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What are your experiences with them? What colors are worth it? I have heard some bad and some good about the Edelstein line of inks and just wanted some clarification.

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It depends on which ink. Alas, they have not held up on my fade tests.

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I have Jade and Amber and they are tramendous! They flow nice, cover well and dry time is very good! Hope this helps you

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I like Topaz most. Of the 4 I have it shades best.

Aventurine can feather on some papers. On some papers it shades well. For shading and lack of feathering 4001 Green beat it. :o

Jade is a nice soft color, not a shading ink, or not much.

Tanzinite I've only used once. It was OK, but shaded less than expected. I'll have to try that with a different nib. I didn't give it a fair test, using only one nib.

 

True test of an ink needs 4 assorted nibs, of various width and flexes with 3-4 different papers.

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Aventurine is a lovely green, though it can be a bit tempermental (showthrough, feathering) on cheaper papers. But I recently discovered that it was the perfect ink for my dry-writing Pelikan fine nib.

 

Tanzanite is my favorite blue-black

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I give Topaz a thumbs up, exquisite blue color. Worth it just for the flacon.

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Aventurine is a lovely green, though it can be a bit tempermental (showthrough, feathering) on cheaper papers. But I recently discovered that it was the perfect ink for my dry-writing Pelikan fine nib.

 

Tanzanite is my favorite blue-black

I also had good lubrication with this ink in some drier Nakaya F nibs too!

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Got Amber, Tanzanite and Turmaline.

 

Amber has beautiful shading and looks awesome on off-white paper.

 

Tanzanite is the perfect every day color, defo my top3 :)

 

Turmaline - girls only :). Goes great with Lamy Al-star Dark Purple. I adore this color - and the fact that it's limited edition makes it even more desireable!

 

Would love to get their green&orange.

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I bought too many bottles of this from Goulet when another brand (that was in my shopping cart at the time) dropped them.

 

To be honest, I was very much underwhelmed. The ones I liked the best, Amber and Mandarin, had faults of their own the longer I used them. The Mandarin was just not a good writing ink. The Amber was attractive, but only with the right paper and pen. Otherwise, other color components within it came out that were far less attractive.

 

In my next ink purge, I'll be giving away these inks, pretty bottles or not.

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I have about 6 different inks, Sapphire I find a little underwhelming against a strong blue competitive field. Topaz, Tanzanite and Tourmaline are nice inks that perform very well. Onex is just black, there are better and cheaper blacks.

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I got to say that i was a bit disappointed with Amber. Somehow expected more, the color just doesn't do it for me. The new one, Garnet, is quite nice on the other hand. I got two other ones but i actually forgot their names so nothing to write home about.

Generally i have the feeling that they all run more or less on the drier side which is a deal breaker for me. But maybe i'm generalizing to much.

 

Bottles are pretty though.

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Amber is the best. Just ask her.

 

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I have Topaz and Garnet, both given to me as off casts from one of my friends. I love Topaz, Garnet I could give or take.

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I find that these inks are like Iroshizuku in my book - yeah, they behave pretty well for me. But there's pretty much no water resistance and most of the colors just aren't that special for me to shell out the premium price.

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TheDarkFaery Near Mint

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Im Thinking of purchasing Topaz. After all it is my birth stone

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Of the three Jade, Topaz, Onyx, I feel the Edelstein Topaz is the best for shading and all round ink characteristics. However it is difficult to clean out of a pen.

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that he does not know until he takes up his pen to write.

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Up until now I couldn't find one I liked but the new Garnet is fantastic. I love the slightly orange color, it flows beautifully and it seems to clean easily.

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Topaz is a beautiful ink, has nice shading and good water resistance.

Tanzanite is nice but won't replace my Pelikan 4001 blue-black.

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