Midnight Blues - Private Reserve

[visvamitra]

Private Reserve Ink was founded by Terry W. Johnson and Susan Schube in the workroom of Avalon Jewelers/Gallery in Zionsville, IN, as an addition to the fountain pen department. Terry's vision was simple... "Why not have fountain pen ink in a rainbow of colors to expand the bounds of writing beyond standard black, blue, red and green."

That's what's written on their internet site. My experience with their inks is ambigous: I like most colors, but the inks I've tried weren't best behaved (Orange Crush, Shoreline Gold caused nib crud; Hor Bubble Gum is PINK and it stains everything).

Midnight Blues is is nice and well behaved and nice dark blue to blue/black depending on paper and nib size. Under some light conditions it has slight hint of green in it. It bleeds on the cheapest papers.

Bottle

Ink Splash

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Tomoe River, Lamy 2000, medium nib

Lyreco, TWSBI 580, stub 1,1

Oxford, Lamy 2000, medium nib

Water resistance

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[dylim1]

Thanks for the review. Looks pretty good. But I'll still choose Electric DC Blue.

[Tas]

Thank you visvamitra.

 

Happy New Year !

[amberleadavis]

Thank you Vis. Did I remember to send you, Black Magic Blue?

[visvamitra]

@amber - yes. I have a sample

[amberleadavis]

Good!

[Newjelan]

Thanks Visvamitra, this is a favourite of mine. I have the "Fast Dry" version and find it really interesting as it both shades and sheens well. (Although despite the name, I wouldn't say it's particularly fast drying.)

[marchbrown]

Thanks for the review. Looks pretty good. But I'll still choose Electric DC Blue.

 

 

I occasionally use the 2003 DC Super Show Blue ... I'm still using from my original bottle.

 

I normally use the Tanzanite ink 'cos I love the colour and I have a couple of spare bottles, but occasionally I put some of the Super show blue in, just for a change.

 

I have tried other makes of ink but still end up with these two Private Reserve ones.

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[Chumango]

I really like this ink. I used it in one pen almost exclusively for a couple of years.

 

When cleaning the pen, after the blue component is washed out there is a pink component that is much more tenacious. It left a fine pink film in the feed.

[amberleadavis]

That pink is disconcerting.

[eelldan]

Thanks for the review! I have had lots of problems with Private Reserve inks staining pens. It is one of the main reasons I try to stay away from Private Reserve. .

[chingdamosaic]

Hmmm seems like PR recently changed their bottle design?

 

I love their inks; saturated colors and very lubricant. However they all dry too slow for daily/official use, so now I only use them for sketching or calligraphy : P

[T4TEXAS]

I like this ink, the color and how it flows out of a JOWO #6 fine nib, but it is so slow to dry on good paper, that I only use it on printer paper and composition notebook paper. It may benefit from more frequent pen cleaning than I have given it.