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Ok, as I couldn't find this ink via search - and I have it, I gave writing my own ink review a try...

the final rult is a touch lighter than the pics I think - its difficult to get accurate colour reproduction - but its fairly close :)

 

Here we go:

 

all 4 pics on Imageshack (original post):

http://img16.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=img8288kopie.jpg

 

all 4 pics at 27% their oiginal size - also Imgeshack:

http://img13.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=img8288kopie.jpg

 

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/9146/img8288kopie.jpg

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/img8288kopie.jpg/1/w596.png

 

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/5697/img8289kopie.jpg

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/img8289kopie.jpg/1/w621.png

 

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3364/img8290kopie.jpg

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/img8290kopie.jpg/1/w582.png

 

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/7168/img8291kopie.jpg

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/img8291kopie.jpg/1/w625.png

 

(again Imageshack... but one can read them directly I think :) )

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Thanks for the review, it's a great looking ink. Maybe you can resize the pics and post them here or use another free photosite (flickr or something) because the imageshack popups are kind of annoying.

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Thanks for the review, it's a great looking ink. Maybe you can resize the pics and post them here or use another free photosite (flickr or something) because the imageshack popups are kind of annoying.

 

Thanks - you're welcome :)

 

What pop-ups? I never noticed any from Imageshack...

 

I have resized them so that they are visible in full - but still hosted on Imageshack at the moment...

 

 

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Nice! I sometimes think I need this ink. Then I decide it's too green to be "steel blue" and then I see a nice review (shows lovely shading to my eye) and decide it's not too green.

 

oh well. Next Diamine order maybe. :)

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Nice! I sometimes think I need this ink. Then I decide it's too green to be "steel blue" and then I see a nice review (shows lovely shading to my eye) and decide it's not too green.

 

oh well. Next Diamine order maybe. :)

 

It is quite green - I originally expected a blue while in the shop, opened the cardboard boy and found its quite green - maybe a very, very dark turqoise ven - but it is a nice colour, I used it in a couple of letters.

 

 

Thanks for the review. Interesting color, got to try it.

 

Your welcome :)

 

Edit: I just noticed - I missed out letter on a "were" in the review... ah well, my excuse is English is my second language :D

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Wow!

That color is awesome!!! Definitely going to try that next. Thanks so much for this review. :)

 

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Great review!

 

Steel Blue (Blue?!?) is one of my favorite colors. The shading is fantastic and it flows smoothly from every pen I have tried it in.

 

 

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That's not blue, that's teal! :rolleyes: Dumb Diamine.

 

 

I get it...

 

"S" teal Blue.

 

Now it makes sense.

 

Note to Diamine - don't let the color blind name your inks.

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That's not blue, that's teal! :rolleyes: Dumb Diamine.

 

 

I get it...

 

"S" teal Blue.

 

Now it makes sense.

 

Note to Diamine - don't let the color blind name your inks.

 

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Phil, the ink maker at Diamine and a member of this forum, has said that while they are aware that a couple of the color names don't match what most folks think of for that color, these inks/colors have been in production for many years as such--thus they've kept the original color name.

 

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Phil, the ink maker at Diamine and a member of this forum, has said that while they are aware that a couple of the color names don't match what most folks think of for that color, these inks/colors have been in production for many years as such--thus they've kept the original color name.

 

Best, Ann

 

We've had a couple of long threads about the naming of inks. It used to annoy me but now I tend to think of a lot of these less-than-apt names as "distinktive" :P It can mess with newbies though who expect a gray-blue with this ink or a lovely blue suede blue with PR Blue Suede. Thank goodness for ink reviews in this forum because if you do your homework here first, you're less likely to be disappointed or surprised by an ink.

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Phil, the ink maker at Diamine and a member of this forum, has said that while they are aware that a couple of the color names don't match what most folks think of for that color, these inks/colors have been in production for many years as such--thus they've kept the original color name.

 

Best, Ann

 

We've had a couple of long threads about the naming of inks. It used to annoy me but now I tend to think of a lot of these less-than-apt names as "distinktive" :P It can mess with newbies though who expect a gray-blue with this ink or a lovely blue suede blue with PR Blue Suede. Thank goodness for ink reviews in this forum because if you do your homework here first, you're less likely to be disappointed or surprised by an ink.

 

I would be one of them :D the inks name did throw me off - but I buy "my stuff" in a shop, and so could open the boy and see what's inside, and thus thought it seemed interesting. :)

 

And now I use it for letters :D :)

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