Rohrer & Klingner Salix

[koulour]

R&K Salix is my first I-G ink. I have recently bought a bottle and tried it in various pens (Lamy Safari EF, Pelikan M150 EF, Waterman Hemisphere EF, a Kaweco Sport with a flexy Swan "2" nib on it, Aurora 88 vintage and a Lamy 2000 current edition but with a 18k vintage EF nib). They all, more or less, become a little "drier" in the feeling when writing, but I tend to believe that Salix is not a dry ink. It is just not lubricating like other, common inks. On the safety side, I can not comment. I haven't used the ink for a time span that can be considered enough to check the damage through corrosion it may produce to my pens. As a modern I-G ink though, I do not expect to observe any.

 

Other than that, as a general feeling over the various inks I have tried, I can note that this ink is connected to:

i) remarkable shading (my handwriting tends to prefer western EF nibs and those take away all the fun BB nibs give)

ii) ultra fast drying time

iii) beautiful, vivid but not loud, vintage-like colour, excellent for daily office use

iv) NO feathering and bleed-through, minimum see-through,

v) unbelievable resistance to harsh, wet conditions.

 

Regarding the last feature, I bought this ink in order to try to use it in daily geotechnical laboratory (and field) conditions, along with my Safari EF. It withstands staying on a piece of paper air sealed with wet soil specimens (no normal conditions there, sometimes the paper is not found in one piece), left in the sun for days, oven drying (over 100 °C) for over 12 hrs, not to mention the wet hands rubbing over written numbers, or various light-risk chemicals and washing agents dripping over valuable data, all written in cheap copy paper! It gets to a less bluish than normal gray and that's it. Perfectly readable, even if your paper is in parts!

 

It is, for me at least, the ink that combines all. Optimum workhorse behaviour and beautiful, serious, colour when dried, that can be used in a pen that stands next to fast written notes of a presentation at the board meeting or next to a geologist sampling cores with a drill...

 

Needless to say I am afraid to try other I-G inks, in the case of disappointment.

 

What is left now, is to pair it with a Cross Century II F nib I have been "wanting" lately...

Edited April 14, 2013 by Mckoulour

[Pterodactylus]

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(Noodler´s Ahab EMF ..... Rohrer & Klingner Salix)

Edited July 18, 2013 by Pterodactylus

[jgrasty]

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(Noodler´s Ahab EMF ..... Rohrer & Klingner Salix)

 

Your calligraphy with the stiff flex nib in an Ahab is extraordinary. I've not been able to get very good results with an Ahab myself, though it was fun trying. I'm very happy you enjoyed my review enough to get Salix.

[Pterodactylus]

Your calligraphy with the stiff flex nib in an Ahab is extraordinary. I've not been able to get very good results with an Ahab myself, though it was fun trying. I'm very happy you enjoyed my review enough to get Salix.

 

Thanks

 

But my Ahab nib is not stiff anymore

I couldn't write like this in its original state.

 

I modified the nib and now it has I would say a full flex character.

 

If you are interested then take a look at my Ahab mod thread:

 

Ahab - ease my flex mod

 

It's easy and take not much time....

[jgrasty]

Your calligraphy with the stiff flex nib in an Ahab is extraordinary. I've not been able to get very good results with an Ahab myself, though it was fun trying. I'm very happy you enjoyed my review enough to get Salix.

 

Thanks

 

But my Ahab nib is not stiff anymore

I couldn't write like this in its original state.

 

I modified the nib and now it has I would say a full flex character.

 

If you are interested then take a look at my Ahab mod thread:

 

Ahab - ease my flex mod

 

It's easy and take not much time....

 

Ha! I did see that post, but didn't connect the dots until now. I'll have to give it a try, as I have a Dremel, and I don't otherwise use the Ahab anyway.

[amberleadavis]

Thank you for the review and comments --- so much to learn.

[dowdyism]

What a perfect looking ink color. I shouldn't be so chicken to try iron gall inks.