Green - Sheaffer

[visvamitra]

Sheaffer first introduced its Skript ink back in 1922. The Skrip was sold in glass bottles with metal lids. In the 1990 Sheaffer closed its plant that made ink in the USA. In 2002 company started to make their inks in Slovenia and to sell it in cone-shaped bottle. Personally I dislike this bottle - it's relatively low and gets wider at the base. This is great for stability of the bottle on the desk, but means that more ink sits in the bottom of the bottle than at the upper portion of the bottle. It may cause problems for those of us whoo use pens with big nibs - as the ink goes down, it becomes impossible to submerge the nib in the ink and get a hearthy fill.

Anyway at the moment Sheaffer (now part of the Cross, so who knows what'll happen) offers eight inks:

1. Blue-Black
   
2. Blue
   
3. Black
   
4. Brown
   
5. Green
   
6. Purple
   
7. Red
   
8. Turquoise
   

Sheaffer Green is hideous ink. I can't understand why it's called green. Sure green can be interpreted in many ways, even this one, but why Sheaffer, why this?

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Software ID

Tomoe River, Kaweco Classic Sport, B

Leuchtturm 1917, Kaweco Classic Sport, B

Compared

[ppdiaporama]

This is one of my favourite inks! I agree that it's not really green! It's the fact that it's neither green or blue that draws me to it.

 

It's an easy flowing general purpose ink

[bobje]

Visvamitra, on this review I am in agreement with you. Why is this color called green?

[thudthwacker]

Amusingly, it was on the strength of this review that I went out and got a combo-pack of Sheaffer Skrip cartridges from a local craft store. I agree that calling this "green" is wildly inaccurate -- if someone bought this cartridge sight-unseen and popped it in their pen, expecting something that could reasonably be called "green," they'd not be happy.

 

That said, though, it's (for me) quite a nice teal. I like the shading, and I've become a real sucker for the kind of red "halo sheen" this ink displays. It's a little dry (especially on the heels of Lamy Dark Lilac, which I just ran out of earlier this evening), but I still like it. I don't at all mind having a cartridge full of it in my daily writer.