In this video I will show you how you can refill a dead Tombow Fudenosuke with ink so you can keep using it! Instagram / thetiredcrafter M. / m.rivail_calligraphy / mrivail_art
This is the bomb! Thank you! I use these pens for illustration and love them so much, but have been bothered by having to toss them when they get dry and sad.
Thank you for sharing your video. Which ink did you use in the video? Was it water-based pigment ink like the label on the tombow brush pen? Where can I buy the ink? I’m new to lettering handwriting calligraphy. Thank you for your help.
I have a bottle of Speedball dense black waterproof India ink...Would that be ok. I have three pens waiting to be restored. I'm so glad that it can be done!!! Thanks for sharing this video.
I have never tried with a dropper but you can test it! The little sponge should suck the ink drops fast, if it doesn't then I think it would too hard for it to get saturated.
Hello! Is it required to be the same color? I used a blue whiteboard ink to refill my black tombow fudenosuke brush pen and the ink seems to go in at first but then when you start to use it, it came out in bulk as if they're both insoluble to each other!
This is super🎉. Will putting some other color ink like red in the same pen ( which once had black pen) work?? Basically can this trick be used to refill with " not just the black ink" but any color ink
thank you, idk why they don't give us refills, with the environment and plastic trash crisis we have now .... i know the barrel is made from recycled plastic though so i guess it's pretty good, i hope they'll sell us the refill someday anyway
I use sumi ink or indian ink, that very generic black ink, very cheap. I think fountain pen ink is too watery to mix with the little ink left in the cartridge of the pen and it could make a mess when writing, come out all blotchy. When I have one that is old I will try and see how the ink reacts.
Fountain pen ink is too watery. The best inks to use are the sumi or indian inks, those cheap generic ones will do just fine. And yes when you are done just shut the back into the pen again until it click. I particularly don't fully close it because I keep opening to refill and when you open it you put aome pressure on the plastic, so I leave it a little loose.
do you know what type of tip does your tombow have? I am looking to get one for sketching but dont know if i should get broad tip or fine tip. thanks a lot!!
The one I use in the video is the firm nib for the Tombow fudenosuke pen. The blue body one. The firm nib is better for brush calligraphy training and I assume also for sketching. There is another Tombow fudenosuke pe with the green body that is the soft nib... same size. When I sketch I don't use brush pens tho, I use fineliners like the Sakura pigma micron pens, or the Unipin fineliners.
Wow another way to save my Tombow pen to refill Thanks for the tip by the way what kind of ink do you prefer for Tombow any brand will or indian inks are not suitable?
Whrn I train every day for about 20 minutes writing and writing, the original ink from the pen lasts a month... refilled like I shoed in the video seems to last about the same amount of time, but you can keep refilling it.
It is actually the contrary. If you put dye based inks in it, it won't work, it will be too watery and come out in blotches. It has to be sumi ink or indian ink.
The new pen with the original ink lasts about a month if you train every day for about 20 minutes. The refill I show in the video lasts about the same.
You can refill them, sure, but eventually the tip will wear down with use. I toss them out, which is always bittersweet. I hate the waste but I get a new pen!!
