Category: Ink Review
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Ink Review: Robert Oster Orange Rumble
Orange Rumble is a relatively new addition to the Robert Oster lineup. It looked nice when I first saw photos of the ink from Rob, but upon seeing it in person I was very impressed! Rob describes the ink as a 1970’s inspired ink. I can see where this is coming from; browns, burnt oranges,…
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Ink Review: Monteverde Amethyst
Early 2017 Monteverde began what has become a huge expansion to their originally somewhat minimal ink collection with a Gemstone set comprising of ten inks. They’ve subsequently added a Noir set and an Emotions set. Some pretty inks in the collection from what I’ve seen. The inks come in 30ml and 90ml bottles. Coincidentally, the…
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Ink Review: Ink Institute Cut Jade
There are a few super sheeners out there now. The first was Organics Studio Nitrogen Royal Blue and Organics Studio have come out with a teal and a darker blue super sheener, Krishna has come out with a blue super sheener similar to Nitrogen and now Ink Institute in Taiwan has come out with two…
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Ink Review: Montblanc Petit Prince Red Fox
Following on from Montblanc’s release of the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Encre Du Desert alongside a pen as part of their Writers Edition series Montblanc has now released this ink, Petit Prince Red Fox, based on the fox from Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. Another ink released at the same time is Swan Illusion Plume (as part…
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Ink Review: Montblanc Swan Illusion Plume
From the Montblanc’s Patron of the Arts series of releases, Ludwig II is the latest pens and ink combination to come out. Namesed after Ludwig II of Bavaria. Ludwig II is also known as the Swan King because he spent much of his youth in Hohenschwangau (“high region of the swan”) which had it’s own Schwansee…
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Ink Review: Sailor Shumibun Writing Time Jasper Green
Shumibun Writing Time Jasper Green is a Sailor store exclusive ink from Shumibun in Japan. The store itself is makes a Fountain Pen magazine for the Fountain Pen market. The store describes the colour as a “deep green mixed with jasper”. There are two other inks in the series (from which I only have a bottle…
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Double Ink Review: Colorverse String and Brane
Colorverse String and Brane are the pair of inks from Season 3 “Multiverse” series of inks that I, personally, thought was the most interesting pairing. A nice golden brown and a soft olive green. Brane, which comes in the small 15ml bottle, as opposed the String’s 65ml bottle, is also a shimmering ink but is much…
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Ink Review: Sailor Pen’s Alley Shaker Green
Pen’s Alley Shaker Green is a pretty unique and special ink; a green ink with gold sheen. I’ve never seen anything like it before! Pen’s Alley is a stationary and pen store in Okazaki, Japan. They have a series of Sailor Store Exclusive inks in the tall “vase” Sailor bottles of which this is one.…
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Ink Review: Kobe #07 Kaikyo Blue
Kobe’s ever increasing list of inks were for a while only available from Japan. These were more easily available than some other Japanese exclusive inks because they shipped internationally from Nagasawa’s – the store that sells Kobe inks – Global Rakuten store. More recently they began being sold by some US stores such as Vanness…
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Ink Review: Krishna Sakthy
Krishna inks were previously overly expensive to ship from India but are now much cheaper. If ordering from The Pen World in India then a large order is still recommended to get the most out of shipping but after having made a second order just recently the total price of the order has now dropped to what…