First Look: DC Supershow Green 2006 (#1)

[BillTheEditor]

This is a corrected scan of the new DC Supershow Green for 2006. I figured out how to do a better job correcting the color of the scan, and on my monitor it is pretty close. It is lighter than Levenger Gemstone Green.

 

I've included a couple of closeups in following messages so you can judge the feathering and color variation for yourself.

 

In the left margin, I did a simple smear test, but it's not worth a closeup. Basically, I wrote the word "smear" four times in rapid succession and immediately rubbed my index finger over it. The third line smeared just barely enough to be noticeable, while you can probably see the smearing from the "r" on the last line.

 

It's a nice color. Not Kelly Green, not exactly grass green, a good color for a summer letter.

 

Large printing at top done with a Hunt 1-1/2 dip pen nib. Remainder written with a Parker Sonnet, slightly flexible fine 18K nib. Relative humidity today about 35%, air temp in the office about 88 F (the air conditioning does not make it quite all the way to my office), fan circulating air in the room but not blowing on the paper directly.

Edited July 17, 2006 by BillTheEditor

[BillTheEditor]

Feathering in DC Supershow Green 2006.

 

Parker fine nib, Docket Gold Tablet.

Edited July 17, 2006 by BillTheEditor

[BillTheEditor]

Feathering and color variation (shading) in DC Supershow Green 2006.

 

Hunt 1-1/2 dip pen nib, Docket Gold Tablet.

Edited July 17, 2006 by BillTheEditor

[BillTheEditor]

Feathering and color variation (shading) in DC Supershow Green 2006 -- Parker fine nib, Docket Gold tablet.

[M4R1N4]

Looks like a really pretty green, and unlike any shade that I have so far...

 

You're lucky for getting your paws on these inks before us! Thanks for taking the time to make the reviews for all of us droolers!

 

 

- Marina

[TMLee]

Thanks for the detailed review Bill ... I like it.... It shall be my next ink purchase... I thot feathering is very much dependent on paper quality ?

[BillTheEditor]

Thanks for the detailed review Bill ... I like it.... It shall be my next ink purchase... I thot feathering is very much dependent on paper quality ?

Apparently feathering is the result of a combination of the ink, the paper, and the pen. In my ink notebook, I use the same dip pens and the same paper (it's Levenger Circa, not Docket Gold paper) for all the samples, so that two of the variables are eliminated. On the Circa paper, the SS Green did not feather at all when I used an Esterbrook Jackson Stub nib. With the big old 1-1/2 and the A-0 nibs, it feathered slightly less than it did on the Docket Gold. It did not feather nearly as much as the Summer Tanager in my previous First Look.

 

I would say that on good paper and with a fine or medium nib the SS Green is going to be a great ink.

[BillTheEditor]

Looks like a really pretty green, and unlike any shade that I have so far...

 

You're lucky for getting your paws on these inks before us! Thanks for taking the time to make the reviews for all of us droolers!

 

 

- Marina

Thanks! These First Looks don't take any time to do, and I don't feel compelled to try to make them works of art. I do try to address the points that many here seem to think important: feathering, smearing, drying time, color variation/shading, and appearance with different nibs.

 

In my ink notebook, there are two kinds of pages. On one type, the whole page addresses a single ink. On the other type, I've got a line or two written in each of several brands or shades of ink, all of them nominally the same "color." So there's a red page, a green page, a blue page, and so on. I must have about 30 inks here now and am working toward finishing the pages so that all of them are represented. This is a leisurely project and won't be done any time soon. I had a pretty complete set of blacks and blues last year, but somehow in cleaning the office those pages were thrown away.

 

I'll post the side-by-side pages (red, blue, green, brown, etc.) when I figure out how to do color correction on the scans so as to get each one to look "right." It's labor intensive, and the only alternative I have (take one scan of the whole thing, copy each line into a new image and correct each of those, then paste all of the corrected images back into yet another image) is worse.

[Goodwhiskers]

Thanks, Bill, for the early review service again!

Wow, yet another nice green.

I'm interested to know how it compares to PR Spearmint.

[BillTheEditor]

I'm interested to know how it compares to PR Spearmint.

PR Spearmint reviewed (with picture) here. The Spearmint looks more yellow to me, but I don't have any of the actual ink here to look at, just the scan in the Spearmint review.

[M4R1N4]

Bill I don't know if you have it, but do you know if this is similar in color to Noodler's Verdun Green? The color on my monitor looks very similar. I really like the Verdun Green color, but I am not crazy about its chalky appearance. If this is close, I would spring for it. Thanks!!

[BillTheEditor]

Bill I don't know if you have it, but do you know if this is similar in color to Noodler's Verdun Green? The color on my monitor looks very similar. I really like the Verdun Green color, but I am not crazy about its chalky appearance. If this is close, I would spring for it. Thanks!!

Marina, I don't have any of the Verdun Green, so can't offer an opinion. The Supershow Green has no "chalkiness" to it, if that helps (and if I understand correctly what you mean).

[Nikhil]

I really like this ink