What ink(s) are you waiting for in the mail?

[PithyProlix]

3 hours ago, pgcauk said:

I'm not waiting any longer! All the way from the Old Country I received today:

Robert Oster Tiverton Rust - a kind of seaside pink?
Deep Dark Orange - both Cult Pens exclusives

Diamine Music Vivaldi and Wagner
The oranges don't scan well but here are some first impressions:

 

I thought that Wagner would be another Alt GoldGrun, and Vivaldi another Chu Shu, but not at all - rather pleased!

 

Thanks for the wonderful peek at these four inks, as well as all the comparison inks!

 

I quite like how Tiverton Rust looks here. Wagner is a distinctive ink that I have not warmed to. Vivaldi was one of my most used inks over the past year and might be my favorite Diamine (close call with Prussian Blue) - glad you are pleased with it. 

[PithyProlix]

This one. Never opened. 

 

[mizgeorge]

Rather unusually, just one (a spare Montblanc BMW), because all the others I want, I can't get here.

[JonSzanto]

Waiting on three from Birmingham Pen Co: Ice Rink, Cold Steel, and Waterfront Dusk.

[I-am-not-really-here]

From Vanness, two Conklin inks: Black and Dusty Rose.  

[amberleadavis]

From @DromgoolesHouston Sailor Las Vegas, and Pineider Alchemy Set.

 

[TitoThePencilPimp]

2 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

From @DromgoolesHouston Sailor Las Vegas, and Pineider Alchemy Set.

 

That Alchemy ink set looks amazing. I read a review online, and the ink set looks like lots of fun. A bit pricey for me, but maybe someday in the future.

 

I am very cheap when it comes to buying ink, and try to limit myself to $25 per bottle. But I have no qualms purchasing Pelikans. 

 

Always fun reading this threads. Thanks for eye candy.

[amberleadavis]

4 hours ago, TitoThePencilPimp said:

That Alchemy ink set looks amazing. I read a review online, and the ink set looks like lots of fun. A bit pricey for me, but maybe someday in the future.

 

I am very cheap when it comes to buying ink, and try to limit myself to $25 per bottle. But I have no qualms purchasing Pelikans. 

 

Always fun reading this threads. Thanks for eye candy.

 

Well, send me a PM with your address and I'll send you a letter when I ink up with one of the inks.

[Bookman]

Montblanc Royal Blue

[TitoThePencilPimp]

I broke down an ordered a few Akkerman inks from their official store. Akkerman 8,9,10,28, and 29.

 

I was mostly interested in #10 and #28. I only have murky or dark greens.

#10 was purchased mostly to write on engineering paper. Hopefully no feathering with an ef Sailor nib. I have about 50 pads of this paper, that has gone unused in 4 years. Mainly due to me solely using fountain pens now.

 

I now have 35 bottles of ink that have never been opened. Since I only keep 3 bottles one at a time.

 

 

[gmax]

Bleu des Profondeurs and Caroub de Chypre 

[Audrey T]

PenBBS

 

#435 Snow Pine

#448 Waves

#345 Midnight Snow

#292 South Smoke

& #249 (don't know the name)

 

 

 

 

[PithyProlix]

3 hours ago, Audrey T said:

PenBBS

 

#435 Snow Pine

#448 Waves

#345 Midnight Snow

#292 South Smoke

& #249 (don't know the name)

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting selection. 345 will be on my next order but my normal source doesn't have the others - I might try Aliexpress. From where are you ordering? 

 

Please let us know how you like them. 

[Audrey T]

8 minutes ago, PithyProlix said:

 

Interesting selection. 345 will be on my next order but my normal source doesn't have the others - I might try Aliexpress. From where are you ordering? 

 

Please let us know how you like them. 

I ordered an earlier set of PenBBS from AliExpress (Oramile Stationery Store), and those came through just fine, and reasonably quickly. This new set is also from AliExpress, but a different store (E-Shopping Store) -- different ink selection. (In both cases, I got a mix of 10ml & larger sizes). This set is supposed to get here tomorrow. A little longer wait, but not bad.

 

435 is the only one I've sampled before (through Vanness) -- a darky, murky green-brown.

[MHBru]

i couldn't decide between the two so Sailor Yodaki and Oster Astraquiza Rot are both on the way.

 

[A Smug Dill]

1 hour ago, Audrey T said:

Oramile Stationery Store …‹snip›… E-Shopping Store

 

I'm pretty sure they're just two different storefronts for the same mob. I'm not sure why, but many sellers on AliExpress seem to engage in that practice.

 

[PithyProlix]

2 hours ago, Audrey T said:

I ordered an earlier set of PenBBS from AliExpress (Oramile Stationery Store), and those came through just fine, and reasonably quickly. This new set is also from AliExpress, but a different store (E-Shopping Store) -- different ink selection. (In both cases, I got a mix of 10ml & larger sizes). This set is supposed to get here tomorrow. A little longer wait, but not bad.

 

435 is the only one I've sampled before (through Vanness) -- a darky, murky green-brown.

 

Thanks for the info. 

 

435 is high on my wish list. 249 looks intriguing - I wonder if it is more of a taupe or straight grey (?). 

[A Smug Dill]

7 hours ago, Audrey T said:

#249 (don't know the name)

 

From what I can gather (by web search only), the names of the twelve colours in PenBBS Season 16 inks are one particular series of poetic synonyms for the twelve months in the lunar calendar, with #249 子春 (Zichūn) being the name of tenth month.

 

[Karmachanic]

SK Kangaroo Yellow and Cognac, Standardgraph Maisgelb

[Audrey T]

11 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

I'm pretty sure they're just two different storefronts for the same mob. I'm not sure why, but many sellers on AliExpress seem to engage in that practice.

 

That may be. I did get charged for shipping each time, and the boxes are arriving a week or so apart, despite being ordered at the same time. Maybe it's a matter of different warehouses.

 

If you're looking for PenBBS inks on AliExpress, there's a lot of navigating to do. You have to look at each season separately or in some cases groupings by a particular size, or in still other cases someone's idiosyncratic organization of what they think the self-respecting ink psycho would regard as basic.