Diamine Ancient Copper Review

[fiberdrunk]

Here's a scan of my review of Diamine Ancient Copper. It's a beautiful color. I wrote the review with an old Panache italic fine calligraphy pen and a Hero 266. The color looks more intensely orange in the scan than in reality. It is very close to Magic Color Rust, though not quite as waterproof. I was delighted this ink did have some water resistance-- the ink ran while pouring water on it, but it was still legible. My only complaint was the price... it was rather high for such a tiny 30 ml bottle.

 

 

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Thanks for the review. I love dark orange inks and knew I could rely on someone here to review it. Price isn't even an objection for me because I only buy samples--I have ink ADD!

[Uncle Red]

Nice review Fiberdrunk. Where did you get the 30ml bottle? The Goulets have the 80ml glass ones.

[fiberdrunk]

Nice review Fiberdrunk. Where did you get the 30ml bottle? The Goulets have the 80ml glass ones.

 

I got mine from Nordic Pen Imports, which is cheaper than anywhere else for this particular ink (free shipping too). But man, ink prices in general are really going up.

Edited December 16, 2011 by fiberdrunk

[Wael El-Dasher]

Thanks for the review, it does look reddish from these scans. But I'll assume it's closer to rusted steel in color. I have no idea why they'd call this ink Ancient Copper, as an architect, ancient copper is green to me...

Thanks again for the review.

Cheers

Wael

[jandrese]

Thanks for the review, it does look reddish from these scans. But I'll assume it's closer to rusted steel in color. I have no idea why they'd call this ink Ancient Copper, as an architect, ancient copper is green to me...

Thanks again for the review.

Cheers

Wael

 

Good point! It is, however, possible to put a reddish patina on copper. I've seen it on a lot of Japanese sword fittings. I can't wait for Goulet Pens to get this back in stock so I can compare it to MB Carlo Collodi brown. They look similiar but I'm betting the Diamine has better writing qualities, not that the MB is bad though.

[Azuniga]

Thanks for the review, beautiful color indeed !!