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not many reviews of this ink. thought i'd share mine.

 

 

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Nice review. This was my standard ink for years. Nice blue and it never gave me any trouble. In the end i got bored with it and started looking for other colours but it still is one of the best inks i ever used.

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I still use Florida Blue in my Waterman Phileas medium-nib (the blue model, naturally). The Phileas is a pretty wet writer, which makes it ideal for the "line-slimming" papers like Clairefontaine and Rhodia. I like this ink a great deal. Thank you for your review.

 

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A.J.

 

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Excellent review! This is one of the best inks that I have used, and it works well in all of my pens. Thanks for the other ink recommendations, it is helpful, since there are many different types of blue to choose from.

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Love Waterman FL Blue!! It will always be on the cue. It is my back up blue, now that I am "hook, line and sinker" on Visconti Blue....that being said I am going to try Diamine Blue/Black.

 

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Thanks again, for another very useful review. I, too, appreciate your notes about other inks at the end of the review.

May you have pens you enjoy, with plenty of paper and ink. :)

Please use only my FPN name "Gran" in your posts. Thanks very much!

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This has long been a favorite of mine. I have a no-name lacquer over brass MB knock-off pen with fine IGP nib filled with it. It used to be for jotting notes in my Daytimer before I got a BlackBerry, now just for general jotting.

 

I also have Florida Blue in a Pelikan 100 with a wet writing OM nib. It really looks lovely from this pen. I just wrote checks to pay my March bills with it yesterday.

 

Florida Blue is also in two of my ink mixes. It is one of four inks in my homebrew blue black, which is currently in my 1970s Pelikan 400. The shading is rather nice with this semi-flex fine nib. My old style blue Waterman Phileas with fine nib has a 1:1 mix of Florida Blue with Waterman Purple. I really like this mix, especially from this fine nib.

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