Robert Louis Stevenson

[faustulus]

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[mhphoto]

Thanks for the review! I've been wondering about this ink.

[Bhavna]

A great review, thank you. I love this colour, would you say it (the reproduction above) is true to the original in front of you? It looks a glorious royal blue and I really like it!

[MyDarnSnakeLegs]

Thanks for the review. I haven't gotten around to using it yet, but my smear has much more of a purple cast to it than your sample seems to.

[GardenWeasel]

I've been using this ink for the last week or so in a MB146 with a Broad nib...and seriously considered buying a gallon of it! wow! Love the color and it's lubricity and it's flow!

[faustulus]

A great review, thank you. I love this colour, would you say it (the reproduction above) is true to the original in front of you? It looks a glorious royal blue and I really like it!

Colorwise it is pretty accurate, but it looks darker on the page. On the copy paper it is very dark and in sunlight shows the deep blue/purple tones. On my Tops yellow legal pads it looks almost black. On most of the papers I have used it on, it is very dark. The scanner just adds a lot of light and makes it appear brighter than it does in lamplight.

Here is a more accurate representation as well as a comparison (more a contrast really) with other inks I had laying around in pens.

http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r498/faustuIus/posts/RLSink1-1.jpg

http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r498/faustuIus/posts/compare.jpg

Edited September 4, 2012 by faustulus

[Bo Bo Olson]

faustulus,

 

I often find regular flex F and M to be good shading nibs in many inks. It was a surprise in most talk of the more flexible or wider nibs as shading nibs.

 

It is worth getting 90 g/24 pound paper as a minimum. I like the paper a tad heavier than that, 100g-26 pounds is also good.

I go a bit thicker than that now a days...still a paper noobie.

 

I have regular cheap paper to feed my computer and a bit better to have fun scribbling on.

 

It only costs a couple cans of Coke or cups of Starbuck's coffee to have good to better paper.

 

In that I chase shading inks, I do need a paper that does that.

Oxford Optic 90 g is very good, cheap paper if you can get some.

I don't know what would be as good and affordable in the states.

[faustulus]

I've got good paper, Rhodia, Clairefontaine, etc, I just don't use them much. I use a lot of 3x5 cards and composition books. I really am not fond of overly slick paper and I occasionally want my ink to eventually dry on the page.