7/14/2023 0 Comments Pelikan fount india ink![]() ![]() That’s what this forum is for, at least to my mind, so that we can share our fun and learn from each others’ experiences good and bad. I celebrate your and all others’ enjoyment of their fountain stuff. But for me, and just me, I can’t justify the relatively high cost - as compared to say “ordinary” Pilot, Pelikan, or Noodlers (I have gleaned that you’re no fan of their inks!) - of Kiwa-Guru for the purpose of, as I said, filling pages and pages with practice straight and curved lines, not actual sketches. ![]() I don’t mind paying a - relatively - high price for any ink, and Lord knows I’ve spent lots of disposable cash on too many bottles of ink. We’re all entitled to ‘get our geek on’ in our own way when playing with our pens, papers & inks. We all approach this hobby (passion, obsession) from a multitude of directions. Wish I could handwrite such beautifully formed letters. Let me not fail to mention that the writing you exhibit in that post is quite handsome. It just struck me as odd that being a moderately frequent reader of the FPN I never encountered much mention of this ink. You arrived way ahead of me at the place I arrived at just yesterday which was the first time I learned of the existence of this Pelikan ink. ![]() Dill your waterproof post was interesting as your posts frequently are. That, to me, is pretty irrelevant when I'm geeking out on the characteristics, performance and nuances of this fountain pen ink or that. In the meantime, I’d love to hear from the FPN crowd for any experiences anyone has had with this ink, good, bad, or indifferent. I will report back here when my bottle arrives and post of few sketches with Platinum Carbon Black and Pelikan Fount India. This is a permanent black ink at almost half the cost of Platinum Carbon Black and DeAtramentis Document Black. Why isn’t there more discussion of this ink? Pelikan has a well-earned reputation for producing reasonably trouble-free fountain pen friendly inks. It’s permanent and, at least in my neck of the world, as inexpensive as regular Pilot Black or Pelikan Black at around $11.00 a bottle. On paper this seems like a no-brainer good deal. But only just today stumbled across this Pelikan Font India ink in random net browsing. So I use other inks for practice, mostly Pilot Black or Pelikan Black. which to me, as a fledgling sketcher who is still just filling pages with practice lines, is too much to pay for a practice ink. It’ s a great ink and one I’ll continue to buy and use for sketches I intend to last, but it still costs close to $20. In my watercolor tests it held solid and did not bleed. In my experience Platinum Carbon Black deserves its reputation and popularity it’s just a darn good, smooth-flowing and genuinely waterproof ink (of course I know, as a nano ink, the pens into which it is put must be flushed regularly). I’ve already decided I won’t buy another bottle of the Sailor, it’s overpriced, and in my waterproofing tests it bled somewhat when watercolor was applied over it. I have both Platinum Carbon Black and Sailor Kiwa-Guru. I just ordered a bottle and looking forward to testing it out. Is this ink so terrible that no one here bothers to use it or even talk about it? I like being a maverick in general and if the only reason this ink doesn’t get much “ink” here is that for whatever reason it doesn’t have as much cachet as the hot inks Platinum Carbon Black, Sailor Kiwa-Guru or DeAtramentis Document Black, that’s silly. I’m a fledgling pen & ink sketcher. Maybe I’ve missed it, but I google searched for reviews of this ink on the FPN (this way: “pelikan fount India ink fpn” ) and the most recent review which came up was from back in 2012. ![]()
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