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Duplicate post, delete please!

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Selling a boatload of restored, fairly rare, vintage Japanese gold nib pens, click here to see (more added as I finish restoring them)

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If you like Emerald of Chivor but hate the glitter (honestly, Chivor is one of the best behaved fountain pen inks out there, even with the glitter, it just NEVER clogs. I have run it for 4 weeks WITHOUT CLEANING, in a row, of heavy use in a TWSBI Vac700r Custom 18k flex JOWO nib that required filling every 3 or 4 days. That ink is bloody magical.(The only reason it isn't used in my vintage pens with ink sacs is that the glitter can take a while to clean out completely). There is a PERFECT Substitute in Sailor Jentle Yama-dori. It sheens HEAVY red, with a blue/green turquoise base. It also happens to have the same level of amazing performance on garbage paper, while still shading and throwing down just an INSANE level of metallic red sheen. Absolute (drunken) honesty, this is by far my favorite ink in existence. No sparkle to worry about, and the sheen is literally insane. Nothing I have ever seen has the sheen of this ink. This picture is with a lamy 2000 F nib.

 

It's my favorite ink of all time, at the moment. I have three bottles, just in case Sailor screws the pooch and decides to stop making it.

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Selling a boatload of restored, fairly rare, vintage Japanese gold nib pens, click here to see (more added as I finish restoring them)

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Wow! This is insane! ... Wow! ... up till now I thought I could skip Yama-Dori but no! But after these pictures I can't. I feel heavily nudged to procure a glas of it and to experience this magical colour! Thank you, Honeybadgers, for your hint!

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I have a bottle of the first version of Rouge Hematite, with the chunky flakes and incredible sheen, and I'm trying to figure out what to do with it. It's not horrible to clean out of a pen, as long as it hasn't been sitting for a month, and what it produces on paper is second to none.

 

But I still have 49mL sitting here after three years. Clearly I don't know what I'm doing with it.

 

We need an ink trader forum.

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But I still have 49mL sitting here after three years. Clearly I don't know what I'm doing with it.

 

We need an ink trader forum.

Wait, we can't trade inks in the classifieds section of FPN?

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I really want to love this but would it be safe in my fountain pens? Clog and staining issues?

 

If you wish to be completely safe then maybe try it first in pens that you can disassemble and clean easily. :)

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I really want to love this but would it be safe in my fountain pens? Clog and staining issues?

I do too. Unfortunately this ink clogged the feed of my Lamy and Jinhao 992, and stained the feed a bit. Be careful where you wash the pen from this ink since it tends to cling to ceramic surfaces too.

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