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  1. cybaea

    Diamine Light Green

    This is Diamine Light Green, an ink that is more versatile than I first thought. Recommended on absorbent papers, not low-absorbency papers like the Rhodia used below. The scan below leaves the highlights too pale: they are much more visible on the paper. USAGE DAILY WRITER: Unlikely, unless, perhaps, maybe, if you have a very wet pen BUSINESS: Would not be appropriate ILLUSTRATIONS: Possibly, though the shading could be problematic NOTES: Possible, but probably too pale for all but ephemeral notes PERSONAL: Barely possible for letters LOVE LETTERS: I don't think so. CHARACTERISTICS (All are on a 5-point scale from 0 to 4) FEATHERING: 3 - very good, with slight on cheaper papers. BLEEDTHROUGH: 3 - well controlled SHADING: 3 - perhaps too much for some!? SHEEN: 0 - none seen WATERPROOF: 1 - being generous: the merest hint remains after contact with water. REVIEW Rhodia dotpad. Note that low-absorbent papers like Rhodia is not my favourite for this ink. I will try to upload the usual writing samples later; small samples are at https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/79845-diamine-light-green/?do=findComment&comment=2738483 And you can compare all standard Diamine inks at https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/250366-all-diamine-inks-compared/ Hope this helps.
  2. milanjuza

    Diamine Delamere Green

    Hi, This is a quick review of one of my favourite inks: Diamine Delamere Green. I have been using it for several months and I am very happy with it. Delamere Green has a rich, mid to dark green colour, is well saturated and has a good flow. Drying times are not that great (especially if you like using broader nibs), but in practice it is not a major problem. It does not feather much at all (tested on Rhodia and Paperchase). Some bleed-through is visible even on Rhodia (which is generally very FP friendly), but that’s probably because I was using a stub nib and my Parker Duofold is quite wet. Overall, I like this ink a lot — it is well-behaved and looks great. Paper: Rhodia A4 notebook (90g)Pen: Vintage Parker Duofold 1.1mm stub nibWriting sample: J. K. Jerome: Three men in a boatWater test: drops left on the paper for 30 secsHigh res photos are available on my blog: verticalpaper.net
  3. milanjuza

    Diamine Twilight

    I saw a swab of Diamine Twilight on Goulet Pens website and I really liked the colour and decided to order it straightaway. Twilight is an amazing ink. It is i one of those that live up or even exceed your expectations. It's not the most well behaved ink in the world. But is has a very deep, noble grey-blue colour which makes is really nice to read and it also looks very elegant. I can see myself using it in almost any situation. With a broad nib, the colour comes across even more clearly. And, if you look closely, there is also a small amount of shading. I said it was not perfect, so here's what you need to expect: There is some feathering (even on Rhodia), but not to a degree that would bother me. You can also encounter bleed-through, but only with some broad and very wet nibs. For example, I had no problems with Lamy Vista 1.1 italic. On the positive note, compared to some other Diamine inks it dries quite quickly and while it is definitely not water resistant, it remains legible even after short water exposure and that's always nice. Diamine Twilight has become one of my favourite inks for daily use. And even though it is not perfect, I like the colour so much that I am prepared to forgive some of the shortcomings. You should give it a go too! ;-) Bigger pics are here available on my blog or my Flickr page.Paper: Rhodia A4 notebook (90 gsm)Pen: Vintage Parker Duofold 1.1mm stub nibWriting sample: J. K. Jerome: Three men in a boatWater test: drops left on the paper for 1 minute http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3814/9485796417_96f2989168_c_d.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3825/9485803005_e1f0e2af69_b.jpg http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5516/9485808243_eb6151ed94_b.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7285/9488612204_32179e86e3_b.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7421/9485821845_e5e571b055_b.jpg http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2853/9485753457_3269b46d0f_b.jpg
  4. The Good Captain

    Diamine Salamander - Coming Soon!

    Announcing a forthcoming ink from Diamine - Salamander. I've put a description in Market Watch as it won't be available on the market for about six to eight weeks yet, so I can't post any scans or a review proper until then. You'll just have to wait but it will be worth it, I can tell you. AND - I was asked to name it! More soon.
  5. cultpens

    Diamine Salamader - Now Available

    Salamander, the highly anticipated new ink from Diamine is now in stock and available in 30 and 80ml bottles - http://www.cultpens.com/acatalog/Diamine_Ink_Bottles.html What do you think of the new colour?
  6. cybaea

