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The darkness of that ink is terrifying!

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HOD is my favorite black ink and the only one I use.

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The darkness of that ink is terrifying!

 

That is EXACTLY what I was thinking!

 

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a handwritten review of the eternal ink, heart of darkness, inspired by katfisch

 

 

I'm guessing you were a chem and or math major before med school :)

 

Nice review. Do you have any problems with ink flow - clogging, drying out ... ?

 

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a handwritten review of the eternal ink, heart of darkness, inspired by katfisch

 

 

I'm guessing you were a chem and or math major before med school :)

 

Nice review. Do you have any problems with ink flow - clogging, drying out ... ?

 

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Ken

actually biology with a chemistry minor, and did a bunch of math as well. actually flow is too good in several pens and will bleed all over and has lots of nib creep.

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I love that black. But I don't like the feathering. I've compared HOD and OMB side by side, and you can tell the HOD by the feathering.

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I love that black. But I don't like the feathering. I've compared HOD and OMB side by side, and you can tell the HOD by the feathering.

and the HOD will feather way more than this in a wetter nib. and it will creep all over the place and get onto your fingers/clothes/etc. the lamy tends to handle it well. rotring newton:blach, cross eyedropper: only if you want pages below soaked in black, pelikano: good, shaeffer caligraphy:pretty good.

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I love that black. But I don't like the feathering. I've compared HOD and OMB side by side, and you can tell the HOD by the feathering.

and the HOD will feather way more than this in a wetter nib. and it will creep all over the place and get onto your fingers/clothes/etc. the lamy tends to handle it well. rotring newton:blach, cross eyedropper: only if you want pages below soaked in black, pelikano: good, shaeffer caligraphy:pretty good.

 

Resurrecting a month old review, but I gotta know: What model Lamy are you referring to when you say that it "handles [this ink] well"?

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Hopefully it's the Lamy 2000 because I really want to get a bottle of this....the darkness is extraordinary.

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Hopefully it's the Lamy 2000 because I really want to get a bottle of this....the darkness is extraordinary.

 

My thoughts exactly. And for an index card, that's really not much feathering at all.

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Hopefully it's the Lamy 2000 because I really want to get a bottle of this....the darkness is extraordinary.

 

My thoughts exactly. And for an index card, that's really not much feathering at all.

 

actually, a lamy vista with a medium nib that i had polished with some emory cloth. it has quite a bit of nib creep, but does not actively leak from the nib like in my rotring newton.

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Hopefully it's the Lamy 2000 because I really want to get a bottle of this....the darkness is extraordinary.

 

My thoughts exactly. And for an index card, that's really not much feathering at all.

 

actually, a lamy vista with a medium nib that i had polished with some emory cloth. it has quite a bit of nib creep, but does not actively leak from the nib like in my rotring newton.

 

Oh, right. Just like it says in the bottom left corner of the card. :embarrassed_smile: Maybe it was late when I asked...? Yeah, I'm gonna go with that excuse. :headsmack:

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Dump HoD down the drain; it's a feathery mess. Who can stand it?

 

Better is a 1:1 mixture of PR Purple Mojo and NI Black. Black as can be, flows superbly, and doesn't feather.

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It's also a real pain to fill a Pelikan with the eyedropper bottle. BUT... it is a great ink, very smooth, dries very quickly, it does tend to feather though. Thanks for the review, good job.

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Dump HoD down the drain; it's a feathery mess. Who can stand it?

 

Better is a 1:1 mixture of PR Purple Mojo and NI Black. Black as can be, flows superbly, and doesn't feather.

NI Black? What's that?

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Ah, I was going to try this in my Waterman Phileas Med Pt, but I'll pass in favor of normal Bulletproof Black. Feathering is...not pleasant for me to look at.

 

Thanks for the informative and detailed review! You saved me some trouble!

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