Bookbinders Snake Ink ~ Emerald Boa

Todays review is of an ink that I got, so the story goes that my brother had bought me a pen for my birthday (Pilot Metro) but the order had a mix up, so they sent me a bottle of ink to say sorry (I am grateful for this, I will be buying off them again *Cough*Pilot Falcon*Cough*) and yes, I did get the pen in the end in the Gold color, (Look back for a short review of the pen)

The ink is a 30ml bottle, just a normal simple bottle, nothing fancy like the Iroshizuku ink bottles by Pilot, and I don't mind a simple bottle, as long as I could get the pen into the bottle, and I could, so that makes me happy :P, the ink is on the side of a light green, nice flow and color, saturation could be a little more for my taste, but I don't mind, the shading is nice when you use a wet or a flex pen, the ink did not rail road in my soft nib pen, I really like this ink.

The ink cost $14.90AUD + S&H, if you would like to buy the ink, please head on over to Bookbinders to view their prices, note books, pens, inks and more! (*No affiliation with them*)

I want to add a note, that all opinions are my own, they have not contacted me asking me to do a review on such and such of terms, these are my own opinions, no one elses.

Photos of the packaging, bottle and writing samples below.

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Pilot Metropolitan Review

Ahh, a fresh new fountain pen to review, let's keep this one small and sweet, as I am extremely tired.

My brother said "What did you want for your birthday" and so I responded with "A Fountain Pen?", he agreed, gave me a price point and so I got the Pilot Metro, pen is smooth, "Medium" nib, but it writes more like a fine nib, I really enjoy it as a daily writer, and it will be coming with me when I start my course on Friday this week.

Flows nice, no hard starts, quite nice pen.

Writing samples below, images of the pen as well, and comparisons of the other pens I have that are Japanese.

Outer box


Pen case


Opened the box (The converter came in the pen and the cartridge was on the side)


The pen in all of it's "iPhone Gold" glory...


Writing sample and weight

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Platinum #3776 Review

So there is a bit of a story behind this pen, I had an iPad that I had for sale but I ended up swapping it for a Samsung tablet, but I didn’t like the tablet so I decided to sell it, I sold it for $160AUD and used $130 of it on the pen, it took a week to get to me as a “Brand New” pen, but I know it was not brand new, because there were some marks on the pen that a brand new pen would NOT have, but I will get to that later, I guess we should start with the review.

The pen is in the blue version, it has a Japanese medium nib, and it runs more like a fine, it has some feedback but not the kind that is unpleasant, the flow of the pen is not bad for a western fine nib, but it has some wetness issues, but it is still a nice writing experience, reverse writing works, but I don’t do that much.

Nib options are (in no specific order) : Ultra Extra-Fine, Fine, Medium, Music, Soft-Fine and Soft-Medium, some of the 3776 models have only got a specific nib option, but you would need to check out a chart online to find out what ones are with what model.

The pen is a screw cap push to post, it has a 14K gold nib, it has a small amount of line variation but if you keep using it as a flex pen the tines will end up splaying (as most of my readers will know), if you really want something that is flexy, get a Pilot Falcon, or a Pilot Custom 912, or a Waterman pen, because this pen is NOT a flexy pen, neither is the soft nibs, they only give a small amount of line variation, not a lot.

PROS:
Pen has a 14k nib

Pen is light weight

Pen has some great nib options

Pen comes in some other colours

CONS:

Pen has some feedback

Pen has proprietary converters/cartridges

Unboxing images and writing samples below.

The outer sleeve.

The box the pen came in

The contents of the box

Writing samples

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