Before I found Baystate Blue and I was looking for a vibrant, saturated blue for everyday use, I ran across a Private Reserve ink that looked great. It was called DC Electric Blue, but I couldn’t find it in stock anywhere at the time, so I decided to try American Blue instead, since it looked […]
Monteverde’s California Teal is a teal ink in the same way that a California Stop is a stop, which is to say… it’s not. It strikes me as more of a pine green, most of the time. But whatever you call it, it’s a beautiful color with a red sheen that is sometimes visible on […]
When I first started getting interested in sheening inks, this was the first bottle that I bought, not because it was clearly the best, but because it was recommended by Brian Goulet in a YouTube video about sheening inks, it was easy to find and not too expensive. As it turns out, the ink is […]
In all of my time in India I somehow failed to encounter Krishna inks, which is unfortunate because they offer some very unusual and beautiful inks, and they’re on the expensive side (by volume) in the USA. Moonview 2 is the higher-sheen formulation of their popular ink, and it is enchanting. The base color is […]
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