Inky T O D - Do You Ever Feel Blase About Blue?

[amberleadavis]

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So, maybe I'm burnt out on blues. I am sort of surprised it has taken this long. After a few more doses of orange, I will recover in the next few days, I'm sure.

 

What about you? Ever get the non-blues?

[Lou Erickson]

I was in search of the perfect blue, too. Not to the extreme Shawndo was, but when I realized what a hassle Baystate Blue (my first FP ink!) could me, I went looking for an easier to live with replacement.

 

I think I ordered close to a dozen samples of blue from Goulet's.

 

I think I tried maybe six of them before I got tired of caring. I still will, eventually, maybe I guess.

 

Then I put Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black in a Lamy 2000 for a month, and almost called it good right there.

 

Almost half the Iroshizukus are blue, so I hope I don't burn out entirely.

[amberleadavis]

I think part of it was that it seemed like ALL my pens were loaded up with blue AND all my pens have HUGE ink capacities. I should only test inks out in small ink converters.

 

OH, and the 40 blues of Konrads were really nice too... I did all other other colors first though.

[Runnin_Ute]

I have more blues now than ever with all the Susemai samples I tried....

 

The ones i have more than just a sample of currently: (not counting blue blacks)

 

Diamine Steel Blue

Waterman Serenity Blue

Susemai Blue Cashmere

Akkerman Shocking Blue (large sample)

[Hallel]

I have a weird thing where I can't write seriously if it's not blue ink, but then I get bored of seeing pages and pages of blue. So I doodle with some other wild colours until I can handle looking at blue again.

[amberleadavis]

Hmm... maybe a CRV with Steel Blues, will chase the Sapphire Blues away.... Runnin_Ute, feel like writing a letter with Diamine Steel Blue and I'll write back with De Atramentis Steel Blue and my favorite, Dromgoole's Blue Steel?

 

Hallel - Good idea. I shall Doodle.

[tinysnail]

I think part of it was that it seemed like ALL my pens were loaded up with blue AND all my pens have HUGE ink capacities. I should only test inks out in small ink converters.

 

That would be enough to burn me out on ANY colour, let alone blue (which is not a colour family I get particularly excited about in the first place). I did get browned-out not too long ago when I had 5 pens with different browns in them at the same time. I realized it was a problem when I was giving a lecture using a document camera, wanted to switch colours to emphasize something... and all I had were more pens with brown ink.

[Arkanabar]

I think part of it was that it seemed like ALL my pens were loaded up with blue AND all my pens have HUGE ink capacities. I should only test inks out in small ink converters.

This is one reason why I want a 0.8mm Nemosine Singularity (or two, or three). Short international c/c, relatively wide nib for my narrow, cramped writing.

 

I don't like any of my (two) blue inks. That's a bit odd, because usually I love blue and it's easily one of my favorite colors. I have Waterman washable blue, and mix blue, an unmeasured combination of Levenger Cobalt, a previously low bottle of Waterman washable, and water from our well. I didn't really like Levenger Cobalt blue; it was darned near black and bad for smudging. The washable blue is in a 1.3mm Sheaffer viewpoint calligraphy pen, but I get a lot of hard starts and skipping. I recently received a writing sample in Baystate blue, but it just seemed so.... ordinary. Like I'd expect from a rollerball, or something.

 

Bearing in mind that I am impecunious, tight-fisted, and generally write on cheap crappy paper, does anyone have any suggestions?

[mark e]

 

Bearing in mind that I am impecunious, tight-fisted, and generally write on cheap crappy paper, does anyone have any suggestions?

 

try visconti blue---it's a solid, eye-pleasing med-to-dark blue, it's easy to use and clean (doesnt stain anything, from my experience), flows well, and works well with almost any well-tuned nib and most any paper..not the cheapest, but not a budget killer either

 

just make sure that the first thing that you do is transfer it out of that gawd-awful, cheap, ugly, plastic, top-heavy-and-begging-to-be-knocked-over-and-spilled bottle---pour the ink into a used, well-cleaned baby food jar if you must, just ditch that heinous bottle---

 

i'm not even a big 'blue ink' guy, but i like it and go thru a couple bottles of it a year---it would only be a 1/2 bottle if i didnt knock 'em over and spill it every other fill (and yes, my hands are both currently Stained Of It)

 

check out sandy1's review of it in the review forum for more details, and....have fun inkin'!

[larsenproject]

You know, I almost never work in blue. I do roughs on blue graph paper and I sketch the construction drawing with blue drafting lead before I ink over it, so I usually consider blue a drafting color, not a finishing color. That said, I do like that Noodler's blue. Has a bit of green innit. 8)

[amberleadavis]

This is one reason why I want a 0.8mm Nemosine Singularity (or two, or three). Short international c/c, relatively wide nib for my narrow, cramped writing.

 

I don't like any of my (two) blue inks. That's a bit odd, because usually I love blue and it's easily one of my favorite colors. I have Waterman washable blue, and mix blue, an unmeasured combination of Levenger Cobalt, a previously low bottle of Waterman washable, and water from our well. I didn't really like Levenger Cobalt blue; it was darned near black and bad for smudging. The washable blue is in a 1.3mm Sheaffer viewpoint calligraphy pen, but I get a lot of hard starts and skipping. I recently received a writing sample in Baystate blue, but it just seemed so.... ordinary. Like I'd expect from a rollerball, or something.

