Lamy 2000 Makrolon Fountain Pen is a holy grail fountain pen. I really loved the same, and this is the one I have been looking for from so long. Thank Lord Shiva for the blessings. Check it out!
Lamy 2000 is the pen which you can only need once in your life. I really loved having one in my life.
Lamy Aion Black Fountain Pen (M) has a really different feel from the same. The nib is different. I felt the Medium nib in the Aion wrote a little thinner than the Lamy Safari standard medium nib. The body is really cool and has no finials. It's made from a single piece of metal; it feels like. Check it out!
I really got this pen when it was cheaper and now the prices are sky high for all range of Lamy fountain pens.
I tested the LAMY Plus Colour Pencils So You Don't Have To, and look at it before you make an actual decision as these are really expensive but the quality of LAMY pencils is great. I bought the same for around ZAR 150 including postage charges from Facebook Marketplace.
LAMY Plus Colour Pencils offer a vibrant way to express your creativity. See how these drawing tools perform on paper. This video provides a close look at the LAMY Plus Colour Pencils set, including an examination of the packaging and the build quality of each pencil. I use a digital calliper to check the dimensions and ensure you have a clear idea of what to expect from this stationery set. Whether you are an artist or just enjoy high-quality writing instruments, these colored pencils are worth a look. I test them out with various strokes to show you how they handle on different paper surfaces for your own art projects.
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I bought this Lamy Joy Calligraphy Fountain Pen set from Facebook Marketplace. The new set is priced at ZAR 1499 only, but the quality you get from Lamy is awesome. The sub nibs are something if you start using, will make you fall in love. The best part is that these nibs are easily replaceable on any of the Safari fountain pen range as well. This I still have to try for myself, though.
This is one of the best calligraphy pens available in the market for the general public who wants quality and is learning the art of calligraphy. I have several calligraphy products that I have bought over the years, and I will showcase them in future videos.
Lamy launched 2 new colours of inks named Petrol and Sepia in the month of March 2025. The same is available at Sandton Stationery & Print for around ZAR 250 each. I have reviewed the Lamy Petrol in this video. Lamy Petrol is the darkest green ink with a lot of black into the same. Though at no point the black is visible but it's really a dark green ink as a whole.
The ink is priced at around ZAR 250 for a 50ml bottle which also a whole roll of blotting paper to clean your pens on the go. Otherwise, I am not sure if you will ever buy blotting paper because you will just clean the ink with tissue paper or a towel or whatever mechanism you are already using. I have a lot of tissue papers coloured in inks which I have kept for nostalgia purposes. They do smell bad as well as inks are made from some form of chemicals and every brand uses different chemicals.
I bought another Lamy T52 Fountain Pen Ink in Green Colour. Besides the RED one, I have bought almost all the inks available from the LAMY online store in the Lamy T52 bottle range. I am sure it's going to last me my remaining lifetime. If I think about it, I have spent most of my money on LAMY products in 2022. The same continues in 2023 and soon I will also own a Lamy 2000 in 2024 as well.
Lamy T52 Green fountain pen ink is really a bright coloured ink and looks really good on the paper. This can definitely be your first colour of ink other than the Black and Blue colour. I really love this T52 Green colour as compared to the Montblanc Irish Green ink which is really dark compared to this one.
I bought his LAMY Black Fountain Pen ink for my Lamy LX Fountain Pen that I bought some months back. Make the best use of LAMY South Africa's black Friday sale in case you love Fountain Pens. Thanks to Lamy South Africa for the same. They have not sent me any pen or any ink for free. All the products I have bought with my own money.
This ink was going for ZAR 99 during the 2022 Black Friday sale on Lamy Online shop. I made use of the black Friday deal in 2022 and got myself some of the Lamy T52 inks.
Lamy T52 Black fountain pen ink is black and has a little bit of sheen on the wetter regions. Lamy black is general day-to-day ink if you like to write in black ink. Check out the video and see if this black ink suits your writing style.
I love fountain pens and was looking for some of the unique inks and found this one from Lamy South Africa in Turquoise Colour. This ink is peppy, fresh to the eyes and cool in colour and tone. I really love writing my gratitude journal using this colour. The Stationery & Print shop inside Sandton City gave me this ink for ZAR 200 (i.e. USD 12). If I think about the Indian price it will be around Rs. 1000 for a 50ml bottle. Check it out!
