Ground Rattler - Bookbinder's Snake Ink

[visvamitra]

Bookbinder's is an Australian online store that creators claim to be “on a relentless quest in search of products that will fire the imagination of the 21st century writer”. There mauy be something to their words – the company presents their products in attractive and inspiring way. Some time ago Bookbinders started yo offer Snake Ink to their customers. The ink is sold in 30 ml bottles inspired in design “by the wily snake oil salesmen of the early 1900’s, and in colour by the beautiful and dangerous snakes of the world”.

Snake Ink is available in 8 different colours. The samples of three new colors were send to me by MMG122 – thank you Mary!

1. Blue Coral (blue), Blue Coral revisited
   
2. Blue racer
   
3. Eastern Brown (brown)
   
4. Emerald Boa (green)
   
5. Everglades Ratsnake (orange)
   
6. Ground Rattler
   
7. Red-belly Black (black)
   
8. Red Spitting Cobra
   

Ground Rattler has striking appearance:

Ground Rattler ink can be described as averagely saturated. It regular nib (Waterman Kultur) it feels dry and writing with it can’t be described as pleasurable. The pen tends to dry out after a day of break and you need to spend a while before it’ll begin to write. On the other hand when I left the pen uncapped for a minute everything was fine. The saturation is average at best. If however, like me, you use mainly crazy wet broad nibs the effect will be somewhat more interesting but still not exciting.

The ink shouldn’t cause bleedthrough and I haven’t experienced feathering. It’s not water resistant.

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Software ID

Tomoe River, Kaweco Classic Sport, B

Leuchtturm 1917, Kaweco Classic Sport, B

Lyreco, Waterman Kultur, medium nib

Copy paper, Waterman Kultur, medium nib

Oxford, Hero 5028, stub 1,9

Water resistance

Comparison

Edited July 29, 2016 by visvamitra

[Cyber6]

I am glad you are doing this... cause I didn't want to pay shipping for grey ink...

 

Thanks for the review Vis... Do you have the red one and the blue one too?

 

 

 

 

C.

[visvamitra]

Yes, mmg122 sent me around 1 000 000 ink samples Blue and red are amont them

[AD64]

Thank you for this review, visvamitra. I look forward to your reviews of the others as well.