📖 ☑✍🏼✒🖋😎👍 1:50...Excellent Job ...This is super helpful , for us Newbie Fountain penners I'm only a 3 month old, Fountain Penner and I hear alot of these elderly/ veteran Fountain pen Aficionados and Penablers , using these , glossary terms and scribing lingo words, daily in their videos. They might as well be speaking "Klingon" LOL 👽 Your the first one , I've come across.. (I've watched 100's of videos in my time) that has taken the time and created understandable presentations on the Fountain pen colloquialisms, FP Jargon etc. Please continue to educate us , in your unique style.. 😎👍💯🌟🌟🌟🌟Mr Ken, You are greatly appreciated and a Fine Teacher. Cheers

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Haha, Hi Kan-zee! After 16 years, here I am, finally getting 1k sub, and teaching friends about fountain pens, right? XD I'm happy the information was fairly easy to absorb! There's a lot of bigger fountain pen channels that review pens and inks and they have to be consistent in doing that and yeah, not always will they make a video to define all these specific terms, but that's understandable. I'm happy you appreciate and enjoy my style haha I like to share pens and inks that I personally like and able to get a hand on - so I may not have more of the popular pens that everyone likes. Unfortunately I'm not big enough to get free pens to review yet, so all you see are my collection only. Thank you so much for watching and sharing your silly fun spirit with the fountain pen community. I appreciate your comments! Please look forward to more videos!

@kan-zee

Ай бұрын

@@KenchanKrafts Not to worry , amigo ... I got my scope, finely tuned for your new up coming videos. I am grateful as a Clam in High waters, that you get my twisbi humor in my comments.. Don't focus on the other ytube channels sucess...your doing your passion...that's all that really matters... I've been making youtube videos since 9 yrs...and only got 600 subs...who cares, but the family and friends that matter...!! This is about sharing my little itsy bitsy life with few...not the whole world..LOL

Thank you! This was such a helpful explanation of wet and dry inks. I learned so much. I loved physics in school but I get that it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. Even so, you make the subject very accessible. Well done!

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Haha, thanks, Cate! I wasn't amazing at physics in high school, but I had an awesome teacher, so it helped a bit with learning the material. It was in college that it got serious and I really knew I was bad at it. But the chemistry and physics behind fountain pens are quite interesting and was definitely worth the research and understanding. I'm very glad to hear your approval of my presentation from a Physics lover's perspective. Thank you for watching! ♥

Even though I've been using fountain pens for a bazillion years, I didn't know there was wet & dry inks until I bought a TWSBI Eco glow green and a bottle of Sailor Ink Studio 167 to match it. Even though it has a stub nib, I could barely get it to write! I switched to my usual drawing ink, De Atramentis Document (my custom brown/grey blend), and it was much better. Thanks for puzzling through all this for us!

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, Ina! ♥Glad to be of service xD And share what I know! 167 looks very light, so I can definitely assume that ink is dry. That really sucks that even the stub was having a hard time. My TWSBI Ecos have done well with shimmers, but I haven't used them with pale, super-dry flowing inks yet.

Thank you for putting this resource together, Lao! I've already watched it a few times - once to absorb the info and other times to take mental notes. I'm going to continue coming back because there's so much good stuff here. This must have taken a lot of work to put together, but we are grateful!

@KenchanKrafts

Ай бұрын

Hey Alison! Thank you for showing your support and appreciation!! ♥It was a lot to put together, but I think these kind of videos are enriching to the community and I feel great being able to make a little bit of a difference in the community through videos that share knowledge! ^_^ That makes me very happy to know that you and very likely, others as well, will be coming back to this video again in the future for reference! :)

@mm-qm9zh

26 күн бұрын

Hi! @ 39:14, I am a left-handed writer, AND I write very small! 😅 So, thanks for mentioning this point! Very helpful video…thanks for all your time and hard work! ✍🏻 Meline

@KenchanKrafts

26 күн бұрын

@@mm-qm9zh Hi Meline. Happy to hear you enjoyed the video and I wanted to make sure all the left handers and small writers felt seen since I’m write the exact opposite! XD I try to include as many different types of writers and people as I can because this is a hobby for all kinds of people! Thank you so much for commenting and watching 🥰

This was amazing!! It explained so much about how some of my pairing have been impacting my enjoyment of different writing experiences. Really appreciate this in-depth video! 🥳🌟💛

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Yay!! I’m glad it helped you with that! Inks truly make such a big difference in each pens experience! There’s just so much ^_^ but it’s nice when you know what type of ink pen experience you like more and also explore the rest of the possible experiences, too! Thanks so much for watching and listening to the ink Ted talk lol!!!

