PenBBS Season 27 Part 5

Let’s take a look at four inks from PenBBS Season 27. 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: 521 Heavy Snow, 522 Winter Solstice, 523 Slight Cold and 524 Great Cold

Writing samples:

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

Dry Time: 15-40 seconds

Water Resistance: Low-Medium

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: All four had low shading. Great Cold had low copper sheen.

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

Comparison Swabs:

Heavy Snow is lighter than Diamine Robert.

Winter Solstice is brighter than Diamine Music Strauss.

Slight Cold is similar to Colorverse Schrodinger.

Great Cold is less saturated than Robert Oster Thunderstorm.

Longer Writing:

I used a Mabie Todd Swan with a Taroko Enigma Notebook. All four had average flows.

Overall, I think Great Cold is my favorite out of the four-I just really like the color and it’s well behaved.

Disclaimer: All photos and opinions are my own. This page does not contain affiliate links, and is not sponsored in any way.

PenBBS Season 30 Part 2

Let’s take a look at four 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: 437 Yangzhou, 438 Snow Night, 439 Dunhuang, and 440 Ginger.

Writing samples:

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

Dry Time: 20-40 seconds

Water Resistance: Low-Medium

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: Yangzhou and Dunhuang had medium shading. The other two had low shading. Snow Night had low black sheen.

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

Comparison Swabs:

Yangzhou is lighter than Sailor Manyo Ayame.

Snow Night is a little darker than Pure Pens Llanberis.

Dunhuang is a little lighter than PenBBS Magnolia.

Ginger is lighter than Diamine Sand Between.

Longer Writing:

Yangzhou and Ginger had dry flows, the rest were average.

Overall, I think Snow Night is my favorite out of the four. Yangzhou and Ginger can both be light in smaller nib sizes so I would stick to medium and broad nibs.

Disclaimer: All photos and opinions are my own. This page does not contain affiliate links, and is not sponsored in any way.

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.

Disclaimer: All photos and opinions are my own. This page does not contain affiliate links, and is not sponsored in any way.

PenBBS Season 29 Part 3

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: 414 Avocado, 415 Huangshan, 416 Tea Green and 417 Wolfgang.

Writing samples:

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

Dry Time: 20-40 seconds

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

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: All four had medium shading, Tea Green had low red sheen.

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

Comparison Swabs:

Avocado is similar to Kobe Maiko Green.

Huangshan is close to Bookbinder Ground Rattler.

Tea Green is a little lighter than Vinta Dream a Dream.

Wolfgang is lighter than Monteverde Copper Noir.

Longer Writing:

Avocado and Wolfgang had an average flow. Huangshan was dry and Tea Green was wet.

Overall, Avocado and Wolfgang were rather average for me, nothing too special about them. Huangshan was too light and dry, basically unusable. Tea Green had a nice wet flow and high water resistance, so that one was my favorite out of the four.

Disclaimer: All photos and opinions are my own. This page does not contain affiliate links, and is not sponsored in any way.

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.

Disclaimer: All photos and opinions are my own. This page does not contain affiliate links, and is not sponsored in any way.

PenBBS Season 27 Part 4

Let’s take a look at four inks from PenBBS Season 27. I purchased my inks from Vanness Pens, but they are no longer carrying the brand.

Swabs:

Left to right: Cold Dews, Hoar-frost Begins, Winter Begins and Light Snow.

Writing samples:

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

Dry Time: 15-40 seconds

Water Resistance: Low-medium

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: Winter Begins had low bleeding.

Other properties: Low shading

On Walmart Pen + Gear copy paper there was some feathering in every nib size as well as some bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Light Snow is a little more orangey than Hoar-Frost Begins.

Winter Begins is more grey than these other blue blacks.

Cold Dews is similar to PenBBS 154 Zhu Ziqing.

Longer Writing:

All had average flows.

Overall, Winter Begins is my favorite out of the four, but I’m not wowed by any of them. They are good standard inks with a little bit of shading.

Disclaimer: All photos and opinions are my own. This page does not contain affiliate links, and is not sponsored in any way.

Noodler's Purples

I’ve been using a lot of purple inks in may, so let’s take a look at five purple inks from Noodler’s. You can find these inks for sale at most retailers including Vanness Pens.

Swabs:

Left to right: Purple Wampum, Violet, Purple Martin, Purple and La Couleur Royale.

