Hongdian Fountain Pen Bottled Ink Burly Wood Color, 60ml Non Carbon Inkwell Bottle, Artist Calligraphy Ink

This is a really good and underrated black ink. Its a nice deep dark black color.Of the 12 black inks I've tested, this is probably tied for 2nd or 3rd darkest. It may be difficult to tell in the picture, but its pretty clear in person. The darkest black is Cross Black. 2nd is a toss up between Noodler's X Feather, Kaweco Black Pearl, and Hongdian non carbon Black. Kaweco Black Pearl has a cool color temperature in some lighting conditions, X Feather seems neutral, and so does Hongdian non carbon Black.This Hongdian non carbon Black has good flow and is fairly smooth. It was well behaved on both ends of the nib spectrum - 1.9 Stub nib on one end (which is what I used in the picture for all of the writing samples), and a really tight Extra Fine nib on the other.I would put the amount of time it takes to dry in the medium range. It takes about 20 seconds to dry when using the 1.9 stub nib, which isn't too bad since it puts down a lot of ink. It only takes about a second to a second and a half when using the Extra Fine nib.It has pretty good water resistance, but its not as good as Noodler's X Feather in that regard. This leads to the one thing I don't like about this ink, which is that it turns purple when it gets wet. That is a minor pet peave of mine when dealing with black inks. I really prefer that they stay on the gray scale when they get wet. When cleaning out nibs or cartridge converters, this ink will turn a very deep purple when coming into contact with water and turns a nice light purple as it gets more diluted. When getting wet on paper, purplish color will come up off of the page first, but the color that remains on the page it still black, or sometimes charcoal gray depending on how much ink lifted off when it got wet.This ink is a great value and a real sleeper as far as black inks go. It will be in my regular rotation along with Noodler's X Feather and Cross Black (if I can ever find a bottle of it). Its also the least expensive of those 3.For what its worth, Kaweco Black Pearl is also pretty good except it has poor water resistance and doesn't flow for crap out of Extra Fine nibs. Hard Starts are the norm, and skipping isn't out of the question, which is why it won't be in my rotation once I am done with my cartridges. I haven't had any flow issues with it out of my stub nibs, but I need a black ink that works in Fine and Extra Fine nibs as well.

It’s a lot more liquid than I expected to get and it writes very smoothly and looks really good. Only problem is it comes out of the pen really fast and bleeds to the other side of some papers.

I like the color of this ink. It's quality ink at an affordable price. Not a well-known ink brand and I wouldn't be surprised if it's outsourced. I use it in a low-priced Pilot Penmanship fountain pen. It flows well from the very fine nib that comes on those pens.. Even on cheap paper, it does not bleed over the paper and always starts drawing, and doesn't skip. I have several of the different colors and I am pleased with each one.

The color is more brown than I was expecting but still works great

Beautiful color & it is permanent ink. Works great with watercolors

The ink and the color is good, a little dark if you write heavy. On my normal paper pad the ink doesn’t smear at all but on other paper the ink smears no matter how light I write.

Anything by Honduran has been great and since Honduran pens are great time to try the ink

Great color and you definitely need to get the correct book to write in regardless of the pen you have.

Prodotto conforme alla descrizione ed arrivato nei tempi previsti per la consegna.L'ho provato con un pennino stilografico e pare un più che buon prodotto. Come posso, lo utilizzo anche per caricare una penna stilografica.

Una tinta que en su calidad y presentaciòn recuerda mucho Edelstein, pero yo creo que algo màs densa, cremosa. Igual que Pelikan fabrica con sus especificaciones particulares- tintas para otras marcas de prestigio (Montblanc recuerdo ahora), no me extrañarìa que fuera una tinta suya manufacturada en China, pero que llega a tus manos como un producto alemàn en su caja. En mercados online chinos curiosamente yo no la he encontrado. Saca tus conclusiones. Una ventaja sobre la similar Edelstein -solo unos euros más cara- que acaba de convencer al reticente es que esta Asvine-Hongdian contiene un 20% màs de tinta. La de color negro es de una intensidad, una profundidad que yo solo he visto en la de Cross; y la de color azul (oscuro) me parece soberbia. Las uso con puntos F y EF y no me ha atascado en ningún momento instrumento. Para mi, una tinta de 9,5 (dejo el 10 para Cross y el 9 para la Edelstein o la Fount India de Pelikan)

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It is a very soft and beautiful lilac colour but the bottle is not exactly practical

Très bon rapport qualité-prix sans carbone, l’encre passe très bien. Le noir est intense.Très bon produit