@emmaythegray

2 ай бұрын

@@KenchanKrafts 🤩

Lao, this is such an informative video. I feel like you gave me a better understanding & opened my eyes to ways of making a couple a couple of my pens write better. Thank you so much!!

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

🥰 yay! That’s exactly what I wanted to do for you and others! Glad you found some helpful things in here to help you with your experiences! Thanks for listening in and watching! There’s just always something new and interesting to think about with all these inks.

This is so helpful and informative, you managed to put words onto weird stuff I was noticing while writing, and I understood that some pens were better with some specific inks, but I couldn't tell exactly why . Now I understand that feeling a lot better thanks to you !

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Yes!! I'm glad you were able to relate this information right back to those moments. Now you'll have more, "AHA" moments when you run into those weird stuff again :) Thanks so much for watching and so happy you got something useful out of this! ♥

Many, many thanks for this super informative video. Now I have understood the connection between shading, sheening and ink flow for the first time. Super!!! In future I will have even more fun with my fountain pens and inks. Thank you!!!!

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Hey Behrens! So glad to have you here and thank you're very welcome! Seems my information was pretty easy to digest and absorb haha :) That's exactly how I want this information to help others - now you have the knowledge to better understand when things go wrong and then make it more fun! :) Thanks for watching!

Very informative Lao. I'm sure this was a lot of work to pull together and is much appreciated!

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

🥹 it was, but I was happy that I didn’t have to do more than one long recording for this. It was just the research needed before recording that was a handful, but I had fun doing all of it! I’m glad it was informative and helpful! Thanks for watching 🥰

As a chemical engineer, I would say you did pretty well at explaining these concepts overall! Surface tension is actually better with stronger cohesion though (I think you said adhesion), meaning it takes more intermolecular force to disrupt the H-bonds between water molecules. Your thought process was correct though!

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Ooo!! I always am impressed with those who are great at physical sciences and jobs in those fields. When I was able to understand chemistry, biology, and physics back then, there were very interesting things to learn! So I tried my best to understand adhesion/cohesion, but it still confuses me just a bit when applying it to fountain pens/inks. But thank you so much for clarifying cohesion - I was able to make sense of that! XD Meaning greater cohesive forces within an ink increases surface tension, and slightly slower ink flow.

This video was so well done. The demonstrations of surface tension were so helpful. Thank you so much for sharing!

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

YAY! I'm happy that demonstration was helpful! I think it's always great to see visuals to pair with information. Thank you so much for watching and your positive comments! ♥

Thank you, this was so helpful, especially the tips on how to pair pens with ink to tailor your experience to what you're looking for!!!

@KenchanKrafts

7 күн бұрын

Hi Kim, thank you so much for watching! I'm so stoked you got some helpful information out of this video! Let's keep on having a great experience with our pens and inks with this on the back of our minds to troubleshoot future problems.

Fabulous video! What a delight to wake up to another terrific Lao video.

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

😍🥰 thank you, Dianne!! Truly appreciate you for always looking forward to my videos!

Very well researched video! A large part of what draws me to fountain pens are the ink properties (i love shading inks). I admit i’ve always just bought inks because of the pretty colors lol but this video was helpful to learn more about optimizing ink use and finding the perfect ink/pen pairing! The science behind it is so fascinating to learn. ❤ thank you so much for the work that went into this!

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Hey Serif :D Yes, the science was so interesting and fascinating indeed. I'm glad I didn't botch up the explanation. Looks like a lot of people were able to understand how I presented it. Although it isn't required to optimize the pen ink pairings, it is nice to know to be less frustrated when you can kind of know what is going on with your pen and inks. I also buy inks because they are pretty! XD NO SHAME! It's ok FWP always gets me with those pretty colors and art on the boxes even though another part of me holds a grudge on them for making so many pretty but unreliable shimmer inks. Thanks so much for watching and continued support on my channel! ♥

This was the best video! So helpful. Now that I've gotten to know my pens and inks a bit better this is going to make pairing them so much easier. Thank you thank you!

