My new fountain pen bled through three pages of my Leuchtturm journal

I got a Pilot Metropolitan with Noodler's bulletproof black ink, thinking it would be perfect for headers. I wrote a big monthly title, and the ink soaked right through that page and the next two. It left dark ghosts on the next spread, ruining a tracker I had set up. Has anyone found a good fountain pen ink that actually works with thinner paper?

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richard_lee22d ago

Honestly, that's more about the paper than the ink (Leuchtturm is just too thin for wet pens). You might want to try a drier ink like Pelikan 4001, but a different notebook would fix it for good.

elliotk1122d ago

Ugh, tell me about it... is there anything more annoying than a great pen getting ruined by paper that can't handle it? I've had the same problem and it feels like such a waste. Swapping notebooks was the only thing that really worked for me too, even after trying a bunch of different inks. That feathering and bleed-through just kills the whole writing experience.

kevin_adams8d ago

So what's the actual paper weight where feathering stops being a problem? Leuchtturm is 80gsm, and that clearly fails. Is there a known good threshold, or does it depend too much on the specific paper coating?