Private Reserve Ebony Blue

[woodworker]

You can read this review also on my blog Inkyjournal with bigger pictures.

 

I got this nice bottle from Art Brown International Pen Shop. They have a lot of ink en pens. The order came quickly trough international mail. Great service guys!

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I was really surprised by this color Ebony Blue of Private Reserve. It is not blue, it is green-blue. And I love it! It can be an all day color to use, even for business people. I tested it on my Moleskine Journal book in a Lamy 2000.

 

Written review:

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If you can't read my writing here is the translation:

"Thursday, august 6, 2009

 

Lamy 2000 (fine nib) filled with Private Reserve Ebony Blue.

Even though the Lamy 2000 is a wet-writer, this ink does not bleed trough the Moleskine paper (only some tiny dots).

It is a nice blue-green color. When the ink is dry it has a nice shading from green to blue.

The ink dries slow, after almost 40 seconds the ink is still a little wet. The color can really be used for business-people because it is not to shiny.

I think I'm gonna leave it a while in this Lamy 2000.

 

Woodworker"

 

Reddish-glow?

I just took the pictures for this review. I noticed a reddish-glow in the ink wich is hard to see by the eye. But if you keep the page in the light you can see it. I noticed this glow also in Private Reserve American DC Blue. Is this a trademark for Private Reserve?

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Moleskinefriendly:

I give this ink a thumbs up for Moleskine-friendly ink. You can use the other site of the page without making a mess of it. I like the greenish-blue color with the creamy pages of the Moleskine paper. I leave this ink some time in this Lamy 2000 fountainpen.

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Just buy this ink if you want to use it in the beautiful Moleskine notebooks.

[Dave Johannsen]

I agree that this is an interesting ink. Though it is (like you said) a blue-green, there is a quality to it that reminds me of the shimmer in lame' fabric (ti's not a muted blue-black, like Waterman's or Pelikan). And, yep, I too can see the "red ghost" when I use the ink. I don't know if the color will appeal to strict traditionalists, but it's an interesting ink to add to most people's ink chest.

 

By the way, that's a great photo of the open bottle. It really captures the color of the ink.

 

 

Dave

Edited August 13, 2009 by Dave Johannsen

[Ghost Plane]

Oh wow! Thank you for this. I'd held off trying it thinking it would just be another dark blue. That blue-green shade is GORGEOUS!

[GreenVelvet]

I adore this color. I am a blue-green fanatic, and it is one of my very favorites. It had better be fabulous for me to put up with the super-slow dry time - but it is fabulous indeed.

[Skyppere]

If it's a blue green, how would you say it compares to "Blue Suede," which is my favorite ink? It's also a blue green...

 

skyppere

Edited August 13, 2009 by Skyppere

[WendyNC]

My personal preference jury is still out on this ink, but I'm thinking I need to try it in a wider nib. If I were naming it, I'd be inclined to call it PR Ebony Teal.

[welfvet]

From what I can make out on my PC it reminds me of the Noddlers Navy I have, which I really like even though I was not looking for a greeny-blue.

[GreenVelvet]

If it's a blue green, how would you say it compares to "Blue Suede," which is my favorite ink? It's also a blue green...

 

I love PR Blue Suede, too. Ebony Blue is much darker - in low light, can be mistaken for black. Blue Suede is "brighter" and almost more turquoise.

[Mongo]

Reddish-glow?

I just took the pictures for this review. I noticed a reddish-glow in the ink wich is hard to see by the eye. But if you keep the page in the light you can see it. I noticed this glow also in Private Reserve American DC Blue. Is this a trademark for Private Reserve?

If you like that reddish glow, you can get more of it in Private Reserve Electric DC Blue, Levenger Cobalt, and Diamine Majestic Blue.

[WendyNC]

Reddish-glow?

I just took the pictures for this review. I noticed a reddish-glow in the ink wich is hard to see by the eye. But if you keep the page in the light you can see it. I noticed this glow also in Private Reserve American DC Blue. Is this a trademark for Private Reserve?