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

xD Thank you, Christine! You will become an expert at pairing inks to suit your preferences!! I'm glad it was a helpful video! Thanks for watching :)

OMG I was waiting for this esp since I am a newbies. Also seeing mother of pearl in the video is just pure serotonin

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

I’m so glad the mother of Pearl brings you so much joy hehe 🙃 she’s one of my favorites!! Thank you so much for your anticipation of this video and watching!! 🥰

This was very helpful. I have never understood how an ink can be "dry" when it is a liquid! Also, the pairing combinations were insightful. I'm afraid I have too many pens and too many inks to ever be able to create "perfect pairings" so I just bounce around and constantly try different inks with different pens with reckless abandon!

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Yes, the term "dry inks" can always be very confusing for those who are new or just don't get why that term was chosen. But I suppose wet inks is a thing and the opposite of wet is just dry haha! But now you know! :) Reckless abandon is fine, too xD sometimes, the random experiences are always more fun, too, but when a bad experience happens, it's nice to be armed with knowledge to understand what might be happening in those bad moments. Thanks, Mara, for watching and getting good use out of the info!

I use microswabs from Amazon or temu instead of cotton swabs. They release the ink better and require less ink for a good swatch.

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

I shall have to explore that and other avenues to see if they can replicate the textile feeling and results I require when doing my swatches! Thanks for sharing what you use, Wendi! I don’t quite mind that the qtips release less ink, in fact, that’s what I look for to identify possible dry inks when the ink doesn’t go into the swatch card as easily at first lol. But other swatching tools are always a welcome thing into our arsenal of pen ink tools!

I find that a drier pen+ink combo draws more precisely than does a wetter, which could be called more expressive. Accurate small details are best accomplished with a dry pen+ink.

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Yes! That's exactly what Thie, one of my viewers that commented, about their taste in drier inks as they write small. I agree that drier inks help to make more precise writing when it comes to small details. Wetter inks are harder to control and makes writing sometimes slippery and not as nice looking. Thanks for sharing your experiences, Ichiro!

Thank you sooo much for sharing this information. Very thorough and helpful. Your demonstrations were great, and I love that you shared your thought process for pairing pens and inks.

@KenchanKrafts

Ай бұрын

OMG I thought I had responded to this already, my bad! Thanks for watching my TED talk video, Kristen! I’m glad the visual demonstrations were helpful! I wanted to be sure newbies and pros alike could appreciate the information and that I’m not just talking outta my ass 😆

@lifeinspiresdesign

Ай бұрын

@@KenchanKrafts lol no problem, I love inky TED talks!

Great video. Bookmarking this will be a great reference!

@KenchanKrafts

25 күн бұрын

Thank you so much, Tonya! :) Appreciate the comment and bookmark! ^_^

thank you very much for the deep dive on ink properties and ink swatch demos! it was super helpful to hear your approach to pairing inks and pens, since most of this information is usually conveyed with a “it depends, try it out” and rarely this much detail on how inks behave i’ve realized i lean towards dual shader/less saturated inks for the visuals but go back to darker/saturated inks for the smoothness of writing experience, so it would be nice if dustier inks also had the richness of the latter, but i figure it’s not a likely combination unless i experiment with additives like white lightning :’) i also feel like online reviews/shop listings categorize ink flow very differently from me and i'm always left feeling confused, so i guess in the end we must try every ink to make sure we dont need a full bottle of it hahaha :'D

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your experiences and you're very welcome!! After many trials and errors of the "it depends" kinda deal, I decided I don't want to suffer through combinations that aren't fit for me, so I swap inks out the moment it doesn't feel great and go on to find another of my pens better suited for the lovely dusty ink I want to use (or put another ink that will make the current pen feel great). It really improves my quality of life experiences with fountain pens ^_^ I, too, love the visuals and beauty of the dusty and soft colors. Saturated inks that get too dark become boring for me, so I look hard for semi-saturated soft/dusty inks. I think the fact that there's so many inks is part of the long journey of fun in this hobby xD

Wow! Great video. Thank you for this detailed information. I'm going to save this and view it again as I look over my ink and pen pairings. I know this information will improve my fountain pen experience.

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

xD Thank you so much, Arnetta! I'm glad that you found the video helpful. :) Feel free to also share this video with anyone else you think might find it useful ^_^ I hope your pen & ink pairings will be super lovely!

