Old Ink Recipe

[ville900]

I sent a bottle of my home-brewed iron gall ink to a forum member in France and hopefully he will comment on it later on. I tried several formulae before it was optimized so it flows exceptionally from a fountain pen. I am using this ink now for more than half a year in my fountain pens and the ink flows very well. The only pen that has problem with flowing is my Mont Blanc FP, that seems to retard the flow after a few lines of writing and you will have to wait a few seconds before the ink touches the tip of the pen. But this problem also happens with my Lamy Blue-Black iron gall ink in this particular FP, so this MB FP seems to be very tricky with the ink used in it.

 

It is based on the former standard writing ink (double strength) or Deutsche Urkundentinte specifications, with some modification to make it flow properly from modern FP's.

 

That's me. I have received the ink 2 days ago and posted my first comments here (click on the circular grey arrow to the left of the green header box follow the link):

 

My first impression is that it's really great

 

That's by no way a detailed review and I will come back with more !...

[djkpens]

use with a quill

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[Struthious]

Although there are still a few archaic turns of phrase, I transcribed the page, then modernised the spelling, tenses, and so on. This is the result:

 

"Precepts of Writing...

Thank you for this!

[dzahn215]

Great transcript.