Yesterday, the folks at J. Herbin released the new, and stunning Jacques Herbin Améthyst de l’Oural 1798 fountain pen ink, which is a deep purple ink with tiny silver flecks that give the ink a great sparkly sheen.  Lucky for me and for all of our great readers like you, our friends at J. Herbin got us a bottle of this ink to test out before the official on sale date of September 1, 2017.  This is their first ink in the Jacques Herbin 1798 Collection, and … [Read more…]

A while back I picked up this awesome set of Pilot Iroshizuku (via JetPens) sample inks in 15ml bottles.  You can also grab an individual sample size or full size bottle of Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-budo here from JetPens.  I’m bummed that I took so long to getting around to trying and writing about this great looking ink. … [Read more…]

Today we are taking a look at some J. Herbin Poussière de Lune fountain pen ink (via JetPens) that I actually picked up a few months ago and just never got around to writing up the review for.  This particular bottle was provided to us by JetPens as part of or partnership with them to support our twice monthly giveaway. … [Read more…]

Today we have another produc (J. Herbin Ink Cartridges in Eclat de Saphir) that Brad from Jetpens sent over for review, and it is something that I don’t use that frequently, so I thought this was a good chance to add a bit of variety to the site.  Usually I stick to bottled inks, so using cartridges was a nice change of pace. … [Read more…]

Last updated by Brian Greene at August 2, 2017.