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Ann Finley

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To clarify, the ink is NOT a LOT darker in person than it appears online, especially so of this sample. However, the online samples I saw of the ink before I bought it looked notably lighter than the ink looks coming from some of my nibs.

 

Both the paper for the review and the paper used in the comparison are Clairefontaine papers.

 

Thanks for looking!

Ann

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Enjoyable review Ann, never heard of this Ink let alone seen a sample.

 

Do they have a big range? Expensive, relative to say PR, Noodlers?

 

Wish my writing was as clear as your's :blink: HoHum, keep practicing :doh:

 

Jim

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Excellent review, Ann! I love that you've used it in several nibs and also gave addition greens to compare it with - wonderful. I could read your and Tom's handwritng all day!

I should be getting my R & K inks today (fingers crossed) and will post something...hoping the Danitrio comes at the same time as I'd like to see their shading properties on the stub.

A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water. ~ Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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Thanks Ann. I always enjoy your reviews, just to see

the penmanship. :rolleyes:

 

This ink seems to change shade A LOT. Were you dipping?

For example with the Conklin, the "that" below seems to be

quite a bit lighter. Do you know why this might be?

 

-- Randy P.

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This ink seems to change shade A LOT. Were you dipping?

No, Randy, I wasn't dipping any pens used in the review itself. On the comparison, the wide horizontal sample lines were from a wide dip pen. I can't answer why shading takes place as it does. Perhaps with regard to the example you pointed out, I may have put the pen down and come back to write a bit later and the ink had to reach the nib again--but I'm really not sure if I did that, it's just a possibility.

 

Jim, maybe Ray would be willing to carry the ink or the Writing Desk may be able to get some for you.

 

Thanks everyone for your comments.

Ann

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Thanks for the kind words. The ink is still doing well in the pens, though is it showing even darker now in the Conklin.

 

Best, Ann

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Beautiful as always Ann!

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. "

- Socrates

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  • 3 years later...

Just an update, did a quick Google and found this from Michael Richter.

 

Nobody seems to sell it in the UK, but getting some from Germany would not be too difficult, except that my German is terrible :(

 

http://people.freenet.de/pensninks/Rohrer%...20Klingner.html

 

Hope this helps,

 

Jim

 

JIm,

In case someone else hasn't said this already, the R&K inks are all available from The Writing Desk in Bury St Edmund's and they do an EXCELLENT service. The price of these inks is good too.

 

By the way R&K are also helpful and have a good brochure with swatches that correspond well with the actual colours. Don't go by the laminate sheet but by the card sheet called 'Originalaufstriche'.

 

Tom

 

PS If your German is terrible, there's only one way to improve it... !

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