Sheaffer's Skrip Jet Black

[david6]

Tried this ink and was very pleased with the results. Has good water resistance - ran it under water and a lot of colour came out, then it stabilised and didn't lose any more. Left it in soak overnight and it was still easily readable.

[79spitfire]

This ink is in one of my "go to" pens, a Sheaffer cartridge pen with the "short" stainless triumph point. The combo is a winner, the pen always writes and the nib is stiff and smooth enough that it will write through 3-part carbons without tearing the paper. The ink looks good on a variety of papers and is well behaved on almost all of them, with only a bit of feathering on newsprint and T.P. (I'm not kidding) YMMV

[Prvt. Toter]

I bought a couple of these on clearance at Hobby Lobby for $3.99... thought it would work for those times when I may end up flushing most of a fill anyway... turns out it has made it into most of my work pen rotations... just a nice, well behaved black without the nib creep I get on Noodlers BP Black.

 

Thanks for the review..

[lovemy51]

definitely a great black ink i should use more often......... you know what? i'm gonna fill one of my p51's with it right now.

 

thx for reviving the thread.

[JeanManuel]

Has anybody noticed the formation of a film that covers the pen when you remove it from the ink? Maybe I got mushrooms/bacteria in my ink.

[mark e]

i have a couple of bottles of old well-top skrip black--very easy to use and well-behaved ink--i have it in at least 2 pens, fine and med nibs

 

it looks nothing like the slovenia-made ink above---not near as saturated, and decent shading, depending on the paper--i wouldnt call it "grayish", by any means---but if i want a blacker-black, i use perle noire

 

beautiful handwriting, ondina

[mhphoto]

Great review! Love your penmanship and script.

[Cyclopentadiene]

Superb review! When I got my Legacy a while back I was using skrip all the time (wherever the UK stock comes from). Flow and drying properties were superb although at the time I didn't think it was the blackest of blacks.

Thanks to your review I'll have to get some more of this stuff in! Especially as my pretty little Sheaffer balance doesn't seem to like noodlers for some reason, although it could be a nib issue... so much to think of eh?!?

Badger

Edited August 28, 2012 by Cyclopentadiene

[TheVintagelife]

Ondina beautiful handwriting. Your flourishes remind me of japanese katanas ;-).

 

I just came across an almost full bottle of the black Skrip today because a colleague was leaving the firm where I work and 'bequeathed' it to me while he was clearing his desk.

 

I have never tried any shaeffer ink before (I must admit to some price snobbery here, since in India, unlike most other good imported inks, the Shaeffer Skrip from Slovenia is very reasonably priced and available everywhere and not just in select pen stores, and hence I thought it may be not be of the same quality but a 'special' version mainly for mass-marketing in third world countries). Plus I have never really used black ink much before (except probably in collage and school and that was long ago). So this a fresh experience on both counts!

 

I tried it in my $10 Jinhao 2008 (Olympics commemorative) FP with an asian M. Unfortunately I am not getting the same deep blacks as your writing shows. The pen is usually a pretty smooth and wet writer (I was earlier using the equally economical Waterman Mysterious Blue, but in cartridges) so I thought maybe the Skrip writes a bit drier. However, it could also be that the converter supplied with the pen is not of the best quality and maybe the writing will get wetter after a few paragraphs. Will maybe try it next in one of the more proven performers and see....

Edited July 25, 2013 by TheVintagelife

[Vpen]

Ondina beautiful handwriting. Your flourishes remind me of japanese katanas ;-).

 

I just came across an almost full bottle of the black Skrip today because a colleague was leaving the firm where I work and 'bequeathed' it to me while he was clearing his desk.

 

I have never tried any shaeffer ink before (I must admit to some price snobbery here, since in India, unlike most other good imported inks, the Shaeffer Skrip from Slovenia is very reasonably priced and available everywhere and not just in select pen stores, and hence I thought it may be not be of the same quality but a 'special' version mainly for mass-marketing in third world countries). Plus I have never really used black ink much before (except probably in collage and school and that was long ago). So this a fresh experience on both counts!

 

I tried it in my $10 Jinhao 2008 (Olympics commemorative) FP with an asian M. Unfortunately I am not getting the same deep blacks as your writing shows. The pen is usually a pretty smooth and wet writer (I was earlier using the equally economical Waterman Mysterious Blue, but in cartridges) so I thought maybe the Skrip writes a bit drier. However, it could also be that the converter supplied with the pen is not of the best quality and maybe the writing will get wetter after a few paragraphs. Will maybe try it next in one of the more proven performers and see....

Oh man I missed it. I was in India a couple of days back, should have bought a bottle.

[Vpen]

Wow what handwriting. I wish I could write like this .

[andrewnielsen]

Hat tip re the calligraphy, bro.