Monthly Archives: September 2016

Noodlers Bad Blue Heron Ink Review

Noodlers Bad Blue Heron Ink is a wonderful water-based blue ink produced by Noodlers Ink Company. Noodlers Bad Blue Heron ink is one of the inks in the Noodlers “Warden’s Ink Series”, which attempts to combat the latest and even future forgery tricks of the trade. Noodlers calls its Warden Inks “combination lock” inks because

Introducing the Pelikan Souverän M400 Tortoiseshell Brown

Pelikan has just announced the release of a new special edition pen, the Pelikan Souverän M400 Tortoiseshell Brown, coming September of 2016. Pelikan Souverän M400 Tortoiseshell Brown Fountain Pen Much like the 2013 special edition Pelikan M800 Tortoiseshell Brown, this smaller M400 version of the pen has a barrel made of brown

Platinum Pigmented Blue Ink Review

Platinum Pigmented Blue Ink is one of Platinum's three pigmented ink colors along with Platinum Pigmented Rose Red ink and Platinum Pigmented Sepia ink. This standard blue fountain pen ink might have a touch of grey in it, but the blue stands out well on white paper. Platinum Pigmented Blue ink is archival quality ink,

Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-Peki Ink Review

Pilot Pen Company has been producing high quality ink for many years and the Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-Peki Ink is one of their best. A few years ago, Pilot Namiki raised the global ink standard exponentially with its Iroshizuku inks. Once the pen enthusiast got over the initial sticker shock of this luxury priced ink, they have

Sailor Sei Boku Pigmented Ink Review

Sailor Sei Boku Pigmented Ink is one of Sailor ink company’s two standard pigmented ink colors, which is blue black in color, along with Sailor Kiwa Guro which is a black ink. Sailor Sei Boku has been a popular pigmented ink at Pen Chalet, known for being water resistant, archival quality ink that is both