Yazeh Ink Reviews

  DOMINANT INDUSTRY - Soleil couchant à Étretat   Ink Review # 197   Originally posted on FPN: Aug 08, 2025    ---   🧾   Description   Ink:  DOMINANT INDUSTRY - Soleil couchant à Étretat Available:  25 ml bottles, everywhere. Pens Used:  Pilot F3A EF, Semi-Flex. Lamy (EF/F/M/B/ Stub 1.1) Dominant Industry is fairly new Korean Ink-maker.  They are well distributed around the world. Ink comes in 25 ml teardrop bottles.    This ink belongs to the Painter series, some of them are standard, some shimmer. As of now there are 3 painters, Monet, Turner and Mucha.    For some reason Goldspot ink and Pen addict  consider this a shimmer ink. There is  Les Falaise à Etretat  but that’s a turquoise shimmer ink.    Ink is named after one of the first paintings of the Etretat cliff and arches in Normandy France.    Flow is dry, and ink has below average lubrication.  ...

  Van Dieman’s Kitten Paws   Ink Review # 196   Originally posted on FPN: Aug 01, 2025   ---   🧾  Description   Ink:  Van Dieman’s Kitten Paws Brand:  Van Dieman's Country:  Australia Available:  30 ml bottles. Pens Used:  Pilot Kakuno EF,  Lamy (EF/F/M/B/ Stub 1.1) , Kanwrite with FPR ultraflex.   Ink belongs to the Feline series by Van Dieman’s made in Tasmania, Australia. I didn’t enjoy the writing experience with this ink. It was watery pink/beige, brown. Lubrication slightly below average. I had some problems with my Kanwrite with the FPR ultraflex nib and Kakuno EF nib. Now the nibs are not the best in these pens, but as I only had a 2 ml sample, I cannot be 100 percent sure. However, drawing and doing washes with this ink was fun. The colour was complex.  Scanning and color correction the scans vainly took more time than the review itself, so you're stuck with photo. In the comparison you can see the defo...

  Kaweco Smokey Grey   Ink Review #195   Originally posted on FPN: Jul 25, 2025 --- 🧾  Description Ink:  Smokey Grey Brand:  Kaweco Country:  Germany Available:  50 ml bottles or cartridges. Pens Used:  Kaweco Sport (EF/F/M/B/ BB), Karas Vertex FPNibs ultra-flex with ebonite feed.   I got a pack of cartridges of Smokey Grey. Boy, I was in for a surprise; it refused to write in both pens, even after priming (Kaweco Sport and the Vertex), until I forgot it for a few days. Moral of the story, if you can’t get a sample, pop in the cartridge and let it be.    Or syringe it., which worked fine in the Lamy Safari.  If you want to see what the Japanese EF looks like, check @LizEF’s excellent review.    Ink has low lubrication, and the flow is dry. However, with a Medium Kaweco Sport, when the pen finally wrote it was very pleasant, and it’s like an HB pencil, However, with a Lamy Safari Ef, it was yucky and pale, m...