What is the reason my Omas Paragon will work well only with Aurora ink ?

When I got the pen about 2 years ago it didnt work so well.The pen used to skip and it drove me nuts.
I was ready to send the pen to get my pen repair guy fix it when the person that sold me the pen told me Aurora ink will solve the problem.
I was very sceptice.I thought maybe he wants to sell me the Aurora ink just to make few more dollars but for my surprise he was 100% right.
The pen stopped complitly to skip.
I thought it might be a mistake so I flushed it and put my regular quink ink in it and the skipping returned.So since then my finiky Paragon drinks only expensive Aurora ink.

My questions is:

1.Why will the pen work well only with Aurora ink ?
2.What is so special about the Aurora ink in comparison to other inks ?

Omas pens are finicky. Try Waterman Florida Blue. It works wll in all of my Omas pens. Private Reserve Tanzanite had a lot of nib creep and wouldmake my fingers inky.

Not being an OMAS owner...probably yet...

What you describe sounds a lot like a nib in need of some tweeking, nibmeister style. I would say work with what you have and wait for a Pen SHow nearby, get there early and have RIchard B. or one his collegues tune the nib/feed.

I've had the same issue on some less expensive pens, and did a bit of repositioning of the nib on the feed and the issue resolved. Other people, other pens...everyone has a different story..

Good luck
Bill

They might be but my lowly Bologna will take anything I care to put in it. Waterman, Diamine, PR, Noodlers, and Parker Quink have been used to date. It's running on PR Black Cherry now. Maybe the feed and nib need to be aligned and the Aurora is super lubricated and will flow where the others wouldn't. Just a guess, I don't really know, but your pen is not right as far as I'm concerned. I'd have it looked at.

Aurora ink is a standard work-around for problem pens of all brands.

Hmmm...I thought Quink and Skrip wore that hat....

They may be good too, but everyone I know heads for the Aurora black as the first pen fixer upper. (I've heard of using Florida Blue for problem pens too.)

Hmm, not my experience at all. I have owned a number of OMAS pens (I currently own three) and all of them have worked fine with pretty much any ink I have. I have a bit of nib creep with one pen but not a big issue, otherwise no problems - some inks flow a bit better, some a bit drier, but all work fine, no skipping, ect. Inks include Aurora, PR, Diamine, Noodlers, Sailor, J Herbin.

I don't know what the thing is with Aurora ink, but it is am exceptionally smooth and good flowing ink, one of my favorite inks in terms of 'writing experience' the other being the Sailor inks.

As for your OMAS, Goodguy, I would say that your pen needs a bit of nib adjustment.

Jim Couch

Over the years, I have found that Aurora Blue worked the best in my OMAS pens. But many other inks worked almost as well. The old Penmen Inks worked great in them. The only inks that I have had real trouble with were the Pelikan inks. They do not work well in the OMAS pens that I have had.

BTW Aurora Blue, my favorite ink, does not work well in my Ancora Perlas or in my Stipula titanium-nib pens. In all other pens it's a wonder.

I have Aurora Blue, I want to get the black as well, and it seems to have some sort of super lubricant in it, sort of like motor oil, however that fact that your pen only works with it sounds like there is a problem with the feed in your pen, not a major one as the Aurora works but a minor one that one of the nib meisters may be able to adjust for you...

Your Omas pen is unhappy. Try giving it a drink of 30 year old single malt whisky then refill it with any ink. If that doesn't do it, you have some serious problems man.

I just flushed my Omas pen with a 31yo Laphroaig. It is no longer skipping, but occasionally falls over and belches. Should I try black coffee next?

Savarez...........just put your Omas to bed overnight. You were supposed to give it a wee drink, not a bottle!!!!!

Hmmm...My Paragon (new version) took anything well I have so far (Waterman, Caran d'Ache, PR, Noodler's, Herbin, MB, Omas, Montegrappa...) producing consistent flow and even lines.

I did discover that my Emotica does not work well with Caran d'Ache Amazon Green: the ink flow was just too much. I bought the green ink specially for my green Extra1930 and even on that drier writer, the ink was flowing a tad too strongly. So I guess at least for the Emotica, it is a freer-flow pen than the Paragon.

But I don't think Omas pens are finiky, at least from the newer models I own so far. They are rather, quite consistent writers that even when sitting in the pen box for weeks, write immediately when uncapped.

There could be a number of reasons, but there is something wrong with the pen. I had an OMAS Ogiva that skipped and it needed a regrind on the nib and to have deeper channels cut into the rubber feed.

My opinion has always been that if your fountain pen does not write well under "normal" conditions -- which to me means Parker, Sheaffer, or Waterman ink on ordinary 20-lb copy paper -- it is not a good pen.

My 360 skips.
I haven't found an ink it likes yet...