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There are so many I like (and to think that when I started I had no use for blue-blacks).

In no particular order:

Diamine DenimDiamine Eclipse

Noodler's 54th MA, Noodler's Manhattan Blue, Noodler's Henry Hudson (although that's more of a blue-grey)

Akkerman #10, Akkerman #9 (although, again that's more of a blue-grey)

KWZI #54 IG Blue-Black. KWZI #24 IG Blue #3

vintage Sheaffer Skrip Blue-Black (haven't tried the modern Skrip Bl-Bk yet)

FPN member Pharmacist's Urkundentinte (IG Blue-Black)

Monteverde's Custom Blend ink that was the DCSS swag this year; unfortunately it seems to be an LE ink. When I contacted Yafa to find out what it was actually called, they said they still had a few bottles still available, but the order form didn't have a price (!) and the shipping alone was something like $12 US. And when I pointed this out (and that I'd run into something similar a couple of years ago at Office Depot with the Yafa Pens -- no refills, and to order them the shipping was more than the box of cartridges, which I think are International Standard minis) and said it wasn't maybe the best business model if they wanted to build brand loyalty, the response was a deafening silence....

 

Still trying to make up my mind about Edelstein Tanzanite and Iroshizuku Shin-kai.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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