Looking for a thick ink!

[argrig]

Good day, Comrades!

 

Long ago, when I still was in secondary school, I used to ask relatives to bring me Parker Penman Sapphire ink from abroad because they didn't sell it in my town.

 

And I used to love it very much till one day I realized that the time of Penman had passed.

 

You probably know that Penman was a very thick ink and it used to dry quickly if you paused for a bit too long while writing. And still, I loved the saturated color and that feeling of oily, soft and slow nib. Today I use Quink and Herbin as my blues, but I am hardly satisfied with them; I feel like I am writing with water. I dream about those bright sooty lines of Sapphire; I miss them much.

 

The question is: which are the thickest inks on the market today? I am talking mainly about blues and blacks but other colors as well.

 

Thank you, dear Comrades.

[Renzhe]

I find Pelikan Brilliant Black to be pretty thick.

I've concentrated some inks. I don't know if they're thicker. Concentrated Private Reserve American Blue looks very dark, until a light shines on it at the right angle, and gives it a purple glaze. Concentrated Waterman Red looks like a true dark red, except a little bit too purple for my tastes. If it's too concentrated it will lose its shading, which will make it lose its glistening appearance and look brown.

 

Oh, and this should be in another topic.

Edited July 16, 2007 by Renzhe

[Shelley]

How do you concentrate an ink-heat it to disperse water I assume?

[encephalartos]

Noodlers El Lawrence (motor-oil colored) British ink and Banknote Green both

seem literally thick to me, as is slowing the flow in certain pens. I'm not

sure if that's what you mean by thick. In fact, I have taken half full converters

of both of them off of the pen and then added 1/3 or 1/2 distilled water to them

using The Write Fill kit syringe. After that, the color was still okay and those

pens flowed more easily.

 

Your mileage may vary. If by thick you mean dark, what about Noodlers

Zhivago in a pen with an extra fine nib with good flow, like a Sailor 1911?

[jd50ae]

PR Ultra Black is the thickest ink I have ever used. Its kinda eerie...John John refers to it as All Souls ink (sort of).

[jicaino]

Well, I have the blues blues too... penmans was great but clogged feeds like hell...

 

I'm using this mixture:

 

50% parker's quink (made in france) Blue

30% lamy black

20% FILTERED rotring ink. Filtered 2 times!