Just coming back to thank you. I bought Pilot Shikibu after watching this and I am delighted with it. Along with Montblanc Beatles Psychedelic Purple (R.I.P.) It is my go to purple. like the Waterman Purple too. Thanks for these superb vlogs.
I’d like to say a big thank-you for the inks series - compulsive viewing. This one confirmed to me that I am a fan of the bright purples - Waterman/Montegrappa/Iroshizuku - and not a fan of the murkier grapes. Very interesting indeed.
I like bright purples too. Have you tried R&K Cassia? It's just a bit bluer than Waterman, but just as cheery. I'm waiting on samples of Iro Murasaki-Shibiku, Sailor Fujisugata, JH Violette pensée. I also order Iro Ajisai, but I think that it's more of a light blue-leaning purple, if purple at all. Edit: I forgot to mention Diamine Purple Dream - leans red, bright and cheerful!
Thank you so much for these ink comparison videos, really helps me determine the shades I like and I've bought a couple of bottles now after watching: the Franklin-Christoph Tenebris Purpuratum from this video and Montblanc's Corn Poppy Red are my recent buys (and been reassured in some of my previous choices, like Iroshizuku Yu-Yake for my main orange ink) :)
I enjoyed this video Dave, especially since purple is my favorite color. I have about 15 samples and six bottles of purple ink alone. I saw three on here that I will add to my collection. I am not a sheening/shimmering ink type of person however, the Diamond Bilberry and the Sailor Jentle Shigure are beautiful, I will have to pass them by. Thanks again for this series of videos.
@@JuceePeachz67 It will sheen in super heavy application when doing swabs or writing with very very wet nibs on TR paper or CF Triomphe paper. YMMV though..
A recommendation but very hard to get is pilot iroshizuku edo-murasaki (tokyo limited edition re-released in 2020 but AFAIK only available from japan at current). I personally love it, never seen anyone compare it to the standard murasaki that you used (appears to be darker)
I definitely would not use that Sailor ink. I had said I wouldn't buy any more sheening inks and then I bought four of the new Diamine Blue Edition (Inkvent) sheeners. I think I was lured by the nifty bottles and I wouldn't buy them again, since they dry out fast in the nib and cause hard starting in pens that have no issues.
The new Diamine Blue Edition bottles are very beautiful. That's one downside on the sheening inks is that they tend to dry out or get nib creep a lot more.
Luckily, I bought Festive Cheer, Polar Glow, Midnight Hour, Gingerbread, Nutcracker, Roasted Chestnut and Triple Chocolate in sample form. They are lovely, but do dry out - and not only the sheening ones. The browns do too; they do, however, have a pretty dark brown outline though in my 1911L H-M on TR 52 gsm.
@@chiarac358 I bought Festive Cheer, Polar Glow, Seasons Greetings, Holly, and Candy Cane which is the only non-sheening type. I've been using them in a Visconti Homo Sapiens Elegance broad, TWSBI 580ALR medium and Leonardo Momento Zero medium. If I stop writing for awhile they will hard start, even on the broad which really flows with regular inks.
@@mat8650 I used them in my Sailor 1911S 21kt H-F and H-M and my 1911L 21kt H-MF (this one Lefty) and H-B. My EF, M and B are wet nibs while my MF has normal flow. I’ve put Polar Glow and Triple Chocolate in my Montblanc MB 144 14kt two-tone F nib - which has a generous flow - and I had hard-starts and skipping/skating. But the text is pleasing to the eye when I read back what I wrote after the aggravation wears off! I also had the blue inks in my Pelikan M600 F, hoping that they would better the writing experience with that pen, but no cigar. Then again, I’ve never liked that pen from the get-go: the piston is hard to operate and the nib isn’t right. I have taken the nib unit apart, and both nib and feed are fine (looked with a loupe), but when I put them together, something is off. I haven’t decided whether to send it to a nibmeister or get a new one. I’m weary. I might receive one that does the same thing, i.e. separate from the feed when I write - but this, I think, has to do with the nib length and my writing angle. Then again, if this held true, it would do this with all my smaller nibs; however, with my two 1911S, I find that the H-M lifts off a bit from the feed as opposed to the H-F. Also, my H-F is harder than my H-M, which I consider as having shock absorbers. Both are very pleasant though.
I'd pass the Diamine, Moontegrapa, Waterman and Pilot. For me the others are too dark. I have a Triple Tail so I'm wondering if you've tested a Noodlers purple. At present I'm using a TWSBI purple.
A whole 7ml, Dave?! And chastized you should have been indeed! If one of your friends sent you an empty 7ml vial and asked you for a sample, would you fill it to the brim, or just half way to, let's say... allow the ink to expand while traveling, huh? Let me guess, your ink didn't have far to go, so expansion wasn't a factor. ...Right...
Lovely purples, I have Poussière de Lune and like it. My favourite is currently Montblanc Psychedelic Purple, although it is a limited edition unfortunately.
@@PenultimateDave Cult Pens have started carrying MB inks, and they have it on their website, though they are waiting for stock on it. I didn't know that The Beatles was a limited edition.
I saw Cult Pens recently carrying Montblanc, although I do have a few other sources in the UK that have Montblanc but none have the Beatles one as it's a limited edition. Typically the LE inks tend to sell for £50 upwards on ebay.
I do this to show the difference between a wet writer and a dry writing pen. The ink colour can look quite different depending on how wet the pen writes.