Brilliant & this could be a book in the making 📕♥️🖋️

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Hahah!! A book in the making? That's interesting 🤓I will need to make another video to just describe/discuss all the ink/pen jargon - and add that to the book ^_^. I know a lot of folks and new to the hobby enthusiasts might find that helpful, too. Thanks for watching!

Your explanation on dry inks exhibiting more shading makes total sense to me. I’ve tried both Lamy Blue and Lamy Turquoise (both are dry), and they exhibit significant more shading than my Pilot Iroshizuku inks (Yama Budo, Asa Gao and Murasaki Shikibu). Sailor Shikiori Sakura Mori and Manyo Sakura also both write drier than Pilot Iroshizuku Hana Ikada, despite all three being orangey-dusty pinks. Great video!

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, I find the combination of dry inks with wet pens and wet inks with dry pens to have given me the most shading out of inks. I put Pilot Yu-yake in my Sailor 14k MF, and while it did flow beautifully, it didn't gush or anything and I got so much beautiful little shading (from a yellow to orange and deep orange red), but then I would put Yu-yake into my wet gold Leonardo and I saw no shading (which was sad since I love how Yu-yake can shade). So if a wet ink can shade, I tend to put it in a dry pen to see the shading while lubricating the dry pen. ^_^ Thanks for sharing your experiences with those inks. I did hear that Lamy inks tend to be dry - I assume it's because they try to make it for their wetter Lamy 2000 pen or other wet pens they make. Thanks for watching! :)

Differences in inks is something Ive discovered during my fountain pen journey but that you very much for your detailed explanation. I used to buy inks just for their colors. I found a match made in heaven: Leonardo Angels Skin with Taccia Lip Color Pink Beige. But it is so wet I can not write with it. Nowadays I tend to buy inks and pens from the same company for the best writing experience. But I will experiment now with Sailor Manyo for sure :)

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Searching for the perfect color in a different brand that may have the property you want is always a fun and challenging one. That Leonardo Angel skin is a gold nib only, I think, so it would definitely be giving you a very wet experience. Sailor Manyo inks are all quite dry overall (the manyo line is chromashading mostly and the shikiori line has more of the standard wet flowing inks). I find that even sometimes, dry inks can feel draggy or bad in my wet pens at first, but it can become more smooth and buttery after a bit. And then I just have pens like the Pelikan M1000 that I cannot find a dry enough ink to tame it yet. Thanks for watching and I hope your experiments bear wonderful inky fruits! XD

Wow! Thank you for this explanation, this really helps with deciding how to pair my inks and nibs for a better experience/outcome and what I think I'd like. Thank you!❤

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome, Rebeca! Glad to be of help! Thanks for watching ^_^

That was really interesting, thanks for sharing ! 😊

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Thank you, Kirsten!! ☺️

I bought some white lightning because I had some ink in a LAMY that just was not working. And of course, when you spend good money on ink, you don’t want to throw it out. One of my favorite colors, Teranishi opera rose seems to be very dry in the pens I have tried.

@KenchanKrafts

Ай бұрын

Hi Joi, yes teranishi opera rose is a dusty pink/peachy brown color that are like many other dusty pinks that have a dry flow in order to acquire that color. I’ve never had great flow with any of them (goshiyama ochre, Rouille dancre, etc). Remember to use very little amount of white lightening based on how much ink you’re putting it into. White lighting will make your ink very very watery and lose some shading qualities if too much white lighting was used :) but I think it will save your Lamy inks since those are pretty saturated.

This is super helpful! I was wondering the property of the inks and why certain inks do certain things. Now I will be less clueless with my inks. Adding some other knowledge I obtained recently, I have some basic conclusions: 1. Shading inks have different properties of colors and would dry in different speeds, thus giving out different colors where the ink is pooling. In general the shading inks would be dry. 2. Inks with less shading and more opaque are wetter when writing, which makes them easier to flow in the pen and smoother when writing with finer nibs. 3. Document/archival inks are among the wetter inks, mainly due to the ingredients that make them not water soluble. As a result, the archival inks appear matte and opaque, sometimes hard to dry and prone to bleed through. These are just a few rule-of-thumbs I learned as a beginner. Thank you again for the video and I think I will have less problems with my inks in the future!🎉

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

I agree with your observations 1 and 2! I've never used archival/document inks before, but I assume those are pigmented inks that have particles that aren't so water-soluble. I read that those inks have additional things to make the ink flow better, otherwise, it would not flow well at all! XD So I think your 3rd rule of thumb observation is very interesting to me! I thought archival inks would write wet and dry faster (since they're water resistant), but it makes a lot of sense that if they're wet flowing, they would dry slower. Thanks so much for sharing your experience with inks, Jess! I appreciate you for watching and being part of this ink conversation/discussion!!

