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A nice review of the only black ink I use. Here's my scan as well, purely for a comparison.

fpn_1331072432__pelikan_4001_brilliant_black.jpg

 

You'll have to try their Blue-Black next!

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A nice review of the only black ink I use. Here's my scan as well, purely for a comparison.

 

PICTURE

 

You'll have to try their Blue-Black next!

 

 

I think i might! At the price you can hardly go wrong...

 

 

I can see my desk becoming slowly full of Ink bottles......

 

I have to say though, the box is annoyingly slightly longer than the Waterman/Quink Bottles and doesn't stack right with them :P

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Brilliant Black is my favorite color. It doesn't show in the scans so well, but this ink actually shines!

 

Pretty amazing...

 

Erick

Using right now:

Visconti Voyager 30 "M" nib running Birmingham Streetcar

Jinhao 9019 "EF" nib running Birmingham Railroad Spike

Stipula Adagio "F" nib running Birmingham Violet Sea Snail

Sailor Profit "B" nib running Van Dieman's Night - Shooting Star

 

 

 

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Yup, one of my favorites, too. It's controllable, smooth and hardly feather, even on absorbent papers.

It's my golden standard for Black.

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What about the ink smell of the Pelikan Black ink ? i have used parker quink and namiki black, but i can stand the chemical smell of both.




I´m not to demanding on the ink properties as long as its black, doesn´t feather on cheap work paper and doesn´t smell like chemical/phenol/plastics!



I was considering Pelikan 4001 brilant black, and lamy black.



What do you advise me?



thanks!

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I don't recall Brilliant Black having any smell worth noting but it's been a while since I used any; or any black ink at all for that matter.

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I am also a Pel black fan, and also a fan of Noodlers Black and Old Manhattan Black. The Pel's dryness complements my wetter vintage pens, and I'd say it's 95 percent as black as the others. It also dries quickly, which is important for me,since I'm a lefty overwriter. I usually dilute the other two a bit to dry faster. So count me in!

 

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I too don't use my single black, Pelikan 4001. It is darker by me.

The only other Black I'll be getting some day is Aurora. That just to say I have it.

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I, like our cap'n, am not all that hot about blacks in general, but Pelikan's Black is for me one of the very least black of blacks. At least a dozen others are 'blacker', if not 'more interestingly' black. Check out the posts on this within the last month...

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Quite interesting black :thumbup: even though I prefer MB Black

Pens are like watches , once you start a collection, you can hardly go back. And pens like all fine luxury items do improve with time

 

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