Well, I'm working on developing a base number of ink bottles to write with on a regular basis. My pens are Pilot Metros, Jinhaos with Goulet F and EF nibs, and the infamous Noodler's Nib Creaper and Ahab flexpens.
I've already bought some PR Ebony Purple and PR Black Magic Blue.
I think for a solid blue I will be going with PR's DC Electric Blue (I lean towards darker colors, but don't want to go blue-black). For browns, I'm leaning towards Noodler's Nightshade but will be trying some "chocolates" from Goulet Pens.
Where I'm getting stuck is in a dark reddish-purple. I really like both Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses and De Atramentis' Alexander Hamilton. The problem is that they seem to behave very differently in different pens, and I can't quite figure out if it's the pen, my messing with the nibs, or what.
BSIAR seems to be nice and dark with great shading in flex pens. In non-flex pens, however, it seems to look lighter - dark pink.
Alexander Hamilton is the opposite - dark in my Ahab with a Goulet nib, but turns into a magenta with the flex nib (I can't get the darn Ahab flex nib to seat all the way in, and that's with pushing the feed in so far that I want to start over. I've spent the last 20 minutes playing with the nib/feed at my kitchen sink, and got some drops all over the place). I much prefer the darker, deep magenta-black with the Goulet nib.
I may end up just using Alexander Hamilton in my non-flex pens and BSIAR in the flex pens, but I was hoping that I could get them to both work well in both types of pens. Am I doing something wrong, or is this simply a natural consequence of different inks in different pens/nibs/feeds?
Am I doing something wrong, or is this simply how both inks behave in those types of pens?
I've already bought some PR Ebony Purple and PR Black Magic Blue.
I think for a solid blue I will be going with PR's DC Electric Blue (I lean towards darker colors, but don't want to go blue-black). For browns, I'm leaning towards Noodler's Nightshade but will be trying some "chocolates" from Goulet Pens.
Where I'm getting stuck is in a dark reddish-purple. I really like both Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses and De Atramentis' Alexander Hamilton. The problem is that they seem to behave very differently in different pens, and I can't quite figure out if it's the pen, my messing with the nibs, or what.
BSIAR seems to be nice and dark with great shading in flex pens. In non-flex pens, however, it seems to look lighter - dark pink.
Alexander Hamilton is the opposite - dark in my Ahab with a Goulet nib, but turns into a magenta with the flex nib (I can't get the darn Ahab flex nib to seat all the way in, and that's with pushing the feed in so far that I want to start over. I've spent the last 20 minutes playing with the nib/feed at my kitchen sink, and got some drops all over the place). I much prefer the darker, deep magenta-black with the Goulet nib.
I may end up just using Alexander Hamilton in my non-flex pens and BSIAR in the flex pens, but I was hoping that I could get them to both work well in both types of pens. Am I doing something wrong, or is this simply a natural consequence of different inks in different pens/nibs/feeds?
Am I doing something wrong, or is this simply how both inks behave in those types of pens?
Seriously though, don't limit yourself to just one ink per color. Inks are a lot like razor blades, their mileage varies from razor to razor and face to face.
