I just received my bottles of White Whale today and oddly enough it wasnt what I was expecting. The ink had an ivory colour to it and it wrote almost transparently on black paper. I was wondering if this is a fluke or is it normal behavior for this ink?

I was entirely disappointed with Whiteness of the Whale ink. It doesn't show up at all on dark paper. You can create interesting pastel colors with it BUT I found that every pen that I put a Whiteness of the Whale ink mixture into stopped writing properly!

It isn't supposed to show up though. It isn't a white-writing ink at all - it was made purely for mixing with intensely saturated colours to give pastel tones: http://www.pendemonium.com/ink_facts.htm#whale

Did any one else have my experience of it causing the ink stop flowing well? It did it in several Sheaffer School pens that normally write very smoothly.

See this link on FPNers experiences with Whiteness of the Whale. Scroll down to Bill-The-Editor's 2nd post.

Best, Ann

Thanks for the link!

If you used Whiteness of the Whale in your pen and it stops up, are you experiencing Mopey Bic? Can it be re-Ahab-bilitated? Should you blubber? Would you have a leg to stand on?

I can't take puns like that before I've had my Starbucks, but I think the solution to the flow problems can be solved by using a Stubb nib.