So in my new found fountain pen fondness I signed up for Gouletpens.com ink drop club where I get 5 little vials of different inks to sample each month. I emptied two of them already and thought I could put the empty vials to good use here on the SRP forum.
Here's the deal: I'll send you one vial of an ink I have you'd like to try, along with an empty vial for you to send me a sample of ink you think I should try.
Here are the inks I have bottles of: Diamine Ox Blood, Noodler's Air Corp Blue Black, Nakahama Manjiro, Black Swan in Australian Roses, El Lawrence, Burma Road Brown, Heart of Darkness.
I only have two vials right now so only enough for one trade but I'll get more as time goes on. Perhaps this can grow into a nice ink trading for the fountain pen heads around here.
Also, having bought a few cheap Jinhao pens I can recommend them as cheap beginner pens for someone interested in trying them out, but they are cheap and perform as such. I guess they're like the infamous Gold Dollar razors: good enough to get the idea of straight shaving in most cases but ultimately you can find better values elsewhere. The Lamy and Noodler's pens are much better tools overal. Just my 2 nibs.