Jim P.

Father, geek, serial hobbyist.

My Root Beer TWSBI ECO showed up today! I don't have a lot of brown inks so I figured I'd try Molten Bronze in it, since I haven't used that in a stub yet.

So far, so good, at least on good paper (check out the feathering on that Sunny Log Note paper I don't like, yikes!)

Some reports that the pen is scented, but either my nose isn't picking it up, or mine isn't. I do smell it on the box sleeve, though.

Photo of a fountain pen on a paper towel next to an ink bottle. The fountain pen is a TWSBI ECO in the "Root Beer" colorway which is has a transparent brown cap and bronze trim and clip. The cap is removed and next to the pen. The nib is also bronze. The section and body of the pen are clear. The ink bottle is barely visible, but is an Endless Alchemy bottle which is flask-shaped and resting on a cork pad.
Photo of a fountain pen resting on an open notebook and a separate sheet of paper. The fountain pen is a TWSBI ECO in the "Root Beer" colorway which is has a transparent brown cap and bronze trim and clip. The sheet of paper has a writing sample reading "TWSBI ECO 1.1 Stub / Root Beer / Endless Alchemy Molten Bronze" in brown ink. The lines are easy to read, clean, and evenly colored with some variation in width. The notebook has some writing with the same ink reading "5 . 4 . 26 / May the fourth be with you!" and "Filled / TWSBI ECO 1.1 Stub / Root Beer / Endless Alchemy Molten Bronze". The lines are much wider, fuzzier, and hard to read because they run together due to feathering. Under those are two unrelated writing samples for a Pilot VP in blurple Asa-gao ink and a Pilot VP Decimo in red Diamine Wild Strawberry ink.

Just to strengthen my point about that Sunny Log Note paper, here is that same sample from the back. It bled through significantly, and a couple spots even made it onto the blotter sheet behind it.

Photo of the back side of a notebook page. The writing is not legible, but many spots in the writing are dark where the ink has bled through the page.

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