Owls braved fires, snow storms and frigid temperature and arrived today, with 3 lovely samples..... Thanks Jim you![]()
Owls braved fires, snow storms and frigid temperature and arrived today, with 3 lovely samples..... Thanks Jim you![]()
Ne supra crepidam
Have both of the US participants received their ink packages yet?
Regards, Chrissy| My Review Blog: inkyfountainpens
After a strange routing and a stop for vacation along the way my owl finally landed with the ink pack safe and sound and working on cleaning out a few pens tonight
Thank you again junglejim can't wait to see these on paper
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junglejim (February 1st, 2025)
All Ink Flights have now been delivered. Many thanks!
Mystery 63
Reddish brown ink.
Gorgeous chroma
Chroma 63.jpeg
Shading with Dry pen, Lamy Safari M & B nib.
With a wet pen shading disappears.
Long dry times on Rhodia (20s or more) that's bad news for Japanese paper![]()
Feathering, woolly lines, plus the usual ghosting & bleed through on copy paper.
Feathering.jpeg
Pens used Pilot F3A Ef with a bouncy soft flex nib and Lamy Safari.
Quotes are in honour of the year of the snake![]()
Rhodia 63.jpg
Iroful 63.jpg
Photo of Iroful & Rhodia
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Comparison & water test come next week.
Plus I need to clean/ empty the rest of my Safari's for 64 /65.
Also 63 stuck to my finger and needed a nice pumice to scrub it off.![]()
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Ne supra crepidam
Chrissy (February 3rd, 2025), junglejim (February 2nd, 2025), Lithium466 (February 2nd, 2025), Lloyd (February 2nd, 2025), mreeveshp (February 4th, 2025)
So far I've filled 3 Lamy pens and written with these inks in my Seven Seas Writer journal that contains Tomoe River 58gsm paper.
Starting with MI#63 it writes perfectly on this paper. Wet and smooth with beautiful shading. What a great ink! Other examples to follow.
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Last edited by Chrissy; February 3rd, 2025 at 02:48 AM.
Regards, Chrissy| My Review Blog: inkyfountainpens
Chroma and first writing with M.I. 63
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I've also written with mI#63 on my Rhodia 80gsm clic bloc pad of paper. It took me months to get this one after my previous one ran out but I like the pad idea.
Lubrication suffered compared with how good it is on Tomoe River paper but otherwise I still like this ink.
Mystery Inks 63.jpg
Last edited by Chrissy; Yesterday at 11:12 AM.
Regards, Chrissy| My Review Blog: inkyfountainpens
I just finished doing the basic reviewing of #64.
It's difficult to define. It's a green chameleon ink. It's varies from mint green/teal to dark green. It is very sensitive to paper/pen/ nib combo.
It's a very wet ink. Lubrication is slightly below average. Colour is lovely when wet but sort of dries blandly.
Shading varies from non existent to subtle to extreme depending pen/paper combo.
I disliked writing with a B nib. It was like driving on ice with summer tires (tyres).
I haven't tried it in a really wet pen. I don't know how it'll behave.
Dry times are very long on Rhodia. So think above 50 minutes on Japanese paper.
It doesn't like copy paper, it'll ghost and bleed its heart through![]()
Chroma 64,.jpeg
Rhodia - Mystery 64.jpg
Iroful- Mystery 64.jpg
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