Rohrer & Klingner "Scabiosa" Permanent Ink - Waterproof test

[@Niklo74]

It's a pity that you had some wrong information. The Pelikan 4001 blue black you've chosen is known to be relatively water resistent very similar to the Scabiosa from Rohrer & Klingner. Both are called iron gall inks. The concentration of iron gall ink in these inks is not on par with Diamine Registar's ink or Akkerman 10 Akkerman Ijzer-galnoten Blauw-Zwart but it helps both inks to be relatively water resistent. It would be even more water resistent if the ink has some time to stay on the paper. After a while the ink changes from blue black to gray and then it's even more water resistent. Only the blue colour smears out and the blue colour vanishes after a while. The same is true for the "real" iron gall inks that can change the colour to dark grey of black, depending on the paper...Rohrer & Klingner was originally located in Leipzig but now is located in Zella-Mehlis Thuringa. The GDR was also called Eastern Germany but of course Saxony is more eastern and Thuringa is more central. Even Saxony wants to be Middle Germany between Southern and Northern Germany. The real old Eastern Germany was e.g. Slesia with big cities like Kattowitz beeing very deep in Poland since World War II.

[@andreihonciuc8361]

Thank you for your informative comment!

[@billcrabtree8700]

My understanding is that iron gall inks will not harm gold, but other metals can be a problem.

[@arlenealennox3136]

I would call it water resistant, but not waterproof.

[@jenfiles89]

Thanks you for this review. 👍

[@BarbraBarbour]

The ink is purple, but you called it sepia, and you say it matches the pen, which is red. I’m not impressed with your imprecision.

[@shadowmihaiu]

You only say that because you have a mild sociopathic tendency

[@Robert-en6cs]

as you can read on the inkpot, Rohrer&Klingner adorn themself with borrowed plumes, because they are NOT located in Leipzig! Because you emphasize using something from East Germany it seems to be important to you. If you mean "east" in the political meaning of "former GDR" I can solace you: it is located in Zella-Mehlis, Thuringia. If you mean "east" as a geographical direction, what I really hope(!), you may be disappointed, because Thuringia is located in the center of Germany.

[@lcsantos777]

Audio in just one chanel make's it awful.