PenBBS Season 29 Part 2

Let’s take a look at four inks from PenBBS Season 29. I purchased my inks from Vanness Pens, but they are no longer carrying the brand so I’m unsure of where you can purchase them.

Swabs:

Left to right: 410 Year of the Rat, 411 Purple Sky, 412 Nanning and 413 Miguel de Cervantes.

Writing samples:

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

Dry Time: 10-40 seconds

Water Resistance: Low-Medium

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: All four had low shading and Year of the Rat had silver shimmer.

On Walmart Pen + Gear copy paper there was some feathering in every nib size and few dots of bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Year of the Rat is a little warmer than these other grey shimmer inks.

Purple Sky is a little darker than Sailor Jentle Ultra Marine.

Nanning is a little lighter than Diamine Mistletoe.

Miguel de Cervantes is a little darker than Van Dieman’s Tassie Salmon.

Longer Writing:

Year of the Rat and Miguel de Cervantes had dry flows. Purple Sky and Nanning had average flows. I had some clogging and flow issues with Year of the Rat-I had to keep priming the converter to get through the clogs.

Overall, Purple Sky is my favorite out of the four, it flows well and has a nice color. Year of the Rat is my least favorite-it had too many clogging issues for me.

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