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Odd Behaviour With Al-Star/ J. Herbin Blue Ocean Combo


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For some odd reason whenever I load the new version of J. Herbin's Blue Ocean ink (the one with gold flakes), on my Al-Star pen, it starts bleeding the ink by the nib like crazy!

 

I've already changed the nib from a medium to a fine to limit flow, but it just doesn't seem to work. Every time I open the cap, the feed has small drops of ink on the feed opening and also on the tip of the feed. The nib meantime, almost always registers nib creep. This is truly odd since this ink is supposed to clog pens, not to incur overflow!

 

As fas as I recall, this behaviour was not present on the previous ink that I was using with this pen (my very own brown mix). I'd always flush my pen whenever changing inks, so I really don't know what it's going on. Any ideas?

 

Emerald de Chivor and Stormy grey work grey on my other Al-Star, Safari pens, thou.

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I found that the J. Herbin ink (I used Emerald of Chivor, but same principle with the gold flakes and all) does some weird stuff in the Z-24 converter. The gold seems to get stuck in all cracks and all weird places, and it could be that the ink is thicker and thinner in some places. It's a good specialty ink, but not the most cooperative.

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Being a user of the Stormy Grey I can concur that this is certainly a potential issue with the Al-Star. While the chatter has very much subscribed to the notion that this ink is 'supposed' to clog pens (which is an interesting notion since I find the J. Herbin inks to be among the best flowing and wet), I am convinced that the maitre cirier at Herbin took potential clogging into account and made sure to add some sort of lubricating agent to their 1670 line of inks. I find that the same thing happens with the Grey in some of my pens as well.

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