Hey Everyone! I had to RE-UPLOAD this video because the original one had some interlacing problems with the video. This one should be clean. If you commended on the previous video to enter yourself in the giveaway for these inks, I still have your info... but it wouldn't hurt to comment again! :-) I hope that you'll all share this video with someone else who will appreciate it... we pen/ink people need to stick together.
The three characters next to the recycling symbol does NOT mean made in Taiwan, it means qualified product 合格品 If it's made in Taiwan, it will say 產地: 台灣 or 台灣製造. The whole labels are all in simplified Chinese--if it's made in Taiwan, it will be traditional Chinese.
Here's the common translation that I get from Google: photos.app.goo.gl/MzyHEDKidgid7BA7A But! Sometimes the "Taiwan Product" does switch to "Qualified Product". Also, the name of the ink switches around quite a bit.
Good review. I have both inks. Enjoy both. I find them to work well in all pens. Main downside is slow drying. The Al-Star writing was excellent, with shading & sheen. Tramol also makes some excellent glitter inks. I buy many bottles & overall cost delivered is about $4 USD.
I watched your video (or maybe two of them) about the Tramol inks with glitter, and enjoyed the review. The inks looked great, but since I find that I rarely use glittery inks, I haven't been buying them recently. I went on a hunt for the Tramol inks without glitter... I'm sure they're out there... but I ended up going down some other rabbit hole on AliExpress and ended up not buying any new inks, that day. This is a good reminder to look again. Thanks!
i juuust started getting into sheening inks so this video is extremely helpful and informative. thank you sooo much! i'll need to decide which i like better since im already into turquoise/magenta combos. so hard to decide! probably going to watching this multiple times haha~ thank you! 😆🥰
At this price it's probably worth buying a couple of them :-) Also worth considering... these Ostrich Inks end up around the same price, and there's a good selection of colors. I believe that "Moon Lake" is the same as the Pine Forest here, and the Okinawa Sea might be the same as Volga River. s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DCAkZpl
Just found your channel and loved this video so I subscribed. Saw these inks on aliexpress a few weeks ago but had no idea they would be that nice. The pine forest especially is so appealing to me. Thanks again for making this video.
Hello Mars451 B! You're the winner of the Pine Forest ink! Maybe. If you're in the USA. If so, send me an email at matthew@thewetpen.com :-) (I'm only just realizing how few of my subscribers are in the USA... I'm going to have to be more specific in the future).
Awesome colors , looks fantastic . Excited to write with giveway ink volga river 😍. Subscribed 👆. Unfortunately aliexpress is restricted in my area . Good efforts for identifying the inks . Awesome channel .
I think I agree with you about Pine Forest, but I really like both. I have multiple bottles of each, now, though they've been pushed to the back of a shelf and I don't use them as much anymore.
Fun! I used to be really into sheening inks but stopped using them as much because they tend to be hard to clean out of pens. Lately, I've been using pastel chromoshading inks more often. They're beautiful and super easy to clean, but they're usually bone dry, which I hate. I tried adding a drop of Kodak Photolfo to the chromoshading inks to make them wetter, which works, but they don't shade as well. So now I'm back to sheening inks again. I hope they come out with wet chromoshading inks and easy-to-clean-out sheening inks someday, but I guess the chemistry doesn't allow for that. I suppose everything has a trade-off.
I'm still a fan of sheening inks, though I'm not as big a fan as before... I've been getting interested in pigmented inks recently. I've had the same issue with chroma shaders being too dry.
update: so i ordered both these inks and the ostrich amethyst one. Matthew's review is really spot on! i recommend them if you want highly sheening inks! :D (my midori paper doesn't seem to be showing the sheen well though. may be because it's been in stock at the shop a long time, sizing issues, idk. that said, i'll be trying out some Bachuan and Izumo paper in the future to see how well sheen shows up on those.) thank you again Matthew for this great review! 🥰👍👍
Ah, I'm glad it worked out! If you do try the Bachuan paper, let me know what you think... I got a few A6 sized sheets of it with an order, once, and I wasn't crazy about it... it was just like tracing paper. Incidentally, Pure Pens (in Wales) carries the Nebula notebooks from Colorverse for about 12 pounds, and they're Tomoe River, which provides some of the best sheen there is, and also try "Art From the Heart" for Tomoe River... they have good prices in the UK. www.afth.co.uk/
@@thewetpen i shall definitely update u on the bachuan paper 😁👍🏻 and thank you for all the paper info! i’ll keep those in mind for whenever i visit the UK. (im in Thailand 🙈😊)
@@thewetpen second update: tried the two papers i got. 1) Bachuan 52g, it’s not like tracing paper at all. It’s actual lined paper, just really thin. I went back to the listing and it has in super tiny font “Tomoe” lol 2) Japanese Izumo 92g paper. Both show sheen very well and behave pretty much the same. I suppose it might be because these tramol inks are super sheening which helps a lot. 😄
If it’s possible, I’d love the Mount Volga ink. I first came across your channel when I was obsessed with flex pens but too scared to spend money. When I saw your video, everything clicked! I’ve got a Jinhao x750 now, and I got the FPR ultra-flex nib. It’s magnificent! It writes so well! Thank you very much for your video, I wouldn’t have found the FPR nib or even known I could switch nibs out without it.
