Aviators - Eternal Lullaby

Diamine Registrar's Ink, Leonardt round hand nibs, Rhodia Touch calligraphy paper


Another iron gall ink, and much better behaved than the other one! This one's fountain pen friendly, though I'm reluctant to put it in a fountain pen, I prefer to work with dip pens these days.

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I just pulled my Online Slope fountain pen out of my pencil case. It had been sitting in there for weeks, if not months, untouched and inked up with ESS Registrar's, an iron gall ink. The converter has dark residue stuck all along its inside, but there was a little bit of liquid ink remaining. So I did the unwise thing and "dirty filled" it with the same ink again, without cleaning pen or converter first. And it just writes. Time will tell if that's just the ink in the section or if the pen just doesn't care about being forgotten with iron gall ink inside. It's a cheap pen I can always just buy another one of if needed, but so far it is the one that has been coping with iron gall ink and almost no maintenance whatsoever.

So if you're looking for an affordable fountain pen that doesn't mind ESS Registrar's or Diamine Registrar's iron gall ink, the Online Slope is the one you wanna get, plus any regular international cartridge converter. I'm not sure if they sell it with any choice of nib size. My nib has no indication of its size and feels like a medium nib to me.

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Diamine Registrar's Blue Black and ESS Registrar's Blue Black are so similar, I cannot tell them apart other than by the label on the bottle.

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I bought "the other" iron gall registrar's ink – the one from https://registrarsink.co.uk/ – and am looking forward to trying it out.
Side note: customs has gotten considerably expensive since Brexit.
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"Rewrite it in rust"
*pulls out fountain pen and iron gall ink*
Am I doing this right?
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Earlier this week, I bought a Schneider Wavy fountain pen and filled it with Diamine Registrar's blue black iron gall ink. Today, it stopped working. After two letters, it just wouldn't write anymore. I thought, maybe this cheap pen isn't equipped to handle iron gall ink and it just dried up. After a brief investigation, the root cause was found in an entirely different place: the converter had ran out. I had written so much over the last couple days that the ink was just empty. No flow issues, no drying out, no hard starts.

Anyway, I bought this pen because it writes a touch broader than the Online Slope fountain pen. I believe they're both sold with medium nibs but the Schneider Wavy nib is a touch broader, it seems. And for the price I was willing to find out the hard way whether or not it would cope with iron gall ink. Turns out: yes, yes it does. It works very well.

The fountain pens from TWSBI and Lamy I tried don't seem to like this kind of ink, but the cheap ones from Online and Schneider have no problem whatsoever.

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As I was writing my diary in mother-in-law's garden, the Mrs accidentally squirted water onto my book. Which settles the debate whether or not waterproof ink is worth the trouble, at least for me. The purple part of R&K Scabiosa (an iron gall ink) came up and went but the dark iron gall part didn't budge even where the ink had just dried.
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