Ostrich Inks Part 2

Ostrich is a new-to-me brand that comes in 18ml glass bottles. Yesterday we looked at four inks, so today let’s look at the other five: Blue Sapphire, Blue Moon Lake, Sea of Okinawa, Love the Sea and Lake Baikal. Thanks to Pen Savings for sending these inks over for review!

Swabs:

Left to right: Blue Sapphire, Lake Baikal, Love the Sea, Blue Moon Lake and Sea of Okinawa.

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

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: 40-80 seconds

Water Resistance: Low-Medium

Feathering: None

Show through: High

Bleeding: Low-mostly on Leuchtturm

Other properties: no shading, high to monster sheen (Blue Sapphire and Love the Sea had the highest sheen.) and no shimmer.

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

Comparison Swabs:

Blue Sapphire is close to Diamine Herbert.

Lake Baikal is a little darker than Colorverse Bluish Green. Blue Moon Lake is similar to Blackstone Sydney Harbour Blue.

Love the Sea is close to KWZ Sheen Machine. Sea of Okinawa is similar to Vinta Maharlika.

Longer Writing:

I used a Taroko Odyssey notebook, all five inks had a dry, sticky flow common to super sheeny inks.

Overall, these are pretty well behaved, but they do take a long time to dry and bleed on Leuchtturm paper. Blue Moon Lake is my favorite out of the five.

Disclaimer: These inks were provided by Pen Savings 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.