Glad your FPR nib worked out! I get mixed reports about them from people who watched my video, though they've always worked wonderfully for me. And I'll put you on the list for Volga Valley.
@@thewetpen funnily enough, I ended up getting the ink myself (with your link), so I already have it. Maybe someone else can try it out now? Also, when I close the page, it's weirdly sticky. I love the color though!
@@neonhorizon Oooh, interesting! I haven't had any issues with stickiness, but I know that's a common problem with sheening inks, so maybe I've just been lucky. Anyway... glad that you already have got some, I'll draw another name for this bottle :-) Thanks!
I've just found your chanel and subscribed. Although I've always used a fountain pen I've recently decided to use bottled ink and love the idea of sheening inks, something that I wasn't aware of until a couple of weeks ago. Thanks for your review, I'd seen these inks on AliExpress but didn't take the plunge, I might now though. It would be amazing to win either of these inks because I think they are both beautiful, however I'm in the UK so I don't know if that makes a difference. Wonderful thought to give away a bottle of each though. Best wishes, Victoria
Thanks Victoria :-) Yes, having looked into the regulations and costs of international shipping a bit more, I may have to rule it out... but I'm still considering it a possibility. Luckily, since you're in the UK, you can buy a great variety of Diamine sheening inks in the 30ml size for just a couple of pounds from places like Cult Pens, if you don't happen to win one of these.
@@thewetpen can absolutely understand that, shipping costs can be extortionate between the UK and USA. Yes, I've looked into Cult Pens and the Diamine inks - now it's just a case of narrowing down my basket 😂.
That was an Indian pen... a Kanpur Writers (Kanwrite) Heritage. I bought it with a flex nib, but they sell a set of additional screw-in nib units that include a standard BB and an architect BB for only $9, so I bought those too :-) kanpurwriters.com/product/combo-2-heritage-1-b-reg-1-b-oblique-l-r/ I also bought a BB Knox nib from Birmingham Pens for $19 and it's wonderfully smooth and reliable, but they're sold out now... maybe permanently.
I bought a bottle of each and they took 87 days to get here (Belgium). But good things come to those who wait, right? Unfortunately,, my bottle of Volga River ink looks nothing like yours. Maybe it was a bad batch, or maybe they dropped some of the dye meant for Pine Forest into Volga River, because it's definitely a teal ink, not a blue ink. Quite disappointing. I'm tempted to order another bottle, but I think I'll just order another bottle of Krishna Kolkata instead. Yes, it's about twice the price but at least I know what I'll be getting. The Pine Forest ink also looks nothing like your bottle. It's just a green-ish teal with red sheen. It reminds me a lot of Diamine Smoke On The Water.
Aww, I'm sorry to hear that! It's so disappointing when these ink makers don't maintain the same formula from month to month. Since then, I've ordered several other oddball Chinese inks, and at least one of them was exactly like my Tramol Volga River, so I had just assumed that there was a factory somewhere that makes the ink in bulk and various brands re-bottle and rename it. I think that Becomefish Soul is one of them. On December 3rd I ordered a PenBBS pen from a non-PenBBS storefront on AliExpress, and after a couple weeks, it hadn't arrived so I got impatient and ordered a different pen from the official PenBBS store on Etsy. A couple weeks later, that pen arrived and I liked it, so I ordered another two PenBBS pens from them, and a couple weeks later, they arrived. Finally, last week, the original pen that I ordered arrived. It didn't take 87 days, but it felt like it took forever. I love the pen, though 🙂
It's a bit of a strange thing; carbon isn't part of any fountain pen ink. Traditional Chinese ink (used with a brush) for calligraphy is made of carbon and can't be used in fountain pens, so it may be that they're specifying that... but the other possibility is that it's a translation problem, and they mean that it's a non-pigmented ink. Most fountain pen inks are dye-based, but some are pigment based... pigments can be used, but they can also clog up pens if they dry in the nib, so they take a little special care. That's all I've got 🙂
I actually don't know... I read so many bad things about Nitrogen that I never ended up buying any, and I don't have sheen machine either. However, I do have a couple of other Oraganics Studio inks... the Santiago Sea and the Walden... and they both sheen like crazy, which is what I expect from Sheen Machine. Volga River sheens with a pinker color, and it's not quite as heavy... you still get some blue color showing through underneath, unlike the super sheeners.
