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Great review, as always. I don't usually feel like I have an addiction until I come and check out your reviews. Now I'm trying to figure out the best way to order from Japan....

 

Do you know if this one has any water resistance at all? Even a little? Do any of this ink line?

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Two for the doppelganger thread, there on the bottom?

 

 

 

Not really.... Barossa on a wet nib looks almost black. I am pretty sure this Soft Snow will not look black on a wet nib.

 

But there is a Robert Oster that looks very close to this one. Mind you, I do not have the Soft Snow.. so I am going only by the representation on my screen. The ink I am talking about is the newest Robert Oster Summer Storm.

 

 

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True, Soft Snow does not look black in a wet nib. It looks really dark purple.

 

I look forward to seeing reviews of Summer Storm.

 

Elevennx, I don't know very much about degrees of water resistance, but if I write a line, let it dry, and then paint over the line with water, I can still read the line quite well.

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True, Soft Snow does not look black in a wet nib. It looks really dark purple.

 

I look forward to seeing reviews of Summer Storm.

 

Elevennx, I don't know very much about degrees of water resistance, but if I write a line, let it dry, and then paint over the line with water, I can still read the line quite well.

Thank you, ENewton, much appreciated. There aren't a lot of people using these inks yet, so this sort of hands on experience is very helpful. I don't need waterproof, but just enough water resistance that an unexpected spill won't effectively delete a notebook's contents from existence.

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Thank you, ENewton, much appreciated. There aren't a lot of people using these inks yet, so this sort of hands on experience is very helpful. I don't need waterproof, but just enough water resistance that an unexpected spill won't effectively delete a notebook's contents from existence.

 

It's not water resistant enough to take a spill of any magnitude.

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The way it looks on the cream paper in this review, is how it looks for me on white paper... Strange...

 

BTW, Thanks for the review.

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i'm not a fan of purple. but its muted look gives it a nice 'easy-on-the-eye' color shade. quite nice.

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Thanks for the review! These inks are showing up as orderable through Amazon (at least in the US). I was looking at another ink and these were suggested, so I quickly headed to FPN to see what folks had to say about them. Honestly, this was the only shade that really interested me, though I may look more closely at a couple of the others to see what the reviewers think.

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Thanks for the review! These inks are showing up as orderable through Amazon (at least in the US). I was looking at another ink and these were suggested, so I quickly headed to FPN to see what folks had to say about them. Honestly, this was the only shade that really interested me, though I may look more closely at a couple of the others to see what the reviewers think.

 

It's a very unusual ink. I'm so glad people are discovering it.

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