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My wife and I both draw with Namiki Falcon fountain pens, which are fantastic, and use Platinum Carbon Black ink, which is a pigmented ink. I don't know if it'
by fatbird 9y ago
My wife and I both draw with Namiki Falcon fountain pens, which are fantastic, and use Platinum Carbon Black ink, which is a pigmented ink. I don't know if it's nano-particles (i.e., the pigment is ground extremely fine so brownian motion alone is sufficient to maintain dispersion), but we've never experienced clogging, and it has a permanence (and blackness) on par with Noodler's Bulletproof Black. She uses her pen almost every day; mine can go a week or more without being used. Still works perfectly every time I pick it up.
- TheRealPomax 9y agoWhich weight? I had a fine for a while and it was the worst thing to use, it scratched worse than a 4H pencil... (currently using a Bock #6 titanium nib in a $20 Noodler's Konrad and the amount of flex and control is second only to a vintage gold nib).
- fatbird 9y agoWe both have extra fine nibs, and haven't found them to be scratchy at all. I do recall a bit of a break-in period with hers, making circles on a sheet of paper for a while, to smooth it out.