If you like that reddish glow, you can get more of it in Private Reserve Electric DC Blue, Levenger Cobalt, and Diamine Majestic Blue.

 

Aha--I think I'm seeing a pattern here for myself. Although I'm not that big a fan of blue ink, I like Diamine Majestic Blue and PR Electric DC Blue. Clearly I'm going to have to give Ebony Blue another try.

[Raiche58]

I've seen a metallic reddish glow/overlay on Diamine Majestic Blue. I tried so hard to get my hands on a bottle at the recent DC Fountain Pen Show, but kept missing the boat.

 

I think I have a bottle of the PR Ebony Blue, so maybe I can get my fix this way.

[tnmike1]

From what I can make out on my PC it reminds me of the Noddlers Navy I have, which I really like even though I was not looking for a greeny-blue.

 

 

it is indeed quite close to Navy, although the Navy I believe is a lot more water=resistant than the PR color. So if water resistance is a factor, may want to consider the Navy

[ZeissIkon]

I've been using Ebony Blue in a variety of pens for about three months. The color varies with the light, the wetness of the line, the paper -- and then it almost doesn't vary if I invert the bottle a couple times before I fill the pens, but it starts to show green again in one very fat B nib. Magical color changing ink, and the best part is, I like it in all its incarnations...

[Ghost Plane]

Argh. There goes the ink budget!

[Mrsal]

nice ink!

[nvbrennan]

My personal preference jury is still out on this ink, but I'm thinking I need to try it in a wider nib. If I were naming it, I'd be inclined to call it PR Ebony Teal.

 

I was just about to say the exact same that it should be renamed Ebony Teal. I love this ink and it occupies pride of place in one of my three go to writers, a binderised snorkel. For those who want 'smack in the face' colour it's probably too dark, but I tend to prefer inks that hover around blacks and blues but with something a bit more interesting and complex about them on closer inspection. I would be interested to see though what happens in a wider nib whether it's even darker and some of the complexity is lost, i use it in a fine nibbed pen.

[ZeissIkon]

My personal preference jury is still out on this ink, but I'm thinking I need to try it in a wider nib. If I were naming it, I'd be inclined to call it PR Ebony Teal.

 

I was just about to say the exact same that it should be renamed Ebony Teal. I love this ink and it occupies pride of place in one of my three go to writers, a binderised snorkel. For those who want 'smack in the face' colour it's probably too dark, but I tend to prefer inks that hover around blacks and blues but with something a bit more interesting and complex about them on closer inspection. I would be interested to see though what happens in a wider nib whether it's even darker and some of the complexity is lost, i use it in a fine nibbed pen.

 

I've got Ebony Blue inked in my Gui Guan 20, which I recently reground to a fairly broad (more than 1 mm) cursive italic. The shading that I get when writing with this nib seems to emphasize the green tones in this ink; my experience is it's bluer in a wet line, greener in a dry one (as witness one of my Hero 70s, a very wet writer, also with Ebony blue, where it shows a very blue color), and greener on paper where it spreads, bluer where it sits where it was laid (these two are probably related -- the denser the dye on the paper, the bluer it looks).

[StephY]

I tried Ebony Blue at the ink table at the DC pen show with a fine-writing dip pen and really liked it. I'm usually not a blue-green (teal/turquoise) person but I think the darker hue of this really appeals. This reminds me a lot of my bottel of Noodler's Tahitian Pearl, in fact, which I sometimes use in the office to pass for black ink. Ebony Blue takes less time to dry though, which sounds good to me.

[cpsantillan]

Nice review!! ohhhh blue-green,those are my favorite colors

they really match,and that lamy 2000 is the perfect companion...

[SamCapote]

I just bought Ebony Green, Blue, and Purple. I first tried EB, and was sure they put EG in the EB bottle. Strikingly more green than blue...but I also like it. the EG is dark and luscious...and EP is also breathtaking.