Diamine Emerald

[desertsquid]

This is a review of Diamine Emerald, a medium green that is perhaps (if anything) tending slightly more towards red than blue. I didn't think I wanted a green ink but then Diamine sent me some sample cartridges with an order that I placed several months ago and I instantly liked Emerald. So much so that I bought a bottle.

 

To be more precise, I like this ink a lot in my wet-writing Autopoint pen that came as part of a smoothing kit that I bought from Richard Binder. It was the first pen whose nib I smoothed and it writes very nicely. It's a wet-writing pen (my favourite kind!) but the flow can be somewhat uneven, which is not so good. For some reason there is a kind of synergy between that pen and this ink that I really enjoy. I keep meaning to try Diamine Emerald in one of my Pelikans, all of which are wet writers but with excellent flow control. However, I tend to be a one-ink-one-pen kind of guy, which is another way of saying that I'm too lazy to have a pen "rotation". When Pelikan finally comes out with a new M200 or M205 colour that I like, I suspect this will be the first ink in my new pen!

 

I'll post the screen shot in the next message because I just looked at the one I posted on screen and it looked too bright.

Edited August 30, 2010 by desertsquid

[desertsquid]

Here is a better scan. The other one was a bit too bright.

 

 

[desertsquid]

The difference is subtle, but that second version is closer to what I'm seeing on paper.

[ImperialSheaffer]

Very strange results. Whatever with I use the ink with [ dip pens, Waterman wet Ideal, Sheaffer Imperials..] , it always looks like a Vert Empire, slightly lighter. Which is why I got the ink first.

Gilles

[IWantThat]

Lovely color Thanks for the review. If I hadn't just purchased another bottle of lierre sauvage, I'd be buying this one. As it is, it's now on my list

[Enai]

Thank you for the review. The color from the free cartridge that I got from Diamine does not look like your writing sample, but maybe that was because I was using it in a pen that wrote a bit dry. Now that I've seen your review, I'll try a cartridge again, this time with a wet nib.

[777]

What a beautiful green ink!

 

thank you for reviewing this! Now I have more ink to buy...

 

Regards,

777

[etaylor33]

Your samples of the Emerald Green sure are different than what I experienced. Using a Pilot Metropolitan F, on Franklin-Chrisoph or cheap steno book paper, looked like it had tints of olive drab in it. Very dry, and dusty looking. It does dry very fast and my in my usually wet writing metro, it looked so dry writing, that I found myself putting extra pressure on the pen. Definately not an ink I'll be using any time soon. In my limited experience, this is the worst ink I've tried yet. I love the Diamine Sherwood Green though. A rich, vibrant green that writes wet. Just a few opinions from a noobe.