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  1. ✒️ Fountain pen ink retailers, I beg of you: post ink swatches on paper along with product shots

    #FountainPens #inks

  2. exploring different shapes and concepts for my girlfriend's next tat. hit me up if you're interested in having a tattoo designed by me! always fun collaborating with someone on what vibe they're going for and different visuals to incorporate.  #JACQALart #art #tattoo #knife #dagger #inks

  3. exploring different shapes and concepts for my girlfriend's next tat. hit me up if you're interested in having a tattoo designed by me! always fun collaborating with someone on what vibe they're going for and different visuals to incorporate.  #JACQALart #art #tattoo #knife #dagger #inks

  4. exploring different shapes and concepts for my girlfriend's next tat. hit me up if you're interested in having a tattoo designed by me! always fun collaborating with someone on what vibe they're going for and different visuals to incorporate.  #JACQALart #art #tattoo #knife #dagger #inks

  5. Inks I'm currently using in my pens!

    Imperial Purple, Kon-Peki, and Tsutsuji are my three favs, and are ALWAYS in a pen.

    I just found out today that Sailor is discontinuing a lot of inks, so I'll probably need to find similar colors to replace the Sailor inks once my bottles are empty.

    #inks #fountainpen #journal

  6. Inks I'm currently using in my pens!

    Imperial Purple, Kon-Peki, and Tsutsuji are my three favs, and are ALWAYS in a pen.

    I just found out today that Sailor is discontinuing a lot of inks, so I'll probably need to find similar colors to replace the Sailor inks once my bottles are empty.

    #inks #fountainpen #journal

  7. Inks I'm currently using in my pens!

    Imperial Purple, Kon-Peki, and Tsutsuji are my three favs, and are ALWAYS in a pen.

    I just found out today that Sailor is discontinuing a lot of inks, so I'll probably need to find similar colors to replace the Sailor inks once my bottles are empty.

    #inks #fountainpen #journal

  8. Inks I'm currently using in my pens!

    Imperial Purple, Kon-Peki, and Tsutsuji are my three favs, and are ALWAYS in a pen.

    I just found out today that Sailor is discontinuing a lot of inks, so I'll probably need to find similar colors to replace the Sailor inks once my bottles are empty.

    #inks #fountainpen #journal

  9. Inks I'm currently using in my pens!

    Imperial Purple, Kon-Peki, and Tsutsuji are my three favs, and are ALWAYS in a pen.

    I just found out today that Sailor is discontinuing a lot of inks, so I'll probably need to find similar colors to replace the Sailor inks once my bottles are empty.

    #inks #fountainpen #journal

  10. So, I noticed something odd the other day. I was writing in a notebook using my Asvine V126 with Diamine Writer’s Blood. When I came home I grabbed by V200 with Writer’s Blood to finish what I was writing, but the color / shading of the ink was very different. It was a lot darker and more saturated from the V200 vs the V126.

    I compared the nibs under my loupe, but they seem to be mostly the same (ie, tines about the same width, no mis-alignment, etc.)

    So, I decided to take things a step further and made the image in this message. Note both the Diamine Aurora Borealis and Writer’s Blood seem to have quite different characteristics.

    (I should mention: all pens were recently cleaned, and all filled at the same time from the same bottle(s) of ink…)

    Anyone have any thoughts on why this would be the case?
    Hashtags

    #writing #fountainpen  #fountainpens #inks #fountainpenink

  11. So, I noticed something odd the other day. I was writing in a notebook using my Asvine V126 with Diamine Writer’s Blood. When I came home I grabbed by V200 with Writer’s Blood to finish what I was writing, but the color / shading of the ink was very different. It was a lot darker and more saturated from the V200 vs the V126.

    I compared the nibs under my loupe, but they seem to be mostly the same (ie, tines about the same width, no mis-alignment, etc.)

    So, I decided to take things a step further and made the image in this message. Note both the Diamine Aurora Borealis and Writer’s Blood seem to have quite different characteristics.

    (I should mention: all pens were recently cleaned, and all filled at the same time from the same bottle(s) of ink…)

    Anyone have any thoughts on why this would be the case?
    Hashtags

    #writing #fountainpen  #fountainpens #inks #fountainpenink

  12. So, I noticed something odd the other day. I was writing in a notebook using my Asvine V126 with Diamine Writer’s Blood. When I came home I grabbed by V200 with Writer’s Blood to finish what I was writing, but the color / shading of the ink was very different. It was a lot darker and more saturated from the V200 vs the V126.

