Monday Matchup: Pilot Falcon with Athena Hatobanezu

This weeks Monday Matchup and Quote of the Week in one!

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Ink Review: Kingdom Note 'Tanna Japonesis' (Sailor Jentle)

Monday Matchup: Chartres Blue Platinum 3776 inked with Athena Eternal Blue

Coming soon: Ink Review for Kingdom Note Tanna Japonesis

I've been writing some letters with Kingdom Note Tanna Japonesis and am really loving this ink! I should have a review up in the next few days! 

Ink Review: 'Eternal Blue' Athena ink from Maruzen

Hi Guys, here is my review of Eternal Blue.

 I'm afraid my scanner isn't great and - on my monitor at least - the colour seems lighter than it should so I took some photos as well which are truer to the original.

Haul from Japan!

So I'm back from Antarctica!!! I had an amazing trip, check out my Instagram if you want to see a few photos!

Since I saw him last my dad has been to Japan twice and before he left I gave him a list of shops in Tokyo to go to if he had the time and a budget of $100 to spend on inks for me - he ended up spending well over that and gave me the rest as gifts!!

Here's what I got:

Pens:

Sailor 1911 (I think it's the Profit?) in a burgundy red with a 14K fine nib.

Pilot Prera, fine

Pilot Kakuno, fine

Pilot Parallel, 2.4mm

Inks:

Four boxes of Pilot cartridges for the parallel.

Maruzen "Athena" ink in Eternal Blue and Hatobanezu

Sailor Kingdom Note ink in Tanna japonensis and Entoloma virescens

Iroshizuku ink in Kiri-same, murasaki-shikibu and ina-ho

Other:

A beautiful leather pen roll by 'Romeo'

And some Japanese sweets!

Here are a few extra images:

Up next: Ink reviews for the Maruzen and Kingdom Note inks. 

Ink Review: Noodler's Polar Blue

As some of you will know, I'm heading off to Antarctica this week (only two sleeps!!) for work, and as such I decided that I would play it safe and only take a bottle of Noodler's Polar Blue - just in case my bags get left outside for any length of time (and they likely will at some point). So I thought I'd start my blog off with a review of the ink I will be exclusively using for the next two months!

Noodler's Polar Blue Ink Review.

Noodler's Polar Blue Bleedthrough

Despite the feathering and bleedthrough on cheap paper I actually quite like this ink - it flows smoothly and is nicely lubricated and I quite like the colour. In a pen with a fine nib and good quality paper the feathering and bleedthough is minimal (although the feathering is still present).

I probably wouldn't buy this ink unless the possibility of your ink freezing is a likely scenario - There are more well behaved blue inks out there. But given I'll be headed for the highest, driest, coldest and windiest continent on earth, I'm happy with my purchase!!

Up next: How will it actually hold up in the freezing Antarctic, erm, Summer (Perhaps I should leave it with someone who is Wintering and get them to tell me if if stays liquid even in the Winter?)


Thanks for reading,

Casey
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Monday Matchup

This weeks Monday Matchup leads in to my first ink review, which I'll post later tonight, for Noodler's Polar Blue.

Welcome to my blog!

Hello my future readers (or, you know, the great vast void that is the internet)! I've decided to start a blog in order to post reviews of pens and inks as I acquire them, and to share my journey to mastering the art of fine penmanship and calligraphy - I have a long way to go and I hope that you will join me! You can also find me on Instagram (@caseyjarryn) and Reddit (/u/caseyjarryn).

Casey

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