Indian Fountain Pen Inks, Part 1 : Camlin Camel Inks

[@thewetpen]

As usual, I forgot to beg for likes and subscribes in this video, so if you found this interesting, please let me know! It will help me decide how long to extend this little series.

[@hemkeshyeole4630]

No need already done ❤

[@Ivan-xy3ws]

"every time I pick up an Indian fountain pen or ink, I think of her" That is honestly the ONLY reason you need. That one comment made me smile and think of my wife. Great video like always my man.

[@thewetpen]

That's the truth :-) Thanks!

[@jamesaritchie1]

You're a lucky man to have found someone who will tolerate life in a fountain pen rabbit hole. They're a special breed. My wife has been tolerating my fountain pen obsession for forty-three years. I think she believes it's a form of insanity so I need a keeper. She's right, of course.

[@thewetpen]

I am very lucky indeed 🙂

[@thinker1680]

This was the ink i used all through my school and college. Even though it is still very good and puts other inks to shame considering the cost, it used to be even better earlier.

[@thewetpen]

I really didn't expect this Camlin Royal Blue to be anywhere as nice looking as this... when I was in school, I used a plain blue ink that was maybe made by Shaeffer... I can't remember, but it was a pale blue and faded to nothing in a few weeks... I thought I'd be getting something similar for the price, but this is really a nice blue.

[@ranitpaul3353]

I'm from India and fountain pen collector, this Camlin ink is the cheapest best and common, other than this there is Sulekha, Parker inks as well

[@vnikyt]

Your main reason for being interested in Indian inks made me smile widely. LOVE IT! My husband is mostly amused by my fountain pen and ink obsession, but you’ve made me want to draw something for him today :-) Hey we’ve seen your partner, but where are you?! Face reveal, stat!

[@thewetpen]

Glad you enjoyed this one :-) I don't have any interest in making these videos about myself, so I stay off camera, but I do have another KZbin channel... and I have a profile photo there, at least. I might be in a video or two. kzbin.info/door/LPoIIbmWrZPT2oFeK3RUyQ

[@vnikyt]

@@thewetpen what, you mean fountain pens and ink are NOT your first love (after your lovely partner)?!?! Say it ain't so! 😁 Thanks for the link! Will definitely be checking out your videos there; already saw a couple video editing ones I need to watch 👍🏿

[@UARELOVE1010]

​@@thewetpen It was good to finally put a face to the voice!!

[@soumyabratapaul8151]

Absolutely brilliant! This production quality is top notch and the voice over is excellent. Keep up the good work. It would not be far fetched to say, this channel ranks amongst the very best, in the FP space in YT.

[@thewetpen]

Thanks! I do try to take my time with these videos to improve the quality rather than trying to make as many as possible... much to the dismay of some of my viewers :-) Hope you find them useful!

[@llchapman1234]

I love the traveling ink seeker series. Please continue to make these.

[@thewetpen]

With any luck, Taiwan will be up next 🙂

[@jojogpt]

Nostalgia in a bottle.

[@AnK11Morrison]

Few things I have noticed, the formulation for red and blue inks have changed a bit since they switched to plastic bottles and I feel the permanent black was rebranded as black. The scarlet red, I remember was a bit more bright.

[@sathishrao7926]

I use Bril for Blue and Black. For more exotic colors, I use Krishna Inks - I’ve about a dozen Krishna bottles. I‘ve also purchased a Daytone combo-pack with 15 colors, but not all the pens like these inks.

[@thewetpen]

Krishna are probably my favorite inks from India, and they're pretty easily available in the USA. I also have the 15 pack of Daytone inks, but I haven't used them much yet... but so far so good 🙂

[@hemkeshyeole4630]

Heck why did this video seemed like a threputic ❤

[@MarshaLove0723]

Nice video. I like that Royal Blue.

[@thewetpen]

Thanks :-) Me too... it's a really nice Blue; I've been using it for the past week, and it's been as good as any of its European counterparts... especially at a price of 30 cents per bottle :-)

[@TheDormousesDesk]

That was a sweet video. ❤

[@mariojr377]

Gorgeous episode . Thank you very much.

[@thewetpen]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂

[@mariojr377]

@@thewetpen excelent, marvelous, bravo 👏 👏 👏 👏 Best regards from Brazil.

[@subhmaypatra5562]

Camlin's Red ink used to be really good when they used to come in Glass bottles.

