Jump to content

Diamine Matador


Sgushenka

Recommended Posts

Since this is scanned, the colour of the ink is a bit off from the way the scanner shows it.

 

http://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab324/jabeart/SampleArt/Matadorpg1.jpg

http://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab324/jabeart/SampleArt/Matadorpg2.jpg

 

 

Summary:

Another quality Diamine product, works as well as I'd expected it would.

Smoother papers take longer to dry, and different papers may make the ink shade orange instead of a magenta-corally colour. But still, it's a fantastic red, without being slightly yellowish or watery pink. It's rich but not saturated, and doesn't feather a bit. However, cheaper papers and people who write with a lot of pressure may find that it bleeds.

 

The price is good for 80mL. The bottle is nice and sturdy, with a metal cap. The small opening may make it difficult to fill your pen up when it's almost empty, but then again it's 80mL, so I won't expect to be hitting the bottom for a few years yet.

 

It's dark enough to be a daily jotter, and I can easily see it in the semi-darkness of a lecture theatre. It's fun and festive and you might like having a bit of fun with it on a rainy day, but I doubt you'd use it for formal and serious stuff. The colour also reminds me of fresh blood. It's also great for annotating notes!

 

 

 

http://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab324/jabeart/SampleArt/Matadorpg3.jpghttp://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab324/jabeart/SampleArt/Matadorpg4.jpg

 

 

Looks great saturated or dilute - mix it with a bit of water and you have your own homemade pink ink! However, it tends to bleed if you put too many highly saturated layers of colour in one spot. The dried result looks similar to wet (so no nasty surprises there), it mixes well, and the bottle is big enough that you can use it for years for writing, painting, and mixing your own colours.

 

Would I buy it again? Definitely, if they're still making it in 2015.

 

 

Note - I used two different papers for the writing and drawing section.

The writing paper is slightly yellow so it makes the ink appear orange. (Compare the colour in 80gsm printer paper to 120gsm writing paper - the printer paper shows more of the true colour.)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 8
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • Chi Town

    1

  • Laura N

    1

  • wastelanded

    1

  • Sgushenka

    1

Top Posters In This Topic

Now that is a proper red! Thanks for an excellent review. Another ink on my sample list...

"I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original." - Franz Joseph Haydn 1732 - 1809
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I love that your reviews include illustrations, they really showcase the color! I love this red, I'll definitely be trying it.

Fountain Pens: Pelikan Souverän M1000 (Green Stripes) - M, White Lamy Joy (1.5), Lime Green Lamy Safari, Lamy Vista, Yellow Lamy Safari, Dark Purple Lamy Al-Star

Ink: Sailor Kiwaguro (Carbon Black), J. Herbin Vert Olive & Rouge Borgogne, Private Reserve Electric DC Blue & Dakota Red.

 

I own or have tested just about every non-Fountain Japanese pen in the book, if you have any questions.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Wonderful review, thanks. Having used both for a little while now, to me Matador is a dead ringer for Skrip Red.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Most Contributions

    1. amberleadavis
      amberleadavis
      43844
    2. PAKMAN
      PAKMAN
      33501
    3. Ghost Plane
      Ghost Plane
      28220
    4. inkstainedruth
      inkstainedruth
      26627
    5. jar
      jar
      26101
  • Upcoming Events

  • Blog Comments

    • Shanghai Knife Dude
      I have the Sailor Naginata and some fancy blade nibs coming after 2022 by a number of new workshop from China.  With all my respect, IMHO, they are all (bleep) in doing chinese characters.  Go use a bush, or at least a bush pen. 
    • A Smug Dill
      It is the reason why I'm so keen on the idea of a personal library — of pens, nibs, inks, paper products, etc. — and spent so much money, as well as time and effort, to “build” it for myself (because I can't simply remember everything, especially as I'm getting older fast) and my wife, so that we can “know”; and, instead of just disposing of what displeased us, or even just not good enough to be “given the time of day” against competition from >500 other pens and >500 other inks for our at
    • adamselene
      Agreed.  And I think it’s good to be aware of this early on and think about at the point of buying rather than rationalizing a purchase..
    • A Smug Dill
      Alas, one cannot know “good” without some idea of “bad” against which to contrast; and, as one of my former bosses (back when I was in my twenties) used to say, “on the scale of good to bad…”, it's a spectrum, not a dichotomy. Whereas subjectively acceptable (or tolerable) and unacceptable may well be a dichotomy to someone, and finding whether the threshold or cusp between them lies takes experiencing many degrees of less-than-ideal, especially if the decision is somehow influenced by factors o
    • adamselene
      I got my first real fountain pen on my 60th birthday and many hundreds of pens later I’ve often thought of what I should’ve known in the beginning. I have many pens, the majority of which have some objectionable feature. If they are too delicate, or can’t be posted, or they are too precious to face losing , still they are users, but only in very limited environments..  I have a big disliking for pens that have the cap jump into the air and fly off. I object to Pens that dry out, or leave blobs o
  • Chatbox

    You don't have permission to chat.
    Load More
  • Files






×
×
  • Create New...