What's Your Favorite Ink In Your Juicy Pelikan?

[Bo Bo Olson]

I only have one Pelikan with a 14k nib and I use Röhrer & Klingner Alt Gold-grün in it because it's a white tortoise. My M200 with a steel nib is much less wet, though I don't know if that's to be expected for the steel nibs.

 

I like wet, inky writers so wouldn't purposely use a dry ink.

 

 

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Pelikan made a wetter writing nib because it made dry inks....like some of the Waterman nibs were narrower so dryer for Waterman's wet ink.

 

The 200's nib is @ 1/2 a width narrower than a post '97 fatter blobbier 400 or 600, so would be 'drier,' because it writes narrower. It is also not so blobby, so will write narrower.

 

If you are somewhat heavy handed the 'true' regular flex will write 'wetter' due to tine spread...

 

Many Noodler inks are very wet.

Before Noodlers became so big....Waterman was considered a wet ink. Now many Noodler users consider Waterman inks....dry.

 

 

I like two toned shading inks over monotone supersaturated wet inks, and they are dryer in they have to dry in two stages. ....On the Whole....of course one needs a few wetter inks.

DA Royal Blue is a bit wetter than what ever the new name of Waterman blue is.

I do have an occasional dry nib, that I don't want to make wetter by spreading the tines....or why would I need a wetter ink?

 

I'm not going to fiddle with the nib of my Geha 725. Rolled gold trim. A very elegant, perfectly balanced piston pen. Semi-flex F nib that is a tad dry.

Picture with permission of Penboard.de.

 

Some day I just got to take a picture of that clip....two little lines on it made it Classy. In that Pelikan bought up Gehe's pen division in 1990 and closed it down....Geha is a 'Pelikan".

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Edited October 20, 2016 by Bo Bo Olson

[Calabria]

I read somewhere (Sandy1?) that the trick with a very wet pen is to add a bit of distilled water to the ink - it lightens the color so that the liquid line looks a bit lighter.

 

I use Pelikan bb, and it comes out in shades of grey in my wettest M800

[Bo Bo Olson]

I don't like BB which is why I only have 8 of them.

 

I read some folks had 'problems with Pelikan 4001 black as being a gray ink in a narrow nib....but they were using very, very poor paper.

 

I only have the 4001 black that is more than black enough (Lots darker than Parker) and some day even if I don't need it Aurora black...an ink that is blacker than Pelikan. Just because it's a famous ink.

Yet there are Noodlers that are blacker. And much wetter.

Edited October 22, 2016 by Bo Bo Olson