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The first thing you need to specify is if you mean venous (deoxygenated) blood, arterial/wet blood, or dried blood. I won't get into coffee grounds perforated gastric ulcer or tar black blood in the stool.

With the new FPN rules, now I REALLY don't know what to put in my signature.

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The first thing you need to specify is if you mean venous (deoxygenated) blood, arterial/wet blood, or dried blood. I won't get into coffee grounds perforated gastric ulcer or tar black blood in the stool.

The last two do sound like Noodler's Ink colors.

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The first thing you need to specify is if you mean venous (deoxygenated) blood, arterial/wet blood, or dried blood. I won't get into coffee grounds perforated gastric ulcer or tar black blood in the stool.

But Sam... I thought I used to like any type of "blood red" but now I have changed my mind and will avoid same completely...

 

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Noodlers Tiananmen

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The first thing you need to specify is if you mean venous (deoxygenated) blood, arterial/wet blood, or dried blood. I won't get into coffee grounds perforated gastric ulcer or tar black blood in the stool.

But Sam... I thought I used to like any type of "blood red" but now I have changed my mind and will avoid same completely...

 

Mike http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu264/peli46/Sick32.png

 

Even if it is one of those new scented inks?

 

 

 

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I love it when thread drift occurs here. So different from other forums I inhabit...

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The first thing you need to specify is if you mean venous (deoxygenated) blood, arterial/wet blood, or dried blood. I won't get into coffee grounds perforated gastric ulcer or tar black blood in the stool.

But Sam... I thought I used to like any type of "blood red" but now I have changed my mind and will avoid same completely...

 

Mike http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu264/peli46/Sick32.png

 

Even if it is one of those new scented inks?

:sick: I thought that was DE ATRAMENTIS anyway...

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The first thing you need to specify is if you mean venous (deoxygenated) blood, arterial/wet blood, or dried blood. I won't get into coffee grounds perforated gastric ulcer or tar black blood in the stool.

But Sam... I thought I used to like any type of "blood red" but now I have changed my mind and will avoid same completely...

 

Mike http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu264/peli46/Sick32.png

 

Even if it is one of those new scented inks?

:sick: I thought that was DE ATRAMENTIS anyway...

 

Chocolate scented ? :unsure:

With the new FPN rules, now I REALLY don't know what to put in my signature.

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I've been looking for just the right blood red. Not too much blue, not too bright red. Currently I'm using Noodler's Red/Black but it's really more brown than red. I've been reading the various red ink reviews on the forum, but I'm not coming to any firm conclusions so I thought I'd open up a discussion of the best "dried blood" looking reds out there. I guess I'm looking for a blackish ink that has strong red overtones but doesn't muddy up to brown.

 

If this is covered elsewhere feel free to link me to the relevant thread. Thanks in advance!

 

Noodler's Antietam looks like old blood. It's a Brown/Red color. Also, it depends how it is applied. From an Fp, it is more brown... DP is more red. If it's just spilled, it looks like you forgot to clean up after a surgery.

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Private Reserve Fiesta Red

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Another vote here for J Herbin 1670. I have a lot of red inks, and it's the one that looks blood red to me!

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I will say NOT the Private Reserve Fiesta Red.

 

I was looking for a blood red myself, and I tried the Private Reserve Fiesta Red.

 

It looks chocolate brown to me. No hint of red whatsoever.

 

I was disappointed, I should have bought Diamine Oxblood Red instead.

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Exactly the situation I'm trying to avoid. Noodler's red/black is too muddy brown. I'm getting some Oxblood next week and some samples of some of the other colors mentioned here just to be safe.

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I will say NOT the Private Reserve Fiesta Red.

 

I was looking for a blood red myself, and I tried the Private Reserve Fiesta Red.

 

It looks chocolate brown to me. No hint of red whatsoever.

 

I was disappointed, I should have bought Diamine Oxblood Red instead.

 

 

Would you say that Oxblood Red is to 'red' that Green/Black is to 'green' in the Diamine range? If not, what would be the equivalent red; dark with plenty of contrast.

 

 

The Good Captain

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I will say NOT the Private Reserve Fiesta Red.

 

Not my experience and certainly not "chocolate brown" in my humble opinion. But to each his own. That's the great thing about hundreds of inks and dozens of manufacturers.

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Not my experience and certainly not "chocolate brown" in my humble opinion. But to each his own. That's the great thing about hundreds of inks and dozens of manufacturers.

 

To be fair, I bought the bottle from my local pen dealer. I've had some bad experiences before: e.g. bottles of Noodler's ink not full, stale Quink. I have no idea what could have happened to that PR ink, but I found NO red whatsoever. Just brown, boring, no-shading brown.

 

I'm not buying my ink there anymore. I'm switching to the internet. Sad, but hey, I hate being sold trash.

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He did not use a fountain pen which fact, as any psychoanalyst will tell you, meant that the patient was a repressed undinist. -from Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

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My experience with Fiesta Red was actually pretty good. It was a nice red-black that looked bloody to me. Of course it could be that I just got lucky.

 

I've also mixed Scheaffer Red with some Noodler's HoD in a 5:1 ration with good results. It looks blood red, the inks don't react to give any sediments or gunk, and it's 20% waterproof. I use this all the time when I'm grading, it's a color students can't reproduce and it's partly bulletproof so they can't remove it.

 

Good luck in your search!

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