Diamine Ancient Copper

[trump321]

Hi all! My wife just posted her review of Diamine Ancient Copper on her blog and I thought you all would like to see it too. Very pretty amber/orange ink, even if not great for business use.

 

She has some more thoughts and pictures of the bottle at: http://unwrittenwordblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/tools-of-trade-ink-review-diamine.html

 

[Horseknitter]

Your wife needs to be posting here! Thanks for sharing her review, I went to her blog for additional comments.

She has a keen eye for the pinkness of real copper - a quality of color I have missed. This is my orange ink although it is probably more brown than orange - or maybe not. I just cannot abide a full page written in Orange Crush so this is my fall orange color.

 

Best wishes to your wife. Tell her to check us out!!

[ravantra]

Nice review, blog and ink.

 

Diamine copper is a favorite of mine. I have been using it more and more.

[trump321]

Your wife needs to be posting here! Thanks for sharing her review, I went to her blog for additional comments.

She has a keen eye for the pinkness of real copper - a quality of color I have missed. This is my orange ink although it is probably more brown than orange - or maybe not. I just cannot abide a full page written in Orange Crush so this is my fall orange color.

 

Best wishes to your wife. Tell her to check us out!!

 

Thanks for the kind words! She actually does post here at times, but I went ahead and posted on here for her while she was at work. I'll definitely point her to this thread.

[angelofmusic81]

Thanks for the kind words, everyone! And thanks to trump321 (or husband, as I call him) for posting this up for me. I'm glad to know there are other who enjoy Ancient Copper as much as I do!

[georges zaslavsky]

pretty nice color thanks for sharing

[stevekolt]

Thanks for your review. I have been using this ink in a Pelikan 200 with an EF nib, and this is the most amazing amount of "nib creep" I have ever experienced! It almost looks as though solids/particulate is building up on the nib. I LOVE the color, but this is really bothering me...

[jgrasty]

Very nice review and very expressive handwriting!

[angelofmusic81]

@Stevekolt, I could be wrong, but what you're describing sounds like the "build-up" I mentioned in the review. In my experience, it is annoying, but not harmful. I just ran my pen under the tap for a sec and it rinsed right off. I've heard that it's an issue that pops up with some other Diamines using that particular orange dye, especially Pumpkin. It has not damaged any of my pens, and I frequently use it in my special/expensive ones, including the Pelikan m805 I used for the review. Hope that's helpful!

 

@jgrasty, thank you so much!

[Ghost Plane]

A favorite color even though I had to swipe/rinse the nib & feed at intervals. Wish my writing was that neat!

[amberleadavis]

It's very pretty. Thank you for sharing.

[Gretchen]

Thanks for the great review! I love this ink; the color is gorgeous and shading is wonderful. I've got it in a copper Esterbrook Dollar pen with a nice Osmiroid italic nib in it so the shading is particularly apparent, but the lumpy crud accretion is so extreme I've been wondering whether it's a form of crystallization or perhaps a cousin of the slime molds that can move into ink bottles (known also as SITB or snot in the bottle). If I've ignored the pen for a bit, the crud begins to creep over the edges of the section!

 

Any chemists here to explain the phenomenon? I'm not about to give up this gorgeous ink, but it is challenging!

[kronos77]

Is the build up something that happens with some pens and not others? I have used this in two pens and it happened on both.

[Kgbenson]

It happens with my Falcon, but a quick wipe and it no problem.

[dobemom]

Very nice review! Thanks so much for sharing it.

 

I love the color of this ink and haven't experienced any negative effects on my nibs.

[sombrueil]

One of my favorite inks right now. More nib creep than typical, but haven't noticed any crusting in my fine flexible nibs. A great journal ink.

[WaskiSquirrel]

I'm trying out a sample of this ink right now. I like the color, but it does not seem to cooperate well with my flex pen. It flexes and then runs dry.

 

Does anyone else notice a similarity to Noodler's Antietam? I'm also trying a sample of this as well, and getting much better flexing.

[Quill1]

lovely colour, review and handwritting, if only mine were half as expressive and legible ;P

[Penman222]

Thanks for a very nice review. I currently have Ancient Copper loaded in my "copper" Esterbrook J with a 2668 nib and it works very well, probably the best ink I have tried in it.