    Diamine Deep Dark Brown

    This is a Cult Pens (UK) exclusive colour made by Diamine. It complements their Deep Dark Blue very well. It is what it says on the bottle: a deep and dark brown ink that performs really well. This is already a new favourite of mine, especially on the yellow paper. USAGE DAILY WRITER: Yes, very much so. BUSINESS USE: Yes. I will absolutely use it. ILLUSTRATIONS: Yes, if the shading can be controlled. NOTES: Very much so PERSONAL: Yes, though perhaps not as warm and welcoming as some inks? LOVE LETTERS: Not from me, but it could be pressed into service if a brown ink is desired. PERFORMANCE FEATHERING: 3/4 - very slight feathering visible under 4x magnification on inkjet paper. [1] BLEEDTROUGH: 3/4 - on inkjet paper (only) with the 1.1 mm nib (only) SHADING: 2/4 - very good for such a dark colour SHEEN: 0/4 - I didn't see any WATERPROOF: 1-2/4 - pale lines remain DRYING TIME: 2/4 - medium FADE RESISTANCE: (not tested) [1] Note that The Good Captain saw more feathering in this post; as usual the best thing is to get a bottle for yourself and test it REVIEW (Apologies that I messed up the broad nib even more than usual) WRITING SAMPLES (As usual, the text is from today's Office of Readings) CARTRIDGE PAPER RHODIA PAPER RHODIA R PAPER
  7. Renfield

    Sitb - Diamine Racing Green

    Hey Folks A while ago I got a bottle of Diamine Racing Green, and when it arrived, it had a serious case of SITB. Here is a pic http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5330/9885114643_d04e9c3c0f_b.jpg I contacted Rolf at missing-pen,de who was great and replaced the bottle straight away. I got it a few weeks ok, and checked it, and it looked a little bubbly, but thought that might be due to travelling, so I let it settle had a look, and wasnt too sure..... so I give it a shake and left it to settle again..... Here are some pics, one from above so you can see the oily discoloration, and another so you can see what looks like a little build up. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7299/9885111893_1155d93235_b.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7420/9885015544_7e401947ac_b.jpg Maybe I am being a little paranoid, but does this new bottle look a bit iffy as well? I have not used it just in case Hopefully some other users can have a look and let me know how their bottle compares..... Thanks Ren
  8. The Good Captain

    Cult Pens/diamine 'deep Dark Brown'

    My bottle of this great ink arrived this morning so I've only had chance to get a simple scan up. Also, I've no inks to compare it with so I'll wait for others to do that. Water/soak test scans will follow later. It's quite a wet ink which is great in a way as I'd planned it to go in my Pilot Custom 823 F and I was really pleased as I think it makes it up to a MF thickness, which I've just got on a couple of Sailor 1911s (but more about those later.) So, another great ink from Cult Pens in conjunction with Diamine of course. Enjoy!
  9. Following the success of our Deep Dark Blue ink, we have once again teamed up with Diamine to create the next colour in our Deep Dark range. Introducing Cult Pens Deep Dark Brown! When wet, Deep Dark Brown looks almost black, but the warm, earthy walnut-brown shade appears as it dries. Deep Dark Brown is available in 80ml and 30ml bottles, with cartridges on the way soon. Have you tried Deep Dark Blue or Deep Dark Brown ink? If so, we’d love to hear what you think. View all our Deep Dark and Diamine inks. http://www.cultpens.com/acatalog/cp-Deep-Dark-Brown-ink-new.gif http://www.cultpens.com/acatalog/cp-Deep-Dark-Blue-Brown.jpg
  10. Fans of the Deep Dark Blue ink made by Diamine specially for Cult Pens may also be interested in the Deep Dark Brown ink colour they have just announced. Cartridges do not yet appear on the catalogue, but both 30 and 80 ml bottles are there. I am placing my order
  11. Eclectica

    Ink Blend Of Today: Teal

    Today's mix: Ink blend experiment of Daimine Sapphire Blue and Diamine Woodland Green: mix-sap-blu-wd-grn.pdf I am using a blend Sapphire Blue : Woodland Green, of 10 : 8 in my pen today and lovin' it! Only one very small patch of ink on my fingers ! Just wondered if anyone else mixes inks a bit and has any good mixes they use on a regular basis? Cheers, have a nice day! Eclectica. [P.S. Sorry it is a PDF rather than just displaying as JPG, it was a bit rushed this morning scanning it in (my 9yr old boy's first day back at School after the summer break!).]
  12. requiescat

    Water-Resistant Diamine Blues?

