Coco was definitely the star of this video. As soon as I saw him I thought how long until he knocks something off the desk...and then...what a hoot. Cats are such A joy!!! And so creative in the way they let us know they want attention...great video Chris!
LOL Coco is the most attention seeking cat I've ever lived with! I've been happy that he is learning to play/exercise with an interactive mouse on a string that I made ... I never realized how agile he actually is ... now if I can get him trimmed down of a few pounds!!!! :)
Thank you very much for sharing your excitement about inks. You answers were so interesting and engaging. You've nudged me into reviewing my inks, especially the samples I have, and ensuring I have them all swatched and catalogued. Thanks again.
This was so delightfully fun to watch! I loved hearing about your first memorable inks and all your thoughts on ink bottles and lesser talked about shades. Very informative and entertaining. Plus, who doesn't love a cat cameo appearance?! Fantastic watch, thank you for sharing. 😍
1. Memorable ink: Park Penman Sapphire, 2. Favorite bottle: Pilot Iroshizuku and Caran D'Ache. 3. Good ink but not for everyday use: One of several Diamine Inkvent sheening shimmery blues with red sheen and shimmer. 4. Discover new inks? UA-cam, Discord 5. Inks for other than writing? No, not really - or does swatching count? 6. I hoarded Park Penman Sappphire for a while -- I had bottles of the ink until about 2014 or so . There's some Wearingeul inks that I with I had got extra bottle of. 7. What ink in what pen? Process? When a pen runs out, I clean it and select an another pen to ink. Sometimes matchy matchy but often I choose so that I have a reasonably wide section of colors in inked pens. 8. Ink samples?? Not much. 9. Popular ink that should but don't like: Washable blues, Underhyped ink that I like: Some of the Caran D''Ache, Organics Studio Walden Pond, Ink Studio 931, Birmingham Pen Co Emerald Fusion, Taccia Submidori. 10: I usually (unless it's a disaster) write until pen uses up all its ink.11. Most unique ink: Some of the Diamine Inkvent Christmas inks. KWZ Sheen Machine Noodlers Baystate Blue Birmingham Emerald Fusion: dark green with bright green sheen. 12. Catalog, Store, etc, I have notebooks with swatches, a notebook with list of pens inked (and when) and cleaned (and when). One day I'll do FPC. Store? Various clear storage boxed that stack. Inks stored in their boxes. 13. Maybe blue, but I like oranges, and greens and reds and teals and turquoises -- and I love blurples. If I have to say one, I'll pick teal.14: Ink syringe, good paper, bulb syringe -- recently I really like the Schon DSGN syringe pen cleaners. 15. Mixed inks or used shimmer additives: Not yet. 16. Favorite ink delivery: Eyedropper, Vacuum Fill, Cartridge Converter. 17: Inks excited about now: Diamine Arctic Blast, Solar Storm. Kuetake Shikon, Scribe Indigo (small batch ink by the chemist who created Parker Penman Sapphire) DeAtrementis Fuchsia, Birmingham Pen Co Ambered Adobe, Emerald Fusion, Heron, Wearingeul Human Issue, Infinite Cube, Peter Pan, Tock Tok Croc, Sailor Shikiori Yodaki, Miruai, tokiwa-uguisu, many others...
Hi friend! Oh yes I thought about the Akkerman bottle ... I still have my SBRE Akkerman bottle ... it's unique and I love it in my overall bottle collection ... it just doesn't make the top 3 of my ink bottles but it's up there in the top 5. I think I had the marble fly out once by accident but that's on me lol. :) Right now the bottle is empty and I think I need to create some colorful ink water for it!!!!
Coco helps in making me aww and laugh. You make me want to make a video of this myself too, if I have the energy and time 🙈This is so fun to watch, thanks for sharing Chris!
