That aside, could you add a bit of detail please. Started on the first stroke, nib smooth as butter till the day I have been using the Higgins Calligraphy Ink uneventfully in Reply to author | Forward | Print | View thread | Show original | Report this message | Find messages by this author if you put one of those in an FP, you can kiss it goodbye! Edited Jby fenrisfox It's non-waterproof, and should flush out if you don't like it (oh, and because of that property, the Noodler's is way more permanent).īe very, very careful which Higgins ink you get, though - some of them are waterproof, meant only for dip pens. If you want to try the Higgins Fountain Pen India, I say go ahead. if I did more drawing, I might consider keeping an FP filled with Higgins, specifically for drawing I would carry my main pen filled with Noodler's, though. The Noodler's is more runny, easier to clean, and an all-around better writing ink. Why do I say this? The Higgins gives a denser black, and a better, more uniform black fill when drawing. In short, I'd call the Higgins a "drawing ink," and the Noodler's a "writing ink" - although they could both be used for the other purpose, obviously. I am both an artist and a writer - however, I consider myself primarily a writer (when I sit down with a pen, it's well over 10:1 writing-to-drawing). However - it is somewhat messy, and a bit harder to clean from the nib than either Cross cartridge ink, or Noodler's Black. it does work, and gave me no clogging problems. Of course without a black ink in the collection, the others had to go as well, unfortunately, for many here.I've used Higgins Fountain Pen India in my Cross Century II. Certainly at the time I didn't know much at all about fountain pens, and it didn't help a lot either that the inner cap of the pen I used with it, wasn't air tight either - now it is, but the last time they had it, the nib replacement was not a very good job. I was told in 4 pen shops, so far, that the reason for taking Penman Ebony, specifically, out of production, was the problems it caused in many pens of people who were used to Parker Quink rather than to a very highly pigmented fountain pen ink. That was the (in)famous Parker Penman Ebony. Would you care to name that ink? I'd like to avoid it if possible. One of my pens´s feeds got blocked once due to a (water based) black ink with a high pigment concentration, and it took a total of 4 visits back to the factory before it was fixed, and it stil isn´t 100%. And if it is really thick with pigment like Fount India, even more so. Lots of cleaning, rinsing and flushing, more than with other inks. I do realize that most black inks for fountain pens contain very finely ground soot, as that is apparently the only way to make it opaque, but that also means you have to pay special attention to your fountain pens when using black ink. Fountain pens are really made for dye-based inks, with dyes that dissolve easily and readily in water. Pigmented inks can and will block fountain pen feeds, if not sooner than later. Over here it is sold as an ink to be used for calligraphy with dip pens etc. Whatever the case with Pelikan Fount India, as it is a heavily pigmented ink I would like to warn against using it in a fountain pen.
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