    Howdy! I know this is kind of a long shot, but Noodler's Black may have done in the diaphragm of my azure Parker Vacumatic (it's currently out to repair) and I was kind of hoping to find a water-resistant non-dangerous ink that more or less matches the pen's color (yeah, I'm one of those people). So I thought, hey, maybe a Diamine ink? I like teal blues--things in the ballpark Noodler's Texas Bluebonnet range. (I love that ink, but low-maintenance it is not.) Not keen on purply blues. Can live with blue-blacks/blue-grays. Right now I have determined that Diamine Prussian Blue will remain readable after a drop-water-on-it-wait-until-it-dries test. And, for kicks, Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo also seems to do about as well, so maybe that's an option. But I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for other things to try? If desperate I suppose I could consider Pilot Blue, which in my test had great water-resistance--I tried it and thought it was too faded purply-blue for my taste, but beggars can't be choosers.
  13. If like me, you're UK based, and are missing certain qualities from Noodler's inks then I'm interested to know how you feel. I just paid a small fortune to get some lubricated ink yesterday, as it invariably has to come from abroad. We have our own, home grown and chromatically innovative Diamine up in Liverpool, and I want to press them to be more creative in this regard. Virtually everyone would benefit as Nathan is having a hard time keeping up, and Diamine already have so many admirers worldwide.
  14. requiescat

    Diamine Indigo, Handwritten Review

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  15. cybaea

    Diamine Jade Green

    Please reduce the brightness of your monitor before looking at the review scan This is another green for those who like them bright and in your face. Lovely colour in a broad nib though it can be a little hard to control the shading as you can see. USAGE DAILY WRITER: No BUSINESS USE: Very unlikely ILLUSTRATIONS: Maybe for headlines and such? NOTES: Unlikely - it is too pale to be easy to read. PERSONAL: No, except for special effects. LOVE LETTERS: No. PERFORMANCE (All are scored 0-4) FEATHERING: 4/4 - not even the 6 mm Pilot Parallel on inkjet paper feathers. BLEEDTHROUGH: 3/4 - very good on all papers SHADING: 4/4 - possibly too much for some SHEEN: 0/4 - none seen (but I am not good at sheen ) WATERPROOF: 0/4 - obliterated; please drink water responsibly around this ink FADING: 3/4 - slight colour change after 3 days in window REVIEW Lamy Safari 1.1 mm on Rhodia with Pilot Parallel 6.0 mm for heading WRITING SAMPLES Lamy Fine, Medium, and 1.1 mm on various papers; pen changes marked with arrows where they happen within a line. Text is from today's Office of Readings. Corporate 'cartridge' stock Rhodia No 18 dotpad Rhodia R No 19
  16. requiescat

    Diamine Merlot, Handwritten Review

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  17. http://yoonhalee.com/images-inks/diamine-pr-blue.png This looks more blue-black than blue-gray on a more absorbent paper, like the cardstock I was using earlier but didn't think to scan/photograph. On Clairefontaine, this is pretty much what you get. I wish it were one of the more colorful blues, but I can't fault how well-behaved it is in this pen.
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  19. DanielCoffey