A very enjoyable video, Chris! I agree that the Faber Castell ink bottle is a winner and I've purchased a few empty ones myself. Another favorite is the Pilot Iroshizuku bottle -- beautiful glass with a heavy clear base like the Faber Castell and Pelikan Edelstein bottles. And I love the little divot at the bottom of the Iroshizuku bottle. I'm on the fence about the new Lamy Dark Lilac -- it appears to have so much sheen that the base color doesn't show -- so I'm looking forward to your comparison including Diamine Pansy (which I have).
Hi Marilyn -- the sheen interferes in splatters and swatches and in writing samples it isn't quite as overpowering on some papers ... it does appear to lighten the overall color just a tad but I like it on Midori and Graphilo ... I need to try it on Clairfontaine. On Tomoe River paper the sheen is fairly prominent but still the writing looks good in my opinion. I just prefer how it looks on those other papers. I'll have to get busy and make some sample papers ... most of my experiments have been actual letters I wrote. :)
So cool to have your cat in the video, to heck with the inks. LOL!!!! Isn't that your baby? We have an office cat that does the same thing at night. Freaks me out . It's like what are you looking at?
Unique ink in my collection goes to Noodler's limited edition v1 ink. Nathan made it irreplicable, three shades of dark, burgundy, maroon, so the bottle I have is unique among the other 204 produced.
Hi @mellow-jello -- your comment made me think of Kiwi Ink/Hippo Noto V1 ink which is a cool shimmer ink ... very unique which I wish I had thought of for the video!!!!!
5:06 the bottle looks very perfume-esque! I love ink bottles as ink decorations Hello, Coco! :) You speak to the little one so gently and kindly 💞 I love the approach of enjoying your collection respectfully. We should use what we like and not worry about being perfect. Pens, inks, and papers are meant to be used! With that said though, we shouldn't be wasteful!
Hi @rgcainmd that sometimes works for me if I am able to duplicate the correct sound and remember or jot down the phonetic pronunciation!!! :) I used to have dozens of index cards around my desk to help with some of the frequently mangled things I found hard to pronounce.
Great show, Chris! I liked hearing you opinions on the varieties of inks. Waterman inks work very well, and Tender Purple is among my favorites. As far as favorite bottle designs, Pilot Iroshizuku bottles embody a unique combination of form and function.Waterman bottles are cool, both in their design, and the fact that they can rest at a forty-five degree angle when they are low on ink. It was nice to see Coco, your guest host 🙂
Hi Kurt! Oh that's true about the Waterman bottles right after I completed the video and put things away I realized I should have gotten one of those bottles out of the box to show that! :)
i don't own enough bottles to really warrant filling out a tag, but here are some underrated mentions: Robert Oster Sydney Lavender - not advertised as a chromashader but is! Sadly goes on super grey on TR, but shades in a beautiful purple to blue on Midori. Sailor Ink Studio 931, 935, 950 - Three incredible ultrasaturated colours for the purple and magenta crowd. Diamine Eau de Nil - I find it an underrated blue within their lineup because it's got such a great balance of brightness and softness, it's a lovely uplifting colour that doesn't strain tired eyes.
It's so interesting how the inks behave differently on different paper! I noticed sadly, Lamy Dark Lilac 2024 sheens more on Tomoe River paper but at least it doesn't do that as much on Midori or Graphilo. :)
With the Noodlers Apache/Southwest Sunset, it is not your fault. The guy running it doesn't believe in standardization between batches, so quality control is as a result sketchy. You likely have an inferior batch.
I love so many of the Noodler's inks! Plus I wanted to love this one ... maybe in the right nib I will like it or can find an ink to add to it to darken it just enough!!!! :)
I’m thinking of adding another colour like dark brown, dark red or even purple. Ever since SBRE Brown reviewed it years ago I wanted it. Then I got it and now I try it in a new pen, gets flushed and stays on the shelf. For years on. It’s so light and feathery. Can’t use it in any situation. Selling it is also an option.
Wow what a surprise, I had seen the #8penquestions videos going around and thought maybe we would get your take on that, but I hadn't seen the ink tag, much more fitting to your channel (we all know your love for inks) thanks for the video!
