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Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Rohrer & Klingner Salix

 

This is review #11 in my series, with 100+ to go... Here's the YouTube video:

 

And here is a screen of the final result, for those not interested in the video:
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Scan of Completed Review:
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Zoomed in photo:

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Screenshots also available on Instagram: @zilxodarap

 

Previous Review: Robert Oster Caffe Crema.

 

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Hope you enjoy. Comments appreciated!

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Excellent review... Glad that Salix turned out so nice, and had nice lubrication...

Keep up the good work....Looking forward to your next review :)

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Excellent review... Glad that Salix turned out so nice, and had nice lubrication...

Keep up the good work....Looking forward to your next review :)

Thanks! Salix surprised me - and that was a 2-year-old sample (all my samples are at least that old, and most of my inks).

 

Next review is very similar to this one - Sailor Souboku.

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I do not have Salix, but I do have Scabiosa, and it similarly doesn't exhibit a color shift within a matter of days, but over months it fades to a coppery lilac and and continues to fade over time. I can still read content I wrote in journals three or four years ago, but the lines are definitely paler than they were initially.

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I do not have Salix, but I do have Scabiosa, and it similarly doesn't exhibit a color shift within a matter of days, but over months it fades to a coppery lilac and and continues to fade over time. I can still read content I wrote in journals three or four years ago, but the lines are definitely paler than they were initially.

Thanks! Good to know. I'm keeping the review pages, so I'll be able to check if there's a color shift in a few months, or several months.

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Nice review! Fan of extra fin nibs and R&K Salix as I prefer iron gall inks.

Thanks!

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love this ink

 

I think the colour change is more obvious if you lay down a wide path of ink, like with a qtip. obviously an EF will not do this... :P

 

great review

 

thank you

Just give me the Parker 51s and nobody needs to get hurt.

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love this ink

 

I think the colour change is more obvious if you lay down a wide path of ink, like with a qtip. obviously an EF will not do this... :P

 

great review

 

thank you

Isn't everything more obvious with a qtip? (Hmm. Somehow, that sounds inappropriate. :unsure: )

 

Thank you!

 

And you're very welcome! :)

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Thanks for the review! Salix is exactly my kind of color, but I'm a bit wary of iron galls.

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My other pen is a Montblanc.

 

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Thanks for the review! Salix is exactly my kind of color, but I'm a bit wary of iron galls.

You're welcome! :) And, keep watching - there are some very similar colors coming which are not iron galls. I think I've decided I can live without needing to remember whether it's OK to use an ink with a steel nib, and there are more than enough other permanent ink options. Still, it has its good points - particularly on crappy paper - so I can understand why folks would choose it.

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.... I think I've decided I can live without needing to remember whether it's OK to use an ink with a steel nib,....

I should clarify that with EF nibs, and with as little writing as I do, inks tend to stay in my pens for a long time, unless I intentionally go for a partial fill, and from the reports I've seen, this is the problem with iron galls - even though most (all?) modern iron galls are mild compared to the good old days. ;)

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I love the colour of this ink, I own a bottle, but in use I find it's so terribly dry at some point I just give up using it.

I like free flowing ink, Salix seems to want me to drag the nib on the paper in order to get out of the pen, which is the opposite of what I like (I prefer to write by hardly touching the paper).

Didn't you experience dryness at all?

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I love the colour of this ink, I own a bottle, but in use I find it's so terribly dry at some point I just give up using it.

I like free flowing ink, Salix seems to want me to drag the nib on the paper in order to get out of the pen, which is the opposite of what I like (I prefer to write by hardly touching the paper).

Didn't you experience dryness at all?

It's dry in the fact that it doesn't gush out of the nib 3D style (some inks, you can see that bubble of liquid on the page when you first put the ink down), and in the sense that it dries quickly, and doesn't bleed / feather on absorbent paper. But yeah, I found it to lubricate the nib pretty well, and to flow well. I was surprised too, given all the reviews that talk about it being so dry. I did shake up the sample thoroughly - because it was 2 years old, and there's talk about precipitate and oxidation and stuff like that - but I didn't see any evidence of anything having settled and remixing. No idea if this aided with lubrication / performance - though it certainly made a big difference with the ink in my next review! ;)

 

I suppose in theory Goulet could have put the wrong ink in my vial, but I seriously doubt that.

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Here's the line width measurement. The line is one of those used for dry time.  Magnification is 100x.  The grid is 100x100µm.  The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each.  The line width for this ink is roughly 240µm.

 

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