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Mine is to have a couple of bottles of De Aramentis Charles Dickens ink. Unfortunately I can't seem to buy them anywhere and sellers online seem to want to charge 14 £'s , $'s or 's for the postage per bottle which doubles the price. I find that a trifle excessive.

I'm also hoping for a bottle of Diamine Twilight.

 

Sooo...... What are yours?

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My current ambition is to find "the perfect black" - a black ink that behaves well and looks well and has a true black feeling to it. After trying a couple of different black inks, I can say I'm not there yet. :P

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I'm still searching for the perfect blue-violet. Or violet-blue. Blue with a hint of violet but not "too much.". Eleven sample vials and still not quite there - but some beautiful colors. :)

Life's too short to use crappy pens.  -carlos.q

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Mine is to have a couple of bottles of De Aramentis Charles Dickens ink. Unfortunately I can't seem to buy them anywhere and sellers online seem to want to charge 14 £'s , $'s or 's for the postage per bottle which doubles the price. I find that a trifle excessive.

I'm also hoping for a bottle of Diamine Twilight.

Sooo...... What are yours?

David

Isn't Charles Dickens the same as their standard colour Cement Grey?

Migo

Verba volant, scripta manent

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1. See ink - "ooh, pretty color"

2. Buy the ink and wait impatiently for the package to arrive.

3. Fill the pen - "darn inky fingers!"

4. Scribble something and evaluate, either "I like that, very nice" or "that's icky, what was I thinking?"

5. Go to #1.

 

I'm a pretty simple guy, it doesn't take much to amuse me.

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My ambition is to divest four more of the current inks on hand and get the number of bottles in use down to seven. Then, replace those as used, keeping the same number of bottles.

Happiness is a real Montblanc...

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I have no specific ink ambition beyond organizing my samples and using them up. I have Iroshizuko Kon-Peki in the "save for later" cart section on Amazon but I haven't splurged on it yet. Maybe I will move it to my wish list and hope my husband buys it for me as a Christmas present.

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David

Isn't Charles Dickens the same as their standard colour Cement Grey?

Migo

I don't actually know but if I got that instead then there wouldn't be a bottle of ink on my desk marked Charles Dickens ink would there?

Yes I'm picky.

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I've been looking for Noodler's Fountain Pen Hospital Banknote Green. Now discontinued.

Anybody out there interested in selling me a bottle or 1/2 or 1/4 w/a with the box?

I'm looking forward to anybody interested in helping out here!

 

Mike

Life is too short to drink bad wine (Goethe)

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I don't actually know but if I got that instead then there wouldn't be a bottle of ink on my desk marked Charles Dickens ink would there?

Yes I'm picky.

:lol:

I understand how you feel -- I have a bottle of De Atramentis Tchaikowsky. Which is the same (supposedly) as Silver Grey. But I keep thinking that some day I may order a bottle of Albrecht Dürer (which is *also* supposed to by Silver Grey) directly from their website. Simply for the sake of having a silver grey ink named for Albrecht Dürer (the stuff looks like a silverpoint drawing coming out of a pen -- it's probably my favorite grey ink, and I have it in a Vacumatic Silver Pearl Major with what I think is an F nib at the moment). :wub:

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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I want to own a bottle each of all the Iroshizuku line, and almost all of the scented De Atramentis inks. (Cucumber can go *^@& off, though.) I'm also in search of the perfect green ink.. Not too blue or yellow, dark and a bit earthy but not leaking into grey or brown.. hmm..

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I don't actually know but if I got that instead then there wouldn't be a bottle of ink on my desk marked Charles Dickens ink would there?

Yes I'm picky.

hand-write your own label (ideally faux-antique looking label) and paste it on to any bottle of your choice :D

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An exact replacement (colorwise only, I wouldn't mind some additional wetness) to the Pelikan Edelstein Turmaline (LE 2012).

 

Any ideas? :blush:

 

Look at the Pilot / Iroshizuku pinks / reds. Very wet.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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An exact replacement (colorwise only, I wouldn't mind some additional wetness) to the Pelikan Edelstein Turmaline (LE 2012).

 

Any ideas? :blush:

You want the color in an other-than-Edelstein ink?

Life's too short to use crappy pens.  -carlos.q

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