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Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Lamy Black


This is review #171 in my series.  Here's the YouTube video:


Post-recording notes: Cleaning was quick and easy. The best thing about black inks is that I don't have to color-correct them. :D All the images look sufficiently black.


Don't know if you can hear them, but shortly into the video, birds started singing the dawn. :D


The line width measurement is one of the lines used for dry time.  Magnification is 100x.  The grid is 100x100µm.  The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each.  The line width for this ink is roughly 225µm. That makes this the finest line from a well-behaved, if somewhat slow-drying ink.


The microscope slide is sort of interesting, even though I think it's just a light effect and the ink itself isn't interesting. :)


And here is a screen of the final result, for those not interested in the video:
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Scan of Completed Review:
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Zoomed in photo:
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Absorbent Paper Closeup (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper):
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Line width measured via microscope at 100x:
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Water test results:
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Microscope slide at 100x:
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Images also available on Instagram: @zilxodarap.


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Another great review, Liz :thumbup:

I'm try to imagine the shrooms, forming an arrow, must be quite psychedelic :D

I heard the birdies :) Though I have to admit, the sound of the nib hitting the paper, is like a relentless woodpecker ;)

 

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36 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Another great review, Liz :thumbup:

:) Thanks!

 

36 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I'm try to imagine the shrooms, forming an arrow, must be quite psychedelic :D

:lol:

 

36 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I heard the birdies :) Though I have to admit, the sound of the nib hitting the paper, is like a relentless woodpecker ;)

:D :lol: My neighborhood is fairly young in tree years, so birds aren't that common and it makes me happy whenever I hear them.

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I have Lamy Black, and a couple of your comparison inks.  But luckily, I haven't noticed a long dry time.  I like it in any of my Safaris with a Fine or EF nib.  
 

Wondering to whose allegiance the mushrooms belong…

 

Thanks again for this review!

My latest ebook.   And not just for Halloween!
 

My other pen is a Montblanc.

 

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13 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

I have Lamy Black, and a couple of your comparison inks.  But luckily, I haven't noticed a long dry time.  I like it in any of my Safaris with a Fine or EF nib.  

It seems like a really good black to me.  I've got the rest of the cartridge I used for testing in my Al-Star with a stub, where it's not the blackest black, but it's working well.  I've also got it in one of the Wing Sung 601s for my aunt (testing the new EF nib) and it's working well (though the nib isn't terribly EF, but it'll have to do).

 

14 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Wondering to whose allegiance the mushrooms belong…

:D

 

15 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Thanks again for this review!

You're most welcome!

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Digging this up to add my review/observations after finishing my bottle. I agree with everything you've written, but would add this:

- the ink is very lightfast/fade-resistent, 

- a little sensitive to hand oils sometimes and, and I've only ever noticed this today 😮 ...

- it sheens, at least it does if you take it from an older bottle. (I have no idea if it still does that in an EF nib, mine is an M, but Diamine Sargasso and Syrah do, for sure!) There's a goldeny-silver sheen here that you can see if you zoom in. 

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12 minutes ago, Nellie said:

- the ink is very lightfast/fade-resistent, 

Excellent!  Thanks for sharing your observations on this.

 

13 minutes ago, Nellie said:

it sheens

Nice!  I think you'd need a wet EF nib to see this, but nice to know it's there.

 

Appreciate you digging up the thread to share your experiences with this ink.

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