Tag: Sailor
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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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Pen Review: Nakaya Decapod Writer Aka-tanemuri
On July 31st last 2017 I reviewed the Nakaya Piccolo Writer Kuro-tamenuri. Twenty-eight days before that review was published I had ordered my own Nakaya. Ten months later it finally arrived; the Nakaya Decapod Writer Aka-tamenuri with a broad bi-colour nib. It’s been a long wait but I think it was worth it and having this one…
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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: 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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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: Pent Ebizome
The Pent inks from the Pen-house store in Japan have been out since the last half of 2017 but they recently expanded their retail presence into the US via Vanness Pens so I thought now would be a good time to show off some one of their inks. The inks are, of course, made by…
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Ink Review: Colorverse Quasar
Colorverse inks are new to the scene inks from late 2017 and early signs were pretty interesting so I took the plunge and bought three of the inks. I was told by Colorverse (who were very helpful!) that the Season 2 “Astrophysics” inks were the sheenier inks so I naturally gravitated towards them. Quasar is indeed from…
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State of the Union 2017: Fountain Pen Ink
The last few years really have been a renaissance for Fountain Pens and this year is no different. Lots of expansions and additions to lineups and several standout inks. I’m going to be talking about how various brands have performed this year and what I hope for next year. This will be, of course, focused…
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Ink Comparison: 32 Black Inks
This black comparison has been in the works for a while and with resent additions to my Noodler’s collection I thought it was ready to go. Blacks aren’t terribly exciting inks but they are practical inks and people usually approach them for a specific reason and usually there are things that people are looking to…
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Ink Comparison: “Blackstone Blues” Barrier Reef Blue, Sydney Harbour Blue, Blue Cypress and Blue Gum
Blackstone Ink from Just Write in Australia recently released a set of Scents of Australia inks. These inks compliment the older Colours Of Australia lineup. Two of the inks from each set are blue (or are at least called blue) and I wanted to see how they compared to each other. Barrier Reef Blue is one…