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interesting dark blue color :thumbup: thanks for sharing

Pens are like watches , once you start a collection, you can hardly go back. And pens like all fine luxury items do improve with time

 

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*bump*

 

I'm late to the party (story of my life) :-). Got a box of Jentle Blue cartridges with a Sailor pen that I acquired and will keep using these with the pen. First, because I like to test-drive new pens with ink of the same brand for a while. Second, because I've got a week of travel coming up, with lots of writing involved, and I need a workhorse, cartridge-loaded pen with me (no flying with bottles, thanks).

 

Anyway, at first I wasn't impressed by this ink. I considered it an unremarkable workhorse ink like Waterman Mysterious Blue (which is a reliable, wet, well-flowing, non-shading ink). But the Jentle Blue is growing on me. It shades more than Mysterious Blue, flows well, is consistent in colour, it likes all kinds of (cheap) paper, it copies well, the cartridge holds a lot of ink and the box holds a lot of cartridges. Plus, I feel that somehow it's a great match with the Sailor pen.

 

The cons are that it is relatively boring and that, as mentioned in this review, it dries out if you leave the pen unposted for a minute or two. One stroke and it's going again, I can live with that.

 

(Really great review, BTW. Awesome.)

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The ink formerly known as Sailor Jentle Blue, in the right pen... Wow... Its current name is just "Sailor Blue Ink".

 

This ink is fantastic. It's wet, so dry writing pens will come life with it. And wet pens will wrangle tons of shading and sheen from it. Still, as mentioned by several others in this discussion, the ink dries fast (and sometimes it even dries on the nib). To me, this means I get to have my cake and eat it, too: all the advantages of wet writing and still a short drying time. I use this ink in my Visconto HS Midi F (quite a wet pen) and my Leonardo Momento Zero F, the latter of which was used in this writing sample. I use these pens for notes at work, so fast drying is essential. Drying on the nib isn't an issue for me.

 

To paraphrase a boat ride I once took on the Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls: "Ladies and gentlemen, *this* is fountain penning!"

 

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