Phew, I got a little worried, my sonnet ciselle was doing the stutter trick on me with parker quink, got Watermanns Havanna brown ink and the pen writes like butter. Saved the day and the pen, since I was going to try and sell it.

Daniel

I had two identical Pelikan 150s with fine nibs.

I inked one with Noodler's Bulletproof Black and the other with a mix of Eternal Fox and Bulletproof Black (a nice dark raspberry color).

The Black one wrote with a ti-nincy spidery line and the Raspberry one wrote with more of a Japanese medium nib line.

Changed out the inks and they switched.

Weird, weird, weird.

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean, my ciselle wrote scratchily fine and skipped, switched to Havanna brown and it writes smoothly medium and wet

Go figure.:doh:

Daniel

Havana Brown had the same effect on my Parker Place Vendome (the Vector gussied up in evening clothes). With Quink blue, the medium nib skipped and generally wrote lousy. With the brown, the nib's like butter.

Ditto for its behavior in a Sheaffer Javelin of mine, but I don't know how much is attributable to converting it to an ED, or the brown ink. I do know it writes better than it did with other inks in it.

I´ve had exactly the same experience with Havanna brown. It has turned some of my not so good, really cheap pens into relatively smooth and usable writers and is, in general, just a treat for fine nibs. For medium nibs (hardly use those, only if they´re almost fine anyway) though, I´ve found Havanna brown to be a tiny bit too runny, resulting in a line that´s too bold for my small handwriting - yet has a wonderful, dark shade of brown to it.


Regards, A.