Sheaffer Skrip Blue Black

[bokaba]

Sheaffer Skrip Blue Black

 

Pilot Plumix (M) Italic on 70 lb color laser paper

 

 

I wanted to do a review of this ink because I feel not many of the reviews online capture the true color, shading, and vintage style of this budget ink

 

Dry time: moderate, around 7 seconds

 

Shading: some with broader nibs

 

Flow: medium/medium wet

 

Saturation: low to medium

 

Color: vintage faded teal/blue/gray; goes on dark blue, but dries to different color

 

Value: good, 50ml for around $10

[sciumbasci]

A good ink indeed.

Shameful it's not very popular.

[Tas]

So true. A lovely ink. I had a bottle and never replaced it. Can't for the life of me think why not

[BaronWulfraed]

Think my last bottle dated to the late 70s... When it was "Permanent Blue Black"...

 

At the time, the only readily available inks were Sheaffer and Parker, and I preferred the Sheaffer bottles.

[lapis]

Ditto. I actually dislike this (Slovenian) variety because I've always found it only a watered-down grey-teal (as you said up top). And not a real blue-black like it was all those decades up to about 2002 or so when they moved their manufacturing out of the U.S.

[rudyhou]

me like this shade of blue-black.

[cellmatrix]

I like this ink, especially in a sheaffer pen. It has this vintage look to it - a bit dark gray a bit blue a bit green. Has some water resistance which I like and its smooth to write with. Unlike some super saturated inks, the shading this ink has gives your writing the unmistakable appearance of being written with a fountain pen.

[psfred]

To me it looks very similar to what I started using decades ago -- Skrip Blue Black in cartridges in a school pen starting in the late 60's.

 

I use more of it than anything else because it's as safe an ink as there is for my Snorkels. And Vacuumatic Parker "51"s. Either I got several batches of bad sacs and diaphragms (not impossible, as there were some) or Noodler's and those sacs aren't compatible except for the Black based ones.

 

Anyway, I've used three bottles of Skrip in the last few years and no bottles of Noodler's have gone dry yet. About 30% left in the bottle of Black I use for work.