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Havasu Turquoise was released waaay back in Fall 2009. This review is long overdue (sorry, Diamine Ink company! Here you go!).

 

I did something a bit different than I usually do for ink reviews, which I'm going to do from now on. I included samples from different types of paper to show how the ink fares in terms of drying time on various papers; you can see a closeup of them below the review. Below <i>that</i> is a closeup of the color swatches.

 

Color looks lighter than it actually is; but for the most part, very true to life.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/evergoddess/Diamine%20Fall%202009/havasu-review.jpg

 

 

 

In case you can't read the handwritten review:

 

COLOR: Light blue-turquoise. Not seeing any green here. A bright light blue

 

PROPERTIES: Average flow in this Cross ATX (m)

Shades on the back of thinner paper but no bleedthrough

Colorwise, lovely shading

No feathering :)

 

CONCLUSION: A well-behaved blue-turquoise ink. Pleasant color. More blue than Noodler's Navajo, brighter than Asa Blue.

 

 

 

Closeup of drying times on different paper types. I didn't bother to do any color-correction, so the ink looks darker than it is:

 

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/evergoddess/Diamine%20Fall%202009/Havasu-drytime.jpg

 

 

Closeup of color comparisons, very obviously color-corrected (:P) :

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/evergoddess/Diamine%20Fall%202009/havasu-comparison.jpg

 

 

 

As mentioned above, Noodler's NT, though not by ANY means "green", definitely has a stronger greenish tinge than Diamine HT; it's more visible in real life.

Both are bright blues, but Diamine HT is darker and bluer.

Lighter and brighter than Diamine Asa Blue and Diamine MB

 

Diamine Majestic Blue (Diamine MB) has, in the photo, some odd splotches that kinda make it look like a petri dish. This is because of its near-legendary saturation: Diamine MB is so highly saturated that light bounces off the darkest parts of your writing (or, in this case, ink splotch) and creates this effect where it looks like the light reflected back is almost <i>red</i>, not blue. Diluting your MB with some water is a commonly used solution, assuming you don't like the reflect-red effect (I don't, personally).

 

 

The above are the only two turquoises I own, but out of them I prefer the Noodler's. I feel like the Noodler's NT color is more interesting with its green hue, as opposed to just being a pretty shade of blue.

 

 

So what's your favorite turquoise?

the blog:

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Thanks for the review! This is a color I've been using a lot recently. At first the ink came out watery and thin, but I think that has more to do with my rinsing out the pen from whatever I had in it before. Now that I'm getting the color that I'm supposed to, I quite like it.

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Thank you for the review, I love that color. I wish I would've seen it before ordering Sheaffer Skrip Turquoise. Oh well, maybe the Sheaffer will still turn out to be nice like this. :)

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Thanks for the review! I'm not normally a fan of blues, but this colour looks so bright and cheery. Might have to add this ink to my wish list.

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