A Whalesman Sepia warning.

[brianw]

I have been doing a lot of pen repair lately and my go to ink for testing has been either Vintage Skrip or Carters. All the repaired pens have been off brands, fine nibbed and flowed very well. I was filling some pens I had repaired a few weeks ago and went with Whalemans Sepia in a couple of them.

Dry writing, skipping. How could I have farged up the repairs so bad. ? I tweaked the nibs to no avail. I set them aside and filled my trusty VS.

After 2 days it was skipping as well.

Today I flushed them all and filled them with Vintage Quink, Carters, and 5'o.
No drips , no runs, no errors. Smooth as silk.

I filled my Sailor 1911 with the whalesman, and no problems so far (but the Sailor has always been a bit of a firehose)

Moral of the story.....Save the Whalemans for the gushers.....

 

[Doc4]

Moral of the story.....Save the Whalemans for the gushers.....

Big +1

A friend PIF'd me a couple of vials of the stuff ( ... and I wouldn't be upset if I spelled that "vile" ...) and ... yeah.

It's a very, very dry ink.

It's also one that I am decidedly "meh" about, colour-wise. (That part's a personal thing, so YMMV and all.)

 

[jdto]

I have a sample of this on the way. My hope is one of the following: a) It works in one of my pens and I like the colour or b) I don't like the colour, so who cares if it doesn't flow?

 

[MadAmos]

I have not tried Whalemans but I have found that adding distilled water to some of the very saturated inks that are available. I usualy start at 20% H2O but up to 50% can work, this can help with excessive dry time as well.

Amos