were the inks I used the most. I really liked the bottles because of the way you could tip them and get the ink in the little reserve. I even had some of their bigger bottles. Really loved the red. Used a lot of cartridges too, and still do have a boat load of them.

 

But I have not tried them since they moved to where ever they moved.

[barleycorn]

For inexpensive inks, Sheaffer is a reliable if slightly predictable. I have used these inks for some 30 years as well as Parker Quink mostly in Sheaffer pens. But with a interest in different brands of pens and ink in the ever expanding horizon, I like to experiment to see what is out there. I have bought NOS vintage bottles with little problem.

My favourite vintage colour is Royal Blue...I also have a cache of King's Gold mini bottles to use in my Brass Targa. I sent one to Inkcylcopedia (aka SBRE Brown for a review)...see link below.

http://fpgeeks.com/inkcyclopedia/inkcyclopedia-sheaffer-kings-gold/

[dcwaites]

I have found that Skrip Black is one of the few FP inks (along with vintage Parker Quink Black and, now Noodler's Black) that works well in dip pens.

I have also now adopted Skrip Blue as my 'at work' ink, as it is the only ink (in a fine-nibbed pen) that doesn't feather and bleed on the office-supplied notebooks and diaries.

I think of it as my Toyota Corolla ink - boring, but always gets me there.

[sexauerw]

I answered "I like them", not thinking about the new line in the funny non-tippable bottles that I don't have any of. I have lots of Washable Blue, Permanent Royal Blue, Blue-Black and Washable Peacock Blue from 30-40 years ago. I'll probably never run out of any of those. I just love those old inks. I can't say anything about the new Slovenian versions because I have never tried them and probably won't.

[athenian]

Any opinions on Sheaffer (Slovenian) Purple?

[penrivers]

I am using them since 1956. strong, reliable inks. Besides, they are the only ones at hand in 100 miles around, very populars.

[amberleadavis]

I'm new to the game. (ha ha). I've only been using them for 3 decades. Well, not the Slovenian inks. Though they appear nice.

[tmenyc]

I like Sheaffer Black for shop ink, but for writing, it is not as good as Waterman in any of the middle-of-the road traits they share. If my world were limited to modern Sheaffer or Parker, I'd certainly take Sheaffer, but happily it isn't. At this point, I don't have any modern Sheaffer, use Lamy black for shop ink, and Waterman, Pelikan, and Noodlers Old Manhattan Black are my regulars for particular pens.

 

Tim

[bwnewton]

If Lamy Blue didn't exist, I'd probably use Skrip Blue. (Lamy behaves a bit better on cheap paper and is a little more vibrant.)

Skrip Black--good behavior and water resistant.

Skrip Red--solid, traditional, well-behaved red.

Skrip BB--good for wet pens but sometimes has flow issues in dryer pens.

Skrip Brown--too reddish for my taste

Skrip Purple--my choice for purple

Skrip Turquoise--great choice but IMO Lamy Turquoise nudges it out.

[Sadiq]

Hi guys... I'm very interested in using Sheaffer inks for mixing custom colours.

 

I was wondering, do they have sheen characteristics?

 

Is it just me...does the Sheaffer brown look similar to Diamine's Ancient Copper?

Edited September 20, 2014 by Sadiq