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I made myself a "work tray" from watercolor paper for my fountain pen.

Simple valley and mountain folds every 1/2".

I use a piece of cotton tshirt as a blotter.

I only have one fountain pen, a few nibs and one black ink. So far that's really all I need.

For fun I might end up getting some green-black ink or maybe something salmon colored.

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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 13 hours ago

Is that the hongdian m2? I love that pen.

[–] dr_jekell@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Try Diamine blue black.

It's a lovely combination of deep navy blue and black.

https://mountainofink.com/blog/diamine-blue-black

[–] billionsandbillions@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

For some reason I gravitate more to green but if I ever do try a blue I'll keep this on the list. Thanks :)

Edit: The website you linked is really good.

[–] dr_jekell@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

It's helped me decide between various inks.

Also Diamine makes a green black ink:

https://mountainofink.com/blog/diamine-green-black

[–] cosmicgorilla@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That looks like a Hongdian M2. Solid pen choice to be your only one. It looks like Diamine has an actual Green/Black ink that might work.

That's correct, its the M2 in titanium.

That good to hear about the Diamine because from samples I've seen I do like that one as well as the Sherwood green.