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You can find the full review on my blog, here is a direct link to the full review: J Herbin Eclat De Saphir Ink Review

 

Fantastic color from J Herbin... I Love this ink. Great color, very easy to work with. It is a very different ink in different pens.

 

No Show Through

No Bleed Through

No feathering

A mildly wet ink

Very lubricating (at least in this scratchy nibed pen)

Nice saturation

Great shading in my flex nib

 

This is yet another J Herbin ink that really just works well. It is an enjoyable blue.

 

 

 

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Thanks. Yes, that's a nice dark blue.

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Thanks for sharing the ink samples and report....very helpful....

 

Interesting that the ink swatch looks like a brighter blue than the writing samples that look like a dark blue....

 

Will likely get a bottle to try...been using bleu nuit recently, which is very nice blue....

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wow this is much darker than the bottle I have. Also that brightness is much more bright than the eclat de saphir that I have, This is odd.

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wow this is much darker than the bottle I have. Also that brightness is much more bright than the eclat de saphir that I have, This is odd.

Yes, I wonder if the formula has changed. A colleague of mine used to use EdS and it looked a good deal lighter than this.

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Much darker than mine too. Could be a wet pen, or the scan is off, as scans are want to be.

 

This is one of my favorite blues, fairly bright and I can't think of any blues I have that look much like it.

 

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The nib is a bit wet and worn down... The scan is actually very close to what it looks like in this pen.

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This is possible one of my favorite blues to write letters with. It is a richly saturated Blue that is not to bright, and on my Pilots has great flow even on the XF nibs. I think it is a must for the shelf of inks.

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This is my go-to ink. I love the color, and it gives me no problems with flow in any of my XF nibs. I always have at least 1 pen inked with this color.

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Good review. This is my favourite ink that I use for business in my 145, and also will be using in a Lamy 2000 that I just ordered. Generally well behaved, and a very brilliant blue. I find it behaving better in my pens than the Montblanc Royal Blue, which tends to feather quite a lot on some lower quality papers, and takes ages to dry.

So, I use Herbin all the time ;-)

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