Hi David! I didn't feel my answers tot he #8penquestions had changed enough for another video ... but when I saw this one I thought how right up my alley these questions are and I had to do it!!! :)
Here's your next Assignment , should you accept 1) What are the Top Brands (Best Brand) of Fountain Pen Friendly Paper and notebooks ? 2) What is YOUR favorite paper to work with , fountain pens 3) Why is this your Favorite paper ? 4) what is your favorite journal book (paper) to use , with a fountain pen ? No ghosting, no bleedthrough, no ink feathering, quick drying, etc 5) What weight of paper doesn't bleed through, when using a fountain pen? 6) Do you prefer Parchment paper ? Cotton paper ? Mead paper ? Coated paper ? Watercolor paper ; for fountain pens 7) What is the minimum GSM for fountain pens? 8) What paper uses the least amount of ink? 9) What paper does not absorb ink?
Hi @kan-zee -- this looks like the final exam of fountain pens lol. :) I have answers but maybe even more questions because of the variety of results I've gotten from the variety of nibs and inks I've experimented with. It's so interesting -- these are great questions and they address something even bigger that I've been thinking about for years in regards to this hobby ..... and that is: are there any generalizations that hold true? AND ... how specific does one need to be when making claims about ink and paper especially ... ! Lets see if I get the proper time to address these ... they are interesting for sure. I wish I believed there were absolute right and wrong answers for these but I predict that OPINION and SPECIFIC examples are really all I have to offer. I've been led down the garden path by claims of paper and inks that do or don't do certain things ... only to find out that it's not that simple. :)
@@ChrisSaenz13 Correct answer...you get 110% grade . !! 😍👍 What is interesting in my short 2 month experimentation, of working with fountain pen ink and paper...I am coming to realize , that their is a sweet spot ....where a particular ink company, works great with a paper making company...I've yet to figure this formula out...and eventually after a while...when I do... I discover a new ink company (color) and have to find a new paper , that fits with my specifications..lol It's a never ending experimentation path..LOL
@@kan-zee LOL -- this may explain my recent loyalty to Tomoe River Paper (both weights) and CVS Caliber paper ... they are papers I know and I have inks + nibs that work so well with them ... at first I thought it was laziness + pure economy/cheapness that I was beginning to stay within the paper and inks I know best but it's really so much less frustrating. I guess when it comes to Tomoe River paper I find a wider range of inks I'm happy writing letters on with that than any other paper. You've really got me thinking about this subject though and I came back this morning to look at the questions again and found your reply lol. :)
The most memorable ink for me is Waterman Havanna Brown. After years of only having access to boring royal blue and black inks during highschool, discovering a brown ink felt so exotic and special 😂 That was years before finding out about the online fountain pen community... Thank you (and Coco 😁) for this very interesting and fun video!
21:34 what a wise thing to do: don’t look for new inks and use what you have….. that means you’re in a different rabbit 🐇 hole 🕳️ . But how can you keep yourself from being tempted??
Hi @Oldnose63 -- well this year it's easy not to be too tempted because of another budget priority but I've been asking myself the same question so I'm ready for when the budget opens up again but I still don't think it will be wise to get more ink with the inventory I already have lol.
Loved the video. Thank you! I have purchased quite a few "neutral" pens so I can fill them with whatever ink I'd like to use: A white silver Lamy AL-star & a Vista black; Kaweco AL Sport in silver; two clear TWSBI ECO-Ts, a Diamond 580ALR in silver, a Mini AL in silver, a Vac Mini in smoke. I don't have a single yellow, orange, or black ink, nor any yellow-greens. I have quite a few reds and pinks, six in the purple family, mostly blue-leaning, 2 browns, and single gray. My favorite ink colors are blues and greens the inks that inhabit the space between blue and green. Diamine Soft Mint looks spectacular in the Vac Mini. Of all your teal inks which is your favorite that leans more green than blue?
Hi Julia -- I do love Monteverde California Teal and that ink seems to lean more green. I also love Robert Oster Tranquility!!!! :) The neutral pens really are great for being able to use any color ink ... I just love them!
