These are the kinds of problems you want to have.

My customized tiny cursive italic nib arrived today! Which works out nicely, because my Pelikan M200 arrived yesterday, so in five minutes or so I should (knock on wood) be able to assemble what is hopefully a magnificent pen. And of COURSE I'm going to ink it right up. Never mind that I've got... 1, 2...7 pens already inked up (work pen shouldn't count, though). I've got to see if I have actually achieved uberpen status or not, after all. So, I've got to decide what to ink this puppy up with. The Saguaro Wine is my favorite color of the inks present in the house right now this moment and what was used in the sample I loved, but Noodler's is not the nicest of things to do to a brand new pen, nor the best for evaluating a pen's properties. Violette Pensee is my next favorite, but it doesn't shade. None of the J. Herbin inks that I've tried so far do, as lovely as the colors are. (I think J. Herbin is my favorite brand of ink so far.) I think I'll go for the Waterman blue-black. I haven't used it in a while, it's a nice color even if not my favorite, pretty shading, and you can't ask for a better behaved ink for evaluation purposes. And the Taccia arrive to. (Poor thing, destined to be overshadowed from the first.) The garnet red looks very nice in person, and it comes in a sweet zippered faux leather carrying case to boot. I'm not going to ink it up until I get some stuff cleared out of my pen cup, though. BTW, Mergle, I mixed up the Noodler's black/Waterman blue-black on Tuesday night. No precipitates so far, and the ink is just black on paper. I'm not really in a good position to evaluate the quality changes, though, because I put it in a pen I've never used before, so I don't know what's the ink and what's the pen. On my specific Sheaffer Prelude, though, it is the nib creepiest thing ever. Dayum. I've had a little trouble with flow tapering off, although a shake of the pen (I know, I live dangerously) gets it going just fine again, and it stays that way until it's sat for a while. Since it is a brand new pen, the feed probably isn't completely primed is my guess there. But, in any event, no instant pen death in the mix.