Fig. 1: The review, a little larger than life, color balanced by Brian Excarnate.
This is an iron gall ink, and as such requires frequent flushing to avoid corrosion of fountain pen materials (here comes the debate). Modern iron gall formulations are said to be less catastrophic for pens, but it's good to be on the safe side on these things.
A benefit to iron gall inks is that they're permanent. These were pretty much the first permanent inks used in the Western world, to my knowledge (I'd be happy to be informed otherwise, though)
So the thing with iron gall blue-blacks is that they change color. Not just from wet to dry, but once dry they continue to change. The iron in them oxidizes and blackens, and the blue that was there when the ink was fresh on the page gets overwhelmed.
The above photo was taken about 18 hours after I wrote the review. The color looks pretty good at this point, I think. I'll take another in a week or so and update this post so y'all can see how it changes over time.
I tried to use this ink in my Lamy 2000 for a while, but it's a dry ink and the line was so puny I felt like I had to bear down all the time to get something readable.
In the Esterbrooks it didn't seem quite so dry, but certainly not lush by any means, either.
A benefit to iron gall inks is that they're permanent. These were pretty much the first permanent inks used in the Western world, to my knowledge (I'd be happy to be informed otherwise, though)
So the thing with iron gall blue-blacks is that they change color. Not just from wet to dry, but once dry they continue to change. The iron in them oxidizes and blackens, and the blue that was there when the ink was fresh on the page gets overwhelmed.
The above photo was taken about 18 hours after I wrote the review. The color looks pretty good at this point, I think. I'll take another in a week or so and update this post so y'all can see how it changes over time.
I tried to use this ink in my Lamy 2000 for a while, but it's a dry ink and the line was so puny I felt like I had to bear down all the time to get something readable.
In the Esterbrooks it didn't seem quite so dry, but certainly not lush by any means, either.
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