Thank you. I am trying not to purchase any more near duplicates - Lamy Crystal Amazonite and Private Reserve Blue Suede are so similar in writing that they're almost impossible to distinguish from one other. In the swatch, the Lamy ink has a bit more red sheen, but both show sheen in writing on some papers. I will be fixed for medium turquoise ink for the rest of my life! I enjoy your videos and your cats. @@ChrisSaenz13
I’ll have to go through these questions. Several will be hard for me to answer. I haven’t but people mix Birmingham inks. I’m waiting for my 2024 Lamy Dark Violet. Ordered at Cult pens. Gary also got the Colorverse Blue Dragon and Blue Shimmer but not the silver or gold.
Coco was definitely the star of this video. As soon as I saw him I thought how long until he knocks something off the desk...and then...what a hoot. Cats are such A joy!!! And so creative in the way they let us know they want attention...great video Chris!
LOL Coco is the most attention seeking cat I've ever lived with! I've been happy that he is learning to play/exercise with an interactive mouse on a string that I made ... I never realized how agile he actually is ... now if I can get him trimmed down of a few pounds!!!! :)
Great video.
You got me with the “stained floor and have to buy new ink”
Thank you very much for sharing your excitement about inks. You answers were so interesting and engaging. You've nudged me into reviewing my inks, especially the samples I have, and ensuring I have them all swatched and catalogued. Thanks again.
Hi @raybuck -- awesome!!!! :)
This was so delightfully fun to watch! I loved hearing about your first memorable inks and all your thoughts on ink bottles and lesser talked about shades. Very informative and entertaining. Plus, who doesn't love a cat cameo appearance?! Fantastic watch, thank you for sharing. 😍
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video! :) It was sure fun to think about these questions and "play" with ink. :)
Thanks for your wonderful video, thoughts and reviews, Chris. Have a good day!
Thank you @7_v610
1. Memorable ink: Park Penman Sapphire, 2. Favorite bottle: Pilot Iroshizuku and Caran D'Ache. 3. Good ink but not for everyday use: One of several Diamine Inkvent sheening shimmery blues with red sheen and shimmer. 4. Discover new inks? UA-cam, Discord 5. Inks for other than writing? No, not really - or does swatching count? 6. I hoarded Park Penman Sappphire for a while -- I had bottles of the ink until about 2014 or so . There's some Wearingeul inks that I with I had got extra bottle of. 7. What ink in what pen? Process? When a pen runs out, I clean it and select an another pen to ink. Sometimes matchy matchy but often I choose so that I have a reasonably wide section of colors in inked pens. 8. Ink samples?? Not much. 9. Popular ink that should but don't like: Washable blues, Underhyped ink that I like: Some of the Caran D''Ache, Organics Studio Walden Pond, Ink Studio 931, Birmingham Pen Co Emerald Fusion, Taccia Submidori. 10: I usually (unless it's a disaster) write until pen uses up all its ink.11. Most unique ink: Some of the Diamine Inkvent Christmas inks. KWZ Sheen Machine Noodlers Baystate Blue Birmingham Emerald Fusion: dark green with bright green sheen. 12. Catalog, Store, etc, I have notebooks with swatches, a notebook with list of pens inked (and when) and cleaned (and when). One day I'll do FPC. Store? Various clear storage boxed that stack. Inks stored in their boxes. 13. Maybe blue, but I like oranges, and greens and reds and teals and turquoises -- and I love blurples. If I have to say one, I'll pick teal.14: Ink syringe, good paper, bulb syringe -- recently I really like the Schon DSGN syringe pen cleaners. 15. Mixed inks or used shimmer additives: Not yet. 16. Favorite ink delivery: Eyedropper, Vacuum Fill, Cartridge Converter. 17: Inks excited about now: Diamine Arctic Blast, Solar Storm. Kuetake Shikon, Scribe Indigo (small batch ink by the chemist who created Parker Penman Sapphire) DeAtrementis Fuchsia, Birmingham Pen Co Ambered Adobe, Emerald Fusion, Heron, Wearingeul Human Issue, Infinite Cube, Peter Pan, Tock Tok Croc, Sailor Shikiori Yodaki, Miruai, tokiwa-uguisu, many others...
