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Hello. I need a little help please, pinning-down a particular swap from a Diamine brown(ish). I found it in a general Diamine search. I want a lighter, almost dark amber vs. my beloved darker, MB Toffee Brown...Nothing with a reddish tone. Too many of these already. This color reminds me of old 19th century documents which is what I want.This swab was def. Diam., but had no tag. I've looked at other Diam. images I have and need to identify this one. Their swab is distinctive... I'm thinking this is the one for me. My guesses: Diamine-Ochre, sepia, golden brown, raw sienna ? Any thoughts please from more seasoned eyes would be most helpful. Thanks, LeRoy
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First-time reviewer here - be gentle. Sorry about my atrocious handwriting! http://i.imgur.com/a22EdGJ.jpg?1
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I love Carnation ink. It behaves great, and the color is really appealing. Most of the inks from the Diamine sets are nice, but I don't need more, either because they have some unappealing behavior (sensitivity to hand oils, Gerbera, I'm looking at you), or because I don't really need another purple-blue in my life, or there's a good enough duplicate out there. But I'm coming up blank on Carnation. Mostly, I'd like to find a replacement/duplicate for my own peace of mind; it's hard to use ink with joy when you know there's a limited supply, or it could be discontinued at any time. Before I order a package from the UK full of 30 ml bottles of pink ink, can anyone offer me a match? Iroshizuku's Kosumos seems to be the closest, but it's more expensive and not *quite* punchy enough. Carnation has this weird brazenness to it that just does something for me. Maybe one of the Sailor Kobe inks? (Yes, I know that means a package from Japan instead of the UK, but . . . still.)
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When I buy a new pen, it is often with a particular ink in mind. About a month ago, I bought a Pelikan M400 White Tortoise with an M nib with the intention of inking it up with some black ink, and it's currently happily inked up with Aurora Black. Then I bought a Pelikan M200 with a B nib with the intention of inking it up with some Diamine Syrah, which I thought would look gorgeous if used with a broad wet nib. Alas, the M200 B nib turned out to be awfully dry, so much so that it turned Syrah's rich burgundy color into something rather pink. After much tinkering (think: flushing, brass shim work, ink changes), I found that my M200 works decently well with Aurora Black. Granted, it makes Aurora Black look lighter than Waterman Intense Black looks in some of my wetter pens , but then, I've always been a "black is black is black is black" kind of gal, so I don't particularly mind. Except that now I have two broad-ish nibbed pens inked up with black ink, and none with Syrah, which made me consider inking up the M400 with Syrah. But! My M400 is a white pen. Diamine Syrah is a red-ish ink. You see where I'm going with this... So here's my question: will Diamine Syrah stain my pen? Has anyone tried using this ink with a white pen (or with a demonstrator)? Did anything bad happen? Reason for editing: spelling
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So, I bought the Cult Pens DD Red to round out my purchase -- already had blue, green and brown so couldn't buy purple and not get the red, eh? I thought red would be my least favourite. It's not quite the colour of Oxblood, which is, or was my best red. But.... writing on index cards just now, it blew me away. Such contrast, such a clear red tone, dark but not brown and not black... it may be my favourite of the bunch after all. Ever buy an ink that you weren't expecting to like as much as your current favourites, only for it to exceed expectations?
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Has anyone ever bought ink directly from Diamine at their website (http://diamineinks.co.uk)? How was your experience? I've placed an order there a week ago and didn't get any feedback whatsoever. Last friday I sent them an email, forwarding the payment receipt and asking what's going on with my order and a couple of days later still no feedback. Tomorrow I'm calling their offices, which is a pain and should be avoided. Does anyone have experience buying directly from them?
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I've always tried to avoid highly-saturated inks. They seem to be more of a pest to clean out of my piston-fillers, I worry about long-term problems, and I tend to prefer more muted, traditional colours anyway. Diamine used to sell its inks in two ranges, a traditional and a modern range, and the latter tended to be the more saturated inks. Now that they have merged them into a single range, is there any way to tell which inks are less saturated and which are more?
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Here's a good dark green. I've been looking for something that was an actual dark *green*, and not just a muddy colored brownish, yellowish colored one. Not that there's not a place for a more earthy color, but I was really looking for a dark true green. This is a good one. The color is so dark, it could with the right wet fine nib be mistaken for black with a bit of character. The green equivalent to blue-black. This one dries quickly and has a Diamine wet flow.
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Just a quick one... I have a thing for yellow-orange shading inks even though they're not useful for most of my writing. This one is no good (well, illegible) in anything other than a really wet writer (or flex pen). No water resistance, flows almost too readily (drips out of some pens) but lovely warm colour and cleans up well.
