My first Pilot Iroshizuku ink. I love it so far.

a month ago by tuckerm to c/fountainpens

I bought one of the acclaimed Pilot Iroshizuku inks last week. It's also the first ink I've bought at a store in-person. Here it is on my desk at work. I've been using it in a notebook that doesn't really show off any nice fountain pen qualities, but even so, I've been enjoying this ink. The purple color looks great, and it dries quickly, which is nice for a lefty.

Seems like every other fountain pen user besides me has used these before; do you have any favorite colors?

bridgeenjoyer 15 points a month ago

Woah woah,what is that sweet KB and trakball?

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01189998819991197253 7 points a month ago

No, no. He's got a point

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ThatsOurLastBowl 5 points a month ago

Keeb is an ergodox ez, I think! I'm a little out of the loop these days.

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a_non_monotonic_function 1 point a month ago

Came here to suggest the same thing. Looks like the corner of it, probably with the tent tilt kit, and on the side it looks like the wrist rests that are built for it.

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qarl 3 points a month ago

Trackball seems to be an L-Trac.

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mvirts 11 points a month ago

All I can see is how clean the desk and equipment are and how stained it would be if I was allowed to have that ink nearby πŸ˜…

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tuckerm 3 points a month ago

I was definitely paranoid when I was filling my pen, lol. I did it on an empty desk next to me.

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Arkhive 2 points a month ago

I don’t know, a well placed splatter of that ink could look really cool across an all white desk…

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leann 6 points a month ago

I like the name. Cool call-out to the classic author.

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tuckerm 7 points a month ago

I hadn't thought to search for the name; I hadn't realized that was a real person. Cool.

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tal 3 points a month ago path: 0 25588889, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
CADmonkey 3 points a month ago

I have a bottle of this I bought back in 2017 or so, I still have 1/3 of it left. One of my favorite inks.

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cosmicrose 3 points a month ago

I have the Yama-Budo, which is red with a gold sheen. It’s so pretty. I used it for my D&D journals which were my weekly chance to hand-write a bunch.

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tal 4 points a month ago path: 0 25586054 25588314, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 1
LucidNightmare 2 points a month ago

Red?? It looks purple to me, and as far as I know, I don't have any color deficiencies. :-P

EDIT: From the website:

The color: Yama-budo is a bright, fuchsia purple.

OP, you may have something to talk to your optometrist about. ;-)

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dream_weasel 2 points a month ago

As a lefty you say? I have just been rocking the G6 8 pack because I thought the only way I could get into fountain pens is to use a crazy apparatus that makes me drag it like a righty...

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tal 1 point a month ago path: 0 25593367 25615149, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
tal 2 points a month ago

Pilot Iroshizuku...every other fountain pen user besides me has used these before; do you have any favorite colors

I have a few, but I think that the only one that I've inked a pen up with thus far is the shading yellow-orange-red Iroshizuku Yu-Yake.

I like it---it's on a stub nib pen---but I haven't used similar yellow-orange-red inks from other ink manufacturers, like Noodler's Southwest Sunset, and I imagine that in practice, they're probably pretty similar to Pilot's ink.

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Primor 1 point a month ago

Beautiful ink!

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01189998819991197253 1 point a month ago

I have the black and blue ones, and they are probably my favorite writers. Smooth and bold. Beautiful

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swelter_spark 1 point a month ago

The color looks so rich! What is the finish like?

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tuckerm 3 points a month ago

I has a decent amount of shading. I only have it in a pen with a fine nib right now, so it doesn't show up very much, but it's noticeable.

Here it is on an Apica notebook. I think the real color is a little darker than this; I got a little water in the feed when I was cleaning it, so this is a slightly watered-down version of the ink.

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swelter_spark 1 point a month ago

Lovely. What is the scent like?

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tuckerm 1 point a month ago

I didn't notice one; I don't think it has one. I'm away from my desk until Monday, so I can't check it out for a few days. But it's not an intentionally scented ink, and I don't think it had much of a scent at all.

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GreenBean 1 point a month ago

My favorite is the chestnut brown Yama-guri.

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