After inking my brand new Aurora Ipsilon, F nib with Sherwood PR, I was crestfallen with the results and immediately found myself spinning into the pen/ink/paper conundrum. So, after a flush and switch to PR Plum, she's humming right along. I'd like an even wetter ink for this one.

Rumor here has it that PR Tanzanite is a gusher. What others can be added to a list of fast-flow inks?

Oh Gee... Well, in my experience the gushiest colours are the Noodler's Swishmix: Tahitian Pearl, and to a lesser extent, Burgundy.

Tanzanite is supposedly a heavy flowing ink. I have found that plum too flows pretty fully. I am sure others will chime in with their experiences.

I think it was my bottle of private reserve black velvet--or something like that---that really almost ran out the nib!!

There is also a product you can get from Tryphon that increases ink flow. The name escapes me right now. Their product InkSafe increases flow a little and sterilizes the ink, but they have another product that is just for flow increase. Whenever you add anything to ink, use the smallest amount possible so you do not make the bottle too fast running.

Good luck. It seems I read more posts where people want less flow than I do posts where people want more flow.

enjoy, j

I want more flow. Haven't yet found any ink which runs out like out of my garden hose and thus empties the pen automatically.

Mike

HI MIke, You really should try that private reserve ink called Black Velvet. I am pretty sure that was the one that had such a heavy flow in my pens. J

LOL! Mike, you're such a card.
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I don't have as extensive experience with inks as lotsa other folks around here, but I can tell you that PR Fast Dry Ultra Black is wet, wet, wet... and feathery. It's a lovely black color, but the ink is too unwieldy for my writing ways.

Diamine Royal Blue is freer flowing than most of their other inks.

Have you tried a nib adjustment?

Dan

It's not something I'd be comfortable trying to do myself, so I'll see my seller on Monday and hopefully, he can make it better. Thanks, I'm not going to give up on this pen!

Actually, it's not nearly as hard as you might think. Check out the articles in the Repair Q&A Forum in the pinned thread Repair Reference Information under the heading Nib Adjustments - Flow Problems. There's quite a bit of information to walk you through it. Read the articles and you might just want to give it a shot.

The addition of a tiny speck of liquid dish-soap to your ink (any ink I presume) will "loosen" it and increase flow. (Dip the point of a toothpick in the soap and touch it to the interior of the converter.) That is one of the reasons to rinse very thoroughly if you use a bit of soap to clean your pens or on a new pen to wash out any remaining oils.

I find Levenger's Cobalt Blue to be very "loose" as well as being a slow dryer (I find they often go hand-in-hand).

Andy

I agree Private Reserve Ultra Black is a real gusher, but I like it. I'm keen on free-flowing inks.

Others I've tried:

Private Reserve Fast Dry inks
Levenger Cobalt Blue
All 3 Noodler's Baystate inks

Noodler's violet vote, eternal brown and fox red. Particularly the violet vote

Keep the ink information gushing! This is very useful!

Erick

Noodlers Emerald city green can flow pretty freely. When you have it in a pen that normally writes wet like a Duofold you have to be careful.

Fast Dry Ultra Black (not regular Ultra Black, but Fast Dry) is VERY fast flowing, however I would caution that I've found it leaving a "plastic-like" residue on everything it touches. I don't trust it and have ceased using it for now.

Aurora Black is free flowing in general, and is a very nice ink- I suggest this for a rich and free flowing black.

Waterman's Blue-Black isn't bad for flow, the same with Florida Blue (but a bit less so).

PR DC Supershow Blue is pretty fast flowing if you ask me, though it does dry slowly.

Levenger Cobalt Blue, as has been mentioned, is quick flowing, but is VERY slow to dry (sometimes it never does).

PR Sherwood Green has decent flow to it.

Noodlers
- Aircorps Blue-Black (excellent - see review by TNS!)
- Red-Black
- Blue

and Aurora Black.

Geoff V

Believe me - you don't want that. I did my own pen repair once and the result was exactly as you describe; the pen emptied in seconds.

But back to the original question. Baystate Blue is really wet, as are some of the bulletproof inks - or at least they are in my pens. It's pretty much trial and error discovering which inks work with what pens one owns.

Noodler's La Coleur Royale and Empire Red are particularly wet in my Waterman 52 V.

I didn't find that with the Royal Blue, but I am finding that their China Blue seems to be quite free flowing.

I had a vial of the Levenger Cobalt Blue, so I can echo the comment about it not really drying and being quite a free flowing ink. I also had a vial of PR Tanzanite and to my surprise didn't find it too free flowing and it was quick enough to dry for me as a lefthanded overwriter.

I had a bottle of Noodler's Black-Red and that was far too free flowing and just never seemed to fully dry. Shame because I liked the colour.

Levengers Gemstone green is quite well
behaved in my F Carene but it flows rather
freely in my Parker Frontier with a CI nib.

Rather too freely - getting feathering on paper
that doesn't generally feather. (which
isn't terribly welcome)

Now I get to figure out which ink will go in
this pen and behave itself.

FPN Galileo Manuscript is even too free-flowing for me, and I like my writing wet.

I'm hoping that it's true that I can dilute it 50:50 with water and keep the same color while making it a little more manageable.

My gushiest inks are Sheaffer Skrip turquoise & green. I can't use these inks at all except in the the stingiest fine nibs. After that, PR tanzanite.

Petra

Noodler's Gulf Stream Blue for a very free flowing waterproof ink. I think it's a Swisher exclusive. I use it in my dry writers and can be too free flowing for some nibs. When used in a Pelikan M200 with Binder XXF it leaves a little post-nasal-drip blob at the end of the nib. But it might be the right ink for the right nib...

Doug

I agree. Noodler/Swisher Gulf Stream Blue is the gushiest ink that I have, even compared with some other inks mentioned earlier in this thread (such as Aurora Black and Diamine Royal Blue--these inks flow quite normally compared with Gulf Stream Blue).

Can't believe no one had mentioned Noodler's Old Manhattan Black (FPH). It is one of the wettest gushers I have ever used. Brilliant black color as well.

Tanzanite really flows wet out of my Bexley Submariner. It dries well and only a little feathering on Italian papers.

I found the Noodler's Apache Sunset to work fantastically in my Montegrappa Miyo Argento. I have a fast script so I need a free flowing ink. Plus, it has great shading!

Private Reserve Midnight Blues is currently pouring out of my Conway-Stewart 100 (M italic nib). I haven't had this problem with other inks.

Noodler's Eternal Luxury Blue IMHO

It's Swisher's Verdun for me, and I suspect that it holds true for the whole Swisher's Eternal range (as per the HDoug/BlueIris Gulf Stream recommendation). I also have Djinn of the Eternal Flame, which is in the series, and also flows particularly well, but I feel that Verdun is wetter. (I don't have Gulf Stream, so I can't compare)