Montblanc Meisterstuck Diamond

[write to me often]

It is one of my office inks along with Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo, Caran d'Ache Idyllic Blue and Aurora Black. Whenever I ink a pen with MB Diamond after those three the pen writes kind of scratchy. Judging from that, I believe it is a quite dry ink. I wish it was a bit lubricated.

[Phormio]

I was wondering what people think is the closest approximation to this ink, given it isn't available anymore?

 

When I use it, it reminds me a little of the old skrip blue, but that doesn't assist in finding an alternative.

[mongrelnomad]

I was wondering what people think is the closest approximation to this ink, given it isn't available anymore?

 

When I use it, it reminds me a little of the old skrip blue, but that doesn't assist in finding an alternative.

 

This ink makes me sad. It was, and is, such a great colour; I ration my one remaining bottle.

[Phormio]

It's not just the colour - it had lovely shading characteristics and the way it dried had a ye olde feel about it.

 

I think if we were looking for an approximation I think we need to work backwards. Find an ink that shades and dries similarly then find the closest blue. I just haven't sampled enough blues to know where to start!

[Reevers]

I was wondering what people think is the closest approximation to this ink, given it isn't available anymore?

 

When I use it, it reminds me a little of the old skrip blue, but that doesn't assist in finding an alternative.

 

Since the posting date was nearly 3 years ago, I knew it was a mistake opening this thread in case I loved the ink and found out that it was no longer available... which is exactly what has happened!

 

I might order a few 30ml bottles of Diamine, something like Misty, China and Washable blue and see how I get along with those.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Well, it's good I looked at the three threads again. I now know which pens to use with it....in it's time to use up my LE inks.....I've not touched that ink since the last report.

I did get a close to perfect paper 170g....as soon as possible I'll order perfect paper it's little 120g brother. It did take me three years of dithering at E36+E4 postage for 100 sheets.

It was worth it.

 

So it's time to use the ink or inks.

I'm not so rabid about the Southworth paper as back then.

 

 

I have other MB LE inks like White Forest (2) and two sort of scented brown Christmas ink.

I was looking at what someone wanted for a 'Buy Now' of that scented brown Christmas ink....well what am I going to do with money but waste it on single malt. Or adapt a kid and send him to Yale for a year or two for each bottle.

 

Using a 4X3X1" or 7x10x2.6cm magnifying glass.

 

On the once Aldi papers, Laid 90g....using a Geha semi-flex OB...a bit wetter I think than the Geha semi-flex KM....there was a tad of woolly line. NEF/W seen near the eye...if looked for. Under magnification was that tad of woolly line. Some to decent shading.

Using 120g/32 pound Southworth Resume paper 100% cotton.... That heavier woolly line, almost BEF - Bare Eyed Feathering/woolly line is to be expected in 100/50% cotton papers. It is not a fair paper when looking for woolly lines. Mild shading when and if...as to be expected form heavy cotton papers.

 

90g/24 pound Southworth laid paper 25% cotton....is very similar to the Aldi laid paper, slightly noticeable near the eye. Is a slight woolly line under magnification. Is a tad narrower line....a tad cleaner, than the Aldi laid paper. A tad less shading than the Aldi paper.

 

The near perfect 170g Gmund (Blanc Beige)....well is still only near perfect. A slight tad of woolly line under magnification. On the perfect 120g/32 pound that I will order next....not the slightest woolly line. :notworthy1:Good shading, will look at a semi-flex KM in the morning, in it's not as wet as a OB....or my '90-96 M400 tortoise, a 'true' regular flex M. My old notes said it was decent shading.

M&F in that old fashioned regular flex often shades better than the wetter semi-flex.

 

 

The 170g paper just felt so good, I'd dithered to the last second and picked second best in the paper felt so good .

It is a good ink...but not perfect......perfection matches nib to paper...and luck.

 

Tomorrow, I'll put it into a dryer pen and try the papers yet again. A drier pen can make a difference.

It's still a nice looking sprightly ink.

 

Morning is here.

I decided to ink my '90-96 (in it is tortoise) 'true' regular flex M400 M, and not my Geha semi-flex KM.

The 100% Southworth was no change under magnification....a slightly woolly line...no change expected in it is 100% cotton, BEF...sitting was ok. NEF was good....very slight woolly line.

Suddenly good paper....for 100% cotton, is nice to write on being 100% cotton.

 

The best 100% cotton I ever wrote on was a 100% cotton 100 or was that 120g sample sheet. So sinfully good to write on they would make it illegal in Kansas in case someone wrote on it on Sunday. A real feather champ. So Southworth beats it at that.

 

This time in regular flex M, Aldi 90g laid paper was a tad better than Southworth 24 pound 25% cotton laid paper............Again, there was no woolly line NEF....near eye. Under magnification, the Aldi paper was a tad better than the Southworth for woolly line.

The near perfect 170g Gmund 'Blanc Beige' in creme was this time perfect!!! No slight woolly line under magnification.

 

In this case the width and flex of the nib made all the difference.

I often say 'true' regular flex in M&F is can better in shading inks, in it is drier than semi-flex. B can be wetter....how much wetter I'm not going to test.

I was down to 9 pens inked and I'm now back to 10....my goal is to only have five pens inked....OK, six would do also.

 

M or at least the 1/2 narrower semi-vintage and vintage era, is a very good nib size that is disrespected in everyone heads narrow or wide from original issue of M.

Fatter modern M can be looked at like a skinny B in semi-vintage & Vintage. If one really wishes. I'd thought my MB Woolf M was B in the B&M with poor paper....at home I found out it was only regular M ....in I was after B or Fat M. Do take your own good to better paper to the your B&M.

Edited March 3, 2017 by Bo Bo Olson