I plan to buy some of the inks from the other expensive series of Lamy called Crystal Ink which has some kind of brilliant tint to bring more fun to your writing experience. If I ever buy the Lamy Fountain Pen, it will be in Fine Nib rather than EF Nib. Topaz, Beryl, Agate and Azurite are some of my favourite colours from that series which is going for around ZAR 240 for a 30ml bottle in 2023. The price of inks keeps on increasing annually due to the USD-ZAR fluctuations.
I think this is the ink I have used the most as compared to all the inks I have bought after this one. This ink looks really poppy on the paper and you fall in love with your own writing.
I bought this Lamy Red T52 ink bottle in a 50ml pack for ZAR 187.50 at a 25% discount on Black Friday. The ink bottles were not on sale in 2023 whereas they were on sale for ZAR 99 each last year but Lamy South Africa was giving 25% off sitewide so I got this one as I really missed the Red colour ink in my life.
Lamy Red Ink is totally different from the other red ink I have which is Karkos Red. This ink has a pastel side to the same and looks more like a peach colour. This ink also has a golden or yellow sheen. I really love writing using this ink as I filled my Parker Kensington Red Fountain Pen with the same.
Lamy Topaz is another ink that is in my arsenal of ink for 2024 the count of which has now increased to 25 different inks from different brands. I am not talking about the cartridges I have or samples of the inks received with the pens. I am sure the focus will be getting and collecting some more inks during the year. I will try to participate in all the contests possible so that I win some inks and review them as well. For the rest of my life, I have enough as I won't be able to finish the same in the next 10-15 years or so.
I need to contact Lamy South Africa's marketing manager to get more inks for review if possible.
Lamy Topaz T53 Crystal Ink comes in a beautiful bottle that we discussed in our previous posts. But the unique thing about this bottle was the little plastic line on the cap that's in the same colour as the ink. This is different from T52 where the whole cap is in the colour of the ink.
If we look at the dried ink swab, I can see that the ink is a little bit darker than the cheaper Karkos ink I bought from Ali Express. Also, Lamy Topaz has a bit of green colour sheen that comes on the paper where we put some more ink. Also, there is a bit of red colour mixed into the ink on the darker spots.
The price of the Lamy Crystal Inks is consistent on the Lamy Online Shop for ZAR 299 and during the black Friday sale, I got it at a 25% discount and bought the same for ZAR 225 only. I strongly suggest you buy directly from the Lamy Online Shop at https://www.lamyshop.co.za/ and get some of their limited editions of ink.
In continuation with our Lamy T53 Crystal Fountain Pen Inks review, I also bought this really light colour as I wanted to try the same as well. The grey colour is also available from the Kaweco inks range but then this was crystal ink so thought of investing in the same. I am talking about the Lamy Agate which is a silvery Grey in color.
I got an idea when posting these blog posts that there should be some YouTube Shorts video that needs to be created separately so that it can form part of this blog and also it can then be shared on the YouTube Channels and IG as well. Every day I clean my desk and then again it's full of chaos before I can start shooting the shorts. I definitely need to work on a flowchart where I can leave aside my mental blocks to work on the videos. As you know Universe loves speed and so many ideas get lost if you grab them right when they appear so I am going to grab them and work them smoothly going forward.
Coming back to this Lamy Agate (Grey) T53 Crystal Ink in a 30ml bottle, we have silvery ink that can really be a mixture of white and a little bit of black coloured inks. With this ink also there is no sheen or shimmer to be called crystal ink. Maybe the only way to test them further is to use different kinds of paper that I don't have currently with me.
The best feeling about his ink is that it feels like your fountain pen is writing like a pencil as after the drying time, the paper and the ink feel like written using a H/2H pencil. In case you want to relive your childhood and doesn't want to use the clutch pencils etc then this Lamy Agate is perfect for you.
Paper does make a lot of difference to the way your ink will behave along with the nib size. A lot of it depends on the GSM of the paper along with the fabric of the paper. There are so many problems like feathering, ghosting, bleed-through and smoothness (drying times) that need to be observed for the inks and papers along with the colour of paper that's available in the market. Like with this Agate, white colour paper will be better as compared to the yellowish or cream coloured ones.
This ink is priced at ZAR 299 at the Lamy Online Shop in South Africa and with a 25% discount during the black Friday period on the website, I got it for around ZAR 225 only.
