Ink Review #1553: Van Dieman's Federation Peak

Van Dieman’s Federation Peak is from the Wilderness collection. You can find this ink for sale at Vanness Pens.

The Color:

Federation Peak is a medium neutral grey.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink has a little bit of shading.

Writing samples:

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

Dry time: 60 seconds

Water resistance: Medium

Feathering: Low

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: low shading, no sheen, and no shimmer.

On Staples 24 lb copy paper there was quite a bit of feathering and bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Federation Peak is closest to Kobe 46 Nagisa Museum Gray. Click here to see the Van Dieman’s inks together, and click here to see the grey inks together.

Longer writing:

I used a TWSBI Eco Cement with a broad nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink had an average flow.

Overall, this ink looks nice, especially in a TWSBI broad nib. It did have a little bit of feathering on Leuchtturm paper and had a rather long dry time, but other than that it performed well.

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