So, I noticed something odd the other day. I was writing in a notebook using my Asvine V126 with Diamine Writer’s Blood. When I came home I grabbed by V200 with Writer’s Blood to finish what I was writing, but the color / shading of the ink was very different. It was a lot darker and more saturated from the V200 vs the V126.
I compared the nibs under my loupe, but they seem to be mostly the same (ie, tines about the same width, no mis-alignment, etc.)
So, I decided to take things a step further and made the image in this message. Note both the Diamine Aurora Borealis and Writer’s Blood seem to have quite different characteristics.
(I should mention: all pens were recently cleaned, and all filled at the same time from the same bottle(s) of ink…)
Anyone have any thoughts on why this would be the case?
It is not really odd per se, your V200 is just wetter than your V126.
I am not yet familiar with the level of knowledge in this community, so please forgive me if I am stating some obvious facts: the amount of ink a pen lays down on paper is referred to as wetness. This characteristic comes from both the feed and the nib, but the nib being the last link, it impacts the pen’s wetness the most, and a tiny variation in the tine gap (it is what determines the nib’s wetness) will impact the resulting wetness quite a lot.
Wetness is what makes an ink look darker and/or more saturated.
It is odd to an extent though, because usually, within a brand, using the same nibs and feeds, there isn’t a noticeable deviation in wetness. And do note that wetness is also an ink quality in the same way it is for a pen. Some inks are considered dry (very little comes out of a known pen), some are wet (at lot comes out). That’s something you’ll learn with experience.
However, rereading your post, something else came to mind: cap seal. If your pen has a bad cap seal ink can look darker because over time, water evaporates, so it will lay some more saturated/darker looking strokes at first, then eventually go back to normal. I doubt this is at play here, but this is something to keep in mind too when considering saturation/darkness differences between two pens.
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