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Ohh! Is there a group buy thread already underway?

 

Not until the new year.

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Sorry to hijack this thread (and to anticipate a later review) - just wanted to say, much as I love Barrier Reef Blue (BRB), I've been pleasantly surprised by Sydney Harbour Blue (SHB) too. When Kevin described it on the JustWrite website as a kind of grey-blue, my first instinct was to get all territorial - typical Queenslander, denigrating one of the most attractive natural landmarks in my beloved New South Wales...

 

But actually, it's a pretty decent dark blue with hints of green - and would you look at the sheen on it? These comparatives are (again) on Tomoe River paper, but I've gotten sheening with SHB on a few different papers, whereas BRB really needs 'ideal' (wettish pen, non-absorbent paper) conditions to strut its stuff...

 

Get a load of this (and please forgive the poor focus - I'm still getting used to my new camera phone):

 

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Great review! Thank you! This is beautiful!

 

I am beginning to feel overwhelmed by ink! I just bought about half of the Callifolio inks recently, and have been considering a number of the Kobe inks that Vis just finished reviewing, and now I see these. My ink budget is already overdrawn for the year. I guess I may just have to take out a loan. . .

"Today will be gone in less than 24 hours. When it is gone, it is gone. Be wise, but enjoy! - anonymous today

 

 

 

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Excellent news, US ink lovers! I've just been in contact with Anderson Pens and Vanness Pens and both plan to carry Blackstone Ink!! These great inks have become my "Grail inks" and I couldn't be happier. Thanks to Brian and Lisa Anderson and Mike and Lisa Vanness. Also, thank you Kevin for finding retailers in the States. They won't regret carrying such a fine ink.

 

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Excellent news, US ink lovers! I've just been in contact with Anderson Pens and Vanness Pens and both plan to carry Blackstone Ink!! These great inks have become my "Grail inks" and I couldn't be happier. Thanks to Brian and Lisa Anderson and Mike and Lisa Vanness. Also, thank you Kevin for finding retailers in the States. They won't regret carrying such a fine ink.

Mary

Outstanding! Keep us informed!

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I was seriously perturbed when I got my SHB because it was the dark grey/blue colour. The last time I had been on the Harbour it was one of those seriously bright days when the blue of the Harbour just got up and hit you over the head with itself. Then he said that the colour came from a day he had been in Sydney, it was cold and overcast, and that was the colour of the Harbour that day.

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DC...my Dad was stationed in Australia and New Guinea throughout WWII. He often said, until the day he died, that Australia was the most beautiful place on the planet. It is a land of many colors and I don't doubt that Kevin will develop a range of colors that will do your country proud. Give him some time. The "Colours of Australia" have already made me want to visit one day.

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Outstanding! Keep us informed!

I'm going to drop a line to Rachel and Brian Goulet and encourage them to carry Blackstone too.

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No need for a group buy. Anderson's order is on the way and Vanness' goes in this week. Lucky break for US ink addicts!

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DC...my Dad was stationed in Australia and New Guinea throughout WWII. He often said, until the day he died, that Australia was the most beautiful place on the planet. It is a land of many colors and I don't doubt that Kevin will develop a range of colors that will do your country proud. Give him some time. The "Colours of Australia" have already made me want to visit one day.

 

There are magic places, places of power, that the Aborigines, our First Nation People, know about. You go there, and you can just feel something different about that place.

 

Artists - painters and photographers - say the light is different, more intense, than in other places. And due to efforts to clean up pollution, you can see that, even in the city. Just today, after our storms and even a tornado that hit the south-eastern suburbs, the air was so clear, the sun was so bright that the trees almost glowed, just photosynthesising away.

 

Yeah, she's a bonzer place, Aussie.

 

PS, and I haven't even started to talk about PNG...

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DC...my Dad was stationed in Australia and New Guinea throughout WWII. He often said, until the day he died, that Australia was the most beautiful place on the planet. It is a land of many colors and I don't doubt that Kevin will develop a range of colors that will do your country proud. Give him some time. The "Colours of Australia" have already made me want to visit one day.

My Dad was with the 33rd Troop Carrier Squadron based in Port Moresby.....He said the same thing about "Oz"!!!

He got to travel there again - just two years before he passed away in '94...

These inks ARE stunning!! Glad to see Anderson and Vanness have jumped on the bandwagon!:)

 

Always try to get the dibs...on fountain pens with EF nibs!!

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No need for a group buy. Anderson's order is on the way and Vanness' goes in this week. Lucky break for US ink addicts!

 

WOO HOO, then no group buy, we need to keep our retailers in business!

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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No need for a group buy. Anderson's order is on the way and Vanness' goes in this week. Lucky break for US ink addicts!

 

Very, very seldom do I employ animated emoticons, but I believe this calls for the bunny butt boogie. :bunny01:

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Really hope to see the concentrates being being sold in the US too. This ink at a high concentration was one of my favorites of all time. Sheen for days

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In one of the first handwriting samples of Barrier Reef Blue, using a broad nib on a Kaweco Classic Sport on Tomoe River paper, the sheen forms an outline around the letters. I have not seen this effect often. Visvamitra, did you see this effect in other combinations of ink, nib, and paper?

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In one of the first handwriting samples of Barrier Reef Blue, using a broad nib on a Kaweco Classic Sport on Tomoe River paper, the sheen forms an outline around the letters. I have not seen this effect often. Visvamitra, did you see this effect in other combinations of ink, nib, and paper?

I have seen this effect occasionally. One of the most common inks I see this with are turquoises. Pelikan 4001 Turquoise especially has this quality in wet writing pens. I have had it occur with an EF Lamy all the way to a various broad nibs.

 

EDIT: Here's another example i took with this exact ink, but at a higher concentration

 

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Forty-five years ago I worked in a factory making oil paints. We used three Phthalocyanine blue pigments. If I remember correctly, Phthalo A was the one with a greenish sheen, Phthalo B had a red sheen, and the other one was more a turquoise colour. It all came back to me seeing the red halos around your letters, benay148. I think I still have samples somewhere.

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