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I picked up this De Atramentis ink in Germany and have enjoyed the color. This ink isn't scented, although there is a scented line of inks from this company. No feathering or bleeding on this Rhodia paper. Dries relatively quickly. Too bad it's so expensive and hard to get or I expect it would be a popular ink in the US.

Comparison inks samples added as well, applied with strips of paper.

 

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Thank you for this -- I was waiting for someone to do a comparison with R&K Alt-Bordeaux and now you have!

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Looks like a beautiful red. Thanks for your review!

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Hello Jared,

 

thanks for the great review.

I happen to know who did open your bottle the first time... :lol:

 

Anna

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Hello Jared,

 

thanks for the great review.

I happen to know who did open your bottle the first time... :lol:

 

Anna

 

Yes, which is partly why I started my ink book.

 

Thanks for everything, Anna!

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What a lovely handful of colors, displayed cleanly and beautifully. I even like the contrasting election of Pelikan BB for the text. Thank you for the review.

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Have the ink...is nice...was not truly enthused. More than likely did not have the right paper. Did run it through a couple of nibs....I'll have to run it through some more....on better paper.

 

I need your nib.

 

 

I have to get rid of my OB Lamy Persona nib. It does nothing. It is not cut old style. I have a Pelikan Old Style OB, that shades like the devil....needs nib collar.

 

First I have to get a nib, made cursive italic, before I go make one into stub italic....but that has been added to the Mount Everest of things I need.

 

New Style Oblique for me...in I only have one, are just made for folks who hold their pens crooked. I have an old cut OF and OB. I love that OB old style.

Flex makes a lot of difference in ink tones from what I've so far found out.

 

I still got a lot to learn, like "flow is a bit dry".

 

On the normal some what cheaper copy paper bought with out FP in mind, ok, with Zerox paper ok, with Landre`'s 90 g/sm Oxford ok, with Brunnen school booklet, 90 g/sm it is dry. Thin first letter.

I just don't know if it was a bit dry on the other papers or not.

 

The "Power of suggestion", says why that pen writes dry.

 

 

Looks like I got to buy a wet ink...I have this one, Lamy Turquoise, Pelikan; Black, Blue, and Brown and MB Sepia and Toffee; reputed dry inks I think.

 

I hate instant gratification.....I buy pens and don't get nibs modified.

A good wet European ink and good paper is next.

I live in Germany so most US ink is as expensive as this one is.

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Nice review, thanks, a striking colour.

And how can this be, because he is the Kwisatz Haderach.

 

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I've had a really weird experience with both this ink and R&K Alt Bordeaux. The Alt Bordeaux I have is a dark purplish color when wet, but quickly dries a pinkish-red color. Pretty sure it's not supposed to, especially seeing the comparison above. My Bordeauxrot comes out as a light brown/grey color, and if the name of the ink means it should be a dark red, the ink probably should be as well. I don't know! Strange happenings.

 

My J. Herbin Larmes de Cassis is kind of faded as well...I wonder what is going on? I got them all as samples in the mail...maybe heat exposure? Thoughts?

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Just got done using a sample of this ink for the first time addressing Christmas cards: very well behaved, great color, with nice shading in a 1.1 Lamy nib.

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It has been more than a little while since I used that ink. Well over a decade. I had fear of red, in my ink window pens.

 

I also picked up a half a bottle of DA (Vineyard) Wintegut Clauer Spaetbugunder ink a year or two ago. Dirt cheap.They used a bit of the vineyard's wine to make the ink. It has a winy smell.

 

I showed the guy upstairs a couple inks from Diamine yesterday and he liked the reddish one. I wasn't going to give him the brand new bottle but remembered I had both DA inks.

 

I loaded two more black and gold medium-small pens an FK (American Bump Under) Artus Balllit regular flex  Wintegut Clauer Spaetbugunder (could drive there in @1/2 an hour**,) and Bordeauxred in an Osmia 773 KM semi-flex.

The Winegut ink was a tad darker and shades a bit better in a drier nib So I gave away the Bordeauxred.

 

The real problem is I now have 14 pens inked:headsmack:............I wanted to have only 7 pens inked so i could use up more ink. For many years I had a 'normal' 17 pens inked with different inks....so didn't use up 'much' ink.

 

Of course giving ink a way is one way to 'use up' ink.B)

 

There I was with only 7 pens inked for at least 3/4ths a year, perhaps even a whole year:ninja:..., then I made the mistake, that I knew I was making, of peeking around the door into Inky Thoughts and Ink Reviews.

 

** have to spend ink money on good wines..........have to look up best local years of course. Price is affordable for good wine..(E-8--12)....so I have no excuse.

 

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