Ink Review #2412: Ferris Wheel Press Brilliant Beanstalk

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Ferris Wheel Press Brilliant Beanstalk is from the Once Upon a Time collection. You can find this ink for sale at most retailers including Vanness Pens.

The color:

Beanstalk is a muted olive green with champagne 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 plenty of shimmer.

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:

Dry time: 40 seconds

Water resistance: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

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

On 20 lb copy paper the ink had some feathering and bleeding in the larger nib sizes.

Comparison Swabs:

Beanstalk is a little more yellow than Robert Oster Jewel in the Crown. Click here to see the green inks together.

Longer Writing:

I used a Pelikan M605 Green and White with a medium nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink has a dry flow.

Overall, the color is really interesting and unusual-I know of only one other shimmer ink that’s somewhat similar to this one. The flow is really dry though, so I would stick to wetter nibs like Pelikans.

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