I like this type inks the issue is that they clog or dry to fast on pens. They settle in the cartridges or converters and need to be shaken constantly. At least that was my experience.
I think that you have something else in mind... "shimmering" inks are a different thing than "sheening". Shimmering inks have glitter in them which can clog and settle, as you say. Sheening inks do not. Instead, the dyes that are used in them create iridescence when they dry, so you shouldn't have any problem with clogging, etc.
apologies for commenting again but would you happen to know if Rhodia paper works for these sheening inks? i can't seem to find a local source to buy tomoe from but rhodia is more readily available. i dont know anything about papers so thought i'd ask an expert such as yourself 😁
Unfortunately, I don't get much sheen with these inks on Rhodia. I just did another test with Volga River on a Rhodia notebooke, and the ink behaves well of course... no feathering or anything, but there's just a hint of sheen if you look very closely. If you can't find Tomoe River locally you probably won't find Cosmo Air Light, but you might find Midori, which sheens well. Black n' Red notebooks sheen very nicely for me, or any other notebook that has "Optik Paper"... it's found in Oxford notebooks sometimes. It also tends to sheen well on heavier papers like watercolor paper. Good luck!
@@thewetpen you… are SUCH a life saver! 😆 thank you soooo much!! i just spent about an hour searching for all the brands you just mentioned, nada. but midori is available! 🥳 thank you again! 😆🙏🏻
hi again :) i'm looking to buy these inks from your affiliate link 😆. i happened to see your comment on chrisrap52's vid about Plumage and Aurora. Would you happen to have affiliate links to those as well? I can't seem to find those at all.🥺
Just looked in my order history, and it looks like the Aurora and Plumage are not available anymore from that seller (they were here: www.aliexpress.com/item/2255800167636944.html ) and my quick search hasn't turned them up anywhere else. Good luck! My Ostrich link is also an affiliate one, of course :-)
@@thewetpen thank you very much 🥰 shame they're not available anymore. and YES i saw your ostrich link so i might be getting the purple amethyst instead of the aurora. gotta remember to use your aff links when i get home😁. and then on to find cheap paper that shows sheen well. 😂👍
@@thewetpen alright, just made my order for the volga, pine, and amethyst, hope you got the commission :D estimated shipping 2 months 🤣 i shall be happy in september LOL thank you again!! 😆🙏👍
@@PaintinHiding Wow, that's the proverbial slow boat. Hopefully it won't take anything like two months... though I think that it was about a month for me. Enjoy your inks!
Hey Everyone! I had to RE-UPLOAD this video because the original one had some interlacing problems with the video. This one should be clean. If you commended on the previous video to enter yourself in the giveaway for these inks, I still have your info... but it wouldn't hurt to comment again! :-) I hope that you'll all share this video with someone else who will appreciate it... we pen/ink people need to stick together.
The three characters next to the recycling symbol does NOT mean made in Taiwan, it means qualified product 合格品
If it's made in Taiwan, it will say 產地: 台灣 or 台灣製造. The whole labels are all in simplified Chinese--if it's made in Taiwan, it will be traditional Chinese.
Ah ha! That's what I get for trusting Google Translate! Thanks for the info :-)
Here's the common translation that I get from Google: photos.app.goo.gl/MzyHEDKidgid7BA7A But! Sometimes the "Taiwan Product" does switch to "Qualified Product". Also, the name of the ink switches around quite a bit.
Good review. I have both inks. Enjoy both. I find them to work well in all pens. Main downside is slow drying. The Al-Star writing was excellent, with shading & sheen. Tramol also makes some excellent glitter inks. I buy many bottles & overall cost delivered is about $4 USD.