@inknotes-jess

2 ай бұрын

@@KenchanKraftsThat makes a lot of sense. It not necessarily the waterproof additives contributing to the wetness of archival inks, but the additives helping the lubrication and ink flows make those inks wet. I only have two waterproof inks and both of them appear matte and have quite a bit of bleed though. That’s kinda how I drawn the conclusion.

It also depends on the paper you are using and where you are in the world some papers are very slick they might have a coating on them like clairefontaine or they might be very natural like ayush and if you are at a higher dryer elevation the ink will flow differently than if you are down by the ocean or in a more humid environment. I do ink reviews on my channel almonst every day and I can tell you that there are such things as stubborn inks and white lightning might help but if you dont want to buy white lightning all it needs is something to make the water wetter which is surfactant dish soap.. just a tooth pick dipped in and into the cartridge Never dip it into a vile or a bottle because you might Ruin the sample/bottle because on another day it may behave completely different with a different pen in a different humidity or environment but if you dip tooth pick into the pen if it starts blooping out of the pen uncontrollably than you can flush the pen and try again but if you put it into the vile or bottle and its ruined youve waisted that money on that bottle and the only use for it would be paint brush or perhaps brush pen or dip nib :) Hope that helps

@MissMarilynDarling

2 ай бұрын

One of the other things that happens when you add White Lightning to a ink is it WILL tend to bleed through/feather Most papers so that is something to consider.

Wow, so much Information and effort you put into this video! Of course I noticed, when the writing experience isn’t great but now I can find the reason easier ☺️. And I’m not forgiving anymore. When I want to use a special ink in a pen and it doesn’t work out (and it’s not the pen) I will not use that ink anymore. Live‘s too short to hold on to picky inks! There are a lot alternatives out there. With pens it’s of course different 😅

@KenchanKrafts

Ай бұрын

XD I'm a little more forgiving, I set the ink to the side until I feel like wanting to put them into a pen I know writes super wet (which is usually a Benu, Pelikan, or Gold Nib Leonardo). I find that BENUs write so well with dry inks - if you don't have one already, you should try your dry inks in them (or one that is problematic before they go down the drain haha). Pens are always a different case than inks ;) we gotta give them more chances if we truly love the way the pen looks. But if the pen doesn't feel comfortable to write with, it's gotta go for me. Thank you so much for watching this video :D I definitely poured my heart out into arranging this piece of my experience and knowledge. Portions of the production of this video was poorly done (I zoomed in too much on the last section), so my hands were distracting to a lot of people! I wished I didn't do that, otherwise, this video as a whole would have been really great! xD But I'm happy hearing you soaked the info and appreciated it!

@MrsAlchemist

Ай бұрын

@@KenchanKrafts haha, I don’t mean to throw the ink away immediately:) F ex somehow I want to love Kiri-Same but I put it in 2 pens , wrote 1 page and then cleaned the pen. I just don’t like grey. I have a Benu with Ancient Copper in it and it’s great! You’re right about the feel. Like I mentioned I get easily pain in my fingertips and sadly a few great pens needed to be retired because of that. I try them from time to time and -no, still hurting me. Your hands didn’t distract me at all. I‘m more sensitive to voices , talking too fast or excited. Your talking is very calming and I can focus on what you said 👌

Thank you for this video. As I am new to fountain pens I learned a lot from your video today. Also thank you for taking the time to explain with the swatches. Seeing the inks move as you explained assisted with my learning experience. You are amazing! Looking forward to your next video. Loved that purple OMG!