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Another quick one. This is a lovely bright red-orange but I've found it very difficult to scan to show off the shading. Look at the bottom 3 rows of squares and the tops of the loops in the bottom right. No water resistance, excellent clean-up, good flow, looks pretty in a demonstrator. Nice and cheering on dull days
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What does it take to make ink? It's interesting to read about boutique ink brands like Noodler's and Private reserve; and I've often thought how they got into it. I would think that they start with distilled water, and then add water soluble dyes of various descriptions. It would be interesting to know what other considerations might there be.
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I've always liked grey in clothes or on paper but it was relatively recently that I added a grey ink to my daily users. Having become quite satisfied with Diamine, I restricted my search to their Graphite and Grey. Graphite I liked a lot but it wasn't a pure grey, so the choice was easy. Recently I received a bottle of J. Herbin's Encre Grise Nuage so I tried that one too. The results of a brief comparison were as follows: http://www.re-h.nl/alexander/pens/greys_dry_s.jpg Probably the most interesting part was that Gris Nuage didn't appear that much lighter as in other comparisons (e.g. https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/6567-herbin-gris-nuage/). As usually after every trial, I put the paper under the tap. In this case I was impressed by both inks because they exhibited enough resistance to water. Even on the top right where it hit Diamine Grey rather violently, causing some smudging, the text remained clear enough for any practical purpose. After thirty seconds or so I turned the tap off. Diamine Grey was the winner by a slight margin: it had remained grey, while Gris Nuage had turned a bit beige. http://www.re-h.nl/alexander/pens/greys_wet_s.jpg The conclusion is that I'm going to trust Diamine Grey more in my note-taking. Its pencil-like appearance makes it appropriate for rough notes and being reasonably resistant to water means I can use it under more circumstances than I had expected initially. Links to large versions of the figures: http://www.re-h.nl/alexander/pens/greys_dry.jpg http://www.re-h.nl/alexander/pens/greys_wet.jpg
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A stunning colour from the collection! Ooh la la..
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Diamine Contest - Win A Custom Set Of Ink Bottles, Filled With Your Choice Of Diamine Inks!
cultpens posted a topic in The Mall
Lurking in the depths of Diamine’s Liverpool lair, lay a collection of unusually-shaped ink bottles, all empty. On closer inspection, when eight of the bottles were put together as a set they formed a circle. For those familiar with the game Trivial Pursuit, they rather resembled the game’s playing pieces, affectionately known as pies or cheeses. They looked great empty, and we can just imagine how great they’d look filled with a selection of different Diamine inks, but sadly, there weren’t enough of the bottles available to become a regular set for sale. But, we thought, what if it was a very exclusive set? Only available as a prize in a special competition? That sounded good. The Inkiest of Inky Competitions http://www.cultpens.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Diamine-Custom-Set.jpg There will be just two of these special sets available to win, and they’ll be unique, because you’ll choose the colours yourself. If you are the winner, you will tell us which eight of Diamine’s range of over 100 colours you’d like in your set (including our Deep Dark inks), and Diamine will fill the bottles especially for you. One other winner will have a similar set, but yours will be a unique combination of colours. Well, unless both winners just happen to choose the exact same set of eight colours, but what are the chances of that? Our maths is a bit rusty, but we make it 1 in 278,818,865,325, so it’s quite unlikely. We’ll call it unique. http://www.cultpens.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Diamine-sechdr.gif How To Enter Instead of setting a question or asking you to leave a comment, we’ve kept it simple. Anyone who buys a 30ml or 80ml bottle of Diamine or Cult Pens Deep Dark ink between the 29th October and 6th December 2013 will automatically be entered into the prize draw. You don’t need to do anything else. Once the entry period has closed, we will select two names at random as the winners and they will be announced on this blog post and on our Facebook and Twitter pages on the 9th December 2013. If we could enter this competition, we would http://www.cultpens.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif Good Luck! -
It wasn't the deep dark purple that we had been asking for, but the Cult Pens / Diamine deep dark red and green inks are now out. http://www.cultpens.com/acatalog/cp-Deep-Dark-inks-80ml.jpg I am doing very badly on my promise not to buy more ink.....
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Just some ink tests I've been doing, hope you enjoy.
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I know there's already been a superb comparison of green that included these three inks, but I wanted to add my own -- since the reviews of Zhivago seem so variable, from "just black" to an obvious green. Clearly Zhivago is greener that Graphite but not as green as Evergreen. Colour laid down is not far from the "fresh" evergreen before it lightens over 24 hours. I have tried diluting Zhivago. It does not make the ink any greener; the end result is something even closer to Graphite, though a tad greener. And ye gods, Noodler's ink smells.
