Tag: Sheen

  • Ink Review: Pennonia Vizlang (Vízláng)

    Ink Review: Pennonia Vizlang (Vízláng)

    Before Matt from Pennonia reached out to send me some inks, this ink was the one that first caught my attention – a pretty blue with shiny red sheen; why wouldn’t it? When the package arrived from Pennonia this ink and Pokoltűz were the inks I was most excited for! Both are permanent inks with…

  • Ink Review: Hankyu Maroon

    Ink Review: Hankyu Maroon

    Hankyu Maroon is a Sailor made ink exclusive to the Hankyu Department Store. Hankyu Department Store, which separated from the Hankyu Railway Company in 1947, is a department store who’s main store is located in Osaka. It has further stores nearby and in other cities further away but the only place to buy these inks…

  • Ink Comparison: Carpink set of five sheening inks Part Two

    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…

  • Ink Comparison: Carpink set of five sheening inks Part One

    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…

  • Ink Review: Sailor Shumibun Writing Time Jasper Green

    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…

  • Ink Review: Kobe #07 Kaikyo Blue

    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…

  • Ink Review: Krishna Sakthy

    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…

  • Ink Review: Colorverse Quasar

    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…

  • Ink Review: Krishna Brown Pink

    Ink Review: Krishna Brown Pink

    I’ve wanted to try Krishna inks for quite a while but their shipping prices have, in the past, been very prohibitive. I decided to take the plunge and bought 12 inks from The Pen World and I’m glad I did! Fortunately Krishna have found a way to ship the inks international much, much cheaper than in the…

  • Ink Comparison: 32 Black Inks

    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…