9/15/2023 0 Comments Pelikan fount india ink![]() Thanks for the help and concern, everybody, but especially Pedlar (aka Mike)! As usual, good advice slipped off my back(, even though I don’t have especially oily feathers). Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, I know from past discussions that you are an innovator & your creativity isn’t just limited to paper – me neither but the fountain pen graveyard is full of artists pens who longed to use inks other than those designed for fountain pens. So for that reason you can’t use Rotring ink (although it might seem to work OK for a few days),Indian ink will kill it faster if you even get one line out of it ! & acrylic ink will take a few days longer but all these inks KILL fountain pens. ![]() One thing that most definitely upsets a fountain pen is disturbing those finely tuned tolerances is using inks not designed for them, most especially if some dried ink should gum up those tiny capillary workings it won’t take much at all to kill the pen. I trust you are getting the idea of just what a delicate balancing act it is & how sophisticated this everyday object is. Some brands of fountain pen inks just don’t get on with some makes of fountain pen – even though in truth there can be very little difference in the actual thickness of the ink! Sometimes a pen might “gush” & give out too much ink but this can be solved by using another ” dryer”make of ink. This feed is a precision made thing ! It is so precisely sized & so temperamental that manufactures make their own brand inks with very specific surface tensions to suit their particular feed. ![]() So you have the reservoir underneath the nib full of ink causing the “seal ” necessary for capillary action to take place whilst the breather hole/slit on the back of the nib allows air to return to the cartridge. ![]() The black bit of the feed that you see sticking out the end of the pen is called the reservoir & actually functions as its name would suggest. The ink is being drawn down by capillary action & the same volume of air is travelling back up to replace the ink that is being used. The ink travels down the tube that goes into the cartridge, then down a very fine groove which has fins radiating out from it, in these fins is a mixture of air & ink. I have left the ink in my pens for three weeks without any consequences but I would urge caution when using a hybrid ink like this.Here is a picture of the bit inside a fountain pen body – “the feed”, the nib which sticks out of the pen is stuck into the blue tack. I really enjoy using this ink but I only use Fount India ink in my more affordable pens that are easy to dissemble as it is a bit harder to fully clean out. ![]() I have also noticed that this ink is especially prone to “nib creep”. It should be noted that unlike real India ink, Fount India dries matte and not glossy.īecause of it’s thicker consistency it can take a little bit to get the pen going after it has sat overnight but once it starts flowing the ink performs wonderfully. It is not the blackest fountain pen ink out there but it has a richness to it that few black inks can match. Unlike regular fountain pen ink, Fount India, has a thicker consistency that affords a very smooth lubricated feel on the paper. So, you may be asking, “what’s the point?” India inks (most often) contain binding agents like shellac that provide permanent and waterproof characteristics and consequently make them unsuitable for use in fountain pens (NEVER put real India ink in a fountain pen).īy making an “India-style” ink for use in a fountain pen you have to forgo the binding agent and you are left with a non-waterproof and non-permanent ink. Pelikan Fount India ink is an oddball ink. ![]()
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