Baystate Blue

[amberleadavis]

Love it, but wish I could use it more. It fades and is finicky.

[Sailor Kenshin]

Give your honest opinion on it. Love or hate?

Neither?

 

I use it in a Pelikano Jr. and one day carelessly left the section to soak. Result: two-toned section. Normal section for comparison.

 

[welch]

Ugly color, just too bright. Seems to be a fussy ink, also: I spill enpough drops when refilling or flushing a pen that I want an ink I can clean easily.

[cjr]

One of my favorite inks. Love the bright, bold color. I've dedicated a Platinum Preppie fine point for its use. Haven't tried it in any other pen yet, not because of the worry, but just because I've got too many other inks I want to use! BSB in. The BSB Preppie starts immediately and flows well. Never had problems with it, even after sitting unused for a week.

[ethernautrix]

No. I find BSB too glarey for my tastes. It is a pretty color - but not for a page of sentences. I could appreciate it more as color in a drawing, used judiciously.

[wastelanded]

There is such a thing as too bright.

[mhphoto]

Love, love, love, love, love it.

[richardandtracy]

Curates Egg - good in parts.

Colour = good.

Eating Lamy Vista Feed = bad.

Smell = interesting

Stains = not good.

Feathering = not good.

 

All in all, I have some, but my bottle will probably last a lifetime.

 

Regards,

 

Richard

[mhosea]

Give your honest opinion on it. Love or hate?

 

Neither. It's the sort of ink where I've thought of buying a bottle several times but always thought better of it. Lisa's description "glarey" is perfect, IMHO. Pilot Iroshizuku Asa Gao is about as vibrant as I can handle, and I've written a page in Asa Gao before and found it a little too bright in that context, so you can imagine how far over-the-top BSB seems to me.

[PAKMAN]

Love the bright in your face color.

 

Hate the staining and potential damage.

 

Only use it in a dedicated pen, Pelikan 200 Translucent Blue, which is already that color.

[DrCodfish]

I don't think so. I have enough gong on that I don't need to put a tiger in the corral with the horses.

[flstrider]

I love it. Use in a Noodlers Ahab blue demo with a TWSBI broad nib. My favorite color.

[zchen]

I some how ended up with 3 4.5oz bottles, so I suppose that is love.

[torstar]

Give your honest opinion on it. Love or hate?

 

When I don't use it for a few months I miss it.

 

Then I use it again and realize why I didn't use it for a few months.

[kestrel]

I love the vibrancy of the color and I have never had flow issues when diluted 4 parts BSB to 1 distilled water. Bleed through on cheap paper can be an issue. I used it in a dedicated Estie J with a stub nib for two years with no hassles other than the expected staining. It is now in a dedicated Ahab which now has a glorious blue filling system. Half way through a 4.5 ounce bottle and counting.

[Gloucesterman]

+1 on using it with a dedicated blue Konrad. No problems so far (about 8 months).

 

I use this as my paper saturation, bleed through and ghosting tester. I used to test some old 1900 vintage ledger paper and it is amazing.

 

Definitely a BSB Selective fan.

[larsbj]

Like it! I currently keep it in a ebonite eyedropper, broad stub. Lovly!

[inkstainedruth]

I like it, but there's other blues I'm more likely to turn to, and like other people I limit it to a pen that can be dedicated to it.

I suspect, though, that when I get a hankering for spring weather it will make a reappearance.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Mopen]

Love the colour, works well in my Shaeffer calligraphy pens. Has clogged my other pens but I do love how the colour stands out when I make notes. Isopropyl alcohol get rids of the stains on my hands and any spills. I am just now looking for other waterproof inks, besides black, that won't clog my pens.

[ziptrickhead]

I've been using it everyday for the past 2 weeks. Now whenever I look at another blue ink they all just seem so dark in comparison. I don't use it in any pen other than a Pilot 78G though since that pen is inexpensive, writes well, and can easily taken apart for cleaning.

 

While I love the color, it does bleed through and feather for me. Not so much on nicer paper like Rhodia, but the ink really spreads out and through inexpensive copy that I have to use at work. I know people have said diluting it will help with that while not really taking away from the vibrancy of the color but I haven't had the chance to experiment with that yet.