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome, Bella! I think showing examples is always the best way to help to better understand information! Glad the swatching demonstration was helpful!! ^_^ Yes, I was so amazed with that purple color after seeing it dry and seeing the different shades it creates. You should definitely try these two purples if you haven't already ^_^ Thanks for watching!

i think people should consider 4 properties of the ink not just two: Wet ( fluid ink ) , Viscous ( jelly ink ) , dry ( feedbacky writing ) and smooth ( lubricated writing ) Any ink will have a combination of these four properties, showing one for the first two and one of the last two ex. Iroshizuku inks are mostly WET and DRY

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Hahaha! OMG I just can’t with your profile picture, I loved Kumamon, that digimon is so cute! Anyways, back on track, I agree that pilot inks are so unique in that they flow so nicely in every pen but yet they sometimes dry fast or can feel a bit dry. I’ve made 2 iroshizuku mixes and one of them seemed dry the other very wet. I’ll need to experiment on them some more. But do you mean they are dry as in dry flow or fast dry time? I’m assuming dry flow - which one has been dry for you? I’m curious because I have just figured them all to be wet since I’ve not had any issues with them particularly except for my one twsbi!

@HyTeddyBear

2 ай бұрын

Dry as in writing experience, some Viscous ink like diamine make the nib smooth like diamine purple bow yea kumamon ftw@@KenchanKrafts

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

@@HyTeddyBear hmm very interesting! Yes, I find Diamine firefly to be quite viscous compared to regular non shimmer inks, and that ink flows like a beautiful stream in all my pens. For a shimmer ink it doesn’t clog or flow slowly. Very lovely. Definitely, these other properties make the world of inks even more interesting.

Thanks for doing this video it was super informative for me-I loved the physics lesson 😂

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

XD Thanks Dana! Glad you enjoyed the lesson and TED Talk haha!! Happy to hear the information was easy to absorb!

That Morningside Mint is crazy! 😲 I should get a sample so I can try it in my overwhelmingly wet Pelikan m400. I've been using Troublemakers in it since they're soooooo dry, but this one looks like it might have them beat.😉 Excellent intro to fountain pen terminology, Lao! I'll be sure to bookmark so I can point others in this direction if they're new and interested in learning more. Thanks for putting this together!! 😍😍😍

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Thank you, Christy! 🙏 this morning side is totally too dry for my tastes! It felt slightly dry in my pilot custom 823, but it performed the best in my very very broad lamy medium lol! That nib feed combo was a wet one and I got lucky with that to pair with morningside mint, which is quite legible with a good wet pen. Thank you for bookmarking my video XD ahhh! I didn’t know that was a thing! Yes please share it to new pen pals and others 😘

Excelent video! well done.

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Ahhh!!! It's AnInkGuy!! XD Thank you so much for coming to watch my video. I've watched a lot of your videos in the past on some inks when I'm looking for reviews. Thank you for your compliment!

hi, hello, the fabled dry ink lover here ^^ i've noticed that the way i do swatches, with the glass ball end of a cocktail stirrer, inks that are wet are some of the most annoying to swatch haha! the ink flows off of the ball so quickly its hard to spread it out, whereas the dryer inks tend to take longer to come off of it. also, a different observation, some of the really dry inks will almost suck themselves into the middle of the swatch, creating a darker area in the middle of the swatch rather than the end which definitely is to do with surface tension/cohesion. even dryer inks inside twsbi's kind of wobble around in the barrel rather than flowing how you would expect. sorry to make this an even longer comment, but i also just wanted to say its really exciting to me to see someone talk about the physics of how this stuff connects! i love detailed videos like this ^^

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Hi Thieleaf! XD What is your name if you mind me asking? I usually like to know my viewers by their name if it's shown on their YT haha! But yes, you're the famous dry ink lover that I mentioned in the video haha. I was really intrigued by your comment that day on my Sailor video and waited for this video to mention that experience. I am so happy you enjoyed and am overjoyed with the appreciation you are showing towards this long video!! I definitely had a great time researching and understanding the physics behind how this all works alongside my less physics-induced experiences with pens and inks. It really helps to piece the inner workings of this hobby together! I love long comments! Makes great conversations!! Thank you for sharing your own experiences of wet and dry inks. Those observations do align pretty similarly with my own observations, even though you used different methods. That's so awesome! ^_^

@thieleaf_the_shelf_dragon

2 ай бұрын

@@KenchanKrafts^^ my name is thie! (thieleaf is just a pun of that and tealeaf haha) ahh its so fun to get into small details like this ^u^

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

@@thieleaf_the_shelf_dragon I figured it was a pun on tea leaves XD and I love it!

Great job bro!

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, Shak!

very helpful, thanks for sharing

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome, Marie! Thanks for watching!

