Wet/dry Pen & Ink Combinations

[sandy101]

Just thought - is it worthwhile having a reference page which lists what pens/inks are dry and which are wet.

 

I'm sure this would help folk as they go, so that others can work out which pen/ink combinations are ideal and which are not. Whilst this will be somewhat subjective, I'm sure it would work as a useful reference point without having to trawl through all the reviews - and that won't necessarily cover all the combinations. It might even save us some ik.

 

How could we go about organising this?

 

For example -

 

Dry Inks I've come across so far Dry Pens

 

Diamine Imperial Purple Parker IM

 

Diamine Sherwood Green Parker 45

 

J Herbin Éclat de Saphir Waterman Hemisphere

 

J Herbin Opera Rouge

 

 

Wet Inks Wet pens

 

Waterman's range Italix Parson's Essential

 

Faber Castell Loom

J Herbin Violet Pensee

Cross Century 2

 

Platinum Preppy

 

 

 

 

[Surei]

It seems to me that to create a truly organized reference would require that someone take charge of organizing a thread.

Creating an index post and then taking suggestions and editing the proper entry individually.

Similar to the indexed reviews thread.

[Runnin_Ute]

And even within the same pen model you may have one that is wet and one that is dry....

 

For example:

 

my Parker 45 Flighter with 14k medium nib is pretty wet.

my standard 45 with a fine nib is much drier.

[Tanzanite]

Is Eclat de Saphir a dry ink? It is the wettest among my 60 inks and the only that I can use in some dry pens. That and Bleu Nuit. I had to empty my M400 because it left a stream on the paper. Now it is filled with the dry Lamy Blue.

[carlos.q]

And even within the same pen model you may have one that is wet and one that is dry....

 

For example:

 

my Parker 45 Flighter with 14k medium nib is pretty wet.

my standard 45 with a fine nib is much drier.

This is very true. For example Pelikan pens are generally wet. However I have a vintage B nib that is dry.

 

As far as dry inks is concerned: Pelikan 4001. Also IG inks like R&K Salix, Scabiosa, etc.

[sandy101]

Like I said, it is going to be somewhat subjective, but the idea is to try & build a general picture of what pen & ink combinations are likely to work. Having just had a dry (Waterstones) pen clog up with a dry diamine ink, I thought it might be useful to have some kind of guide so that folk could check before they ink the pen. I've just put a wetter ink into the pen and it works fine now.

[Runnin_Ute]

Like I said, it is going to be somewhat subjective, but the idea is to try & build a general picture of what pen & ink combinations are likely to work. Having just had a dry (Waterstones) pen clog up with a dry diamine ink, I thought it might be useful to have some kind of guide so that folk could check before they ink the pen. I've just put a wetter ink into the pen and it works fine now.

I like the concept. With my 45 example - I wonder if that has to do with the fact that the fine nib is a steel/octanium nib and the medium on the Flighter is gold. Is that one thing that might make a difference? Not sure. Since the Flighter is my only gold nibbed pen I don't know if this behavior is a one off or something where a generalization can be made.