Writing Sun 21 Dec Ranga Santa and Diamine Carousel

What are you writing with today?

Ranga Santa <Steel Jowo Stub 1.1> + Diamine Carousel

Paper: Kokuyo Campus

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Writing Tue 16 Dec Ranga Santa and Diamine Carousel

Todays writing tools

Ranga Santa <Steel Jowo Stub 1.1> + Diamine Carousel

Paper: Iroful

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Writing Wed 10 Dec Ranga Santa and Diamine Carousel

Todays key equipment

Ranga Santa <Steel Jowo Stub 1.1> + Diamine Carousel

Paper: Iroful

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Catching up with December the third, and this one was a bit of a surprise to me - it's a sharp looking red ink, Carousel by name. It's marked as a pigment ink, and this isn't something I've experienced before, so I wasn't sure what to expect. We did a little reading up, and it's interesting. It's a forever ink, so I'll be thinking long and hard before I put one in a pen, because once it's dried that's apparently it.

Hmm.

I fooled around with various experimentation which I'll go into in detail in separate sections. Firstly, though, I'll say a bit of isoprop on the offending nib from the previous time worked a treat, and I had no problems with any flow.

Partway along the body of my volunteer test dragon I did some cross hatching with an unknown fine Kaweco, just a standard black I think, that had been in the pen a while and was a bit dry to start with. Then I drew with the pigment ink on top of it. Nothing much happened except the inks began to mix, and not much of interest was apparent.

Okay I thought, let's try it with a permanent ink as the base, so I dug around until I found a black Sharpee and drew on top of a test piece for that. That's the black patch with the dragon pearl in front of the dragon. And, it's... okay, it doesn't show up at all well but it's there, and it's not mixed with the other ink.

Now came the most interesting bit to my mind and inclinations, how does it cope with watercolour going over it once it's dried. It goes fine. I might have to find me some of it in black, and a sacrificial, or 'always keep this filled and active' fountain pen, because it's nice to be able to draw the black ink first, and then put some colour in if I've a mind to. Yes I know I could use other pens that are permanent, but I do enjoy a fountain pen.

The Carousel Ink itself flows really well from a dip nib, it's bright and lovely.

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