Pilot Custom 74 EF + Sailor Manyo Haha = skips and hard starts?

[Skydiver]

So my used Pilot Custom 74 EF arrived this afternoon. I flushed it with water and then inked it up with Sailor Manyo Haha and I ended up with a pen that was just having hard starts and a lot of skipping. I'm a relatively slow writer and it couldn't keep up with me. Unlike my previous thread where I was asking if all Pilot pens just took time to get the nib wet, and it was pointed out that my putting ink directly into the converter with a syringe an then plugging that in wasn't optimal, with this pen, I took the plunge (if you'll pardon the pun), and dipped the pen directly into the ink sample via and pumped up the ink using the CON-70. The initial touch to paper was nice, but after that it was just running dry.

 

I was very disappointed by all of this. After reading/watching that Kon-Peki is a good "fixes everything ink", I cleaned out the pen and then loaded it up with Kon-Peki. As advertised, all the problems went away and the pen is a joy to write with.

 

Trying to do a post analysis now and reading some of the lower rating reviews for Manyo Haha at Goulet Pens, I found a couple of comments noting how dry the ink was. Admittedly, that is a pretty small sample.

 

Anybody else had good or bad experiences with this combo of an Japanese EF nib + Manyo Haha?

[Penguincollector]

I have found shading inks in general to be dry, I save them for my Pelikans. I find Pilot inks to be rather wet and well suited to their pens, which feel like they write on the dry side to me.