    I compared the nibs under my loupe, but they seem to be mostly the same (ie, tines about the same width, no mis-alignment, etc.)

    So, I decided to take things a step further and made the image in this message. Note both the Diamine Aurora Borealis and Writer’s Blood seem to have quite different characteristics.

    (I should mention: all pens were recently cleaned, and all filled at the same time from the same bottle(s) of ink…)

    Anyone have any thoughts on why this would be the case?
    Hashtags

    #writing #fountainpen  #fountainpens #inks #fountainpenink

  13. So, I noticed something odd the other day. I was writing in a notebook using my Asvine V126 with Diamine Writer’s Blood. When I came home I grabbed by V200 with Writer’s Blood to finish what I was writing, but the color / shading of the ink was very different. It was a lot darker and more saturated from the V200 vs the V126.

    I compared the nibs under my loupe, but they seem to be mostly the same (ie, tines about the same width, no mis-alignment, etc.)

    So, I decided to take things a step further and made the image in this message. Note both the Diamine Aurora Borealis and Writer’s Blood seem to have quite different characteristics.

    (I should mention: all pens were recently cleaned, and all filled at the same time from the same bottle(s) of ink…)

    Anyone have any thoughts on why this would be the case?
    Hashtags

    #writing #fountainpen  #fountainpens #inks #fountainpenink

  14. So, I noticed something odd the other day. I was writing in a notebook using my Asvine V126 with Diamine Writer’s Blood. When I came home I grabbed by V200 with Writer’s Blood to finish what I was writing, but the color / shading of the ink was very different. It was a lot darker and more saturated from the V200 vs the V126.

    I compared the nibs under my loupe, but they seem to be mostly the same (ie, tines about the same width, no mis-alignment, etc.)

    So, I decided to take things a step further and made the image in this message. Note both the Diamine Aurora Borealis and Writer’s Blood seem to have quite different characteristics.

    (I should mention: all pens were recently cleaned, and all filled at the same time from the same bottle(s) of ink…)

    Anyone have any thoughts on why this would be the case?
    Hashtags

    #writing #fountainpen  #fountainpens #inks #fountainpenink

  15. Wordsworth and Black Royal Blue and Racing Green Inks

    Time for a tale of two inks, this time feature Wordsworth and Black Racing Green and Royal Blue.

    So, let’s start with something important: neither of these inks are accurately represented in their packaging. The Royal Blue box hints that there is more purple tones in it than the swab shows. But the shocking one is the Racing Green, it not only looks nothing like the representation on the box, but it isn’t even close to a “racing green” (aka Rally Green). The box actually does look like “Racing Green”.

    And, I didn’t include them, but the labels on the bottle are just as bad.

    Honestly, Racing Green is so bad, I just flushed it out of my pen, and loaded it with Aurora Borealis instead.

    The Royal Blue, despite the misrepresentation, is a pretty nice blue. It’s a bit more saturated than the TWSBI Blue, and less purple than the Diamine Majestic Blue. I think it makes for a good alternative to the Oxford Blue which is my standard.

  16. Testing Fountain Pen Inks

    Question: has anyone done extensive testing on any fountain pen inks?

    I don’t mean the standard Mountain of Ink style, sample card, writing sample, etc. visual comparisons. (I’d like to call this subjective measurement, but chromatographic measurements aren’t subjective if done in a controlled manner.)

    I am thinking more objective testing: viscosity, density, flow rate @ a given line width, etc.

    I was thinking about this type of testing tonight, and it seems to me that there are a lot of factors that would need to be controlled: temperature, air pressure / barometric pressure, nib consistency, friction (aka heat), etc. Given what I was thinking this could be an interesting experiment, if someone wanted to undertake controlling all the variables, and implementing the controls necessary for consistent results.

  17. Testing Fountain Pen Inks

    Question: has anyone done extensive testing on any fountain pen inks?

    I don’t mean the standard Mountain of Ink style, sample card, writing sample, etc. visual comparisons. (I’d like to call this subjective measurement, but chromatographic measurements aren’t subjective if done in a controlled manner.)

    I am thinking more objective testing: viscosity, density, flow rate @ a given line width, etc.

    I was thinking about this type of testing tonight, and it seems to me that there are a lot of factors that would need to be controlled: temperature, air pressure / barometric pressure, nib consistency, friction (aka heat), etc. Given what I was thinking this could be an interesting experiment, if someone wanted to undertake controlling all the variables, and implementing the controls necessary for consistent results.