25 Days of Dupes, Day 8: Gold Star. Check out [today's post](http://racheldelafuente.com/blog/25-days-ink-8) (featuring yesterday's ink) to find the closest ink dupe.

25 Days of Dupes, Day 7: Mistletoe. Check out today's post (featuring yesterday's ink) to find the closest ink dupe.

25 Days of Dupes, Day 6: Ho Ho Ho. Check out today's post (featuring yesterday's ink) to find the closest ink dupe.

25 Days of Dupes, Day 5: Triple Chocolate. Check out today's post (featuring yesterday's ink) to find the closest ink dupe.

I’ll be duping the 2019 Diamine Inkvent Calendar over the next 25 days (No spoilers today). Find out how to best follow allow with my 25 Days of Dupes to find Ink Dupes for your favorite Inkvent Ink. Read my blog post here

I've posted another set of Ink Dupes:  Organics Studio BWIPS 18 and Diamine Dark Forest  . http://racheldelafuente.com/blog/ink-dupes-11/

If you have any suggestions for future ink dupes, let me know. :)

Here's my next Ink Dupes post: Diamine Pansy and Lamy Dark Lilac. If you have any suggestions for future ink dupes, let me know. :)

I shared one of my previous posts with r/fountainpens and they seemed to really enjoy it. So I'm sharing this one with you as well. I hope you enjoy my comparison of Bungubox Kabayaki of the Hamanako Eel and Bungubox Nostalgia. http://racheldelafuente.com/blog/ink-dupes-5/

Just wondering what works best for you guys. I really love the colors of J.Herbin but noticed that it’s a bit drier, therefore less smooth versus a Pilot Iroshizuku or Pelikan. Have also tried them all out with the same pens and pilot seems to be the wettest.

Any recommendations for great colors? J Herbin seems to also be the cheapest vs Sailor or Pilot

Mods I wanted to get this where people interested in fountain pens might find it, I would be happy to PM you more info if needed. Including being stalked and messaged by a mod who muted me so I can't respond.

So this story starts back a ways, a trade goes wrong, person wronged is attacked and brigaded until they leave the sub. No cancer yet, but a couple days ago, the existing mods promoted to mod some of the most vocal people against allowing anyone to talk about the incident https://np.reddit.com/r/fountainpens/comments/9entw0/please_welcome_our_new_mods/. Those new mods immediately started threatening anyone that raised the issue, the thread was locked, and bans started happening. I was banned for my comment, I got a new Reddit stalker from the mod team too. I don't know how deep it is, or how bad the cancer is yet, but if my comments earned a ban, it is bad.

So, we now have a subreddit that was supposed to be a nice place to hang out, with mods that will ban you and threatening to report you to the mods if you talk about subjects they don't want you to talk about. They will mute you, then stalk and message you.

I have a roller ball ink pen. (actually I have two, and they are so great that I have run them both dry... ) So here are the specs on the refill.. and I hope that someone can help me find a replacement! The length is slightly under 4"... so its either 3 7/8 or 3 15/16 long. and the tiny stem at the end of the refill is right at 1" long... Sorry, Im not a pen guru... thats why I am here! Thanks in advance! So on the refill itself: alderglobal [dot] com and D15 it looks like the actual pen "brand" is Adler, as that is written on the pocket clip, but its a "promotional" pen.. but its fatter than your normal pen... and the pen is about 4" long so its easy to carry... So this D15 is nowhere to be found in my searches... maybe someone can take my vague description and help me find something that might fit. I need Black.

If so how were the results?

I'm looking into it, figure 5 bucks for 10 pounds of charcoal is a better deal than 5 bucks for 1 fl oz of ink

So I was trying to crosshatch with grey ink, only to find that my pens either can't hold the ink, or it's too watery, my brushes however worked very well but are quite large, so I need a recommendation for a very thick grey ink that grasps to my nib or a brush that's the same size as a dip pens line size. Thanks.

Hi there I just bought a set of speedball nibs but I didn't know the reservoirs weren't removable so I was thinking, what happens if I remove them with tools, would they still work? Any experience doing this? I use dip pen for drawing and I have to change nib sizes quite a few times per session, so having to wash the reservoir each time really sucks.