Love the idea, but would a fountain pen bleed through? The paper used in books feels different than typical FP friendly paper

What is the orange ink in the first line? It sings! 🌅☀️

Was this your “gateway orange pen”? 😊
Interesting to hear how you came to have 2 of these! That’s great they were willing to replace the bad nib (and with a whole new pen 🖋️)

I have one of these also! The amount of joy I get from it compared to its price is super, super high. It’s just so small, lovely, and orange. I’m not normally an orange person, but it paired with some orange ink makes me smile 😊

Wow, that is super cool! Hope to see them on the feed sometime 🤩
Those pens have lived through so much history.

Congrats! Also love the paper choice! Great stuff.

My stash is from a Japan trip a year or so ago 🇯🇵

Fingers crossed for you! It’s not as easy for me to find from Germany as I would hope 😣. Amazon has it, but it’s overpriced.

Wow, what a gorgeous set of inks 😍 thanks for sharing!

These are the Sailor Studios I keep going back to over and over: 150, 264, 280 (an olive with pink multi shading), 162, 237 and 252, a pinkish grayish brown that really needs Tomoe River paper and a juicy nib to look its best. Otherwise it can look rather muddy and blah

Thanks for all these suggestions! I’ve never tried an iron gall ink but would like to. The De Atramantis document fog and Platinum lavender black inks in your sample I find especially lovely. Thank you for sharing 🤩

Here’s a snap of my currently inked iron gall inks, plus two more De Atramentis document inks I like a lot but don’t happen to have inked right now. All of them work well in Japanese fine nibs and flow very well; I think they’d suit your Sailors.

I have a sample of Sailor Studio 224 ink and find it interesting and inspiring 😍

Same! 🥺

Hobonichi Weeks pen testing page again, this time with a better photo, and a couple new entries added. Saw no bleed through from this page, just a normal amount of ghosting, but unfortunately have seen some mild bleed through on other pages. Hoping the paper quality improves for next year.

Thank you! 😊 Tsuwairo Blue in a Sailor Yuzu F is an almost perfect writing experience for me. The line width is consistent, and I’ve never seen a hard start, whereas I have seen slight hard starts in Preppies with Octopus Write & Draw inks.