J. Herbin unveiled its latest specialty ink and I crawled out of bed at the crack of dawn this morning to do a special preview/review of the new sparkly jewel. This new ink is not a 1670 ink, its a 1798 and its no longer just J. Herbin branded, its under Jacques Herbin. The color…
This is the last of the Montblanc limited edition inks for the week. I picked up William Shakespeare Velvet Red ($19 for 35ml) at Pen Place in Crown Center. It’s positively lethal to have access to fountain pens and ink and paper within walking distance of my office! I haven’t quite figured out the logic behind…
Montblanc Golden Yellow was released about the same time Lucky Orange came out this spring. Yellow inks are hard to make usable. Golden Yellow turns out to be an exception to this rule. I had the ink in my TWSBI Mini for several months and was tickled that, even with an EF nib, the ink…
I have been using Montblanc Lucky Orange in my Franklin Christoph Pocket 45 since the beginning of April. Since it’s an eyedropper filler with a fine italic nib, it could possibly take me a whole year to use up all the ink but I will likely enjoy using it the whole time. I haven’t been…
There’s only one way to truly show off shimmer/sparkle/pearlescent inks and that’s with video. I apologize for the 25-minute long video but its not my fault that deAtramentis decided to release 40 colors in their new line of Pearlescent inks. There’s ten different colors of ink on four different sparkle/pearlescent bases. The ten colors are…
Review by Tina Koyama Like many fountain pen aficionados, I have way more ink than I’ll ever use in this lifetime (but don’t worry, I have several more planned to take care of my stationery and art supply stash). I’ve been keeping a log book of sorts to track all the colors. The problem with…
I thought I’d make a little demo video about how I make a swatch with a cotton swab in a pinch. It’s not my favorite method to use to swatch because I sometimes find that I get cotton particles in my ink swatch. It is a good option though if you don’t have a lot…