Such great insights 👍 Thank You 🙏❣

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

I’m so happy to hear that!! You’re very welcome and thanks for watching it ❤️

@valsakarunan9835

2 ай бұрын

@@KenchanKrafts I do so enjoy your pen sharings and reviews. Quite regularly too 😍

@KenchanKrafts

Ай бұрын

Sorry I didn't get to responding to this comment back then! XD I'm thankful for you and everyone who enjoys my reviews on the regular ^_^ Have you seen my Chai Latte review already?

I am left handed and have always used ball-point pens. Even then, I find that ink transfers to the pinkie-side of my middle and ring fingers with many pens and that plain old disposable clear-sided pens are the least smudging of all. I'd love to try using a fountain pen to improve my handwriting (which had become pretty bad). My writing is also quite small and I naturally use a pushing action directly from left to right, rather than 'hooking' my hand. Do you have any suggestions as to a reasonably-priced pen and nib, with a suitable ink, for me to experiment? With many thanks from Oxford, UK.

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Hey William! Thank you so much for watching and sharing your experience with writing! I don't have much experience with left-handed writing, but I've seen some of my friends write and I find the way they write to be so fascinating, but yet, also painful to watch thinking about how hard it must have been to adjust yourself to writing in that way. I've seen people shift their papers and write from top to bottom - so many different ways to make it work for them! My pen and ink suggestions for you would be Pilot Explorer or Metropolitan ($25 USD) or the Prera for double the price. You can also try Platinum Preppy or Plaisirs. Those are great and affordably priced. Go for Fine in any of these. If you want a German nib, you can try TWSBI Eco in an EF size. Pelikan 4001 Black or any Pelikan 4000 series inks are dry and should help with fast drying for you! If you want a bit wetter and smooth writing feel, go for Lamy black or any lamy inks, they are just slightly less dry than the Pelikan inks. The smoothest writing ink for you will be any Iroshizuku ink - they should also dry quite fast from these pen/nib selections I've shared. Tsuki-yo is a great blue/black ink from that line that dries fast with a drier pen. Let me know if you have any other questions! I'm happy to help out any time :)

@williamevans9426

2 ай бұрын

@@KenchanKrafts Thank you so much for your kindness in responding to my enquiry in so much detail. I am most grateful for your suggestions and I look forward to trying out a few combinations. With very best wishes! 😃

I love physics (and I have 3 articles published in physics research journals, though any more in engineering and mathematical journals.) For the most part, I don't think that there is such a thing as too wet. (I'm exaggerating about the wetness,, but not by much)

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Hahaha!! There is no such thing as too wet, only very wet! ^_^ and that’s amazing, you must have a PhD in one of those!? 🤓 I struggled so hard in physics II in college that I dropped it in the first 2 weeks!

@Calcprof

2 ай бұрын

@@KenchanKraftsmathematics

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

@@Calcprof OK, well that shoulda been obvious, xD Calc Professor :P Congrats to those published articles in those journals ^_^ also thank you for coming to watch my (amateur) mini presentation on physics xD

@inkyfingers1045

2 ай бұрын

I LOVE WET. Dry not so much. What is that beautiful green pen?

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

@@inkyfingers1045 It's the Leonardo Momento Zero Grande - Mother of Pearl in Rose Gold Trims ^_^ Super beautiful isn't it?!

I´m from Germany, can someone list more German brands ? I think Pelikan is more wet, or ?

@KenchanKrafts

21 күн бұрын

Hello there, Arclite! Yes, Pelikans are wetter than Lamy from my experience. Schmidt and Bock nibs tend to write wetter in general, too, which are 2 of the 3 German-made nibs that are distributed to most brands. Jowo nibs seem to write a bit on the average to dry side, depending on the brand and how they tune the nibs. But I found that JOWO Gold nibs write pretty wet, especially when the brand (Leonardo) pairs their gold nibs with ebonite feeds.

@Arclite2k3

20 күн бұрын

@@KenchanKrafts I don't know which pen the nibs are installed in. I just wanna know how a Kaweco (on their Website they say, "we use manufactured german nibs"), Diplomat and Lamy writes .

Those busy hands,......

@KenchanKrafts

Ай бұрын

They're extremely busy!!!

Your hands are sooo distracting, but your information is helpful.

@KenchanKrafts

2 ай бұрын

Sorry about the distracting hands, but I’m glad the info was helpful to you! Thanks for watching!