Always enjoy your take on inks and fountain pens.
Great, fun, and informative. What more could a viewer ask for. I was surprised the Akkerman bottle did not make mention. Hugs. D
Hi friend! Oh yes I thought about the Akkerman bottle ... I still have my SBRE Akkerman bottle ... it's unique and I love it in my overall bottle collection ... it just doesn't make the top 3 of my ink bottles but it's up there in the top 5. I think I had the marble fly out once by accident but that's on me lol. :) Right now the bottle is empty and I think I need to create some colorful ink water for it!!!!
I love Coco! These questions are really fun, and I love your answers. Just the joyful video to get me through the day!
Awe I'm so glad to hear this! :) Joy is important and illusive at times. :)
Very enjoyable video Chris, thank you. Your video always make me think and enhance my fountain pen and ink life 🎉.
Hi Anne!!!! :)
Such an enjoyable video. Coco is such a handsome boy 😻
Coco helps in making me aww and laugh.
You make me want to make a video of this myself too, if I have the energy and time 🙈This is so fun to watch, thanks for sharing Chris!
Oh cool I hope you do make a video with these questions ... Lisa had such great questions!
A very enjoyable video, Chris! I agree that the Faber Castell ink bottle is a winner and I've purchased a few empty ones myself. Another favorite is the Pilot Iroshizuku bottle -- beautiful glass with a heavy clear base like the Faber Castell and Pelikan Edelstein bottles. And I love the little divot at the bottom of the Iroshizuku bottle. I'm on the fence about the new Lamy Dark Lilac -- it appears to have so much sheen that the base color doesn't show -- so I'm looking forward to your comparison including Diamine Pansy (which I have).
Hi Marilyn -- the sheen interferes in splatters and swatches and in writing samples it isn't quite as overpowering on some papers ... it does appear to lighten the overall color just a tad but I like it on Midori and Graphilo ... I need to try it on Clairfontaine. On Tomoe River paper the sheen is fairly prominent but still the writing looks good in my opinion. I just prefer how it looks on those other papers. I'll have to get busy and make some sample papers ... most of my experiments have been actual letters I wrote. :)
So cool to have your cat in the video, to heck with the inks. LOL!!!! Isn't that your baby? We have an office cat that does the same thing at night. Freaks me out . It's like what are you looking at?
LOL Coco keeps things lively around here! :)
@@ChrisSaenz13 yes Ma'am but fun!
Oooh Chris I just found this and I can't wait to hear your answers! Thanks for the mention! 🥰
Great video , as usual. I enjoy it alot😻
Thank you Courtney I'm happy to hear this!
You are the queen of ink! Thanks for the video, it's entertaining even though I my ink palette is fixed.
Save money. I’m 500 dollars lighter and happy about it. :). Love your content.
I can read Coco's mind...all these nice bottles, yet none have any catnip hiding in them. That I can smell..........
ha ha!
That is what I was thinking. !! LOL!!!
Unique ink in my collection goes to Noodler's limited edition v1 ink. Nathan made it irreplicable, three shades of dark, burgundy, maroon, so the bottle I have is unique among the other 204 produced.
Hi @mellow-jello -- your comment made me think of Kiwi Ink/Hippo Noto V1 ink which is a cool shimmer ink ... very unique which I wish I had thought of for the video!!!!!
Great video Chris! Really appreciate your views on inks and how you use them.
Thank you so much! I just couldn't resist these questions!!!!
5:06 the bottle looks very perfume-esque! I love ink bottles as ink decorations
Hello, Coco! :) You speak to the little one so gently and kindly 💞
I love the approach of enjoying your collection respectfully. We should use what we like and not worry about being perfect. Pens, inks, and papers are meant to be used! With that said though, we shouldn't be wasteful!
Hi @leannezzers awe Coco is quite the baby here! :) He loves to investigate all my hobby things!!!!