I watched your video (or maybe two of them) about the Tramol inks with glitter, and enjoyed the review. The inks looked great, but since I find that I rarely use glittery inks, I haven't been buying them recently. I went on a hunt for the Tramol inks without glitter... I'm sure they're out there... but I ended up going down some other rabbit hole on AliExpress and ended up not buying any new inks, that day. This is a good reminder to look again. Thanks!
i juuust started getting into sheening inks so this video is extremely helpful and informative. thank you sooo much! i'll need to decide which i like better since im already into turquoise/magenta combos. so hard to decide! probably going to watching this multiple times haha~ thank you! 😆🥰
At this price it's probably worth buying a couple of them :-) Also worth considering... these Ostrich Inks end up around the same price, and there's a good selection of colors. I believe that "Moon Lake" is the same as the Pine Forest here, and the Okinawa Sea might be the same as Volga River. s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DCAkZpl
Pine Forest looks nice
Just found your channel and loved this video so I subscribed. Saw these inks on aliexpress a few weeks ago but had no idea they would be that nice. The pine forest especially is so appealing to me. Thanks again for making this video.
Hello Mars451 B! You're the winner of the Pine Forest ink! Maybe. If you're in the USA. If so, send me an email at matthew@thewetpen.com :-) (I'm only just realizing how few of my subscribers are in the USA... I'm going to have to be more specific in the future).
@@thewetpen wow! thank you so much! I'll send the email now🙂
I have decided that between your voice and the music, this is my favourite way to relax 🤣
Pine forest would be wonderful, I loved it in the Lamy medium nib!
Agreed... and you're on a short list :-)
Awesome colors , looks fantastic . Excited to write with giveway ink volga river 😍.
Subscribed 👆.
Unfortunately aliexpress is restricted in my area .
Good efforts for identifying the inks .
Awesome channel .
Interesting ink, has not tried sheening inks yet 🤔 Thank you so much for the review!!
They're definitely worth a shot, even if you're not going to use them everyday... they're good special-occasion inks :-)
Great video and cool inks Volgar River would be my pick.
Those two inks are interesting, but I prefer pine forest. Just what I need, a cheaper source of ink. Thanks for the review.
I think I agree with you about Pine Forest, but I really like both. I have multiple bottles of each, now, though they've been pushed to the back of a shelf and I don't use them as much anymore.
your channel is incredibly high quality!
thanks for the videos please keep it up :)
Just as I was looking to buy a new ink this is uploaded, great content, and that Pine Forest with the EF nib looks amazing.
Hey MegaM0m! You're the winner of the Pine Forest ink :-) Send me an email and we can figure out shipping. matthew@thewetpen.com
@@thewetpen Nice!! I never expected to win it hahaha, I will send you an email
Fun! I used to be really into sheening inks but stopped using them as much because they tend to be hard to clean out of pens. Lately, I've been using pastel chromoshading inks more often. They're beautiful and super easy to clean, but they're usually bone dry, which I hate. I tried adding a drop of Kodak Photolfo to the chromoshading inks to make them wetter, which works, but they don't shade as well. So now I'm back to sheening inks again. I hope they come out with wet chromoshading inks and easy-to-clean-out sheening inks someday, but I guess the chemistry doesn't allow for that. I suppose everything has a trade-off.
I'm still a fan of sheening inks, though I'm not as big a fan as before... I've been getting interested in pigmented inks recently. I've had the same issue with chroma shaders being too dry.
Love your videos and your useful info. Subscribed!
That is beautiful, WOW 😲.
update: so i ordered both these inks and the ostrich amethyst one. Matthew's review is really spot on! i recommend them if you want highly sheening inks! :D (my midori paper doesn't seem to be showing the sheen well though. may be because it's been in stock at the shop a long time, sizing issues, idk. that said, i'll be trying out some Bachuan and Izumo paper in the future to see how well sheen shows up on those.) thank you again Matthew for this great review! 🥰👍👍
Ah, I'm glad it worked out! If you do try the Bachuan paper, let me know what you think... I got a few A6 sized sheets of it with an order, once, and I wasn't crazy about it... it was just like tracing paper. Incidentally, Pure Pens (in Wales) carries the Nebula notebooks from Colorverse for about 12 pounds, and they're Tomoe River, which provides some of the best sheen there is, and also try "Art From the Heart" for Tomoe River... they have good prices in the UK. www.afth.co.uk/
@@thewetpen i shall definitely update u on the bachuan paper 😁👍🏻 and thank you for all the paper info! i’ll keep those in mind for whenever i visit the UK. (im in Thailand 🙈😊)
@@PaintinHiding Ha! I guess I was thinking of someone else being in the UK 😊 Anyway... good luck with the papers :-)
@@thewetpen second update: tried the two papers i got. 1) Bachuan 52g, it’s not like tracing paper at all. It’s actual lined paper, just really thin. I went back to the listing and it has in super tiny font “Tomoe” lol 2) Japanese Izumo 92g paper. Both show sheen very well and behave pretty much the same. I suppose it might be because these tramol inks are super sheening which helps a lot. 😄
@@PaintinHiding Oh, good! :-) Glad you found some papers that work well for you.
