J Herbin Update

coyotewhisper · Jul 23, 2014

I'm a fan of J Herbin inks, but not a huge fan of their bottles. The bottles are difficult to fill lever fillers. In this weeks Jetpens, newsletter, they announced J Herbin ink in new coventail ink bottles priced at $4.75 for 10ml.

I was a winner in the recent Bastille Day giveaway from the Quovadis blog. I won a bottle of J Herbin ink, a pocket notebook.

OfTheWild · Jul 23, 2014

"...and then?!" he said with great anticipation.

nemo · Jul 23, 2014

Not sure what coventail bottles are but a 10ml bottle isn't holding much ink. Good sample I suppose.

Now you've got me wondering ... why does the bottle not work with your lever fillers?

Groat · Jul 23, 2014

nemo said:
Now you've got me wondering ... why does the bottle not work with your lever fillers?

Herbin bottles are flat and wide, so there isn't enough room to submerge many nibs. It's a terrible design that almost has to be decanted into another bottle.

syngent · Jul 23, 2014

my 1670 bottle won't let to many of my pens fill from its tiny openning... but i dont think their regular bottles have that same opening

OfTheWild · Jul 23, 2014

my two j.herbrin bottles are slightly deeper in the back corners. i havent had any problems but then again mine are pretty full still.

chris.hale · Jul 24, 2014

Groat said:
Herbin bottles are flat and wide, so there isn't enough room to submerge many nibs. It's a terrible design that almost has to be decanted into another bottle.

Agreed, they look cute but they're pretty useless. My bottle of Perle Noire is virtually full but it's still tricky to fill my M805 from.

coyotewhisper · Jul 24, 2014

coyotewhisper said:
I'm a fan of J Herbin inks, but not a huge fan of their bottles. The bottles are difficult to fill lever fillers. In this weeks Jetpens, newsletter, they announced J Herbin ink in new coventail ink bottles priced at $4.75 for 10ml.

I was a winner in the recent Bastille Day giveaway from the Quovadis blog. I won a bottle of J Herbin ink, a pocket notebook.

OOPS, my spelling is not always the greatest, I meant conventional. Sorry for the confusion.

coyotewhisper · Jul 24, 2014

nemo said:
Not sure what coventail bottles are but a 10ml bottle isn't holding much ink. Good sample I suppose.

Now you've got me wondering ... why does the bottle not work with your lever fillers?

The bottle shallowness prevents lever pens to work effectively.

The Knize · Jul 25, 2014

FWIW, the conventional J Herbin bottle is 30 ml.

I pretty much load every fountain pen I have with a syringe and needle these days. Just seems easier, less messy, and more effective.

OfTheWild · Jul 25, 2014

...or dip the convertor in the ink rather than the whole pen.

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