Overall, I wouldn't recommend the Grey colour inks unless you have a specific purpose like paintings, drawings or doodling that you have to do. What idea I have is to mix this ink with something that can add some shine to the same and will try mixing yellow into the same along with some green in a separate one to check what colours can be made out of it. If we add a drop of black ink into this one, there will be no difference left between black and grey then as you can see from the ink swab in the video.
Check out the videos and the writings in the video. A new short video will also feature in this blog post soon. Thanks!!!
I thought of also marking the stationery review posts to maintain continuity as well. This will take a while to post for all the YouTube videos I have shot which are more than 500+ for long format and 1200 + for Shorts format. I love stationery products and I am sure you also must have fallen in love with them during your life.
When you have a lot of pens, the next item is to buy the inks in different colours. I really love the colour of inks that get popped out and are reflective/brilliant in nature, by which I mean that they should shine on the paper whether they have shimmer or not, doesn't matter. It should really have a personality of its own. To pursue this passion, I have bought numerous colours of inks which will be showcased to you in my YouTube videos as well as in blog posts.
Lamy Germany is one of my favourite brands in terms of the range of products they offer. They have a unique style and owning a Lamy Safari Fountain Pen was one of my dreams. It all started when I bought one in Yellow colour during 2022 from Sandton Stationery & Print shop in Sandton City Mall. I got it for around ZAR 280 and then the ink converter cost me about ZAR 120 more so overall I paid ZAR 400 for the pen and got my EF nib as well. Now I am looking for a black F nib to fit my Safari Fountain Pen.
My second reason to love Lamy Germany is also due to its limited range of products, not in terms of the colours that they keep bringing but in terms of the designs of the products. The writing instruments range they offer starts from Safari, 2000, Aion, Studio, Swift, Vista, Ideos, al-Star, LX, Logo, Cp 1, Scala, Nexx, Accent, Joy, Dialog, Imporium and some more. The same models are also available in Rollerball and ballpoint pens as well. I am in pursuit of owning Lamy 2000 and Lamy Dialog.
If we talk about the inks, they only have two ranges - T52 (50ml) and T53 Crystal Inks (30ml) bottles. T52 are normal day-to-day inks that are cheaper as compared to crystal inks and come with tissue paper to take care of any stains or extra ink on the body of the pen.
T53 are expensive crystal inks that have sheen and shimmer built into the same and really reflect the quality Lamy offers. The design of the bottle is awesome as you unbox the ink. The bottle has a big opening that is both beneficial in terms of filling the ink in any kind of pen as well as the same can lead to accidents in case you drop it and the whole ink will be on the desk or ground.
I wanted to go into the crystal range of inks so I kept waiting for the Black Friday sale at Lamy Online shop because the price kept on increasing at all the online stores. I thought the same would be offered at a discount like last year when T52 ink bottles were sold for ZAR 99 only. The price of the T53 was the same as the T52 ink bottle last year in 2022. But the black Friday sale this time has very limited pens on discount and no ink formed the part of the same so I had to take a plunge to buy the inks at the price mentioned on the website. My good luck was that there was a 25% discount that was applied store-wide on all the products so it cost me a little bit less than the retail price of ZAR 299 (USD 16).
I bought this Azurite T53 Crystal Ink from Lamy Online Shop for ZAR 224 (USD 12) only. Lamy Azurite is also called Deep Blue and the ink is really nice tilted towards the darker purple shades as well. I am sure you won't miss the letters written in this ink as it's really dark and makes you wonder if this is black or blue or what? I am not sure why Lamy is calling the same as Crystal ink when there is no brilliance in the colour on the page.
I have not seen any of the Lamy inks feature in the top inks on the famous stationery shops videos on YouTube. There was also a problem with the ink bottle as most of the ink came out of the box and fell on other ink packets as well. The brands replaced the bottle but the same happened with the other Azurite bottle as well. The rest of the colours I bought have no leakage. Also, the packaging was different in all the T53 bottles I bought.
Overall, I am not clear about this ink as it should have been bought in the first place or not and now I have two bottles to finish. If anyone wants the same, I can sell the same for ZAR 200 cash in Johannesburg, South Africa. I will definitely try different pens and use this ink more as I just bought it before I went on holiday to India and since that time I have not used it. I will definitely try to use this ink in my new Fountain Pens from Kanwrite. More about the same in the next video so keep watching my YouTube channel!
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