[@akshaysharma2786]

As an INDIAN I need get the camlin royal blue it looks so good I have all very saturated Krishna inks and Yama Budo and LAmy inks and want a bright colour, but then I asked Dad and he said there are definitely some campli ink lying around in his drawer used to use it a lot. Wao this is really popular as it was at my home I didnt even knew about it. Also Try KRISHNA inks and The Great Indian SYAHI they have lovely colour and prices at about 250Rupees around 3 dollars. It has some seriously line up my favourite being the CORAL BABY PINK AND THE OCHRE ILLUSION.

[@thewetpen]

Yes, this Royal Blue is excellent. It doesn't hold up well to light, but hardly any dye-based inks really do. I'm a big fan of Krishna inks.... they're pretty easily available in the USA, though, so they're lower on my list. I've been having trouble finding a source for Syahi inks, but they're on my list, too 🙂

[@akshaysharma2786]

@@thewetpen I myself am learning about inks, Inks unlike pens doesn't really stick their image to any brand, any affordable ink could beat any premium ink, while inks are just too popular but very difficult to work with take an eg of KZW Eldarado it's such a better proposition than Noodlers Southwest Sunset. And with even quicker drying times unlike southwest sunset which could take an actual sunset to set and dry

[@matheusftm6382]

Thank You!

[@Mayank_Maximum]

This ink js best ink ever,(yea just cuz of its price and longevity,btw try using it on pilot v5 cartrage with converter if this works then i got best month end setup)

[@thewetpen]

Camlin Royal Blue is definitely among my favorites, and I'm glad that its price is within the reach of just about everyone.

[@anonymous44044]

The clip you played in ending is from jodhpur And i am also from jodhpur.. whenever again you are here pls meet

[@thewetpen]

Ahh, yes! I took the train from Agra to Jodhpur, then back to Jaipur before heading down to Bhopal. Looking forward to going back again in the next year or two... perhaps we will get a chance to have a cup of tea.

[@viv_2489]

Great presentation, subscribed

[@thewetpen]

Thanks, and welcome! Nice to have you on board :-)

[@UrbanHafner]

That red reminds me of the Pelikan 4001 "red", which isn't super red either.

[@thewetpen]

Ahh, interesting! Yes, now that I have taken a look at some samples of the Pelikan red I can see what you mean (and also see why I never bought a bottle of it). Truth is, if this color had been called something other than "red", I'd probably like it a lot more... it's an interesting color. I think that the Pelikan is a little darker, but similarly orange/pink.

[@UrbanHafner]

@@thewetpen I don’t know what it is with the traditional European brands. Lamy Red falls in the same colour range.

[@davecharvella4854]

Excellent! That red looks a lot like Diamine "Wild Strawberry" when it first goes down. What do you think?

[@thewetpen]

I don't think that I actually have Wild Strawberry, but it definitely reminds me of a Birmingham ink that I have... might be Salt Water Taffy... though the Camlin ink darker. I just looked up the Diamine, and there's definitely some similarity, but the Camlin never really gets that red... it stays more pink/orange.

[@JayEatonArt]

Just going off the video I'd say Wild Strawberry is a fair bit darker and less orange. The color honestly reminds me of Diamine Coral, the way the dark shades are orange and the light shades are pinkish.

[@thewetpen]

@@JayEatonArt Yes, definitely similar to Coral. I do have that one, and I'll have to check and see how close they really are.

[@thewetpen]

Thought you might find this worth seeing... I made a quick comparison between Scarlet Red, Salt Water Taffy, Diamine Coral, and Diamine Vermillion. www.thewetpen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/camlin-camel-scarlet-red-color-comparison-review.jpg

[@sj6257]

Amazing photos!

[@thewetpen]

Thanks :-) India was an amazing place to photograph!

[@ironmic9244]

LOL I just love how you flat out dunk the paper in the water. I don't recall you having a Camlin pen video. Nice video. Does Garima share your interest in fountain pens as well? Love the rickshaw trip at the end.

[@thewetpen]

Thanks :-) Garima thinks I'm a bit crazy to be interested in these old-fashioned pens, but she at least is pretty tolerant. I have a couple of Camlin pens, but they're both very cheap and not really very interesting (or good).

[@thinker1680]

I hope you will also do bril royal blue

[@thewetpen]

Bril is coming up soon :-)

[@thinker1680]

@@thewetpen have you done reviews of those pens as well?

