Flex-Pen Ink Review: "Troublemaker - Milky Ocean"

[Detman101]

Shout-out to @mizgeorgeFor the gracious ink sample!

[LizEF]

A bit pale for my liking, but I enjoyed the review.  Love that we have reviews now dedicated to flex pens.  You're making me want to get out my Falcon or maybe the FPR Indus...   (As soon as you review an ink I actually have...  )

[txomsy]

Thanks for the batch of reviews, they are most interesting.

[Detman101]

8 hours ago, LizEF said:

A bit pale for my liking, but I enjoyed the review.  Love that we have reviews now dedicated to flex pens.  You're making me want to get out my Falcon or maybe the FPR Indus...   (As soon as you review an ink I actually have...  )

Awesome!!  
Ahhhh...I once wanted an FPR JaipurV2, the Indus would have made the cut but the V2 beat the others out of the running.
This ink is everything I wanted "Sailor - Manyo Haha" to be. Blue with shades of purple and pink (though the scanner doesn't pick it up...odd).
The question now is....where to get full bottles of this ink lol. Everywhere I look online says "Out of stock".

4 hours ago, txomsy said:

Thanks for the batch of reviews, they are most interesting.

Awesome, glad you enjoyed!
More to follow!

[PithyProlix]

Thanks for another great review! 

 

I wanted to like this ink but the amplitude of shading is too high for me though I can see the appeal for many.

[bluemagister]

This ink would be terrible in an EF or F nib but with a flex, you get some excellent shading and variability.  

 

I like it, even though I usually prefer a darker blue. 

[Detman101]

4 hours ago, bluemagister said:

This ink would be terrible in an EF or F nib but with a flex, you get some excellent shading and variability.  

 

I like it, even though I usually prefer a darker blue. 

That's the same thing I was thinking!
I think I love it so much simply because in a flex-pen it puts more down on the page.
I'm going to see if I can make it a little wetter with a little of the old "White Lightning" and get it to flow a little more...once I have an actual bottle of course.

  

12 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

Thanks for another great review! 

 

I wanted to like this ink but the amplitude of shading is too high for me though I can see the appeal for many.

Awesome, no problemo! I'm looking forward to listing more reviews!
I completely understand, sometimes I like an ink that is consistent on the page and doesn't shade at all.
When that urge hits...I run to my Iroshizuku inks

 

 

[txomsy]

18 hours ago, Detman101 said:

where to get full bottles of this ink lol. Everywhere I look online says "Out of stock".

I fear this is an example of dead by success.

TM Inks started as a small start-up to make interesting inks for the Philippine FPN, and for a while they were under the radar of everyone else. They would produce amazing inks and allow you to choose the ink wetness on top of it and get postage and handling for free worldwide with a nice envelope at incredibly low prices.

 

Then some reviews started to pop up and all of a sudden the whole Internet was buzzing with them, everybody wanted to try their inks, and the demand exploded.

 

I can imagine they were overwhelmed, they run short of all supplies, staff, time, everything. I can also imagine that drafting a business plan and looking for funds in the Philippines for a novel fountain pen ink company must be pretty tough. How do you convince any potential investor that the company will be viable and keep a sustained high demand and not be a quick flash?

 

So, for now, as far as I know, they no longer mail inks directly, sell only through a few resellers and produce what they can, which is constantly well below what the market demands, so it is almost instantaneously sold out. You may want to try with shigureinks and see if they can take orders in advance.

 

And yet, they seem to keep nice prices and quality. That tells a lot of them.

 

Me, I was lucky to grab a couple of bottles of TM ink before the craze started; love their shading and sheen.

[Detman101]

8 hours ago, txomsy said:

I fear this is an example of dead by success.

TM Inks started as a small start-up to make interesting inks for the Philippine FPN, and for a while they were under the radar of everyone else. They would produce amazing inks and allow you to choose the ink wetness on top of it and get postage and handling for free worldwide with a nice envelope at incredibly low prices.

 

Then some reviews started to pop up and all of a sudden the whole Internet was buzzing with them, everybody wanted to try their inks, and the demand exploded.

 

I can imagine they were overwhelmed, they run short of all supplies, staff, time, everything. I can also imagine that drafting a business plan and looking for funds in the Philippines for a novel fountain pen ink company must be pretty tough. How do you convince any potential investor that the company will be viable and keep a sustained high demand and not be a quick flash?

 

So, for now, as far as I know, they no longer mail inks directly, sell only through a few resellers and produce what they can, which is constantly well below what the market demands, so it is almost instantaneously sold out. You may want to try with shigureinks and see if they can take orders in advance.

 

And yet, they seem to keep nice prices and quality. That tells a lot of them.

 

Me, I was lucky to grab a couple of bottles of TM ink before the craze started; love their shading and sheen.

Sounds like a lot of small businesses these days.
Conid included...

Thank you, I will petition ShigureInks for a pre-order once I have the funds ready.