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I LOVE blue-blacks. Which one should I try next? What's your favourite?

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I also enjoy iroshuzuku tsuki yo the best. I used to love private reserve midnight blues, seriously one of the best saturated inks. But I cannot come to put their inks in my pens anymore after one gunked up my safari.

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Thanks a ton! I have been eyeing the Tsuki-Yo for quite a while now. I had Pelikan blue black and loved it, though it was kind of dry. But it is absolutely gorgeous coming out of a wet writer with a broad or stubby or springy nib.

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Glad Tsuki-Yo is a hit. It's just a perfect ink. I have to watch it while it dries - it's quite mesmerising!

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I just got Pelikan BB, and I love its shading as well.

Pelikan 140 EF | Pelikan 140 OBB | Pelikan M205 0.4mm stub | Pilot Custom Heritage 912 PO | Pilot Metropolitan M | TWSBI 580 EF | Waterman 52 1/2v

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Thank you, Tom! I love seeing comparisons.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thank you!

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I started out not liking blue-blacks. But they've grown on me, after trying to find a modern-day match for whatever came out of an Estie SJ I found in the wild a couple of years ago.

So my favorites (in no particular order) are:

Diamine Demin (the closest color match to what I was looking for for the unknown Estie ink)

Noodler's Manhattan Blue (a bit bluer, but had the shading to match the unknown ink)

Diamine Eclipse (although a better description might be "black-blue" ;))

Noodler's 54th Massachusetts (thought it was too teal-toned at first, but it has amazing permanence)

Waterman Mysterious Blue (a good tester ink for vintage pens, but it's wacky -- sometimes it goes down more green)

and then of course there are the Iron gall blue-blacks:

R&K Salix (which stays more blue and shades like crazy)

Akkerman #10 (which goes nearly black)

FPN member Pharmacist's Urkundentinte (got to try a sample of this and wow -- :wub:)

and my new "not so guilty" pleasure: KWZI #54 IG Blue Black (this one is sneaky -- it goes down a rich dark blue and doesn't oxidize as fast as some IG inks but after a day or three you'll go "Hey, wait -- wasn't this a "blue" ink?)

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I adore BB inks. My current favourite is a brew of Pelikan 4001 inks. 3.5 parts konigsblau, 1.5 parts blue-black, 1 part Black. It is a rich dark ink, easy on the eye and shades well. Better than each of the individual inks and Moleskine friendly. It still needs a wet nib though.

 

Sorry, but taking & posting pictures is beyond my current technical capacity.

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Tom, thanks for the blue-black comparisons! I, too, enjoy the mixing of blue and black inks. Currently I have mixed MB Royal Blue and MB Mystery Black in varying ratios. Generally, I get dark blue-black! Keep on mixing! Pete

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that he does not know until he takes up his pen to write.

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I've got a couple more to show, including Parker Quink Blue-Black which has proved surprisingly ace.

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I'd love to see Noodler's Ellis Island versus 54th Massachusetts versus their "standard" Blue-Black. I have Ellis Island and I have to admit that it's rapidly rivaling black for my favorite ink - even though I got Old Manhattan at the same time, and it's a truly black blacky black ink, just what I thought I wanted.

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I don't know where you would find it, but I have a partial bottle of DUX blue-black. I have received comments that it looks like denim.

 

But I just have not warmed up to blue-black, because of the gray look. Maybe I just have not found the blue-black that pushes my button.

 

To me, my ink should be either BLACK or BLUE. Although blue has a HUGE range of colors and shades. If the reason for blue-black is to stand out on the paper more than blue, my blue equivalent to blue-black is Diamine Midnight, a VERY DARK blue. Now this ink, I like.

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Nice! I'm partial to anything-black. All my favorite ink colors have a "shade" to them.

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