TWSBI Blue Black (Iron Gall)

[bokaba]

TWSBI Blue Black (Iron Gall)

 

Flow: wet to very wet

 

Feathering/Bleed: minimal; some on cheap paper

 

Saturation: high

 

Color: deep blue/black; darker than both Pilot BB and Platinum BB. 

 

Water resistance: 4/5 very good

 

Shading: little

 

[yazeh]

You're on a roll

[silverlifter]

Awesome! First to review the ink.

 

The low shading and feathering rule it out for me, which is a good thing. 😛

[bokaba]

Like most Japanese inks (Sailor, Platinum, Pilot, etc.) it tends to be wet for finely ground nibs. I haven't tried it in a very wet pen, so I can't say how it will work. I based my observation on a fine nib. I will try a stub at some point. It is pretty well behaved I think and has a good utilitarian blue black color.

[Dimy]

thanks for review,

looks pretty light in swatch sample (for usual assortment of IG blue black lot) which is funny considering the writing is dark, in pics and some area seems to have some sudden drying especially in parts of "4/5" and in word "little" got me curious...or was the are water tested as that could also be the reason....Now honestly no color change in IG...could be that IG content is too low or oxidization time too high...how long was this dried..cos from my general understanding 2 days is max without any color change....could be wrong.

[bokaba]

I think there are a couple of issues going on here. I don't some of the lack of color is due to my scanner not picking up the quality of the fine lines and I have been using a dip pen, which I think causes more oxidation in the nib than in a standard fountain pen. The "little" is light because I was running out of ink. 

 

The TWSBI, much like the Platinum BB IG, doesn't appear to change much at all in color save a slight graying after initial drying. I don't think these inks contain much iron gall content.

[Dimy]

That pretty much explained all, thanks for clearing.

I agree with you on IG content of these inks, I too think they might be bit lacking...for twisbi I kinda understand though, I mean they probably want ink that is at least possible to remove from their pens.

[bokaba]

This image from Pulp Addiction is probably a more accurate representation of the color.

 

[Dimy]

9 hours ago, bokaba said:

This image from Pulp Addiction is probably a more accurate representation of the color.

 

That looks quite appropriate, thanks for that.

[BlazeOrangeGuy]

I have a bottle. In a fine nib, I find it writes pretty wet and I’ve not had trouble with feathering on cheap paper yet. Color is more on the blue side than grey. But not as blue as Pilot Blue Black ink. 
 

Really nice ink for me. I do smell the iron gall ink smell from it, but I think it has a low IG content as others have observed.