What Was Your First Bottle Of Ink

[setriode]

The school stipulated colour and make: Parker Qiunk Blue. I was then eight years old.

[FayeV]

It was decades ago, way too long ago for me to remember. Options were limited to what I had access to in stores (no internet shopping back then LOL) so it was most likely a bottle of Waterman or Montblanc. I still have a bottle of MB Emerald Green (old bottle style) that I rarely use now that I can no longer find this color anymore.

[mirosc]

If I remember correctly either Pelikan Royal Blue or Blue Black.

[alarickc]

I got my first pen and inks a bit over a year ago. With the pen, a Pilot 823, I got three bottles all at once. Pilot Blue, Pilot Iro Kon-peki, and Pilot Iro Yama-budo.

[bernardo]

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[Orrell Post]

I think it could have been a bottle of Stephens Black ink, and I still have the bottle.

[tinysnail]

I bought my first three bottles of ink at the same time (a sign of the ink addiction to come?): Noodler's Nightshade, Noodler's 54th Massachusetts, and Diamine Chocolate Brown.

[Sasha Royale]

A Sheaffer Script bottle has a small trough at the mouth of the bottle. It is an inkwell that is very

convenient. I used it to refill my cartridges (Frugal 50+ years ago) with blue-black ink. In those

days, syringes were strictly by prescription. I refilled by pinching the cartridge and submerging

it into the ink. Between three and four refillings, it split and got all over my hands. At 10-cents

each, most kids ran out and their pens went dormant. My Sheaffer made it through the year.

 

I miss those bottles.

[Chemist]

Mine was a bottle of Black Quink I found in and art shop/cafe (it was, for the record, a rather good art shop and a good cafe). I had found a Parker converter in a drawer, and decided that I could use it in my Vector if I found a bottle of ink. I had absolutely zero knowledge of inks or pens then, but something about it just drew me in and screamed at me to buy it.

[SujiCorp12345]

My first one was Lamy Black. No particularly a fan at all. It is easy to wash though, so sometimes I use it to test out a new pen. My second purchase was Kon-peki and to this day is one of my favourite inks.

[Arkanabar]

BBU, you might manage to reduce the smudging of X-Feather the same way I reduced the smudging of my Noodler's Red-Black: I diluted it with water, about 5:1 ink:water.

My first bottle of actual ink (as opposed to Dr. P. H. Martin's Brilliant Watercolors) was Quink Blue-Black, around 1986. My Dad used black Quink, and as I couldn't find any black, I got the blue-black.

I did not like that ink, which I think is one of the reasons I loaded my Osmiroid and my A&W plastic school pen with what looked like a red Lamy nib with those pigmented liquid watercolors.

[vossad01]

Noodler's Dark Matter

 

I was convinced since I had a pen and a limited number of cartridges I would soon need a bottle. Not the case it turned out based both on my rate of consumption and the ink samples I started to get.

 

I thought black would the most practical color. After a fair bit of looking I settled on Dark Matter based on the reviews.

[lmarine0510]

If I recall correctly, my first bottle of ink was Waterman Florida Blue. I figured that I'd start with something tried and true that is known to work trouble-free. After that, I dived into the more exotic world of Noodler's, PR, and Herbin.

[Wandering Man]

I have memories of a bottle of skrip as a kid, but I don't think that really counts, since I'm not even sure if it was mine.

 

The first bottle of Ink I bought was just a few weeks ago: Pilot's asa-gao / Morning Glory. My wife and I picked it out because we liked the color on the sample page. After getting over the shock of the price, we also bought a bottle of Private Reserve American Blue for an "everyday" ink.

[LittleLion]

Hi there! I'm new here, but this looks like a fun community.

 

My first bottle took forever to choose. I had previously used cartridges, but felt that the color choices for that brand were a bit stifling. I knew there were more colors out there, but had no idea just how many until I went to make a purchase.

 

After agonizing over the choices, I surprised myself by selecting a bottle of J. Herbin Bleu Myosotis. I'm not much of a blue fan in general, but from the moment I saw it, I knew I had to have it. It is such a variable ink - it shades beautifully, dries much paler than it writes when wet, and seems to darken as it sits in the pen. It reminds me of the sea and sky on a stormy day.

 

I've tried a number of inks over the years thanks to sampling services, but I always have one pen inked with Bleu Myosotis. I never would have guessed that I would fall in love with my first ink.

[Abner C. Kemp]

Noodler's Black

[Hallel]

I bought a bottle of Watermans Serenity Blue and a bottle of Lamy Blue-Black and J. Herbin Rouge Hematite all on the same day as a part of my very first pen purchase. Without even opening the bottle, I went back the next day and exchanged the Blue-Black for Lamy Turquoise. I am pretty fond of that ink even now, and I've still never gotten a good look at Lamy Blue Black in person but I don't feel the lack.

[krz]

We were always trying to find a decent black in the olden days to draw with. There weren't any. My 1st bottle of ink was Skrip Black that was actually a darkish grey.

 

I thank my lucky stars for Noodler's Black ink now, and all the nice new black inks lately. A great time for ink.

 

Yes, those Skrip bottles were nice. I sure wish I'd have kept a few of them.

[Runnin_Ute]

Levenger Cobalt Blue and Raven Black (purchased same time)

[Margana]

The long discontinued Parker Penman Black. Does that make me ancient or what!