Right, I'm admitting defeat on the Van Dieman's Ink Sacagewea, I've tried it in a Wing Sung 3008, and those are pretty good-tempered, but it dries up after three or four words. I've just tried it in a Majohn Wancai, both F nib and fude nib, and it doesn't come out at all unless I prime it under water and then write on paper towel or chromatography paper, neither of which are really practical for actual writing. I tried pulling out the feed on the Wancai, and that's some surface tension the ink's got, because it didn't come out of the hole once the feed was out unless I shook very enthusiastically. I've tried it in a fine and stub nib Sailor Hocoro, and it will grudgingly flow in the stub as long as I only want to write a few words. It did work with the glass dip pen, but I hadn't cleaned the Achilles off it from yesterday's swatching, so it may have got diluted a bit with something with less surface tension.
BennysLittleThings (npub1hej…qetx) has no problem with it, and I've seen a couple of other people like it, so maybe I just got a dud bottle. I love the colour, but since I don't paint it was a waste of nine quid. The entire bottle may be heading in the direction of the meet next year. Time to try a drop of washing up liquid.
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