Ink Review #1800: Private Reserve Violet-Silver

Private Reserve Violet-Silver is from Private Reserve’s Pearlescent collection. You can find this ink for sale at Vanness Pens.

The color:

Violet is a medium purple ink with lots of shimmer.

*For my swab cards I use a Col-o-ring by Skylab Letterpress, a medium Pilot Ishime and a Mabie Todd Swan.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink has so much shimmer that you can only see the base color where it feathers.

Writing samples:

Let's take a look at how the ink behaves on fountain pen friendly papers: Rhodia, Tomoe River, and Leuchtturm.

*For my writing samples I use:

• EF Pilot Vanishing Point

• F, M, B Pilot Ishime

• Vintage Mabie Todd Swan (flex nib)

• Rhodia Goalbook

• Taroko Enigma notebooks (68gsm TR)

• Leuchtturm A5

• Pen & Gear Paper from Walmart

Dry time: 20 seconds

Water resistance: High

Feathering: Low

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: High

Other properties: no shading, no sheen, and silver shimmer.

On 20 lb copy paper there is some feathering in all nib sizes as well as a bit of bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Violet-silver is closest to Dream Inks Mermaid. Click here to see the purple inks together.

Longer writing:

I used a Franklin-Christoph 45 Purpurarium with a medium nib on a Taroko Breeze notebook. The ink had a wet flow.

Overall, this ink bleeds way too much for me. It even bleeds through Tomoe River 68 in a fine nib.

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