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Hey Folks I thought someone would have posted this by now, but I couldn't find it, so maybe most don't know. Up until recently, when you spent over £10 in the UK on http://diamineinks.co.uk (Diamine's official site), you got free postage, and they usually threw in some sample carts, which was great. I don't know if it was an official policy, but they never failed to be in my parcel. I went on to order some ink last week and it is now different. Now, if you spend over £10, you can choose any ink and get a 5ml sample. And that includes inks from the Music and Flower set! That is pretty fantastic, as I have swerved the Sets, as I felt them too expensive, and I didn't want all the colours, but in my order I asked for Diamine Chopin, and the sample was duly delivered. Diamine has always been one of my favourite ink manufacturer's, so much choice, cheap as chips, and great quality inks, but I have to say, Diamine just gets better and better. (No affiliation, just a very happy customer) Renfield
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Group Buy - Diamine Music Collection
enolafeltpen posted a topic in Pay It Forward, Loaner Programs & Group Buys
Would anybody be interested in joining me for a group buy of the Diamine Music Collection (and the Flowers set if there is enough interest)? My initial sums show that it would cost £8.54 plus P&P per person. For your money you would receive 10 x 3ml inks in individual, labelled 5ml vials and one empty bottle from the collection. FYI Ink set - £60.00 Pipettes - £0.88 Vials - £24.50 Total £85.38 I need 9 people willing to play to make this viable. Thank you Karen Edit: typo -
I love Diamine for their range of colours and quality in general and really appreciate that they are willing to offer the small sampler, 30ml bottles. The trouble is they are awful to use with a piston filler like an M800. I absolutely hate having to use them, and end up spilling most of the ink whilst trying to fill my pens beyond the first couple of fill or so...
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Do Diamine produce large bottles of ink? I know Noodler''s did in the past, up to a gallon on special request; just wondered if diamine were able to do the same...
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Following the success of their Music Collection, Diamine have now released their much-anticipated Flowers Collection. Like the Music Collection, this is a boxed set of ten exclusive new colours of bottled ink. From the ink colours to the dark green presentation box, the Flowers Collection takes inspiration from nature and features ten bright ink colours representing well-known and much-loved flower species. http://www.cultpens.com/acatalog/Diamine-Flowers-collection.jpg The ten colours are: Marigold, Carnation, Pansy, Bougainvillea, Cornflower, Aster, Burgundy Rose, Tulip, Iris and Gerbera. These new colours will not be sold separately. http://www.cultpens.com/acatalog/Diamine-Flowers-collection-inf.jpg We'd love to know what you think of this set. Which is your favourite of the colours? How do you think this compares to the Music Collection? Have they missed your favourite flower? And what themes should Diamine turn their attention to next?
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I can now announce a forthcoming new ink from Diamine - Salamander. It's a wonderful dark green, olive, khaki, brown colour which I'm sure will be very popular. Seriously it is all of those colours.Working in collaboration with Phil Davies at Diamine I was asked to come up with a name for a sample of the ink he'd sent me to have a look at, labelled 'No 93'. I was intrigued and Salamander was born.It reminded me of the colours of Royal Flying corps bi-planes during WWI so I had a look for some more information. Here is one of the Q & A bits on a website for UK model aircraft fanatics. "I have been trying to discover the true colours used on these aircraft. The excellent pictures in Cross and Cockade journals were my starting point but I remain unsure as to what the colours really were. For example are the upper planes and fuselage dark green, olive, khaki, brown? Please can anyone help on this?" "There's not an easy answer to your question, as the colour wasn't constant. The dope used for aircraft upper-surfaces on the Western Front was PC 10 (Protective Colouring No 10) and the pigments were natural oxide of iron (yellow ochre) and lamp black/carbon black, in the ratio of 250 to 1 (ochre is comparatively heavy and lamp black is very light); this produced a dark brown mixture. To spread it on to aeroplane fabric, the mixture was added to cellulose or oil varnish, something that caused an optical effect known as 'green shift', which caused the doped area to look greenish under some light conditions. The degree of green shift varied depending on the type of varnish used. However, as the aeroplane was exposed to the elements, the green shift was reduced and it took on a definite dark brown appearance.To add to the confusion, the colouring could vary between manufacturers, and even from batch to batch on aircraft made by the same manufacturer." When I tried out the ink, I noted that the similarity with the changes of colour from brown/green to brown and then to green sometimes, and the ‘green shift’ effect was remarkable. On white papers, such as Rhodium or Clairefontaine, the colour when the ink first hits the paper has a definite green starting point. However, it dries to that mystical olive green/khaki colour but then when direct light hits it, there is shading and a metallic sheen is sometimes visible. On Rhodia ivory paper, the brown colouration is evident but on Leuchtturm and even more so on Moleskine, that brown goes positively copper and the sheen is most pronounced.Something in the back of my mind came up with the name 'Salamander' and when I looked for pictures on the net, I realised that it was the fact that a lot of that species of small amphibians are coloured black with yellow patches - just like the mix or PC 10 - that had jogged my memory!Obviously, you will have to make up your own minds. The ink should be available in about six to eight weeks and I will post scans as soon as I am allowed to.Until then, sit back and wait for Salamander - it will be worth it, I promise you.
