Handwritten Review of Lamy Red Ink

[Breck]

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr76/fbchumley/26-LamyRedBalanced.jpg

 

Fig. 1: The body of the review, almost exactly life-sized and color balanced by Brian Excarnate.

 

Anyway, it's not red. As long as you don't think of it as a red, you might like it.

 

Lamy (pronounced "LAH-mee") inks are not as cool as the bottles they come in, but it would be hard for them to be that cool.

 

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr76/fbchumley/LamyRedBottle.jpg

 

Fig. 2: See? Cool bottle!

 

Not only does the bottle look like a UFO, but it had a deep depression in the middle there so you can get (very nearly) every last drop of ink, and has a roll of blotting paper in a dispenser around the bottom.

 

That's awesome!

 

Alas, their inks, in my experience (limited to two colors) are notso-hotso.

 

 

*edit: lost count of which Consumption Item I was on. Also I forgot to give credit to The Noble Savage for his review of this ink done back in '05.

Edited January 10, 2009 by Murderface

[RayMan]

I've never tried Lamy Red, but I like blue. The bottle is ultra functional. All-but-impossible to tip over.

 

Thanks for the review.

[bwnewton]

I'm a fan of the Lamy inks, particularly black, blue & turquoise. (I've yet to try the bottled, iron gall blue-black). However, I tried a cartridge of Lamy red and it is definitely pink to my eye. Is there any way to use another Lamy ink color to make the Lamy red "redder"? What about a tiny bit of black (which seems to have a blue "base")?

[encremental]

Lamy Red is a first cousin to Pelikan 'Red'.

 

Yes, that bad.

 

John

[Penman222]

I have been wanting to try a Lamy ink as I really like their pens, but as far as red goes I will stick with the Slovenia Skrip Red. It a really bold pure red that demands attention on whatever page it it written on. I keep a red Parker "45" full of the stuff to grade papers.

[Viseguy]

Looks more like pencil than ink.

[Annie]

Looks more like pencil than ink.

Or a bad shade of lipstick.

[WendyNC]

Between PR Arabian Rose and Noodler's Shah Rose, I have enough pinkish ink already. Thanks for the review. I think I'll avoid this one, although I agree about the Lamy bottles (I have the blue-black and like it quite well).