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Woohoo! I like your taste. :thumbup:

 

Incidentally, I have my Lamy Safari Aquamarine filled with Waterman South Seas Blue. I just cannot upload it at the moment because I am over my upload limit. :headsmack:

 

But here is a link to it. I'll post the photo here as soon as my restrictions allow me to. :clap1:

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Woohoo! I like your taste. :thumbup:

 

Incidentally, I have my Lamy Safari Aquamarine filled with Waterman South Seas Blue. I just cannot upload it at the moment because I am over my upload limit. :headsmack:

 

But here is a link to it. I'll post the photo here as soon as my restrictions allow me to. :clap1:

 

Wow :yikes: your fine nib writes really broad, or is that just the ink?

Waterman SSB is a much better match than what I have. Love it!

 

Also, what paper are you using, it looks pretty neat!

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The paper is the ivory 85g Clairefontaine. I was actually using one of my first Quo Vadis Habana notebooks. The paper is really gorgeous.

 

I think my fine writes like a broad because of the ink. Waterman is always quite watery. Been thinking of shifting to EF. What ink did you use in your LE Aquamarine?

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The paper is the ivory 85g Clairefontaine. I was actually using one of my first Quo Vadis Habana notebooks. The paper is really gorgeous.

 

I think my fine writes like a broad because of the ink. Waterman is always quite watery. Been thinking of shifting to EF. What ink did you use in your LE Aquamarine?

 

Ah, that's lovely as I was actually considering getting that exact Clairefontaine.

The ink I used was Lamy turquoise - my favourite turquoise, actually. :thumbup:

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The Quo Vadis is just heavenly. And I love that they have different color covers for the Habana Smooth notebooks. I'm such a sucker for color. But I'm sure you already figured that out! :roflmho:

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Here's a new one. What a pity that I can't find any stores that carry the Montblanc British Racing Green these days. I love this ink.

 

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Thank you very much for the picture of ink and pen.

Great picture, great ink, great pen, great writing example.

 

I love the tortoise pelikans, owning a M400 from the 80s and a 400NN both with BB nibs.

 

As a fan of dark green and brown inks

I use(d) besides various blacks

 

Diamine Umber (darkened with some black)

Diamine GreenBlack

Waterman Havanna (darkened with black)

Diamine Chocolate Brown

J. Herbin Cacao du Brasil

 

But your example of British Racing Green is tempting.

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I have been thinking of this, what color ink might go well with a matte/pearlized gold? It's not shiny by any means , but has more of a smoothness about it. Lemme see if I can find an example...

 

http://static1.jetpens.com/images/a/000/018/18549.jpg

 

any ideas?

 

I think Diamine Raw Sienna would be worth a try.

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I have to look that up, especially since the Noodler's Habanero I initially put in the pen has almost been used completely!

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Now I can't wait for the other Lamy I purchased, because the Diamine ink for it as already here.

 

I'm not gonna go all apey on this kick, but I do have a few matches. My first match was a Noodler Ahab in Vulcan's Coral to go with Noodler's Cactus Fruit Eel. I was lucky enough to recently snag a Ruby Al-Star for my Diamine Ruby ink. My bright red Noodler Creaper happily holds Diamine Wild Strawberry. Which ink would you get to match the ocean blue Al-Star, which I think is an absolutely gorgeous shade of blue. I have Diamine Sapphire Blue, but that ain't it.

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[Which ink would you get to match the ocean blue Al-Star, which I think is an absolutely gorgeous shade of blue. I have Diamine Sapphire Blue, but that ain't it.

 

I think either Diamine Sargasso Sea or J. Herbin Bleu Ocean would be a good match for the Lamy Al-Star Ocean Blue.

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I have been thinking of this, what color ink might go well with a matte/pearlized gold? It's not shiny by any means , but has more of a smoothness about it. Lemme see if I can find an example...

 

http://static1.jetpens.com/images/a/000/018/18549.jpg

 

any ideas?

 

From the color palette the these ink colors will match fine:

Complimentary:

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Analogous:

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Tetradic:

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Though I would not try the white ink :P

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