Hi guys,

Any idea what "wet" inks are available for dry writers? I have pelikan 4001 inks and they write pretty dry with my pilot prera (even on M and B nibs for my taste) and okay for my estie 9048.
I just got some PR Chocolat to try but looking for some (not too expensive) nice browns inks.

Pelikan brilliant brown mix with a small percentage of quink looks great but doesn't drop a wet enough line for my personal taste.
Any suggestions?

G'day,

Noodlers Aircorps Blue-Black. You can't go past it for flow!

Try Herbin's Bleue Nuit. Every pen I filled with Bleue Nuit wrote very wet. I'm only using that ink with dip pens now.

Fernan

I've had good luck with Watermans Havana in dry writers.

Ditto: Waterman Havana Brown . . . also Waterman Blue Black. Reliable inks.

PR Copper Burst. Great ink and my favorite "brown"

I found FPN Galileo Manuscript Brown to be too wet in my Lamy 2000, which writes wet anyway. May be just the ticket for a dry writer, if you're looking for a very warm, not too dark brown.

It's quite nice as is, but I mixed in 20% Noodler's Black, and discovered a very well-behaved, bulletproof dark rich chocolate-y espresso brown with no nib creep even!

Color me a happy camper, though that mix might be too dry for your wishes.

I fill my dry writers with Waterman, too. Either Waterman Florida blue with some Havana or Florida blue with some Pelikan black. Both mixtures are different shades of blueblack.

Diamine inks in general seem to all be fairly wet writing inks. I use a 1:1 mix of the Siennas because I've had grief with dark brown inks. (clogging) The siennas are "medium" in terms of saturation.

WM inks have good flow though Havana was one that I gave up on. There isn't anything "wrong" with dark brown inks, just that if you're going to use them, you *must* use them regularly and not let them sit for a week at a time. At least, not in my experience.

For a brown I suggest J. Herbin Lie de Thé as a first choice. Another outstanding brown not mentionned is Noodler's Red-Black. It usually have very good flow.

If your pen is really dry FPN Galileo Manuscript brown. I love that ink color but it is VERY wet (not extra-lubricant but VERY wet) so as someone else mentionned Galileo might be it. One word of advice, in my limitied experience with the ink it has the effect of making M nib write like B or BB. So if you like broad nib trying Galileo in your M nib might give you exactly what you want.

Any shade of Watermans will be reliable, Private Reserve usually run wet - I love Copper Burst, Shoreline Gold and Orange in the brown family, haven't tried the FPN brown. Herbin's The' will do nicely, but some of their other shades run dry in my wet B nibs, so take advantage of the Pear Tree Pens sampler before you invest.

Even Havana Brown? I found that one quite "dryer" than the other Waterman inks. (Unless I got a bad bottle?!)

All of my inks from Waterman, CdA, Skrip, Herbin, MB are all wetter than my Pelikan inks. Even in my Pelikan pens too, which are also dry things.

Mike

Yes indeed! I got PR Tarzanite to try on my VP fine and it really is lubricating-ly smooth for lack of a better word! Never had such an experience before!! The PR chocolat and Noodlers Walnut are waiting to be filled up in my Custom 743 once I rotate the fermo back to the pen case.

I guess the pelikan inks stay on the my safari italics since those lay quite a bit of a thick wet line! I found out a good soapy wash on my prera has help loosen the flow of the pelikan brilliant brown on a fine nib.. If only it wrote a little wetter and darker

I second Lie de Thé. Not only is it a good flowing ink, it is a very interesting shade with green undertones instead of the usual red. It's my favorite brown ink.

Neill

I have a Sheaffer Valiant that tended to write a little on the dry side and could even stop altogether with some inks. Even Waterman BB and Floria Blue had trouble!

Since using Noodlers Walnut it has flowed like the Amazon and never a hesitation on starting.

The brown is very very dark from this pen - I like it.

Chris