PR Fiesta Red

[girlieg33k]

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Edited January 26, 2008 by girlieg33k

[handlebar]

I own this ink as well and have mixed reactions to it.Not a bad ink but i'm not into reds so it sits on my shelf waiting for the right person to come along.

 

Jim

[CharlieB]

This was the first red ink I ever purchased, and I immediately put it to use marking up documents written by my subordinates at the office. They hated it! They said they didn't like any color red, because red reminded them too much of their high school teacher's corrections on their essays. But they especially hated this red, because they said that the color reminded them of dried blood. I agreed and stopped using the ink at work.

 

My bottle began looking like the scan above, but over the course of weeks, it acquired a brownish tinge that didn't appeal to me. In other words.... it became even more like blood.

[PenTieRun]

Thanks for the review, girlieg. I love this color, a nice cranberry/cardinal red. I keep stealing converter-fulls from a friend who owns it. About time I buy my own!

[wvbeetlebug]

Thank you for the review. This was also my first red. I am a purple fan, so I use this to mix with a bit of Midnight Blues to make a nice deep purple.

[lovemy51]

thanx for the review. this is my only red. although i'm a fan of blue inks, i use this red with some of my fine nib pens and i like it a lot. right now i have in my hero 100 and 330

 

 

Edited January 28, 2008 by lovemy51

[tcheuchter]

This one looks nice on the screen. Pity about dry time and about it looking like dried blood!! :ltcapd:

[Dave Johannsen]

My bottle began looking like the scan above, but over the course of weeks, it acquired a brownish tinge that didn't appeal to me. In other words.... it became even more like blood.

I had a similar experience. I loved the color when I first started using the bottle. Over time, though, the color shifted rather dramatically to a sickly black cherry color that I loathed. The better part of a bottle went down the drain. I own more PR inks than any other brand, but I don't think that I can make myself buy another bottle fo this red (for fear of having again to dump it). I've started using Penman Ruby now when I want a red, and am pretty happy with this ink.

 

 

Dave

Edited January 9, 2009 by Dave Johannsen

[Brian]

A late thanks for this review. This is one of my favorite colors and used almost exclusively in a MB Georg Solti B and A. Dumas B. This ink tends to turn a browner shade with time and works very well in Moleskin journals and Rhodia pads. You are right about drying time as it does take some effort to use. Otherwise very happy with it and love the subtle shading that comes out of my two pens.

[ismellarat]

More like wet blood, but whatever. This looks like an okay red, but DEFINITELY not fiesta red! I live in the Fiesta city of the US (san antonio) and this is not a fiesta red. Maybe a rose red, but not fiesta

 

Looks like a nice ink, just inappropriately named