Krishna’s Mumbai Ink is a color in the Krishna “India” series that also includes Dilli (aka, Delhi). Like most Krishna fountain pen inks, Mumbai comes in a small 20ml bottle and costs around $9 in the USA, where it is available from shops like PenChalet and Pen Realm, though Krishna Inks are frequently out of […]
Private Reserve’s “2 Minutes to Midnight Blue” is their first limited edition ink; this one is limited to 1100 bottles, so it probably won’t be hard to get if you want it, but it won’t last forever. I ordered this bottle from Pen Chalet, and I don’t know if it’s available anywhere else. It arrives […]
To say that I don’t like Tomoe River paper would be over-stating it a bit, but I’ve never been a huge fan, and with the company making changes to the paper’s formula, I’ve had an extra reason to start searching for good alternatives. The two papers that I’ve heard most about, recently, are Graphilo and […]
It took me about six months to fill up my first Col-O-Ring booklet. I don’t know if that’s slow or fast in this community, but it was faster than I expected. Somehow, though, I thought that my collection had grown to the point that I wouldn’t need to buy many more inks, so I hatched […]
I’ve had pretty terrible luck trying to order inks from China, but these two inks have been exceptions to the rule. I first ran across Volga River and a photo that made it look like a vibrant true blue ink with heavy sheen, and I was happy to find Pine Forest listed along with it, […]
I’ll admit that I didn’t expect a whole lot when I purchased Ocean Whale Blue & Ocean Whale Blue Black on AliExpress, but I was amused by fact that anyone would so blatantly and so weirdly copy the style of Noodler’s ink, and the “Blue” did look like an nice sheening ink, so I thought […]
Before I had to cancel my trip to Tokyo in April, I had read all about the various exclusive Sailor inks that can be found all over Japan. For some reason, though, it didn’t occur to me that there were exclusive inks to be found in the USA. Of course there are. I ran across […]
In a crazy attempt to curb my ink buying binges, I decided that I could only buy an ink if I am in the home country of that brand. This has obviously slowed me down a little bit, but has also spurred plans for a trip to Europe, another to Japan, and perhaps one to […]
Daimay Leather Pen Sleeve: Any Good? I bought a beautiful new Diplomat Excellence A² fountain pen a couple of weeks ago, but it’s a field pen (rather than a desk pen), so I decided that I’d better get some sort of protective sleeve for it. I wanted something nice enough to be appropriate for the […]
As I mentioned in my previous video, converting Jinhao pens to use Zebra G-nibs is a popular way to get a nice soft, flexy nib for calligraphy, vintage scripts, and just general awesomeness. This video explains how to convert a Jinhao 750 to use a Zebra-G nib, though “conversion” is a bit of a stretch. […]
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