Lamy Blue

[Hutecker]

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[lapis]

Thanks! A good review and I must also say that it looks exactly like my Lamy blue. I too find it a little boring, or, as I have thought for years, there's something missing here. Don't know what.

[swanjun]

I really enjoy *writing* with Lamy Blue in my 1.1 Safari, but must agree that it's not very exciting.

[dot]

It's so well behaved and can be quite relaxing but it seems so... laundered to me.

[cjh]

Lamy blue was my first ink (along with a Lamy safari), looking back at many of my older notes in my journals (some are up to a few months or so old) I find it very faded and quite hard to read (this is in my Rhodia journal with 90gsm clairefontaine paper).

 

My next ink was Waterman Florida Blue (now Serenity Blue) and I find this much more interesting and it doesn't seem to suffer from the fading problem.

 

That said; Lamy blue is a very well behaved ink and I have never had issue with bleedthrough, feathering or straining.

Edited July 25, 2013 by cjh

[Sandy1]

Hi,

 

Many thanks for giving us another look at this ink.

 

I freely admit that I had a fling with Lamy Blue, which I paired with a rather wet Pelikan M400+M to overcome the "laundered" appearance mentioned above by Member dot.

 

I appreciate its very simplicity.

 

Bye,

S1

[mAnuscript69]

Lamy blue was my first ink (along with a Lamy safari), looking back at many of my older notes in my journals (some are up to a few months or so old) I find it very faded and quite hard to read (this is in my Rhodia journal with 90gsm clairefontaine paper).

 

My next ink was Waterman Florida Blue (now Serenity Blue) and I find this much more interesting and it doesn't seem to suffer from the fading problem.

 

That said; Lamy blue is a very well behaved ink and I have never had issue with bleedthrough, feathering or straining.

 

My experience is quite the opposite. I bought Florida Blue before Lamy Blue but found that it fades to a pale pastel blue. I quite like Lamy Blue, it does fade with time but nowhere to the speed and extent of the Waterman, in my experience.

 

If Lamy Blue had the flow characteristics of Florida Blue, it would be perfect.

 

 

On a separate note, how does Pelikan Royal Blue compare to Lamy Blue?

[cjh]

 

My experience is quite the opposite. I bought Florida Blue before Lamy Blue but found that it fades to a pale pastel blue. I quite like Lamy Blue, it does fade with time but nowhere to the speed and extent of the Waterman, in my experience.

 

Interesting, I will try get some photos up for comparison.

 

I found florida blue quite boring when it was flowing out of my TWSBI or Lamy Extra-fines, but out of a Pelikan m400 extra-fine it is a much richer and more saturated colours, once I get around a camera I will try capture it, but to me this seems to come down to the Pelikan putting down a much wetter line (although even out of a Lamy fine and TWSBI Medium it wasn't this rich).