[@thewetpen]

@@thinker1680 Not yet... they're on my list to review as well :-)

[@thorhilda]

Very interesting. Thanks.

[@thewetpen]

Glad you found it interesting... I think that a couple of the inks that I'll be showing in future videos are more interesting, but this was a natural place to start. 🙂

[@fattydada]

are those cleanroom foam swabs you’re using?

[@thewetpen]

They're foam cleaning swabs, yes. Got them from Amazon. :-)

[@iceberg789]

cheapest ink. its very popular, but i think i used mostly chelpark ink, back in student life, when it was available at the same price range.

[@thewetpen]

I have an old bottle of Chelpark, but I've never opened it :-)

[@iceberg789]

@@thewetpen ah. that pretty much an antique piece now, since production has stopped 10-15 yrs ago i think. and please be aware if you decide to open the bottle, it gets dried sooner or later, due to that rusty metal cap. anyways, a vacuum plastic zip pouch may help if stored at a dark corner. maybe.

[@thewetpen]

@@iceberg789 Yes, I have a few vintage bottles of ink, and I keep them in a dark corner, basically. I'll be swatching the Chelpark eventually, for a video, but until I do, I'm keeping it sealed against contamination... even good inks sometimes will sometimes get moldy, etc. It's a good idea to transfer it (or part of it) into a safer container when I do finally open it.

[@iceberg789]

@@thewetpen aha 👌

[@FLMKane]

Camlin ink is less than 70 cents where live. Theirs is the only ink can genuinely end up being cheaper than a box of bics

[@oldladywithacamera]

So interesting. Thanks. (p.s. appreciate when you speed up the swatching -- no offense meant)😀

[@mohnishverma9454]

But there is a problem with this ink sir. I used it in two pen click aristocrat (fpr Darjeeling) and jinhao 51 a i use for daily for taking notes in school and writing in home so I needed a cheaper alternative than my regular ink . This ink blocked my pen feeds and it feather bril is much better alternative in same price range.

[@thewetpen]

Interesting! I have not experienced either of those problems with the Camlin inks. I have a few Aristocrats myself; I'll ink one of them up with Camlin and see if I run into any issues. I should say, though, that I've personally had more trouble with Bril feathering; not the Royal Blue, but the green and Turquoise Blue both feather a bit on standard papers (not FP friendly paper, luckily).

[@mohnishverma9454]

@@thewetpen sir, i am talking about royale blue only , sorry , i didn't clarified it . The thing is i use royale blue or standard blue in my school notebooks only and black , so i don't know about other colour i mostly use jinhao 51 a or a kanwrite relik , even though Camlin blue is brighter than bril royale blue , bril blue is smoother and nicer flowing at first the ink would write wet and smoothly than with a bit of writing like in two pages it would become really light and scratchy you can see the problem while just drawing a single line for partition, it would do the whole colour transition in same line . I have tried the same pen with different ink after cleaning like parker quink which is cheap here like you could get a 30 ml bootle for 80 rs and bril and waterman tender purple it works well with them and the pen was cleaned before using Camlin royale blue also.

[@thewetpen]

@@mohnishverma9454 Understood. Just out of curiosity, are you using the pen as eyedropper filled, or are you using a converter? I'd like to try to duplicate what you're seeing. Thanks for the info!

[@mohnishverma9454]

@@thewetpen the included convertor sir.

[@robmc120]

Any chance you can recommend an online venue where we can buy the ink for _around_ the .60 price tag? Amazon isnt surprising that its more than every other store. May God show Himself to you in spirit & truth, God bless!

[@thewetpen]

The best option that I know is ebay... I listed a link above, but there are better deals for multiple bottles... but they end up about $5 per bottle. The only way I know to get the MSRP is from inside of India

[@mausumipaul714]

camlin ink good for jinhao x159 pen? is that harm the pen? plzz reply

[@thewetpen]

Camlin ink is no problem in a Jinhao pen. Enjoy!

[@sj6257]

Whats the indian sitar music?

[@thewetpen]

I believe that it's something from Hooksounds.com... basically stock music. I think it's called Sweet Masala, but I'd have to double check on that when I get home on Monday

[@miteshshirude3908]

How much it price

[@thewetpen]

25 rupees

[@KL005]

yendiker rendiker

[@mainakmandal2003]

Camlin black is a joke

[@thewetpen]

Yeah... not the darkest out there, and not very good water resistance. For people who like shading in their black inks, though, it does a good job.