Some Ink Tests

[Penguincollector]

I sang that in my head while reading it.

[inkstainedruth]

Yeah, me too!  

Now I expect I'll be earworming that song for the rest of the night.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[USG]

16 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

I sang that in my head while reading it.

 

3 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Yeah, me too!  

Now I expect I'll be earworming that song for the rest of the night.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

LOL, It was going around my head too....  Catchy song.

[USG]

Robert Oster NG Special on 4 different papers

The only processing was resizing.

 

 

 

[Mechanical]

7 hours ago, USG said:

Robert Oster NG Special on 4 different papers

The only processing was resizing.

Well, it seems least good on the Kokuyo, but this ink (given its color) is performing well.  Color seems best to me in the Cosmo and Tomoe River.  I guess this is a Medium nib.... or maybe a broad?

[USG]

21 hours ago, Mechanical said:

Well, it seems least good on the Kokuyo, but this ink (given its color) is performing well.  Color seems best to me in the Cosmo and Tomoe River.  I guess this is a Medium nib.... or maybe a broad?

1.1 Stub

[Grayfeather]

@USG

 

Good, vibrant color on the Kokuyo.

[USG]

Just when you think it's safe to go back in the water.....  the usual suspects feather on View Corona....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[USG]

4 minutes ago, Gaius Maximus said:

@USG

 

Good, vibrant color on the Kokuyo.

 

Hi GM I only have a few of those orange colors... what do you have?😀

[Grayfeather]

10 minutes ago, USG said:

 

Hi GM I only have a few of those orange colors... what do you have?😀

 

Actually, none. Not a fan of orange. I do have a copper color, that I use often. But I do like the look of that one. The Oster NG. 

[Mechanical]

2 hours ago, USG said:

the usual suspects feather on View Corona....

 

There's that charming Jetpens video with CEO Taizo Yamamoto where he talks about testing their new papers.  They use all sorts of inks when testing, but they also use a particular ink (undisclosed) which is known to feather readily.  If the paper can't stand up to that, then it fails the test. 

 

 

So @USG, you have found some really good test inks!

[Mechanical]

Here are some samples of the reverse side of View Corona 52 where you can see the level of background ghosting.

 

 

My stable of dark inks tend not to feather, and they do a good job here as well.

 

[USG]

1 hour ago, Mechanical said:

So @USG, you have found some really good test inks!

 

Nothing exotic.  Just Iroshizuku Asa-Gao, Ajisai and Edelstein Sapphire inks that I've been using in those pens for years.

[Penguincollector]

  Have you tried laying the paper down on a black surface yet, @Mechanical? It really helps with the ghosting on most papers.

[Mechanical]

15 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

  Have you tried laying the paper down on a black surface yet, @Mechanical? It really helps with the ghosting on most papers.

 

Just trying that now, and it does help a lot.  Maybe I'll carry around a leaf of black paper with my notebook.  Big improvement!

[Penguincollector]

7 minutes ago, Mechanical said:

 

Just trying that now, and it does help a lot.  Maybe I'll carry around a leaf of black paper with my notebook.  Big improvement!

  I learned it from @LizEF. I bought a black pencil board from a fountain pen flush maker on Amazon, and that’s been super helpful. 

[LizEF]

31 minutes ago, Mechanical said:

Maybe I'll carry around a leaf of black paper with my notebook.

That's what I do. Keep it in like a bookmark.

 

22 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

  I learned it from @LizEF. I bought a black pencil board from a fountain pen flush maker on Amazon, and that’s been super helpful. 

[Lithium466]

6 hours ago, USG said:

Just when you think it's safe to go back in the water.....  the usual suspects feather on View Corona....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Featherland with some inks, ugh.


I "accidentally" bought some Color Traveler Miyajima Scarlet. What a mistake. It is described in this review as having a dry/slightly dry flow, and yes indeed it has a dry flow but that's not really problematic, the AWFUL inexistent lubrication is. That ink is a pain to use with my favoured F/EF nibs. It does shade thanks to its low saturation (also it's like whatever dye is not really well dissolved in there? Not sure how to describe). It reminds me of this other terrible red ink that I had made the mistake of buying (but I had been smarter for this one and had only bought a sample). If these two inks were identical, I wouldn't be surprised.

 

On the positive side, you'll get skinny lines: That is a "wet" Platinum 3776F, and the lines are more like what I get with a UEF 3776 and a more cooperative ink.

 

 

It does clean super easily (ok, it only stayed in the pen for like 2 days before I gave up). It also doesn't darken like some other reds (Diamine, Sailor, Platinum, etc) so maybe the dye used is different. Don't expect any sheen either, you get shading instead. It's also perfectly behaved on bad paper  

 

Out of frustration I ordered some of the opposite-behaving ink: Noodler's BSB. With all these discussion on thin paper, it's time to bring a seriously inky contender to the party. Somehow some Noodler's La couleur royale also ended up in my basket, I wanted to see if it could be a good replacement for Colorverse Fountain Pen Day 2024.

[Mechanical]

One thing I like with the View Corona paper is that it feels nice under the nib, giving a combination of smoothness with a sense of feedback. This permits pretty good detail.  Here's some Platinum Blue Black in in a Lamy Safari <F> and some Platinum Carbon Black in a Pilot Kakuno <EF>.

 

 

For perspective, here's the whole page (A5):

 

 

Also, I'm beginning to realize that many of the inks I choose don't feather readily.  Trying with Diamine Asa Blue, for me a wet ink, I can still get somewhat fine detail. 

 

[Mechanical]

2 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

I "accidentally" bought some Color Traveler Miyajima Scarlet. What a mistake. It is described in this review as having a dry/slightly dry flow, and yes indeed it has a dry flow but that's not really problematic, the AWFUL inexistent lubrication is.

@Lithium466 I know what you mean.  When there isn't enough lubrication, the fun goes out of writing.  But darn, that's an awfully nice looking red ink.