Somewhere on the web, in the not too distant past, a blogger or a participant in a pen forum, wrote a post about enjoying his or her Kaweco Skyline Sport in Fox red/orange. They'd filled it with Sailor Shikiori Rikyucha Ink. And, for some reason, they'd attached a black sport clip to the pen, even though the standard move would have been to attach a chrome clip to match the color of the nib, if one wee going to use a clip at all.
The photo looked cool; Rikyucha was a Sailor Shikiori color I did not have (though I have many, many others); and Kaweco Sport pens are very inexpensive, usually around USD $30. So, monkey see, monkey do. I ordered a Kaweco Skyline in Fox, a black clip, a mini converter (no converter is supplied with the pen) and a bottle of Rikyucha ink.
Kaweco QC is not the best on its Sport models; this shows up in the occasional misaligned or otherwise problematic nib. I've generally had good luck with the Sports and the nibs are easily changed if you don't feel like going through the hassle of returning the pen for a replacement. Fortunately, the pen I purchased wrote well right out of the box. Kaweco Sports are great pocket pens and I have been enjoying this one alot.
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I'm enjoying this pen and ink combo. Mountain of Ink, one of my favorite ink review sites, describes Rikyucha as "
in-between a dark olive green and a dark brown." https://mountainofink.com/blog/sailor-jentle-rikyu-cha. That's pretty consistent with my experience, though under the crappy, harsh lighting in my little home office, the ink appears more dark brown than anything else. The olive is in there, but, at a quick glance, this ink can almost look black.
Rikyucha has a nice wet flow in my Kaweco Sport, is well behaved, dries quickly and does not ghost or bleed -- even on cheap paper. I used it today to write in my Hobonichi Techo (which has decent wonderful Japanese Tomoe River paper) and it took to the paper very well. Again, no bleeding or ghosting and the color appears a little more "true" on this better paper.
Here's a quick sample of my writing with this pen and ink combo on cheap Exacompta FIF paper:
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