Got the ink! (KWZ IG Violet, as stated above.) Very unusual smell. I don't know if it's because it's iron gall, or if it's KWZ in particular.
Anyhow... I inked up two of my pens with it: Pelikan M205 EF and Sailor Sapporo F. With the former (M205), I still get some feathering, but it's definitely an improvement over my Pelikan M200 EF with Iroshizuku Yama-Budo. With the latter (Sapporo), well, it's really dry and a little bit skippy, but there's no feathering at all. So, I don't know. I'm not completely happy with either, although both are obviously better than what I was using yesterday (M200 with Yama-Budo). I might try to experiment with other pens to see if I can get better results. We'll see about the Preppy that I'm supposed to get next week.
UPDATE: I decided to try to do something about Sapporo's dryness. So, I spread the tines with my fingernails. It's a
much better writer now, writes really nicely on standard office paper, and maybe it won't be spending so much time uninked anymore.

However, on that terrible paper, I now get every bit as much feathering with it as with the M205. Well. Back to the pen search... We'll see about the Preppy next week.
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