Writing samples:

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

Dry Time: 40-90 seconds

Water Resistance: Low-medium

Feathering: Wampum had high feathering the rest had none.

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: low, Wampum had medium bleeding.

Other properties: Low shading

On Walmart Pen + Gear copy paper there was some feathering in every nib size as well as some bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Purple Wampum and Violet are similar. Purple Martin is brighter than PenBBS Wisteria. Purple is brighter than De Atramentis Purple Violet.

La Couleur Royale is brighter than Diamine Iris.

Longer Writing:

All had slightly wet flows.

Overall, Purple Wampum was the most problematic with high feathering and medium bleeding. The rest had too much bleeding for me as well. I’m just not a fan of any of them. There are better behaved purple inks out there than this.

Disclaimer: All photos and opinions are my own. This page does not contain affiliate links, and is not sponsored in any way.

PenBBS Season 27 Part 2

Let’s take a look at five inks from PenBBS Season 27 today. I purchased these inks from Vanness Pens, but they recently stopped carrying the brand so I’m unsure where you can buy them.

Swabs:

Left to right: Wisteria, Lily of the Valley, Corn Poppy Flower, Honeysuckle and Hollyhock.

Writing samples:

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

Dry Time: 20-40 seconds

Water Resistance: Low-medium

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: Low-medium shading. Wisteria had low gold sheen.

On Walmart Pen + Gear copy paper there was some feathering in every nib size as well as some bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Wisteria is a little less saturated than these other purple inks.

Lily of the Valley is brighter than Tono & Lims U & I.

Corn Poppy Fields is closest to Colorverse Hubble Zoom.

Honeysuckle is a little ligher than Inkebara Grass Green.

Hollyhock is closest to Ferris Wheel Press Beaver Dam.

Longer Writing:

All had average flows except Honeysuckle, which was dry.

Overall, Lily of the Valley is my favorite just because I like the color the most.

Disclaimer: All photos and opinions are my own. This page does not contain affiliate links, and is not sponsored in any way.

PenBBS Season 26 Part 1

Today’s inks are four PenBBS Season 26 inks. I purchased my ink from Vanness Pens, but they recently stopped carrying the brand, so I’m unsure where you can buy some.

Swabs:

Left to right: 381 Frosted Leaf in Autumn, 382 Gentiana Acaulis, 384 Blueberry and 385 Xin Qiji.

Writing samples:

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

Dry Time: 20-50 seconds

Water Resistance: Low-Medium

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: Frosted Leaf and Xin Qiji had low shading. Gentianaa Acaulis had low shading and medium pink sheen. Blueberry had high gold sheen.

On Walmart Pen + Gear copy paper there was some feathering in every nib size as well as some bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Frosted Leaf is closest to Sailor Ink Studio 830.

Gentiana Acaulis is similar to Robert Oster School Blue.

Blueberry is close to Rohrer & Klingner Aubergine.

Xin Qiji is similar in writing to Octopus Fluids Petrol Buffalo.

Frosted Leaf had a slightly dry flow and the rest had average flows.

Overall, all were well behaved and nice to use. Out of the four I think Xin Qiji is my favorite just because I like the color.

Disclaimer: All photos and opinions are my own. This page does not contain affiliate links, and is not sponsored in any way.

PenBBS Season 27 Part 1

Let’s look at five inks from PenBBS Season 27. I purchased my samples from Vanness Pens, but they are no longer carrying the brand so I’m unsure where you can purchase them.

Swabs:

Left to right: Spring Festival, Sakura Flower, Rose Powder, Magnolia and Azalea.

Writing samples:

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

Dry Time: 20-40 seconds

Water Resistance: Low-High

Feathering: Spring Festival had high feathering, but the rest had none.

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: All but Spring Festival had low shading.

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

Comparison Swabs:

Spring Festival is similar to Pilot Iroshizuku Daikokuten.

Sakura Flower is more olivey than Kobe Sorakuten Tea.

Rose Powder is close to Pilot Iroshizuku Kosumosu.

Magnolia is lighter than Vinta Fortaleza.

Azalea is darker than Birmingham Chrysanthemum.

Three inks had an average flow, Spring Festival had a wet flow and Magnolia had an average flow.

Overall, Azalea is my favorite out of the five simply because I like the color the best.

Disclaimer: All photos and opinions are my own. This page does not contain affiliate links, and is not sponsored in any way.