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If unsampled but researched inks count as impulsive, I just ordered the following:

 

Robert Oster - Golden Brown

Diamine - Ancient Copper

Diamine - Meadow

Diamine - Amaranth

Herbin - Corail des Tropiques

Sailor Studio - 252

Sailor Studio - 460

Troublemaker - Milky Ocean

Taccia - Tsuchi (Golden Wheat)

 

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I'm getting two bottles of ink (and a pen) cos the pen was 50% off and I wanted to spend enough to get free shipping so I paid full price for the ink... :wacko:

 

The inks are Lamy Sepia and the new Petrol.

Will work for pens... :unsure:

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15 hours ago, Pen Ffynnon said:

I love them and hate them. They keep delivering temptation directly to my inbox--dangerous. They have intriguing colors--dangerous. And then I want to get one only to find out it's gone--sadness. (Still mourning missing out on Fighting Fish.)

 

Doesn't stop me buying them, though.

I feel your pain.  I was NEVER able to get my hands on a full bottle of their Smithfield Street Bridge Truss Blue -- even when they still had the B&M store in Pittsburgh (only a couple of sample vials, which I'm kind of hoarding at this point...).

I just did a quick Google search for Fighting Fish -- and oooooh!  That is pretty!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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16 hours ago, Pen Ffynnon said:

I love them and hate them. They keep delivering temptation directly to my inbox--dangerous. They have intriguing colors--dangerous. And then I want to get one only to find out it's gone--sadness. (Still mourning missing out on Fighting Fish.)

 

Doesn't stop me buying them, though.

I know! That's how they got me with the Tiger Lily - and orange is not a color I usually use!

 

It's also how they got me with the latest ink bundle. But one of those inks, Suncatcher, is now one of my absolute favorite inks.

 

Looking up Fighting Fish - I think you should look at Suncatcher - they are very close!

"Baldrick, you wouldn't recognise a cunning plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing 'Cunning plans are here again'"

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  I bought Colorverse Quasar and Dominant Industry Dominant Blue. I’m chasing blurples. Touching on BPC, I really want their Ultramarine.

Top 5 (in no particular order) of 20 currently inked pens:

MontBlanc 144 IB, FWP Edwards Gardens  

MontBlanc 310s F, mystery grey ink left in converter

Pelikan M300 green striped CIF, Colorverse Moonlit Veil

Pelikan M400 Blue striped OM, Troublemaker Abalone 

Platinum PKB 2000, Platinum Cyclamen Pink

always looking for penguin fountain pens and stationery 

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9 hours ago, finzi said:

If unsampled but researched inks count as impulsive, I just ordered the following:

 

Robert Oster - Golden Brown

Diamine - Ancient Copper

Diamine - Meadow

Diamine - Amaranth

Herbin - Corail des Tropiques

Sailor Studio - 252

Sailor Studio - 460

Troublemaker - Milky Ocean

Taccia - Tsuchi (Golden Wheat)

 

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‘Very nice.  Thank you.  👍😀

 

LINK <-- my Ink and Paper tests

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7 hours ago, AmandaW said:

I'm getting two bottles of ink (and a pen) cos the pen was 50% off and I wanted to spend enough to get free shipping so I paid full price for the ink... :wacko:

 


Ah, the old “the one I wanted, the one I needed and the one for free postage” gambit. 

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Four out of the five colours (i.e. all except date gokoro) of Sailor Yurameku Ink 2nd Edition. Bunbougu's Easter sales campaign makes the inks approximately the same price as what I would pay at full retail in the Japanese domestic market for them; and four bottles (discounted) qualifies for free shipping within Australia. 

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4 hours ago, lascosas said:

And I just bought the same 4!

 

What are the chances of that? 😵👍🏼

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23 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

I feel your pain.  I was NEVER able to get my hands on a full bottle of their Smithfield Street Bridge Truss Blue -- even when they still had the B&M store in Pittsburgh (only a couple of sample vials, which I'm kind of hoarding at this point...).

I just did a quick Google search for Fighting Fish -- and oooooh!  That is pretty!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

I'm very jealous that you got to go to their old B&M! I've only bought a few inks that I've ever regretted; I've regretted far more that I didn't get.

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23 hours ago, CasmiUK said:

I know! That's how they got me with the Tiger Lily - and orange is not a color I usually use!

