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I've gone most of my life hating colored inks, but I may be mellowing. I bought one of those 30 ml bottles of Iroshizuku Yama-guri (wild chestnut) and it's fabulous! It looks like aged medieval ink, which appeals tremendously to the history nerd in me. I've put it in about half my pens...I may have to invest in a bigger bottle.

 

Has anyone else had this sort of conversion experience?

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I like Diamine Oxblood, but I wouldn't say that I was totally smitten with it. Maybe that's why I keep switching all over the place with inks.

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I keep changing my mind about what my favorite ink is. Although Yama-guri is quite nice... so there's no faulting your taste, sidthecat!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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If it's sick, we're all sick. :D I love, love love all my KWZI ink. And PE Turmaline, of course.

Life's too short to use crappy pens.  -carlos.q

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Yama-guri is one of the few inks I've tried that is Truly Unique: I'll never tire of it.

"I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original." - Franz Joseph Haydn 1732 - 1809
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No, it's not sick. Being in love is glorious - only remember that people fall out of love too. Bring her down gently when it happens: first finish the bottle, then clean it and keep it in memory of something beautiful while you move on to new exciting things.

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No, absolutely not. I have a relation with Diamine Imperial Purple... No matter how many times I try to push it away, just came back. But after a winter, will get a few other purples. So, who know.

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I'm not in love yet... I'm still checking out the scene and "dating" as many inks as possible before I settle down.

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My current squeeze is Noodler's Texas Blue Bonnet. I write it with all day, every day, at work. I'm afraid of cheating on it with another ink.

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Nothing wrong about it for my money! And today I had the joy to experience a new LOVE which feels all the better for having heard about it, becoming aware of it's being no longer made, scarcity of availability & price. Rather a "courtship" ritual in itself before I found a bottle of Parker Penman Mocha in a price I could afford. AND then being SCARED to take the "first step" of courtship...which pen should I offer up "as victim?" Again seems a lot like dating fears.........

But today I received a new Bexley Golden Shell in BROAD (which I found @ a very affordable price from Judperl) & thought (besides how much I think this pen reminds me of photographs I have seen of the Montegrappa Extra in "Turtle!") TODAY is the day to try that ink!

It was if not love pretty close to it! It is everything I had heard & read about but especially in this pen's Broad nib. Both Pen & ink seemed made for each other & made me VERY happy.

So today I am "head over heels" ......... BUT hopefully awaiting a purchase from yesterday on Ebay of an unopened bottle (GLASS!!!) of VISCONTI ink identified as Tobacco! (Which I suspect is probably their current sepia or brown or whatever they call it BUT the allure of a "Tobacco" ink sure sounded neat!) So again like love itself I am enjoying today's wonderful choice but aware that "there may be another.......

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Okay, but which way will you raise the children ? :)

Auf freiem Grund mit freiem Volke stehn.
Zum Augenblicke dürft ich sagen:
Verweile doch, du bist so schön !

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I do not have any unhealthy relationships with any ONE ink.....

 

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/Potions_Cabinet/20141113_153948at.jpg

 

Pay no attention to the middle book on the top shelf that is next to the green bungbox ink.

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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