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I am looking for a safe ink for my vintage pens that is more gray than green, not brownish green (I have those). Greenish gray, grayish green, but not a washy forest green. GRAY. Okay, I'll know it when I see it even if I can't describe it. Noodlers and some other brands are out because too saturated. No sparkles, no iron gall. Any suggestions?

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Some Blue Blacks have a more green cast instead of blue. See if in the review section there are some samples of Waterman or Sheaffer blue black. They would be safe inks too.

 

You can dilute Noodlers if you are willing to use in those pens. Lexington Grey is a nice grey ink, but dont know that it goes greenish.

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I have two greenish grey inks, Verdigris and Hisoku, I think they are gorgeous. Verdigris can end up looking almost black (and boring) in a pen that evaporates quickly, Hisoku likewise can end up looking like Verdigris. I have no idea how they would fare with celluloid pens.

 

Strangely my otherwise reliable Metropolitan developed starting problems with Hisoku, so I suppose it could be characterized as a dry ink. To get the mid grey I like from Verdigris I use a small piece of cellophane paper between the feed and nib of a fine nib Pelikan m205, with a little luck I'll get another EF pelikan and see if that doesn't require this hack.

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Papier Plume Streetcar Green?

 

That's a gray green all right! I have no experience with Papier Plume inks at all.

 

Other inks I am contemplating: Diamine Graphite (a lot more gray than green), D.Salamander, D.Classic Green, and 3 Oysters Giwa. Also have zero experience with 3 Oysters and can't tell whether they are "safe" or not.

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Diamine Graphite is a greenish grey, fantastic ink. Certainly more grey than green.

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+1 Papier Plume Streetcar Green. Some other green grays D’Atrementis Cement, Jane Austen, Dark Reseda Green, and KWZ Foggy Green-some of these are more green than gray. I’ve successfully mixed my own gray-green , using Papier Plume Oyster Gray and D’Atrementis Dark Reseda Green which hasn’t reacted after 6 months.

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Other inks I am contemplating: Diamine Graphite (a lot more gray than green), D.Salamander, D.Classic Green, and 3 Oysters Giwa.

 

FYI, Diamine Salamander is more a brown-green than a grey-green, IMO. It's one of my favorite murky greens. And Diamine Classic Green is just green, no grey, no brown, not overly yellow or blue - just green.

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Papier Plume Bayou Nightfall.

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Diamine Graphite is a greenish grey, fantastic ink. Certainly more grey than green.

 

+1

 

Absolutely.

 

I could have mentioned some mixes made of Platinum Classic Forest Black and ESSRI,

great dark grey greens, but those are iron gall...

 

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J.Herbin Vert Gris

 

I looked at that one. Too blue for what I am looking for. Despite the name.

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Depending on how dark you want the ink to be--for instance, my previous suggestion "Bayou Nightfall" is more on the paler side, and aforementioned Papier Plume "Streetcar Green" which is more medium dark--there's also KWZ Foggy Green, which is a deep green-gray.

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The one I thought about is unobtanium unfortunately. (Blackstone Green Cashmere - which never made it into production. I was a tester.)

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43641678425_188a2c1226_k.jpgP1400459 by meisterstücke, auf Flickr

I love the Papier Plume inks!

 

31131550898_eba3afd6e3_k.jpgP1400576 by meisterstücke, auf Flickr

 

Rotten Green is very dark!

 

28120144627_0e1a11edde_b.jpgP1260779 by meisterstücke, auf Flickr

 

Herbin Vert de Gris :-)

Also a great option (fairly dark) is Rohrer & Klingner Verdigris.

 

I might come up with a few other options depending on what you liked so far.

 

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