Pharmacist's Turkish Night (Iron Gall)

[Essensia]

[daoud62]

This is my favorite of the colored IG inks. I love writing with it in my Design Y notebook. Thanks again, Pharmacist...this one is a winner!!!!!

[Colors]

Very nice. Just received my order in the mail today from Pharmacist which includes Turkish Nights - can't

Wait to try it.

[XiaoMG]

This is one of my favorite inks. I use it in a Sailor MF that I tweaked, and can get some very nice effects from it. It does lean a little strongly to the green side for me; I originally thought I'd received Darkening Absinthe by mistake. Once I put it next to a green ink though, it appears more cyan.

 

Thanks for the review!

[watch_art]

This scan reminds me of blue nosed bear.

[paolino_paperino]

+1 for it being a nice and well behaved ink.

[saskia_madding]

This is the ink I've really wanted to try out, except that I'm totally afraid of IG inks. Is there anything I need to watch out for in terms of how and with which pen I can use it?

[encremental]

As long as you don't fill a pen with it after midnight, you may be OK.

[pharmacist]

Hi Saskia,

 

I use my ink in a very cheap €10 costing fountain pen from Papermate with a ordinary cheap stainless nib. No noble gold or expensive iridium nib, which are totally inert to acids in ink. Actually I never rinsed this pen with a cheap plastic converter the last 2 years.

 

If my el cheapo fountain pen resists acid IG ink then gold or iridium nibs should excel in corrosion resistance compared to my cheap stainless steel nib .

[RudyR]

Wouldn't this ink be great if it was delivered in an Ackermann ink type of bottle? It would be great for any of the Pharmacist Inks if they were bottled in Ackermann ink bottles.

[Stompie]

Mine comes out very nice but then quickly turns to almost a blue black.

 

Should I be diluting it and if so, with what must I dilute it?

 

I am using a dip pen.

[pharmacist]

Mine comes out very nice but then quickly turns to almost a blue black.

 

Should I be diluting it and if so, with what must I dilute it?

 

I am using a dip pen.

 

Hi Stompie: this is perfectly normal, as a dip pen lays down much more ink on a given surface. The colour you see is the one when you write with a fountain pen.

 

If you want charcoal black use the Urkundentinte with a dip pen. It will give you a jet black ink line .

[Stompie]

Mine comes out very nice but then quickly turns to almost a blue black.

 

Should I be diluting it and if so, with what must I dilute it?

 

I am using a dip pen.

 

Hi Stompie: this is perfectly normal, as a dip pen lays down much more ink on a given surface. The colour you see is the one when you write with a fountain pen.

 

If you want charcoal black use the Urkundentinte with a dip pen. It will give you a jet black ink line .

 

 

Great, but I want that lovely blue when using a dip pen - is it possible if I dilute it a bit, and if so what must I dilute it with?

[pharmacist]

use a mixture of vinegar and destilled water (50/50 % )to dilute the ink a bit. NO ordinary tap water !!!

[Stompie]

use a mixture of vinegar and destilled water (50/50 % )to dilute the ink a bit. NO ordinary tap water !!!

 

Thank you!

[inkstainedruth]

use a mixture of vinegar and destilled water (50/50 % )to dilute the ink a bit. NO ordinary tap water !!!

 

Would this dilution mix also keep the lovely cyan color longer from out of a fountain pen? I couldn't get the camera up to my face fast enough to catch the cyan before it darkened (so no review from me, sorry). Showed the ink off a while back to a friend and she thought the color shift was really cool.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[dorala1]

Hi Saskia,

 

I use my ink in a very cheap €10 costing fountain pen from Papermate with a ordinary cheap stainless nib. No noble gold or expensive iridium nib, which are totally inert to acids in ink. Actually I never rinsed this pen with a cheap plastic converter the last 2 years.

 

If my el cheapo fountain pen resists acid IG ink then gold or iridium nibs should excel in corrosion resistance compared to my cheap stainless steel nib .

 

 

Since I ordered from you a few months ago, I've forgotten the ordering procedure. I would like two bottles of your "Turkish Night". If I remember correctly, I used Paypal for the transaction.

Please email me with instructions and a cost for two bottles shipped to Indiana, USA, postal code 47130-6133.

 

thanks.

 

Thomas Connell

[lsmith42]

Loaded this morning in an old Lamy 27e... I need to find more excuses to write more just to watch the color shift!

 

(plus, I have three more colors I haven't tried yet!)