If it’s possible, I’d love the Mount Volga ink. I first came across your channel when I was obsessed with flex pens but too scared to spend money. When I saw your video, everything clicked! I’ve got a Jinhao x750 now, and I got the FPR ultra-flex nib. It’s magnificent! It writes so well! Thank you very much for your video, I wouldn’t have found the FPR nib or even known I could switch nibs out without it.
Glad your FPR nib worked out! I get mixed reports about them from people who watched my video, though they've always worked wonderfully for me. And I'll put you on the list for Volga Valley.
Hey Neon Sky... you're the winner of the Volga River ink! Send me an email and I'll figure out how to get it to you. matthew@thewetpen.com
@@thewetpen funnily enough, I ended up getting the ink myself (with your link), so I already have it. Maybe someone else can try it out now?
Also, when I close the page, it's weirdly sticky. I love the color though!
@@neonhorizon Oooh, interesting! I haven't had any issues with stickiness, but I know that's a common problem with sheening inks, so maybe I've just been lucky. Anyway... glad that you already have got some, I'll draw another name for this bottle :-) Thanks!
I like the pine 🌲 forest
I've just found your chanel and subscribed. Although I've always used a fountain pen I've recently decided to use bottled ink and love the idea of sheening inks, something that I wasn't aware of until a couple of weeks ago. Thanks for your review, I'd seen these inks on AliExpress but didn't take the plunge, I might now though. It would be amazing to win either of these inks because I think they are both beautiful, however I'm in the UK so I don't know if that makes a difference. Wonderful thought to give away a bottle of each though. Best wishes, Victoria
Thanks Victoria :-) Yes, having looked into the regulations and costs of international shipping a bit more, I may have to rule it out... but I'm still considering it a possibility. Luckily, since you're in the UK, you can buy a great variety of Diamine sheening inks in the 30ml size for just a couple of pounds from places like Cult Pens, if you don't happen to win one of these.
@@thewetpen can absolutely understand that, shipping costs can be extortionate between the UK and USA. Yes, I've looked into Cult Pens and the Diamine inks - now it's just a case of narrowing down my basket 😂.
What was the BB pen you used?
That was an Indian pen... a Kanpur Writers (Kanwrite) Heritage. I bought it with a flex nib, but they sell a set of additional screw-in nib units that include a standard BB and an architect BB for only $9, so I bought those too :-) kanpurwriters.com/product/combo-2-heritage-1-b-reg-1-b-oblique-l-r/ I also bought a BB Knox nib from Birmingham Pens for $19 and it's wonderfully smooth and reliable, but they're sold out now... maybe permanently.
FYI: The affiliate link seems to be broken.
I bought a bottle of each and they took 87 days to get here (Belgium). But good things come to those who wait, right? Unfortunately,, my bottle of Volga River ink looks nothing like yours. Maybe it was a bad batch, or maybe they dropped some of the dye meant for Pine Forest into Volga River, because it's definitely a teal ink, not a blue ink. Quite disappointing. I'm tempted to order another bottle, but I think I'll just order another bottle of Krishna Kolkata instead. Yes, it's about twice the price but at least I know what I'll be getting.
The Pine Forest ink also looks nothing like your bottle. It's just a green-ish teal with red sheen. It reminds me a lot of Diamine Smoke On The Water.
Aww, I'm sorry to hear that! It's so disappointing when these ink makers don't maintain the same formula from month to month. Since then, I've ordered several other oddball Chinese inks, and at least one of them was exactly like my Tramol Volga River, so I had just assumed that there was a factory somewhere that makes the ink in bulk and various brands re-bottle and rename it. I think that Becomefish Soul is one of them.
On December 3rd I ordered a PenBBS pen from a non-PenBBS storefront on AliExpress, and after a couple weeks, it hadn't arrived so I got impatient and ordered a different pen from the official PenBBS store on Etsy. A couple weeks later, that pen arrived and I liked it, so I ordered another two PenBBS pens from them, and a couple weeks later, they arrived. Finally, last week, the original pen that I ordered arrived. It didn't take 87 days, but it felt like it took forever. I love the pen, though 🙂
The line at the bottom says it passes quality control, not made in Taiwan.
