How Much Does Ink Affect Performance?

[haruka337]

Franklin-Christopher MidNight Emerald

Sailor Nano Kiwa-guro

Sailor Nano Sei-boku

Most Sailor inks

 

The Sailor Nano inks can be a pain to clean, or so I've been told (I've never had issue cleaning out either ink, but I think it's due to using mostly lubricant inks in my pens), but I've yet to use another ink as lubricant as Sailor Kiwa-guro and Sei-boku (in that order), but Midnight Emerald comes surprisingly close.

[ink-syringe]

Diamine Midnight is a really free flowing ink that I sometimes use in stingy pens even though I don't love the color. Visconti Blue, Aurora Black are all pretty wet and lubricated.

 

Wet and lubricated are 2 different things, though they usually overlap. There are slick inks that have a dryer flow and more surface tension, like Aurora Blue and several MB inks.

 

Further, lubrication as in Noodler's Eel is a special, or specific use in that means as in it supposedly lubricates your piston so if you have a piston that is getting tight but you are not keen to take it apart and lube it you can use one of the eel series and supposedly your piston will operate more smoothly.

[Mew]

Hello,

 

Pilot pens are tested with pilot inks for flow etc, so I would suggest that first 2 fills of custom 823 should be of Pilot inks. Close to 5ml.

 

Also, pilot nibs needs breaking-in. I used kon-peki for the first fill in my custom 823 and pen & message cigar for the second fill, which was sufficient to break it in. It is an extremely wet writer now.

 

One of my friend complained that his pilot was too dry. I asked him to use the easily available inks like sailor or Iroshizuku which solved his problem.

 

I hope that helped.

 

Best Regards,

Mew

[Sandy1]

Hi,

 

Kindly consider Pilot tsuki-yo and Visconti Blue.

 

I found those inks have both high lubricity and greater than average flow, plus charming good looks.

 

Bye,

S1

[jmccarty3]

I also have had much better performance from my Pilot pens when using Pilot inks. I just got a Custom 845 that I'm going to clean out with some diluted dish soap, mostly because the Con-70 converter has too much surface tension, but the flow with Iro Asa-gao is great. I am a big fan of Tsuyu-kusa, Shin-kai, and Pilot blue/black as well, so I've got plenty of inks to use in these pens.

 

My other pens don't seem to be nearly as picky.

[gryphon1911]

I've 3 pilot pens now (2 metros and a plumix). I just got some Namiki green ink cartridges for the medium nib Metro. I rights fine on regular paper, Rhodia and my Plumb journal. It skips and hard starts on the Clairefontaine notebooks that i got. the other Metro (fine nib) I just loaded with Namiki blue cartridges and it fairs much better. I;m wondering if the green ink is a little more dry than the black and blue inks.

 

the Plumix just writes on anything and it is running a blue as well, although I notice that it is a lighter blue than the one I just loaded into the Metro with Fine nib.

 

I did notice that the Clairefontaine pape does seem to be just a touch more smooth than the Rhodia.

No matter, though as I can use the Pilot Metros for journaling and writing on the Rhodia, and I can use all my other fountain pens on the Clairfontaine notebooks.

[jmccarty3]

I've noticed hard-start and skip problems with Clairefontaine notebooks near the bottom of the page with several pens. I think it's hand oil that stays on the surface of this ultra-smooth paper. Got the solution from SBRE Brown, who uses a plastic sheet under his writing hand (see his videos). I got mine from Nanami Papers--they have a lot of other neat stuff as well.