Is it recommended to shake bottled ink before refilling your pen?...do ink components separate or settle?
They can and do depending on the ink and how long it’s sat static.
I have a bottle of Noodler’s 5 O’clock shadow (a B&B limited addition). It’s black with green shading. I dipped a piston filler in once and when I started writing it was just an olive color, no black. So those had essentially separated completely.
I shake and remix my inks when I reload a pen so that the suspension I load is as designed by the manufacturer.
I had a Montblanc lavender ink that separated, overnight, clear water at the top and gloopy jello at the base, it was recalled by me and they cleaned a 146 that had been filled with the gloop. That was the only ink that I was tempted to shake.
Yes, exactly that.Wow. Just so I am understanding correctly:
The ink was defective and Montblanc cleaned your fouled-up pen?
Yes, exactly that.
This was about ten years ago. I filled my pen in the morning and noticed a string of gloop between the bottle and the pen. The pen didn't write well at all, took it to a Montblanc boutique who studied it, asked if I had been using Diamine ink because the ink view window was stained, I said just MB Lavender, and described the gloop from the morning fill up, they gave me a new bottle of ink and suggested that I threw my bottle away. The pen went to Hamburg who cleaned it and replaced the barrel, all free of charge. A couple if weeks later I heard that there was a recall on MB Lavender.
My original post had an autocorrect error, it said me instead of MB