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I haven't written a review or posted a new review in a while, so I thought I'd go a little beyond what I used to do (and enjoy my new scanner I got for digitizing old Kodachrome slides, which happens to also scan about ten times faster than my old one …) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/MtlGRx.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/BJ12xk.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/n7rYOT.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/909/MkBNqA.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/909/LhjoI7.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/wlUIP3.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/sjqrfx.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/OLx2q3.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/901/xZdVPz.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/674/Q7jTQe.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/674/D6K2gp.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/DhlZpO.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/lFZXhg.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/681l3g.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/kSPDNA.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/vVifeI.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/hGpCZO.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/674/cSdJfx.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/7S4aKx.jpg And some obligatory bottle shots. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/631/WeE0Tx.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/K69BjR.jpg Stormy Grey's metallic component is much more mobile in the bottle, and as a consequence takes much less time to fully integrate by shaking the bottle. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/746/ofYoGc.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/xWriyB.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/631/brfiaX.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/901/NXRtia.jpg There is some buildup in pens, but after a week of testing I haven't encountered one clog. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/0lyll0.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/N9wYoS.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/ASpqS4.jpg While I think I still like Rouge Hematite more, this ink is a must buy. Well done to J. Herbin for making up for the disapopointment that was Bleu Ocean.

This one has been near the top of my Looking for Rationalizations to Buy list for a while. Unfortunately, there's no place I've seen that sells samples. Fortunately, I bought something from FPN classifieds and the seller kindly threw in a fistfull of samples, this one included. So, Einstein. He was known for having gray hair. And this is gray ink. I guess that's the connection. Or it could be *relatively* black. Either way, we come to gray ink. It's got a pretty good flow. About like any good ink. It's definitely gray, and not just watered down black, which I worried about. It has some water resistance, which is nice. Overall, there's nothing really really special about it. It's a good behaved gray ink that doesn't completely run away in the sight of water. It's nice to write with. I'd take some. But sadly, I can't really rationalize getting Einstein fan crazy over it, unlike De Atramentis Sherlock Holmes or Organics Studio Edgar Allan Poe. I wish they'd done something more special for Einstein.

Be sure to see the review for Bosphore here. http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/2014-Inklings/slides/2014-Ink_146.jpg http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/2014-Inklings/slides/2014-Ink_145.jpg http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/2014-Inklings/slides/2014-Ink_147.jpg

I tried to create an ink wheel. It is not 100% perfect but it at least gives an idea about where each of my inks fall on the color wheel. The original file is in powerpoint format and 10MB. So, posted screencaptures as png files. First picture is the whole wheel. The rest are closeups...the color samples are obtained with a dip pen and the paper is daler rowney sketch paper (100g/m2). You can find more detail on how I obtained the samples with dip pen on my other post "color samples"....let me know what you think and more importantly enjoy...

This forum is so useful and helpful; this is my small contribution. I noticed a few posts of late comparing grey ink to the colour of writing with a pencil. So I decided to do an actual comparison (see the images below). Diamine Grey really does look quite close to the colour of a pencil lead (of course, this will depend as well on the pencil used and how hard you press - I used a 2B lead for my comparison). This is my only grey ink, but I'd be interested to see how other grey inks compare... after I've finished off this bottle first of course! I'm the type of person that uses a black ink more than any other colour, but I find this ink is a nice change for personal note-taking. All ink components of the review were written using a LAMY 2000 with a fine nib.

Has anyone had the problem with Perle Noire turning grayish in colour? I have my Lamy Safari 1.1mm stubb inked up with J herbins Perle Noire. After the initial inking when the feed is swimming in ink, the colour put on the page is a very deep rich black with absolutely no shading whatsoever. After a few pages the colour seemingly turns grayish with some shading. It's no longer the deep black black black like I was expecting. It's not a flow problem I'm pretty sure because the nib glides across the page. The ink is just less saturated than what I was expecting. Has anyone experienced this with this or any other black ink???

I'm surprised that I never posted this review. OOPS. Generally, I don't use black or gray inks. Because Tyler at Organics Studio sent inks for the Fade Olympics, I inked up my pens and started doodling to get the OS inks in the window. Alas, not all the inks made it into the 2013 line up, but they will appear in the 2014 windows. Anyway, this gray ink is wonderful. Depending on the paper, I saw more shading. The color is a keeper. So, here are my doodles. http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/Inklings/slides/2013-Ink_611.jpg And here is how it reacts to water. http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/Inklings/slides/2013-Ink_611c%20.jpg

I know there's already been a superb comparison of green that included these three inks, but I wanted to add my own -- since the reviews of Zhivago seem so variable, from "just black" to an obvious green. Clearly Zhivago is greener that Graphite but not as green as Evergreen. Colour laid down is not far from the "fresh" evergreen before it lightens over 24 hours. I have tried diluting Zhivago. It does not make the ink any greener; the end result is something even closer to Graphite, though a tad greener. And ye gods, Noodler's ink smells.

http://yoonhalee.com/images-inks/diamine-pr-blue.png This looks more blue-black than blue-gray on a more absorbent paper, like the cardstock I was using earlier but didn't think to scan/photograph. On Clairefontaine, this is pretty much what you get. I wish it were one of the more colorful blues, but I can't fault how well-behaved it is in this pen.

Hi FPN, Recently I'm thinking of using an FP + gray ink to replace mechanical pencils in taking lecture notes. I need to keep the ink gray in order to distinguish "in-lecture" notes from post-lecture additional notes, yet the lack of permanence of pencil lead is getting on my nerves, so I'm wondering if FP + gray ink is a suitable substitute with this purpose in mind. Mostly my notes will be in the form of annotations on printed powerpoint slides as opposed to sheets and sheets of writing. I'm wondering which of the inks mentioned in the title, when written from a Pilot fine nib (there's no negotiating this), resembles pencil lead more. I'm concerned that Gris Nuage may come out too light in a fine nib, yet I've heard that Fuyu-syogun is a wet one among Iro inks and may feather/ bleed. So I'm wondering if anyone can give a comparison of the 2, in terms of performance in fine nibs, wetness and if possible, water resistance and fade resistance. (Kiri-same is not really my cup of tea.) Given my locale, it is not cost-effective to try out samples, and J. Herbin and Iroshizuku are the only brands with gray inks that are locally available. Since MB Albert Einstein is only limited edition, it is out of consideration, and MB Oyster Gray is not always available, but if anyone can comment, I'd welcome it too. Thanks a lot!