Review Of Electric D.c. Blue By Private Reserve

[Fabienne]

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This is my first review of an ink. I was excited to try out the sample I got from Goulet Pens. The scan is pretty accurate (I have been doing Photoshop for a loooong time). I think a lot of my opinion was due to the pen I was using and the size of the nib. I love a broad wet line and I think that this ink is outstanding in a light or fine nib. My style is just too bold. Also, it should be said that Electric D.C. Blue shows a tendency to purple and a very interesting sheen when contrasted to, say, PR American Blue. So, don't feel I am knocking Electric D.C. Blue, it was just I was expecting something more vivid than I get in my pen.

Edited December 12, 2011 by Fabienne

[lapis]

Nice review. I too find that there's not all that much electricity to be seen. It's also too green for my eyes (your scan is great). More of a cobalt blue. Somewhat more electrical for me is DC Supershow Blue.

 

Mike

[SJH]

Hi and thanks for your review.

After trying many blues, this one is my current favourite. A strong dark blue which doesn't look blue-black. I like your term, 'banker's blue', I have a simliar term for it; my 'serious blue'. I use it for fun and also for work documents.

I have it loaded in a 1.1 mm Sheaffer calligraphy pen, and the line variation looks great.

 

Best regards,

Steve.

[someonesdad]

Try diluting it for a different look. I use DCSS blue diluted 50% in a favorite Parker pen and it looks nice on paper.

[adyf]

I've been looking for an excuse to buy this, but I already have DC Supershow Blue, American Blue and Diamine Majestic Blue. This review doesn't convince me that it's different enough to warrant buying it. I was hoping that the 'Electric' meant that it had something different to offer.

[SJH]

I've been looking for an excuse to buy this, but I already have DC Supershow Blue, American Blue and Diamine Majestic Blue. This review doesn't convince me that it's different enough to warrant buying it. I was hoping that the 'Electric' meant that it had something different to offer.

 

 

Hi,

I have a similar story to tell of my journey of discovery into blue inks.

When I bought my first good FP, I decided I needed a good quality blue ink and thought that the best blue ink would be one or more of the big names: Aurora, Visconti, Waterman, Parker, Sheaffer, and a few others.

I ended up giving them all away and keeping an old bottle of Parker Blue I had from years ago, which was the best 'blue' of the lot, IMHO.

Frustrated by this experience I ordered a heap of samples from Brian and Rachel Goulet, which included all of those inks you mentioned and they were just too light for my liking. They looked 'nice' but none of them were really dark enough to become what I now call my 'serious' blue ink, which is Private Reserve's Electric DC Blue. It is darker and truer than all of the inks I have so far tried; no trace of black, green or red, I believe.

I use it for a whole range of documents; signatures, notes, reports etc, and it's the ink I've chosen to use for writing a book of the New Testament for the FPN Travelling Bible.

 

Noodlers' Baystate Blue is the most beautiful Bluest Blue I have found and I love the colour and use it whenever possible, usually for writing feed-back on students' work, (you will need to have a pen dedicated to this ink, but it's worth it), and I have Sheaffer's Turquoise, (formerly Peacock Blue), also for a similar purpose, but for when I'm even less formal.

 

Enjoy your journey!

 

Best regards,

Steve.

Edited December 13, 2011 by SJH

[jgrasty]

Private Reserve Electric DC Blue works best with a well-tuned cursive italic nib. A fat, wet nib loses this ink's electricity by laying down too much ink.