Birmingham Pens Everlasting Inks

Birmingham Pens has recently taken all of their ink production in-house and they kindly sent me some inks to try out! First we are going to look at four inks from the Everlasting series. Thanks to Birmingham Pens for sending these inks over for review! Quick warning about these inks though: because they are pigmented they require more frequent cleaning. These inks are not meant to sit in pens for months at a time so for those of you who stink at good pen hygiene, these are probably not the inks for you.

Swabs:

Left to right: Compost, Black Spruce, Triple Sec and Ice Age.

Writing samples:

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

Dry Time: 10-20 seconds

Water Resistance: Medium-Compost and Black Spruce and high-Triple Sec and Ice Age.

Feathering: Medium

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

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

On Staples 24 lb copy paper there was lots of feathering in every nib size as well as some bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Compost is less saturated than these other black inks.

Black Spruce is closest to Lennon Tool Bar Firmament.`

Triple Sec is less saturated than these other oranges.

Ice Age is similar to Tono & Lims Yamanashi.

Longer Writing:

I used a Taroko Odyssey notebook, the first three had a wet flow and Ice Age had an average flow.

Overall, out of the four inks I think Black Spruce is my favorite and Triple Sec is my least favorite. I was hoping all four would be water resistant, but Compost and Black Spruce weren’t quite as resistant as I hoped. All four inks dried quickly, but like most inks that dry quickly there is quite a bit of feathering. None of these four are a must-have for me.

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.