Pure Inks, Pendine Sands

[Bo Bo Olson]

Pure Pens Ink Reviews…Pendine Sands

The glass bottles are a bit too tall and thin, so are dangerous when filling.

The inks are made for Pure Pens by Diamine…. like when Diamine makes Akkerman inks to specs. These inks are not archival or waterproof. Mercian was so nice as to telephone the company, seeing he is in the neighborhood for that info.

 

Pure Inks said they were looking for inks that are a bit out of mainstream normal colors. These so appear. I will do three more inks later.

 

I was given advice to use a normal copy paper in many folks don’t have good to better paper like Clairefontaine Triomphe 90g or Rhoda 80g.

I had written about how poor I found a certain HP paper, and for some inks this Cannon, Black Label Premium 80g was surprisingly good, but not for Pure Inks.

 

I don’t have a glass dip nib…and my dip pens don’t seem to want to work well enough to dip some other ink. I have too many pens to out, over 35, to start dipping clean pens in ink bottles to see what colors are near.

 

Pendine Sands reminds me of Lie de Thee, or R&K Alt Goldgreen (a surprise that one) … depending on the nib or paper. Will use that ink.

Looks like small Pelikan 600 OBB, was contaminated. Replaced by a medium-small Osmia 52 semi-flex BB.

 

[LizEF]

Great job, @Bo Bo Olson!  Interesting color.  I rather like browns.  This one seems a little too yellow for my tastes, but it looks like a fine, wet nib might darken it some.  Thanks for the introduction to this ink line!   Off to check out your other two reviews.

[yazeh]

Great review @Bo Bo Olson  Looking forward to your next reviews

 

Interesting colour as it changes depending the wetness/ nib size of the pen, form golden brown to dark brown. It reminds a bit of Jacques Herbin Tour Eiffel.

 

I often use benchmark fountain pen paper, "Rhodia" for review and then add my favourite Japanese papers. I add copy paper, but in my experience rare are fountain pen inks, which are compatible with cheap papers used in offices. If I were to work in an office, I would use IG inks. 

@LizEF has even a more efficient way of testing copy / cheap paper. She doesn't bother with a whole paper, only little square of paper.  

[Bo Bo Olson]

Japanese paper really came to my attention after Penguincollector and I swapped some paper. Euro paper from me, Asian from her.

Now that my file section of my computer is down...I can find some time to write on the rest of the papers.

I have a pen cup with 8 pens with sheen inks in it...and my 1990 Lamy Persona black titanium oxide pen..CI... sits alone on my desk with Dark Lilac...it is not a pen to let play with others in it's rough on them.

You have brought me to the idea of trying other inks on the Oriental papers.

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Some times papers have to be put on hold....A bottle of Johnny Walker Blue Label for half price  on World Sale Day, got in the way. After all I only have a half bottle of it left....and one must plan for the future.

Christmas is booked up...but Easter World Sales Day is coming.

[yazeh]

2 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Japanese paper really came to my attention after Penguincollector and I swapped some paper. Euro paper from me, Asian from her.

Now that my file section of my computer is down...I can find some time to write on the rest of the papers.

I have a pen cup with 8 pens with sheen inks in it...and my 1990 Lamy Persona black titanium oxide pen..CI... sits alone on my desk with Dark Lilac...it is not a pen to let play with others in it's rough on them.

You have brought me to the idea of trying other inks on the Oriental papers.

.............................

Some times papers have to be put on hold....A bottle of Johnny Walker Blue Label for half price  on World Sale Day, got in the way. After all I only have a half bottle of it left....and one must plan for the future.

Christmas is booked up...but Easter World Sales Day is coming.

I discovered Japanese paper, because they were best to show off sheen. But you have Japanese paper and Japanese paper. My favourite paper is Tomoe River 68 gsm, which is not easy to find. I like MIdori too.  I have also discovered that Iroful paper is one of the best to show off shading, sheen. Though it's sensitive to hand oils. 

My least favourite is Stalogy But it really depends on people, pens, nibs and ink. Anyway, enjoy your blue label. And anyway Claire Fontaine/ Rhodia are the bench mark for almost everyone