Whenever I’m uncertain about pronunciation, I just Google it in an attempt to make sure I’m pronouncing things correctly!
Hi @rgcainmd that sometimes works for me if I am able to duplicate the correct sound and remember or jot down the phonetic pronunciation!!! :) I used to have dozens of index cards around my desk to help with some of the frequently mangled things I found hard to pronounce.
Great show, Chris! I liked hearing you opinions on the varieties of inks. Waterman inks work very well, and Tender Purple is among my favorites. As far as favorite bottle designs, Pilot Iroshizuku bottles embody a unique combination of form and function.Waterman bottles are cool, both in their design, and the fact that they can rest at a forty-five degree angle when they are low on ink. It was nice to see Coco, your guest host 🙂
Hi Kurt! Oh that's true about the Waterman bottles right after I completed the video and put things away I realized I should have gotten one of those bottles out of the box to show that! :)
i don't own enough bottles to really warrant filling out a tag, but here are some underrated mentions:
Robert Oster Sydney Lavender - not advertised as a chromashader but is! Sadly goes on super grey on TR, but shades in a beautiful purple to blue on Midori.
Sailor Ink Studio 931, 935, 950 - Three incredible ultrasaturated colours for the purple and magenta crowd.
Diamine Eau de Nil - I find it an underrated blue within their lineup because it's got such a great balance of brightness and softness, it's a lovely uplifting colour that doesn't strain tired eyes.
It's so interesting how the inks behave differently on different paper! I noticed sadly, Lamy Dark Lilac 2024 sheens more on Tomoe River paper but at least it doesn't do that as much on Midori or Graphilo. :)
With the Noodlers Apache/Southwest Sunset, it is not your fault. The guy running it doesn't believe in standardization between batches, so quality control is as a result sketchy. You likely have an inferior batch.
I love so many of the Noodler's inks! Plus I wanted to love this one ... maybe in the right nib I will like it or can find an ink to add to it to darken it just enough!!!! :)
I’m thinking of adding another colour like dark brown, dark red or even purple.
Ever since SBRE Brown reviewed it years ago I wanted it.
Then I got it and now I try it in a new pen, gets flushed and stays on the shelf. For years on. It’s so light and feathery. Can’t use it in any situation.
Selling it is also an option.
The cat Coco is sooooooo cute!!!!
Wow what a surprise, I had seen the #8penquestions videos going around and thought maybe we would get your take on that, but I hadn't seen the ink tag, much more fitting to your channel (we all know your love for inks) thanks for the video!
Hi David! I didn't feel my answers tot he #8penquestions had changed enough for another video ... but when I saw this one I thought how right up my alley these questions are and I had to do it!!! :)
Here's your next Assignment , should you accept
1) What are the Top Brands (Best Brand) of Fountain Pen Friendly Paper and notebooks ?
2) What is YOUR favorite paper to work with , fountain pens
3) Why is this your Favorite paper ?
4) what is your favorite journal book (paper) to use , with a fountain pen ?
No ghosting, no bleedthrough, no ink feathering, quick drying, etc
5) What weight of paper doesn't bleed through, when using a fountain pen?
6) Do you prefer Parchment paper ? Cotton paper ? Mead paper ? Coated paper ? Watercolor paper ; for fountain pens
7) What is the minimum GSM for fountain pens?
8) What paper uses the least amount of ink?
9) What paper does not absorb ink?
Hi @kan-zee -- this looks like the final exam of fountain pens lol. :) I have answers but maybe even more questions because of the variety of results I've gotten from the variety of nibs and inks I've experimented with. It's so interesting -- these are great questions and they address something even bigger that I've been thinking about for years in regards to this hobby ..... and that is: are there any generalizations that hold true? AND ... how specific does one need to be when making claims about ink and paper especially ... ! Lets see if I get the proper time to address these ... they are interesting for sure. I wish I believed there were absolute right and wrong answers for these but I predict that OPINION and SPECIFIC examples are really all I have to offer. I've been led down the garden path by claims of paper and inks that do or don't do certain things ... only to find out that it's not that simple. :)
@@ChrisSaenz13
Correct answer...you get 110% grade . !! 😍👍
What is interesting in my short 2 month experimentation, of working with fountain pen ink and paper...I am coming to realize , that their is a sweet spot ....where a particular ink company, works great with a paper making company...I've yet to figure this formula out...and eventually after a while...when I do...