 

Bearing in mind that I am impecunious, tight-fisted, and generally write on cheap crappy paper, does anyone have any suggestions?

 

Blue Cashmere when it becomes available.

[amberleadavis]

 

try visconti blue---it's a solid, eye-pleasing med-to-dark blue, it's easy to use and clean (doesnt stain anything, from my experience), flows well, and works well with almost any well-tuned nib and most any paper..not the cheapest, but not a budget killer either

 

just make sure that the first thing that you do is transfer it out of that gawd-awful, cheap, ugly, plastic, top-heavy-and-begging-to-be-knocked-over-and-spilled bottle---pour the ink into a used, well-cleaned baby food jar if you must, just ditch that heinous bottle---

 

i'm not even a big 'blue ink' guy, but i like it and go thru a couple bottles of it a year---it would only be a 1/2 bottle if i didnt knock 'em over and spill it every other fill (and yes, my hands are both currently Stained Of It)

 

check out sandy1's review of it in the review forum for more details, and....have fun inkin'!

 

BTW, I totally agreed with you until someone explained to me that you keep the bottle in the weird stand and suddenly it is balanced.

[Flaxmoore]

try visconti blue---it's a solid, eye-pleasing med-to-dark blue, it's easy to use and clean (doesnt stain anything, from my experience), flows well, and works well with almost any well-tuned nib and most any paper..not the cheapest, but not a budget killer either

 

just make sure that the first thing that you do is transfer it out of that gawd-awful, cheap, ugly, plastic, top-heavy-and-begging-to-be-knocked-over-and-spilled bottle---pour the ink into a used, well-cleaned baby food jar if you must, just ditch that heinous bottle---

 

i'm not even a big 'blue ink' guy, but i like it and go thru a couple bottles of it a year---it would only be a 1/2 bottle if i didnt knock 'em over and spill it every other fill (and yes, my hands are both currently Stained Of It)

 

check out sandy1's review of it in the review forum for more details, and....have fun inkin'!

Oh, Visconti ink bottles can't be that stupidly designed...

 

*looks*

 

Mother of God. Why...

[ellenspn]

 

Blue Cashmere when it becomes available.

Blue Cashmere????

[amberleadavis]

Blue Cashmere is an ink powder for fountain developed by Team SuSeMai and made by Black Stone Ink Company. You can see the reviews and testing process on this thread. Just Write of Australia is the distributor, creator and enabler of the ink. For the longest we referred to him as SUper SEcret MAker of Ink (SuSeMaI) but the ink is out of the pouch now (it was revealed at the Toronto Pen show).

[zaddick]

I am not a big fan of blue. I like turquoise and denim blue, but generally avoid medium blues and blue-black.

 

As I had recommended in other posts, if you use the plastic dome the Viscount ink came in to hold the bottle when refilling (so the bottom of the bottle is on the inside top of the inverted dome) it is quite stable. You can then remove the cap and place it on the colored base in the indentation designed for the base. I have not spilled using this method.

[zchen]

I'm always excited for a new shade of blue...got 3x100ml bottle in the mail right now (Chesterfield Ancient Yankee, Ancient Oxford, and Capri)

[ac12]

I used to be a BLACK in user.

Then a couple years ago I switched to blue. But it a was a search; Cross/Pelikan blue, Waterman blue, Sheaffer blue, and various samples. Then I started seeing that the same blue ink looked different out of different pens. Some looked good and some look not as good, and that was frustrating. What I did not like was the light faded look to some of the blue inks out of some of my pens. It was to the point that I was ready to switch back to black ink. Then I found PR DC Supershow Blue, and I like that shade of blue, out of my wet Parker 51.

 

So other than the PR DCSS blue, I'm on the fence about blue. I use it, because I have it, but I'm not keen on it.

[mark e]

 

BTW, I totally agreed with you until someone explained to me that you keep the bottle in the weird stand and suddenly it is balanced.

 

 

oh....uhhhh...uh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh...oh yeah

 

enhh...i still dont like plastic nor ink in plastic, and besides, i have a good stash of old skrip 'well' bottles that i pour most of my inks into (but not MB or iro), and those bottles are as fool-and-spill-proof and easy-to-use as anything

 

so, i'll keep doing that until visconti rebottles or rebrands or whatever it is that companies do these days, and when someone asks me 'say, what is that nice-looking blue ink you're using?', i'll keep saying, 'why, that's some of my old stash of vintage skrip washable blue, don't you love it?' ooohhhhhh, take that visconti, hope it stings BWAAAhaha

[Medsen Fey]

I use a lot of blue. Other than Baystate Blue, none really knock my socks off. I've limited myself by insisting on waterproof/bulletproof behavior, and unless I mix my own, getting a blue that is dark enough has been a challenge.

 

However, the "luster dust" thread has me inspired to see if adding some sparkles will chase away my blues about blues.