I like an ink that dries very fast. Has anyone tried Private Reserve Fast Dry inks? What do you think of them?

Link: http://www.pendemonium.com/ink_private.htm

I have the PR ultra black fast dry. I don't like it but I don't have a need for fast-drying ink. For lefties, I'm sure it's a godsend. To my eye, the color is pretty washed out upon drying. That said, I think it behaves fairly well on the page...hope that helps. I don't have scans, etc., to support my opinion...and knowing how helpful that can be, I wish I did.

Best
wpb

I don't have first-hand experience, but I've seen many complaints that this ink just gushes.

I have a bottle of Sherwood Green, it seemed like a great idea for a lefty. But, unfortunately it's not. It bleeds like crazy (my Pelikan F went to M and beyond), it creeps. It makes your fountainpen look like a sharpie. No shading at all.
I would avoid this stuff, and just use less saturated inks, or dilute the saturated ones.

Best regards,

Jarno.

I've tried the PR Ultra black. It bleeds on just about any paper, and in some pens it will actually drip out of the pen because it is so runny.

I have two bottles of PR Ultra Black. The first bottle was really impressive in its flow and drying characteristics.

The pens/paper combinations that I most commonly use are Danitrio Densho with a broad stub and Rhodia A5 pads or Pilot VP with a medium nib on Moleskine or Notables (a Moleskine copy).

So impressed was I by the first bottle that I bought a second from the same supplier in the UK a matter of a few weeks later as I had already gone through a third of a bottle.

The second bottle is truly awful. Although it works in the VP on the Rhodia pad it is hideous on the Notables paper. I have never seen such bad feathering before. I haven't wanted to put it in the Densho as that is a wet nib as it is. I can see that this bottle will be put aside for one of my meaner nibbed pens.

I also have a bottle of Sherwood Green but I haven't had the courage to try it in anything yet!

Here's a review of PR Midnight Blues Fast Dry:

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...mp;#entry475188

I tried the Private Reserve Black that was fast-drying. After using it for a while, I switched to Noodlers Waterproof - the Private Reserve kept lifting off if there was any dampness. But reading other people's comments, I think I ran into the same problems they describe: my Pelikan 400 fine nib wrote thick sloppy lines like a medium and bled all over some papers.

A postscript to that last note: I have to say though that I love Private Reserve's Copper Burst - a beautiful color to draw with.

I could hardly believe what I saw when I first tried Sherwood. It doesn't so much bleed as hemorrhage -- see attached photos of a Parker Vac on Rhodia. I was sure there must be something wrong, perhaps a nasty reaction with some residual ink in my pen causing a surfactant effect. But no. It seems it's just garbage ink. How strange. The other PR inks I've used are really good.

Yup. Until I tried the fast dry inks, I had nothing but praise for PR.
I can't quite get my head around the fact that the same company would put on the market, under their own brand, inks that are defective to the point of uselessness.

I had that problem with the regular Private Reserve Ultra Black—so much so, that I had to stop using it.

I wonder why, I have a bottle of Sherwood Green, Fast Dry.. I despise it. Its very very wet, really good flow, and on most of my pens, it creeps.

Anyone let PR know?

Oh did I mention it destroyed one of my pens? I just wanted to write something in green and I picked up the pen and when I turned it write I heard something click, upon opening the pen, the converter had fallen completely off, leaving the feed pin there but the little (punch? I don't know its name, but its a tiny little cylinder with a hole in the middle that goes over the pin that comes up from the feed) is stuck inside my converter...

I know this is off topic (slightly) but how would one go around to fixing that?

I have told Martin at www.thewritingdesk.co.uk about my experience and he is passing it on to PR