PenBBS Season 30 Part 1

Let’s take a look at five inks from PenBBS Season 30. 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: 432 Plum Blossom, 433 Su Wu, 434 Beethoven, 435 Snow Pine and 436 Dark Bamboo.

Writing samples:

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

Dry Time: 5-40 seconds

Water Resistance: Low-High (Tea Green had high water resistance)

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: All five had medium shading, Beethoven had low bronze sheen.

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

Comparison Swabs:

Plum Blossom is brighter than Sailor Jentle Oku-yama.

Su Wu is a little brighter than these other blue inks.

Beethoven is similar to Vinta Dream a Dream.

Snow Pine looks more green on paper but more brown in swabs.

Dark Bamboo is a llittle less green than Sailor Yoi.

Longer Writing:

Su Wu and Dark Bamboo had dry flows, the rest were average.

Overall, I think Snow Pine is my favorite out of the five-it looks different on every paper. It’s green on Tomoe River paper but brown on Col-o-ring swabs.

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