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Bordeaux Red - De Atramentis

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De Atramentis is german manufacturer of calligraphy and writing ink. The inks are hand made (the entire production process is done manually in their manufacturing center) by i's founder - Dr. Franz-Josef Jensen. I believe he uses high quality dyes from well established European companies like BASF and Bayer.

De Atramentis offers a variety of "traditional" fountain pen inks and a broad selection of special and scented inks. I believe they should get more attention as the quality od these fluids is very good and some colors are simply stunning.

Bordeaux red is rather decent ink with good properties however it's not stunning. And as I'm biased and try a lot of inks I look for these that will make me say WOW.This makes me say: "nice" and nice is too little once you've tried 300 - 400 inks.


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Are you using a firm nib? I have a bottle of Bordeaux Red too but it doesn't come out as dark red like yours. More like the diluted red colour of "1s, 5s, 10s, 15s" smudge.

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Well - it's regular Pilot Custom Heritage M nib.

 

PS: it's cool to look at our flags one above the other :)

 

 

Mine is M nib too. Well, perhaps my pen writes drier than yours.

 

Right! I didn't notice our flags are upside-down. :D

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Sunfly, the Bordeaux wasn't as bright as the Merlot, in my experience.

 

Vis, thanks for another wonderful review!

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sunfly, the Bordeaux wasn't as bright as the Merlot, in my experience.

 

Vis, thanks for another wonderful review!

 

 

@Amberleadavis: I don't have Merlot so I'm not sure how it looks like compared to Bordeaux Red, but I just got my flex pen and it does write darker (like the photos in the review) than my Parker M nib. So... perhaps my M nib is drier?

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Highly likely!

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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