Wet Ink For A Vanishing Point F? Dry Ink For A Loom M?

[thewolfgang]

I have opposite needs for inks :

 

I need a wet royal blue ink for a Vanishing Point F - using Pilot Blue now - otherwise considering a M or even a B (not the "special alloy" capless models because I gather that the nibs are more like EF and F than F and M

 

And a dry black ink for a Loom Medium - fabulous as everyone says but just a bit too large - using Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Green now - I'm afraid I'll lose the shading if I go to a Fine

 

thanks -

Edited April 26, 2018 by thewolfgang

[Pentode]

Try one of the Diamine or Waterman blues as both brands tend to run on the wet side. My limited experience with Sailor inks leads me to believe they run pretty wet as well.

 

Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Green has been discontinued (and I never found it to be as dry as some of the other 4001 colors anyway), but I still havent found another line of inks that tends toward dry as much as the 4001 series, personally.

 

I believe i saw a thread a while back talking about the demise of Brilliant Green. I think I may even have participated. I imagine there must have been other options discussed and at least one of them must be dry, Id imagine. Ill see if I can find the thread again and Ill link to it.

[sansenri]

Pelikan Edelstein Tanzanite, very wet, love it (you need to write fast!)

 

Pelikan blue-black, dries out in my pens...

[Pentode]

I found the Brilliant Green thread, but its not as helpful as I had hoped:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/327146-pelikan-4001-brilliant-green-discontinued/?do=findComment&comment=3914260

 

Sansenris right; if youre not married to green 4001 Blue-Black is very dry. So is Brilliant Black.

Lamys Blue-Black is also quite dry.

[thewolfgang]

Thanks for the suggestions -

I changed my request very slightly -

[Pentode]

Ooooh, dry black = 4001 Brilliant Black. I havent found drier yet.

[thewolfgang]

It's on my list! - thanks

[TSherbs]

Wet royal blues that I use in my capless F nib:

 

1) Diamine Royal Blue

 

2) Monteverde Sapphire

 

These both work well for me.

 

~Ted

[Proto]

I've found Sailor Gentile inks work well with my Decimo F and Steel-VP F.

[sansenri]

wet Royal blue, Montblanc's is resonably wet

[Robbi49]

Using Vanishing Point with F since 1980's I found out that the best flowing ink is so far Monteverde Horizon Blue, as to the point itself be ware of the fact that in this line M is now in line with European M and is rather vey wide and wet.

[SpecTP]

I just tried out Studio Organics Nitrogen and I find it to be quite wet.

 

As far as black is concerned, I prefer MB's mysterious black