List Of Dry Inks

[agentdaffy007]

Hello to all,

 

I would like to start a thread about dry inks. I don't know if such thread already exist or not. If it does, please fill me ink.

 

My experience of dry ink.

 

Pelikan 4001 Blue-Black

Montblanc Midnight Blue (iron-gall)

Montblanc Racing Green (drier side, not dry dry like Pelikan 4001 Blue-Black)

 

I find most MontBlanc inks to be normal to wet except for the 2 mentionned above.

[Flaxmoore]

Iron galls in general are quite dry. Salix is the one ink I have that my Pilots can't use- dry ink and dry pen.

[TheRealScubaSteve]

Pelikan Brown and Turquoise are also dry 4001 inks. Anderson Pens Robin's Egg is quite dry.

[inkstainedruth]

Noodler's Walnut is very dry. I thought it was way too dry, until I tried it in a Pelikan M400 with a very juicy F nib. It was like a completely different ink and a completely different experience (I had previously tried it in what turned out to have been a very dry writer). Diamine Registrar's is also really dry (it's an iron gall ink); I can't recommend it particularly (I hated the sample I had of it) but it has lots of fans.

BTW -- unlike most IG inks, some of the KWZI ones I've tried are NOT particularly dry, compared to other brands of IG inks.

So, why are you looking for dry inks? Trying to tame a firehose nib?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Joane]

Agreed on the former MB iron-gall ink. I am one of the seemingly few who like the current Midnight Blue better. It certainly flows better in my pens.

 

J. Herbin Lie de Thé wrote dry in just about any pen in which I tried it, which I didn't enjoy and I got rid of it.

[jmeldorf]

Agreed on the former MB iron-gall ink. I am one of the seemingly few who like the current Midnight Blue better. It certainly flows better in my pens.

J. Herbin Lie de Thé wrote dry in just about any pen in which I tried it, which I didn't enjoy and I got rid of it.

Wish you had my address first, Joane; I use Lie de The in my Noodler's Konrad and love how it looks.

[Joane]

Wish you had my address first, Joane; I use Lie de The in my Noodler's Konrad and love how it looks.

Sorry about that. In any case it was years ago and I'm wondering if Herbin hasn't adjusted LDT aince then because a lot of people seem to find it flows well.

[carlos.q]

Some dry inks I have used are:

 

Lamy Blue-Black

Montblanc Midnight Blue (IG)

Pelikan 4001 Blue

Pelikan 4001 Black

Pelikan 4001 Blue-Black

R&K Salix

R&K Scabiosa

Edited April 4, 2015 by carlos.q

[Lou Erickson]

ESSRI, as an iron-gall is dry. Extremely well behaved, though.

[alarickc]

Montblanc Leonardo Red Chalk is very dry in my experience.

[lgsoltek]

Everyone may not have the same idea about wetness and dryness. Anyway some of my driest inks are: R&K Salix, Diamine Autumn Oak, Noodler's Golden Brown.

[jmccarty3]

I'm wondering if Herbin hasn't adjusted LDT aince then because a lot of people seem to find it flows well.

 

Herbin may have done so, because I have no problems with it.

 

I have an old Wahl-Eversharp desk pen that is, as Ruth says, a fire-hose. I may try Pelikan 4001, Salix, or Diamine Autumn Oak in it to see if the flow can be controlled.

[agentdaffy007]

Ruth: My MB 149 F nib from 1960 is quite wet. I like it but it needs dryer inks and so far Pelikan 4001 BB is perfect for it.

 

I think i will try the other ones from Pelikan 4001.

 

Ahh now i need to get rid of some of my inks.

[carlos.q]

Ahh now i need to get rid of some of my inks.

Oh no, no, no. What you need is more pens!

[whichwatch]

I have found the Pelikan Edelstein inks to be rather dry.

[inkstainedruth]

Another one that I had forgotten about until I was putting away some ink that had just arrived in the mail yesterday: Diamine Damson. Which is really dry, IMO -- but it might just have been that it was in a dry pen.

Ironically, one of the samples I got, and tried last night, is Diamine Anniversary 1864 Blue Black, which is definitely NOT dry....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[load81]

Pelikan Inks in General. Most of the Edelsteins and all 4001s in my opinion. Mandarin basically refuses to come out of the pen for example.

I appreciate this list as a "inks to avoid" reminder.

[Strombomboli]

Noodler's La couleur royale.

 

I like the colour a lot, though, and therefore added a little distilled water and changed the pen from an old Pelikan P30 to a new M605. Luckily, they like it each other, the pen and the ink, they are a pleasure to use now.

Edited April 5, 2015 by Strombomboli

[carlos.q]

Pelikan Inks in General. Most of the Edelsteins and all 4001s in my opinion. Mandarin basically refuses to come out of the pen for example.

I appreciate this list as a "inks to avoid" reminder.

But only if you have pens with dry nibs. For someone like me that has some Pelikan and Montblanc firehoses this list is a "must have" reminder.

[agentdaffy007]

I tried my Montblanc Oyster Grey again and it is quite dry. I would say as dry as or maybe even drier than Montblanc Midnight Blue (iron-gall).

 

No feathering on cheap paper either.