Pi ne looks cool, what does non carbon ink mean? I mean are most inls carbon or non carbon for fountain pen?
It's a bit of a strange thing; carbon isn't part of any fountain pen ink. Traditional Chinese ink (used with a brush) for calligraphy is made of carbon and can't be used in fountain pens, so it may be that they're specifying that... but the other possibility is that it's a translation problem, and they mean that it's a non-pigmented ink. Most fountain pen inks are dye-based, but some are pigment based... pigments can be used, but they can also clog up pens if they dry in the nib, so they take a little special care. That's all I've got 🙂
How does Volga river compare with Sheen Machine and Nitrous or Oxygen?
I actually don't know... I read so many bad things about Nitrogen that I never ended up buying any, and I don't have sheen machine either. However, I do have a couple of other Oraganics Studio inks... the Santiago Sea and the Walden... and they both sheen like crazy, which is what I expect from Sheen Machine. Volga River sheens with a pinker color, and it's not quite as heavy... you still get some blue color showing through underneath, unlike the super sheeners.
Buy from Ali express
1:27, The inks aren't from Taiwan. The characters merely state that this bottle has passed quality inspections.
Yep, it turned out to be a bad Google translation (photo in one of the similar comments below). Thanks for letting me know :-)
I like this type inks the issue is that they clog or dry to fast on pens. They settle in the cartridges or converters and need to be shaken constantly. At least that was my experience.
I think that you have something else in mind... "shimmering" inks are a different thing than "sheening". Shimmering inks have glitter in them which can clog and settle, as you say. Sheening inks do not. Instead, the dyes that are used in them create iridescence when they dry, so you shouldn't have any problem with clogging, etc.
@@thewetpen Ahh OK, I was talking about J. Herbin Rouge hematite and Emerald de Chivor both annoying for me.
@@santauxia Agreed. I love those J. Herbin bottles, but I'm not a fan of glitter, either.
apologies for commenting again but would you happen to know if Rhodia paper works for these sheening inks? i can't seem to find a local source to buy tomoe from but rhodia is more readily available. i dont know anything about papers so thought i'd ask an expert such as yourself 😁
Unfortunately, I don't get much sheen with these inks on Rhodia. I just did another test with Volga River on a Rhodia notebooke, and the ink behaves well of course... no feathering or anything, but there's just a hint of sheen if you look very closely. If you can't find Tomoe River locally you probably won't find Cosmo Air Light, but you might find Midori, which sheens well. Black n' Red notebooks sheen very nicely for me, or any other notebook that has "Optik Paper"... it's found in Oxford notebooks sometimes. It also tends to sheen well on heavier papers like watercolor paper. Good luck!
@@thewetpen you… are SUCH a life saver! 😆 thank you soooo much!! i just spent about an hour searching for all the brands you just mentioned, nada. but midori is available! 🥳 thank you again! 😆🙏🏻
hi again :) i'm looking to buy these inks from your affiliate link 😆. i happened to see your comment on chrisrap52's vid about Plumage and Aurora. Would you happen to have affiliate links to those as well? I can't seem to find those at all.🥺
Just looked in my order history, and it looks like the Aurora and Plumage are not available anymore from that seller (they were here: www.aliexpress.com/item/2255800167636944.html ) and my quick search hasn't turned them up anywhere else. Good luck! My Ostrich link is also an affiliate one, of course :-)
@@thewetpen thank you very much 🥰 shame they're not available anymore. and YES i saw your ostrich link so i might be getting the purple amethyst instead of the aurora. gotta remember to use your aff links when i get home😁. and then on to find cheap paper that shows sheen well. 😂👍
@@thewetpen alright, just made my order for the volga, pine, and amethyst, hope you got the commission :D estimated shipping 2 months 🤣 i shall be happy in september LOL thank you again!! 😆🙏👍
@@PaintinHiding Wow, that's the proverbial slow boat. Hopefully it won't take anything like two months... though I think that it was about a month for me. Enjoy your inks!
Is it safe for a fountain pen??? Thanks for the video!
Yes, absolutely :-) It seems to be very similar to some more common sheeting inks
@@thewetpen that answer was really fast!!! Thank you!
The pine forest appeals more to me than Volga
I think I'm in the same boat, although I admit that I'm a huge fan of pure blue inks, usually.
instead of "taiwan", 合格品 actually means "it's a qualified product"