Birmingham Pens Crisp Inks Part 3

Today we are checking out five more inks from the Birmingham Pens Crisp series: Kentucky Bluegrass, Summersweet, Pennsylvania Slate, Glassmith and Monongahela. Thanks to Birmingham Pens for sending these inks over for review!

Swabs:

Left to right: Kentucky Bluegrass, Summersweet, Pennsylvania Slate, Glassmith and Monongahela

Writing samples:

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

Dry Time: 20-30 seconds

Water Resistance: Low-Medium

Feathering: Low-None Kentucky Bluegrass and Summersweet both feather just a bit on Leuchtturm paper.

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: Low-there is a little bit of bleeding on Leuchtturm paper.

Other properties: medium shading, tiny pink sheen and no shimmer. Kentucky Bluegrass does not sheen, but the other 4 have some pink sheen in large swabs.

On Walmart 20 lb copy paper there was some of feathering in every nib size as well as a bit of bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Kentucky Bluegrass is close to Colorverse Tranquility Base.

Pennsylvania Slate is similar to Ferris Wheel Press Bluegrass Velvet.

Summersweet is close to Sailor Ink Studio 864.

Glassmith is similar to Robert Oster Torquay.

Monongahela is close to Aurora Turquoise.

Longer Writing:

I love these inks together so much! They are a fabulous green to blue gradient.

I used a Mabie Todd Swan on a Taroko Odyssey notebook. All of the inks had an average flow.

Overall, I love all five of these inks. They are “Crisp” inks-designed to work on cheap papers-I don’t think they did that in my testing, but on good paper they behave well, are gorgeous colors and go so well together!

Disclaimer: These products were provided by Birmingham Pens for the purpose of this review. All photos and opinions are my own. This page does not contain affiliate links, and this post is not sponsored.