Fix My Dry Inks | Little Robinia and White Lightning 

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Glad it was helpful!

I'm so glad! Thank you for watching!

This is the question I’ve wanted to ask!!!!

@@mshaunplans …I’m too old caring if I sound clueless. I’m intrigued with inks, particularly like shading and want to understand RU-vid reviewers. 🤔😆

My interpretation of dry ink is that they're not as free-flowing. For instance, I consider Pilot Iroshizuku a wet ink. I find many Noodler's inks to be dry and opaque as you right on the page.

@@PlanBudgetDisney …do wet inks shade better than dry, and do pigment inks shade less well than dye based? I’m a shading fan, agree and understand your Iroshizuku ink characteristics. I find Sailor Studio nice flowing , many great shaders too.

Thanks for watching! Typically, wet inks flow easily from the nib to the paper. Dry inks can sometimes be difficult to use (they may skip while writing) unless you have wet writing pens. I’ll develop a video about this soon!

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Thanks for watching! The Pilot Kakuno really is impressive. And yes, White Lightning has already proven its worth for me. Got it, wet/dry inks video coming soon.

Hey, thanks for the tip! 💕 I’d heard that many use this solution with great success, and I’m sure it’s more cost effective than White Lightning. I really wanted an option that was developed with fountain pens in mind so that I wouldn’t have to worry incessantly about whether or not certain chemicals/ingredients will degrade fountain pen materials over time.

Oooo yeah, I’m glad that I was cautious while testing White Lightning. I do like the contrast better when I mixed in some Grape, but I seem to be hard to please when it comes to some colors. I want the color of Little Robinia but with the legibility of the mixed inks. I still haven’t found the perfect color, but I’m having plenty of fun just exploring with the inks currently in my collection. Thanks for watching!

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That’s an amazing difference for such a tiny amount.

That’s an amazing difference for such a tiny amount.

Yes, White Lightning is super potent! I’m glad the video was helpful!

You're so welcome! Glad it was helpful.

Thanks for watching! Hope it helped.

Glad it was helpful! If the ink performs more like water in the vial (it beads up rather than coating the sides), it is potentially a dry ink, or at least not a very wet one. But also keep in mind the ones that stick to the vial (ALMOST) like honey; that type of viscosity can be a problem in some drier writing pens. You’re likely to get hard starts from those combos.

Thanks for watching! When I first ink a pen, the nib and feed (often) are overloaded with ink. Once that excess is used up in the initial writing session (maybe the span of one or two paragraphs), the flow is more consistent. That is the time when I can truly judge if the ink is wet, dry, or somewhere in-between. My nibs don't tend to dry out unless I leave them uncapped and not in use (can be as short as 10-15 seconds). So if a pen is writing dry soon after I've inked it up, and I know it's not the pen's fault, I'll consider adding White Lightning to the ink. I hope this helps!

It’s good stuff!

Generally speaking it's always fine to mix ink within the same brand. When you start mixing inks between brands that's usually not a problem either since they're mostly dye based (with the exception of the waterproof pigment inks). I think you have more issues when mixing Noodler's brand inks with others since the manufacturer sometimes uses special manufacturing that can possibly cause adverse reactions. That's mostly with his Baystate inks though.

@@taccora ohhhh I see

Thank you for sharing, @taccora!