Brainfarts (with or without the smell)

My Lamy came with two sets of ink cartridges: black and blue-black and in addition I ordered naturally the converter and a bottle of black ink, the pen itself contained a blue cartridge. Well, I wouldn't be me if I didn't want to try other inks and colors too, so I made a little order to another British pen store and lo and behold, the postal service delivered me 11 ink bottles. The brand is Diamine and the colors are the following: First thing to do was to make the swab samples. The paper I used was Winsor & Newton sketchbook with 110 g/m2 paper, that is bright white and shows the colors quite well: And of course the next phase was to test the inks. To save time and trouble I didn't want to use the Lamy with the converter so I took my dip pen and started scribbling: Nice colors indeed but Woodland Green and Emerald are not to my taste otherwise the colors are fine for writing and drawing. The Diamine Midnight is not usable with dip pens, it simply...

There is always a start, a new start for everything. I've always been an eager writer and have been blogging here and there in Finnish and now some time has passed by without writing anything so I decided to start a new blog - this time in English. I will try to provide new content every week at least once, sometime more often and sometimes less often, sometimes more pictures and sometimes more text. I hope I won't offend anyone with my writings but if I hurt someone's feelings, my condolences. The layout of this blog is for starters at the moment, I'll tune it little by little, try to bear... Ok, the introduction done. For the last weeks I've been digging out information about the fountain pens and fountain pen friendly papers and notebooks. I bought my first fountain pen Lamy Safari some weeks ago and even though as nice a pen it is, the grip sucks - and badly. My hand is bigger than the average German hand so the natural grip for me is when I grip the pen in ...