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Yes, even the kids play with pens and ink at my house!

 

See the larger image here.

 

 

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

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Very nice! Close enough to replace Visconti Turquoise. Would not compare it to MB Diamond, though. To me that looks like greyish blue.

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Excellent! Now I know why you're a lawyer. To be unsnide, I honestly think that there is nothing nicer than when our kids take over our own appreciation and talents as artists!

 

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@Peter - I assume you mean that MB Diamond is more greyish? If TT looks grayish then I need to adjust the scanner. The Akkerman inks are generally very clear inks.

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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Mike - did you notice that she admitted to getting the pen from my pen room???

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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@Peter - I assume you mean that MB Diamond is more greyish? If TT looks grayish then I need to adjust the scanner. The Akkerman inks are generally very clear inks.

 

Yes, I did mean the MB Diamond to be greyish. In fact after all the hype I found it rather disappointing. The Treves Turquoise is very close to the Visconti which I find to be a very clear and rather saturated turquoise.

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Mike - did you notice that she admitted to getting the pen from my pen room???

But of coarse! That's the first thing which hit be. She even admitted that she stole it... but... she also cleaned it first. I guess she needed a different ink than the one you had used previously...

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Fabulous review of a gorgeous colour - thank you!

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Peter Pen, do you think you could have gotten a bad bottle of MB Diamond. I was very happy with it. It went right to the save shelf with the MB Winter Forest.

 

Mine shaded very well too.

 

Could it be your paper is at fault?

What papers have you tried? What widths and flexes of nib?

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Thank you all for the responses. I'll have her review your comments tomorrow during her computer time.

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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Peter Pen, do you think you could have gotten a bad bottle of MB Diamond. I was very happy with it. It went right to the save shelf with the MB Winter Forest.

 

Mine shaded very well too.

 

Could it be your paper is at fault?

What papers have you tried? What widths and flexes of nib?

 

I used the MB Diamond in a CS Wellington with a medium italic nib on a 70gsm Staples notepad, which is my daily use paper. It appeared to be quite dry compared to MB inks I really like such as Toffee Brown, Irish Green and the Hitchcock. I also made a note with the same pen in a Rhodia webnotebook that serves as my ink log, which, again, did not convince me at all. On both it appears as a dark grey-ish blue ink and that does not really bring out its shading abilities. From what I had heard I was expecting a turquoise-like colour and it was nothing of the sort. Hence my disappointment.

Perhaps I should add that grey(-ish) inks do not speak to me at all and this extends to grey-blue and blue-black and even to the so-called seaweed green Jonathan Swift ink.

 

 

Cheers,

Peter

 

 

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