I discover a new ink company (color) and have to find a new paper , that fits with my specifications..lol It's a never ending experimentation path..LOL
@@kan-zee LOL -- this may explain my recent loyalty to Tomoe River Paper (both weights) and CVS Caliber paper ... they are papers I know and I have inks + nibs that work so well with them ... at first I thought it was laziness + pure economy/cheapness that I was beginning to stay within the paper and inks I know best but it's really so much less frustrating. I guess when it comes to Tomoe River paper I find a wider range of inks I'm happy writing letters on with that than any other paper. You've really got me thinking about this subject though and I came back this morning to look at the questions again and found your reply lol. :)
you can get shimmer additives from weingull in liquid form, no need for masks. and i love your cat, so chaotic.
Ah this would be a much better alternative because I'm paranoid about my lungs! :) Thank you for mentioning this.
they are called glitter potions. @@ChrisSaenz13
The most memorable ink for me is Waterman Havanna Brown. After years of only having access to boring royal blue and black inks during highschool, discovering a brown ink felt so exotic and special 😂 That was years before finding out about the online fountain pen community...
Thank you (and Coco 😁) for this very interesting and fun video!
Brown ink especially nice dark but distinctly brown ink is such a joy!!!! :)
❤❤❤
21:34 what a wise thing to do: don’t look for new inks and use what you have…..
that means you’re in a different rabbit 🐇 hole 🕳️ .
But how can you keep yourself from being tempted??
Hi @Oldnose63 -- well this year it's easy not to be too tempted because of another budget priority but I've been asking myself the same question so I'm ready for when the budget opens up again but I still don't think it will be wise to get more ink with the inventory I already have lol.
@@ChrisSaenz13 maybe swap inks that you don’t have for the ones you have ?
Would be nice to have an ink swap market.
Happy Monday 😊
Happy Monday!!!!
Loved the video. Thank you! I have purchased quite a few "neutral" pens so I can fill them with whatever ink I'd like to use: A white silver Lamy AL-star & a Vista black; Kaweco AL Sport in silver; two clear TWSBI ECO-Ts, a Diamond 580ALR in silver, a Mini AL in silver, a Vac Mini in smoke. I don't have a single yellow, orange, or black ink, nor any yellow-greens. I have quite a few reds and pinks, six in the purple family, mostly blue-leaning, 2 browns, and single gray. My favorite ink colors are blues and greens the inks that inhabit the space between blue and green. Diamine Soft Mint looks spectacular in the Vac Mini. Of all your teal inks which is your favorite that leans more green than blue?
Hi Julia -- I do love Monteverde California Teal and that ink seems to lean more green. I also love Robert Oster Tranquility!!!! :) The neutral pens really are great for being able to use any color ink ... I just love them!
Thank you. I am trying not to purchase any more near duplicates - Lamy Crystal Amazonite and Private Reserve Blue Suede are so similar in writing that they're almost impossible to distinguish from one other. In the swatch, the Lamy ink has a bit more red sheen, but both show sheen in writing on some papers. I will be fixed for medium turquoise ink for the rest of my life!
I enjoy your videos and your cats. @@ChrisSaenz13
I’ll have to go through these questions. Several will be hard for me to answer. I haven’t but people mix Birmingham inks. I’m waiting for my 2024 Lamy Dark Violet. Ordered at Cult pens. Gary also got the Colorverse Blue Dragon and Blue Shimmer but not the silver or gold.
Hi Cathie -- oh cool I hope you like the Lamy Dark Lilac 2024 as much as I do ... I was surprised. It's different but pretty in it's own way. :)
what is Coco's favorite ink?
LOL it must be pink/magenta because it's the color I've had to clean off his paws the most often!