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Well - I'm not so sure because I'm amazed by both hakodate gagome and Racing Grteen I got from this package and one is almost unobtainable and the other unreasonably expensive :) And I think about them. I repeat myself: " Be hard, be strong, resist temptation". For instance, it works. But for how long?

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I know! It is sort of amazing to me that I had that bottle of MB BRG for years and didn't know it was so special until I started getting active here on FPN, and the Hakodate Gagome I bought recently on the premise that it would be an interesting brown, and I didn't yet have a bottle of brown ink. I don't know why it hasn't caught fire yet as the totally unique ink that it is, with it's stunning bronze sheen and fascinating green to brown and back again color changes. You have made good use of both ink samples!

Breathe. Take one step at a time. Don't sweat the small stuff. You're not getting older, you are only moving through time. Be calm and positive.

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Thank you.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I like this ink a lot. Great very dark green ink, almost black. And one can never have enough of that.

 

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I'm glad you are enjoying it.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Here is my write-up on Green Cashmere. I am not so sure if the full strength I got was 13.67% or 16%. It was pretty saturated, and I had some issues with it. The diluted version - if I had 16%, then the diluted solution is 12.5% did much better, while retaining the beguiling color.

See the scans for more info (I'm arrogant enough that I believe my handwriting is legible).

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I am very sorry that I used so much in the undiluted form. But at this concentration it will still last a few fillings, and is a pleasure to use.

Thanks again, Team Susemai, for all your hard work and for letting us play with inks! Really looking forward to having a bottle of this one.

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Green Cashmere is not green at 16%; it's more a purple-black. That said, it rinses green, and it shows as green on my fingers :angry:

 

I drew off 1 ml of the purply-black concentrate into a sample vial, and I added 3 ml distilled water to it, which should cut the concentration to something like 4%. That shows up nice and green in the vial :D I'll write test sheets on that tomorrow; right now I have to practice my brass band music.

 

Edit: FWIW, the scans look very close to what I'm seeing on the paper.

 

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Until you ink a pen, it is merely a pretty stick. --UK Mike

 

My arsenal, in order of acquisition: Sailor 21 Pocket Pen M, Cross Solo M, Online Calligraphy, Monteverde Invincia F, Hero 359 M, Jinhao X450 M, Levenger True Writer M, Jinhao 159 M, Platinum Balance F, TWSBI Classic 1.1 stub, Platinum Preppy 0.3 F, 7 Pilot Varsity M disposables refillables, Speedball penholder, TWSBI 580 USA EF, Pilot MR, Noodler's Ahab 1.1 stub, another Preppy 0.3, Preppy EF 0.2, ASA Sniper F, Click Majestic F, Kaweco Sport M, Pilot Prera F, Baoer 79 M (fake Starwalker), Hero 616 M (fake Parker), Jinhao X750 Shimmering Sands M . . .

31 and counting :D

 

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Just to clarify, the sachet is what you are talking about right? The mixed ink you received was green right?

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Just to clarify, the sachet is what you are talking about right? The mixed ink you received was green right?

 

Exactly right. This is the powder that I mixed myself. Everything I do from here on (including the one posted above) is from the sachets.

Until you ink a pen, it is merely a pretty stick. --UK Mike

 

My arsenal, in order of acquisition: Sailor 21 Pocket Pen M, Cross Solo M, Online Calligraphy, Monteverde Invincia F, Hero 359 M, Jinhao X450 M, Levenger True Writer M, Jinhao 159 M, Platinum Balance F, TWSBI Classic 1.1 stub, Platinum Preppy 0.3 F, 7 Pilot Varsity M disposables refillables, Speedball penholder, TWSBI 580 USA EF, Pilot MR, Noodler's Ahab 1.1 stub, another Preppy 0.3, Preppy EF 0.2, ASA Sniper F, Click Majestic F, Kaweco Sport M, Pilot Prera F, Baoer 79 M (fake Starwalker), Hero 616 M (fake Parker), Jinhao X750 Shimmering Sands M . . .

31 and counting :D

 

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I got a sachet of magic cashmere. So I cannot really talk about Green Cashmere, although I do suspect that if the dilution is large enough it will emerge. Sort of, because it will be so faint. But even at 5%, this is a magical color-changing ink. It goes on greenish and dries while you write to a lovely purplish grey.

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Not sure why it uploads so blue - the scan on my monitor looks closer to what I see on the paper, then when I put it up here, it's different.

Other than that, my remarks say it all - except a big Thank you to Team Susemai for making this happen. It's been wonderful fun.

a fountain pen is physics in action... Proud member of the SuperPinks

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http://www.maryhatay.com/Mark/Fountain-Pens/Mixed-Pens/i-PkDq5TP/0/XL/Penmanship%203-XL.jpg

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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So we've been told.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I've spilled the rest of the sample on Clairefontaine 120 g paper to create THICK layer of ink and let it dry. The result is simply stunning. Green Cashmere rocks.

 

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Green Cashmere does rock.

 

It has become a regular in my rotation. I mixed the sachet to fill a 62.5 ml/2 oz Pelikan 4001 bottle. So roughly 6.5% concentration. Plays so well in every pen I have tried it in. And on every paper - from cheap 20# copy paper to 90 gsm Clairefontaine Triomphe.

Brad

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"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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The HMS Cashmere! HMS stands for "Her Maven's Ship".

Breathe. Take one step at a time. Don't sweat the small stuff. You're not getting older, you are only moving through time. Be calm and positive.

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Ahh...

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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