 

It's also how they got me with the latest ink bundle. But one of those inks, Suncatcher, is now one of my absolute favorite inks.

 

Looking up Fighting Fish - I think you should look at Suncatcher - they are very close!

Ooh! Thank you for the heads-up! I did grab Glassblower's Flame--also pretty--but I think you're right!

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6 minutes ago, Pen Ffynnon said:

I'm very jealous that you got to go to their old B&M! I've only bought a few inks that I've ever regretted; I've regretted far more that I didn't get.

Well, living in the Pittsburgh area helped.  I do miss that store, even though it was small, because Nick and his brother made a point of keeping the prices of the inks they sold (and they had a nice selection, including stocking De Atramentis inks) at the same price that online retailers charged -- in spite of being in the shopping area in a fairly ritzy neighborhood, where parking is a major PITA (I often got lucky and could park in "residential" street parking as long as I was there for under an hour).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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On 4/18/2025 at 9:09 PM, finzi said:

Robert Oster - Golden Brown

Diamine - Ancient Copper

Diamine - Meadow

Diamine - Amaranth

Herbin - Corail des Tropiques

Sailor Studio - 252

Sailor Studio - 460

Troublemaker - Milky Ocean

Taccia - Tsuchi (Golden Wheat)

Amaranth is one of my favourites. Highly underrated Diamine imho. Tsuchi is super nice as well, but I have KWZ Honey and it is very similar so can't justify!

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15 hours ago, Pen Ffynnon said:

Ooh! Thank you for the heads-up! I did grab Glassblower's Flame--also pretty--but I think you're right!

 

Oh - I LOVE Glassblower's Flame! I'm writing a letter with that as we speak. :)

"Baldrick, you wouldn't recognise a cunning plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing 'Cunning plans are here again'"

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43 minutes ago, CasmiUK said:

 

Oh - I LOVE Glassblower's Flame! I'm writing a letter with that as we speak. :)

All right--ordered Suncatcher!! (And maybe Tiger Lily and Moon Jellyfish, but I'm not sayin'.) 

I didn't want to have Suncatcher gone the way of Fighting Fish--thank you so much for the tip!

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1 hour ago, Pen Ffynnon said:

All right--ordered Suncatcher!! (And maybe Tiger Lily and Moon Jellyfish, but I'm not sayin'.) 

I didn't want to have Suncatcher gone the way of Fighting Fish--thank you so much for the tip!

 

[nodding] Yup.....I have all of those....(except, of course, for Fighting Fish)...

"Baldrick, you wouldn't recognise a cunning plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing 'Cunning plans are here again'"

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I'm not sure that these purchases qualify as exactly 'impulsive', because I have been thinking of ordering them for Some Time.
However, some recent events have piqued my interest in these inks, and certain other recent events chez moi have provoked in me a need for some 'retail therapy'.

So, today I have ordered bottles of:

  • Sailor 'Sou Boku'
  • Rohrer & Klingner 'Alt-Bordeaux'
  • Pure Pens 'John Frost'

I hope to receive them soon, so that I can 're-gruntle' myself by playing with them ;)

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Thanks to Kaiteki Art's flower videos, two Taccia inks, but dang if I can remember their names.  Both nominally blue.  One's saturated and sheens copper and its box is illustrated with those Hokusai waves.  The other is watercolor-y, with a picture of a bridge in the rain.

 

Wait!  Saturated is Koiai.  Watercolory: Ainezu.

My latest ebook.   And not just for Halloween!
 

My other pen is a Montblanc.

 

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20 hours ago, Mercian said:

I'm not sure that these purchases qualify as exactly 'impulsive', because I have been thinking of ordering them for Some Time.
However, some recent events have piqued my interest in these inks, and certain other recent events chez moi have provoked in me a need for some 'retail therapy'.

So, today I have ordered bottles of:

  • Sailor 'Sou Boku'
  • Rohrer & Klingner 'Alt-Bordeaux'
  • Pure Pens 'John Frost'

I hope to receive them soon, so that I can 're-gruntle' myself by playing with them ;)

 

Hey Mercian  How have you been  😀

 

Souboku is such a cool ink. I started using it a number of months ago.  Turned out to be a great shader.  Have you thought about what pen you're going to use?

LINK <-- my Ink and Paper tests

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