Just filled the last page of my ink journal and will start a new one this week. I’ll take some snaps of all the swatches in the index for #SwatchWednesday (: I’ve catalogued around 170 inks so far across two ink journals.
I'm starting to have a penchant for vintage #FountainPens. My latest acquisitions include a Spanish Inoxcrom 77 from 1969 and a Lamy 26P from 1974, both NOS. Gotta say the Lamy, despite being an EF, is a more reliable writer than the Inoxcrom, but I'm very fond of the latter as it was the first Spanish mass-produced pen to be successful at home and abroad. The Inoxcrom is using Kaweco Midnight Blue, the Lamy a generic blue ink that I shall soon change for Parker Solv-X (I've procured bottles in blue-black, permanent blue and permanent black, all new and mostly full.)
The percentage of #FountainPens I have inked at any given time is slowly decreasing as I figure out which ones are my daily workhorses, which ones I only want to use from time to time, and how to rotate through the latter category without having any of them dry out from disuse.
i lost my pencase with my two resin falcons and refill bottles and I am so distraught. At least they're easy (if costly) to replace and I have plenty of pens to go with in the meantime, but damn, the psychological impact is wild.
Here’s another one: Queen Allium. It’s pretty well-behaved for all the shimmer, but you definitely need a medium nib or larger. #SwatchWednesday #fountainpens
I almost forgot about #InkSwatchWednesday again. This time I'm highlighting Sailor Yurameku Date Gokoro because I recently inked a pen with it and had a breakthrough.
Here’s another one: Queen Allium. It’s pretty well-behaved for all the shimmer, but you definitely need a medium nib or larger. #SwatchWednesday #fountainpens
Robert Oster, like Diamine, have so many inks that a lot of them seem the same, but renamed. I watched this Yoseka Stationery video showing off a ton of ink swatches and there were many times I thought, “didn’t I just see this ink?” 🤔
I see that #criticalrole is slapping their label on bags of coffee. A better place for those labels might be #fountainpen ink bottles. It would certainly be easy to do, and, since they appear to sell a bunch of journals, surely some of their clientele uses #fountainpens.
With all the fun names that ink companies come up with, theirs would fit right in: Keyleth's Verdance, Jester's Palette, Caduceus' Tea, FCG's Engine Oil, Imogen's Red Storm, Ashton's Shimmer.
Next project pen: the Asvine P36 titanium piston-filler. According to friends who've tried it, the one that comes with the Bock nib and housing can take a Platinum gold nib transplant. I can get the nib from my black Platinum 3776 for that purpose (I have a couple of others, in Chartres and Laurel Green, so I can spare the black). The only thing is that it's a gold-tone nib and the pen is titanium. But that nib writes so well I probably wouldn't care.
Hi, All. I have a blog that I've moved to the Ghost platform, and would love to see it grow there. I mainly post a picture a day, either one I took on the day, or a picture from my archives that I decide to post. I also talk about fountain pens, inks, and sometimes stationery, and tech and gadgets. If any of this interests you, please check out CJ's Wunderkammer (German term for "cabinet of wonders"):
I still haven't inked any pen with Platinum Chou-kuro (the blackest black ink currently on the market). Joseph gave me a sacrificial Platinum Preppy to use with it,when he gave me the ink, since one needs to use purified or distilled water for cleaning. Will buy some distilled water this week just in case I need to clean Chou-kuro from a pen in the near future. It's that kind of high-maintenance ink.