Category: Ink Review
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Ink Review: Pennonia Pokoltuz (Pokoltűz)
Pennonia is a Romanian pen store and they (though it’s just one person, Matt, running it all!) also have their own inks they make. I reviewed (in a mini review) their glade-green Tisztás ink on my Instagram not too long ago.Matt was kind enough to send me some inks to try and review. The one…
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Ink Comparison: Carpink set of five sheening inks Part Two
This is Part Two of the Ink Comparison: Carpink set of five sheening inks. Part One here!I was generously gifted a bottle of Carpink Prussian Blue and Shigoku in July last year. I knew nothing about the brand and I’d, in fact, never heard of them but the inks were super sheeny and that always…
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Ink Comparison: Carpink set of five sheening inks Part One
This is Part One of Ink Comparison: Carpink set of five sheening inks. Please read Part Two here!I was generously gifted a bottle of Carpink Prussian Blue and Shigoku in July last year. I knew nothing about the brand and I’d, in fact, never heard of them but the inks were super sheeny and that…
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Ink Review: Fumisome Chlorophyll
Chrolophyll is a light pastel ink from Fumisome under Stationery TAG (the company behind Kyo-no-oto and Kyo-Iro) – though I’m not exactly sure how the corporate structure works. I was generously given a sample of this for review by my friend Aileen. Many Thanks! Fumisome started in November last year and like Kyo-no-oto and Kyo-Iro…
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Ink Review: Montblanc British Racing Green
This is an ink I’ve been interested in for a very long time. Montblanc British Racing Green has to be one of the legendary inks. It’s an ink nearly everyone knows about but few have seen and even fewer have it. It was discontinued close to a decade ago around the end of 2009. This…
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Ink Review: Robert Oster True Blue
Released as part of a batch of seven inks (the others being Burned Orange, Crocodile Green, Deep Purple, Dragon’s Night, Hot Pink, and Red Candy) True Blue came out in the latter part of last year. I’m not sure whether it was a themed group release but many seven inks are some of my favourite…
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Ink Review: Sailor Ink Studio 935
Last year when I traveled to Japan I generally wanted to avoid buying stuff I knew I could easily get outside Japan. This included Sailor Ink Studio which I had heard was eventually going to be available to retailers outside Japan. Nevertheless I still wanted to try them out so and I grabbed Ink Studio…
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Ink Review: Bungubox Nostalgia
Sailor Bungubox Nostalgia doesn’t get that much love around the the ink review world and as far as I can see it has fallen a bit by the wayside. It’s a nice brown but I mainly bought the ink 2 years ago because of the evocative name and label. The sepia colour is also a…
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Ink Review: Montblanc Heritage Spider Metamorphosis Web Grey
Montblanc Web Grey is the ink from the Heritage Metamorphopsis collection that Montblanc released earlier this year. Montblanc took inspiration from the spider via architects who applied principles of spider webs into their designs. I bought this ink from La Couronne du Comte.
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Ink Review Noodler’s Blue Straits of Malacca
Noodler’s Blue Straits of Malacca isn’t really a sequel to “Noodler’s Pacific Dawn at the Golden Gate” as the theme, although water based like Pacific Dawn loosely is, is appropriately related to Singapore rather than San Fransisco this time. Like Pacific Dawn, again, Blue Straits of Malacca is exclusive to Straits Pen in Singapore (who…