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Here's a new one. What a pity that I can't find any stores that carry the Montblanc British Racing Green these days. I love this ink.

 

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I'd imagine that would be a hard pen to try and match, since the barrel reflects a lot of different colors depending on the light.

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I'd imagine that would be a hard pen to try and match, since the barrel reflects a lot of different colors depending on the light.

 

You are so right! I first tried my different browns on this pen, but they all looked a bit off. I tried three different dark greens first before chancing upon my old bottle of BRG which, sadly, has now been discontinued. The BRG, I think, represents the middle ground of the many different shades and colors that this pen exhibits.

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I mostly don't match pen and ink colors -- frankly, I don't have enough pens to do that, and I *certainly* don't have enough blue pens for all the different blue and blue-black inks! :roflmho:

But I put De Atramentis Tchaikowsky, which may be their regular Silver Grey (Silbergrau), in a Guanleming Accountant, which is a silver-tone metal pen, and the color combination was perfect.

I may try PR Gray Flannel in it next, to see how I like that ink.

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Awesome. I'm actually expecting a green Safari myself, and was wondering if I could fine some appropriate Kermit the Frog-green ink to match it. Seems I don't have to look far!

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I have been thinking of this, what color ink might go well with a matte/pearlized gold? It's not shiny by any means , but has more of a smoothness about it. Lemme see if I can find an example...

 

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any ideas?

 

I have this same pen....using medium golden-browns in it, like a fifty-fifty mix of Skrip brown and King's Gold.

 

 

Got the green Safari, too, but loaded it with my sample of Diamine Apple Glory.

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ooh, I don't have any Brown, but I do have King's Gold. I went with a different idea, Noodler's Habanero. Incidentally, how do you like the Plaisir? I like mine- got it in medium ,but wouldn't mind trying a fine (which I'll probably have to get from a Preppy). I could see getting more than just one of these b/c they really do write so well and are especially attractive.

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I thought I was strange doing this. I have a selection of Noodler's pens specifically for this purpose. Black is still my go-to ink, and that is what is in my nice pen and my EDC pen, but I love matching pens with ink otherwise. I always need a color for correcting (I'm a teacher). I also need colors for annotations on a fiction book I'm working on.

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ooh, I don't have any Brown, but I do have King's Gold. I went with a different idea, Noodler's Habanero. Incidentally, how do you like the Plaisir? I like mine- got it in medium ,but wouldn't mind trying a fine (which I'll probably have to get from a Preppy). I could see getting more than just one of these b/c they really do write so well and are especially attractive.

 

I like it just fine. I think mine is M, too, and since I'm a big fan of how the Preppys write, this seems to write as well but the pearl-gold color is really beautiful.

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I got to try a Plaisir fine nib today, I think I may like it even more than the medium! I may be looking for a cheap "gold" preppy to switch its nib into my Plaisir.

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Jetpens prolly still has them.

 

So both of your Plaisirs are gold? I have the one gold Plaisir, but Preppys in every color in both F and M.

 

Now on to my borthday pen... A Waterman Carene in Shimmering Sands, which is a kind of bronzy-blacky-red finish. I had an old Waterman cart in red. Mostly dried out. Pipetted a little J Herbin Lie de The, followed by a little water. I was aiming for a barrel match but the color's not writing true yet.

 

The nib is a B. just a massive blob of gold metal. I love it. Hope I can figure out how to take and post pics from this device.

My latest ebook.   And not just for Halloween!
 

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I wonder if I can get this to work...

 

 

 

:crybaby:

 

No. I'm hopeless...it'll have to wait till tonight.

 

Waiiita a minnut... I went the long way around.

 

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Jetpens prolly still has them.

 

So both of your Plaisirs are gold? I have the one gold Plaisir, but Preppys in every color in both F and M.

 

Now on to my borthday pen... A Waterman Carene in Shimmering Sands, which is a kind of bronzy-blacky-red finish. I had an old Waterman cart in red. Mostly dried out. Pipetted a little J Herbin Lie de The, followed by a little water. I was aiming for a barrel match but the color's not writing true yet.

 

The nib is a B. just a massive blob of gold metal. I love it. Hope I can figure out how to take and post pics from this device.

Oh no, I only have one Plaisir. I got to try the other one (with the fine nib) at the Atlanta ITP Pen Posse meeting. I only have my gold one, but I am also digging the green one to tell you the truth.

 

 

 

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Those pearly barrels really are purdy.

 

Can't stand my handwriting, but here we go again. Turns out I have more than one cart of Skrip Peacock ink, and turns out I really love the color, even in an undisputably green pen:

 

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8334/8427423112_8186e103ae_z.jpg

My latest ebook.   And not just for Halloween!
 

My other pen is a Montblanc.

 

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I got a green translucent NNS as a gift just recently. Right now it has a purple ink in it (which was leftover in the cart, apparently. I'll have to ask the person who gave it to me what brand it was, as I don't recall right this second. But when that is done, I need to find a good green to match that pen! Any suggestions?

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Waterman green, Skrip green, both well-behaved. JH has Lierre Sauvage, with fewer blue undertones, and Vert Reseda, with more.

 

Those are the bottled inks that come to mind, that I actually use.

 

Green pen, purple ink. Interesting!

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My other pen is a Montblanc.

 

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