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I recently purchased a bottle of Levenger Claret from their e-bay outlet. The ink was sold on the outlet because of damage to the cardboard box.

 

I like the inks color, but it feathers on a paper that I can't avoid, and it just doesn't shade, even though it teases you before the ink is completly dry; when the Claret is dry, the color is flat.

 

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2565/4115221231_97e8090d23_b.jpg

 

And here's a non-feathering sample on Staples Bagasse:

 

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2637/4115221213_ba783c3232.jpg

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Thanks for the great review. I like this ink, but agree that it has different characteristics with various nibs on different papers. On Clairfontaine Triumph it seems shade better with a broader nib. In my Pelikan 600 with a Binder cursive italic nib and my Pelikan 850 with Mottishaw cursive italic nib the shading is more pronounced. Pens with fine and even medium(ish) nibs didn't exhibit as much shading. I don't have either pen inked with Claret right now to do a sample. Maybe in a few days I can do that. /Craig

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I've been debating about getting this ink and this review has put in on my "to buy" list. Thanks for sharing.

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Is this a fairly straight red or kind of a blue red?

 

Hard to tell on a monitor.

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Thanks for the info Craig. I really get the feeling that this ink isn't one you just load in any pen; a broader, dry nibbed pen might make me really happy with this ink, but right now I don't have anything that meets that description.

 

And Thornton, glad to be of help.

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Is this a fairly straight red or kind of a blue red?

 

Hard to tell on a monitor.

 

I don't quite what to say. IMHO, its just a nice red; pretty straight forward, BUT it is getting into those deeper shades that might be what you mean by 'blue red'. I lean toward saying it's a straight red, but if someone wants to correct me, go ahead. I won't be offended.

 

Craig, what do you think?

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I think it is more red and tending toward brown. I was searching for a burgundy (bordeaux) ink, tried this one and liked it. I am not sure that I see blue in it though. /Craig

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In the sample I have a see a burgundy with a touch more pink to it than Visconti Bordeaux or Montblanc Bourdeaux... kind of like red wine honestly.

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And here's a sample soaked overnight ~14 hours.

 

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Levenger calls their inks 'water-resistant', I guess this counts.

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This color is exactly what I thought it would be after seeing this review. I have it in my Pilot Custom 74 at the moment and really like it.

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I've been using PR Fiesta Red, for a nice red-brown. Is it my monitor or does it look a lot like the Levenger Claret?

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Great review, this is probibly the best red colour that I like, definatly getting a bottle, thanks.

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I love a lot of the Levenger colors, including this one. Wonderful looking bottles too.

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Does anyone have experience with both this and Pomegranate? Levenger is discontinuing the latter and just wondered how it compared.

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Does anyone have experience with both this and Pomegranate? Levenger is discontinuing the latter and just wondered how it compared.

 

 

I will say they are no where the same. The closest to Pomegranate is Sailor Okuyama.

 

 

 

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Thanks for this review. Had been interested in Levenger inks but until I stumbled on this site, I hadn't come across any actual color samples of them. (I did see today that there are small, and of course flattering, handwriting examples on Levenger's site.) As soon as I read your review, I went ahead and ordered a bottle.

 

I have been looking for a nice dark red and this looks pretty close to what I want. I was going to order Oxblood until I ran across a swatch for the Visconti and went with that but I got nowhere near the results you show here - all I managed in the pens I tried was a dull and really uninteresting pinkish red, and not dark at all. I went ahead and ordered Oxblood after seeing the reviews here and, now, this Claret, as well. Thanks again.

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Nice review. But the color just doesn't possess the "wow" factor for me.

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My bottle was delivered today so I loaded it in a medium nib Pelikano I recently bought. At work, on decent copy paper under flourescents,

it looks pretty close to the review sample here - a deep, rich, dark red with no pink, no orange, no brown, no purple. It's RED.

 

The Pelikano lays down sort of a thick line and I don't see much shading in long lines or cursive writing. I do see a bit in block letters and

there's some slight bleed-through with heavy lines on 20 lb paper.

 

Can hardly wait for the Oxblood to arrive so I can compare them.

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