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I've been tempted by the Pilot 350ml and Pelikan 1L bottles, but that is WAY too much ink of one color for me.

Although black is black . . . kinda.

San Francisco Pen Show - August 28-30, 2020 - Redwood City, California

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I've been tempted by the Pilot 350ml and Pelikan 1L bottles, but that is WAY too much ink of one color for me.

Although black is black . . . kinda.

 

I've been really kinda amazed at how different "black" ink can be from one brand to another (and even within the same brand...).

Right now I've got Skrip V-Black (not from the bottle in the photo, but from the other bottle I bought a while back at the same antiques mall) and it is more like dark grey (actually reminds me a bit of Noodler's El Lawrence). The vintage Quink Permanent Microfilm Black I've been running through a Vac Debutante Speedline has a lot of blue undertones to it. Can't tell whether any of this stuff has been reconstituted, but the prices have been okay (another booth in the place I got the V-Black from had some a couple of years ago where the seller wanted $18 US for it! (Uh, no. What part of "no" do you not understand? Doesn't work for you? Too bad -- "no" works great for me....). I think I paid $12 for the first bottle and $10 for the one in the photo (with the two Carter's bottles being $8 and $8 respectively -- likely overpaid for those but we'll see what the ink is like).

The Quink bottles in the first photos were $2 apiece, or in my case 6 for $5.... (The last time I shopped at that place I paid $4 apiece and the woman threw in a half-full bottle of Permanent Blue-black for free on the grounds she didn't think she'd be able to sell it; of course that was also after she discovered that the entire case of Blue-Black (which she'd bought sealed) was full of completely empty jars and while I was a little bummed she was really upset and embarrassed (and probably felt completely cheated by whoever she'd gotten the box from....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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