Krishna Sea At Night - Quite Obscure?

[penzel_washinkton]

Thanks Sagar, I've been using it exclusively for almost two weeks and I have not experienced any stickiness to the ink

[Bo Bo Olson]

Today, my upstairs neighbor; whom I set up with the basic fountain pen widths and flexes; just got back from India with the four Kirschna inks I wanted. They will be/are my first sheen inks. As far as I know sheen came in some 5-6 years ago, and the Edelstein and Lamy Crystal inks I'd bought since then, don't sheen.

 

Paper Oxford Optic 90g.......a good economical paper. = to 90g Clairefontaine Velote`.

Using regular flex Pelikan 200's B nibs....not wetter semi-flex.

I thought a B would give me a decent width for   'to me' odd inks which might need a wider nib.

 

Sea at Night, a dark nearly black 'teal' where it shades and silver sheen in a Pelikan 200 Ruby Red's B. It doesn't shade much, in B not very much tealish, as it might be in F.,,,or a dryer nib.

 

Paper makes a big difference.

 

I dug out some Clairefontaine Triomphe  to check papers with. Night at Sea had a full teal sheen with very little shading...one has to look for it....on Oxford more dark with tads of teal sheen...sort of silvery & a tiny bit more shading...not the teal color on Triomphe.

 

I'm hoping for sheen and hopefully more shading with a narrower nib or dryer nib.

 

On the other two Inks, Mumbai and Chennai, I will start with an F with one, and perhaps an M with the other. On this 'Sea at Night' and Moonview, I think B is too wide and wet.

In Pelikan having a dry ink makes a wetter nib.

The two Krishna inks appear to be a wet inks.