    Diamine Registrars Ink - High Flow

    INK : DIAMINE REGISTRARS INK - IRON GALL
PAPER : Piccolo Press 160gsm, Oyster, LaidPEN : Swan Ebonite with Degussa Flex Nib by Eckiethump Having reviewed Diamine Registrars Ink when I was using it in my modern Onoto Magna 261 pen last year, I wanted to show you what the ink can look like from a pen of the period when iron gall inks were in very common use. There is one difference that is immediately apparent between my Onoto and this older pen... the rate of flow. Generally speaking, working grade pens of the period (1920-30s) had relatively simple feeds made of Ebonite or similar materials with a straight-forward ink channel to the nib. They delivered their ink quickly and were resilient to clogging. As you are probably aware, Iron Gall inks tend to be thought of as "high maintenance" and "dry" because they are very likely to dump precipitate inside the pen as they age. This precipitate accumulates and can be tricky to remove thoroughly, especially from a modern pen with a modern feed. A modern feed has channels and fins often manufactured to microscopic tolerances. Dump a load of particles in these feeds and you are looking at dry starting, skipping and poor flow - even after a wash. Older pens with simple feeds can be cleaned much more easily. There are far fewer nooks and crannies for the iron precipitate to hide and build up. When I submitted my Registrars Ink review last year, I noticed that the flow was reasonable and the ink felt somewhat dry under the nib. Hardly surprising given that it was being delivered by a modern feed designed with modern inks in mind. The ink came out as a low saturation mid-blue and oxidised to a grey-black. Now let's have a look at how it performs from a high flow Ebonite feed and a semi-flex nib... http://www.dcoffey.co.uk/images/fountainpennetwork/RegistrarsHighFlow/RegistrarsHighFlowTitle.jpg This is the ink, paper and pen combination I shall be using for this demonstration. Having finished my first 30ml glass bottle a few months ago, I ordered a plastic 100ml tank from Diamine to act as a stock bottle and decanted a portion into the cleaned glass bottle as a working supply. I tend to also use a 5ml sample bottle as a filling supply for the current pen. When I get down to the last portion I discard it, wash the sample bottle and refill from the glass bottle which is allowed to settle undisturbed. The paper is my preferred letter writing paper from Piccolo Press in Scotland. It weighs in at 160gsm which is a good solid writing paper thickness. It has a hard surface on which ink will deliver crisp lines and is a Laid finish in Oyster colour. While it can feel a little rough under an un-tipped nib, if the ink flows well that will offset the sensation. The pen was assembled for me by Eckiethump from a Swan Ebonite body, Swan Ebonite feed and a Degussa flex nib given to me by Bo Bo Olsen. It holds around 1ml and is a sac-filler. While the feed and nib could easily be removed for cleaning, in the past year I have had no need to do so. A simple warm water wash and rinse has been more than enough to deal with almost a year's use exclusively with Iron Gall. http://www.dcoffey.co.uk/images/fountainpennetwork/RegistrarsHighFlow/RegistrarsHighFlowNib.jpg You will have to ask Bo Bo Olsen about the specifics of the nib he sent me but it is a steel long-tined flex nib with no tipping material. Under light pressure it delivers a line that I would guess is somewhere between an XF or F. Regular writing pressure averages around a M with downstrokes spreading to a B or BB. I do not apply excessive pressure to get more flex - I am more than happy with the variation in line-width that I am able to get. http://www.dcoffey.co.uk/images/fountainpennetwork/RegistrarsHighFlow/RegistrarsHighFlowFeed.jpg The Ebonite feed does not have the modern advances to deal with changes of pressure or temperature. It is simply designed to reliably deliver a good supply of ink to a flex nib which as you will know can demand a lot from a feed. Despite allowing the pen to lie for a couple of days I never have hard starts or skips and even under rapid writing I do not get rail-roading. It delivers a lot of ink to the paper on demand. It just works. http://www.dcoffey.co.uk/images/fountainpennetwork/RegistrarsHighFlow/RegistrarsHighFlowStrokeWet.jpg Using this pen on unbleached paper, the Diamine Registrars flows a rich mid-navy, darkens to deep navy in seconds and goes black by the time the ink is dry. It is hard to capture the iron gall colour change because it happens so quickly. As you can see, this ink is clearly still very wet and it is practically black. Remember this is unbleached paper too. On copy paper with optical brighteners it blackens much more quickly - in seconds usually. http://www.dcoffey.co.uk/images/fountainpennetwork/RegistrarsHighFlow/RegistrarsHighFlowStrokeDry.jpg By the time the ink is dry, the downstrokes are already completely black. Despite the heavy delivery of ink, the Registrars does not smudge under a dry finger. If you allow a little moisture to make contact, the blue which is still present does move of course but this is expected behaviour from any modern iron gall. http://www.dcoffey.co.uk/images/fountainpennetwork/RegistrarsHighFlow/RegistrarsHighFlowMacro.jpg This shot was taken less than a minute from writing. Note how the heavier lines are totally black and only the lighter strokes show any of the blue colour. I re-examined this piece of paper after an hour and the blue cast was gone, replaced by a deep grey. Even under this heavy delivery, the Diamine Registrars ink delivers sharp, crisp lines. It does not feather or bleed through anything. I use this pen on UK Prescriptions which are wafer-thin and even make biro show through. I use it on Government forms because it doesn't bleed through. I use it on envelopes because it is waterproof. Now I don't have any other Iron Galls to compare this against at the moment but I would predict this... put ESSRI, Scabiosa, Salix, MB Midnight or Urkundentinte in a high-flow Ebonite feed and you will see a whole new depth of colour that you just don't get from a modern pen. You will also get the added side-benefit that these feeds are incredibly easy to clean. And to the folks who keep asking "Will Iron Gall inks corrode your pen?"... I have been keeping Registrars in this pen for almost a year now and it is still in perfect (for its age) condition. No visible corrosion, no accelerated wear. It just works. If I ever wear it out, I will simply obtain a new steel nib and pay someone to set it up for me again.
  20. Hil64

    Blue-Black Advice

    I like Diamine a lot. I'm still looking for the right Blue-black, so which Diamine do I get- BB itself, Twilight, Denim? All suggestions and opinions welcome, as subjective or objective as you like. But your suggestions have to be Diamine
  21. How does this look? I'm trying to learn a pretty handwriting hand. I wrote this with a Pilot Petit with fine nib, and Diamine Ancient copper on Clairefontaine paper Any suggestions are welcome! .
  22. Hello all: I recently purchased a bottle of racing green ink from Missing Pen in Germany. However, when I opened the bottle the contents looked like "sludge" - with a nasty thick, oily, bubbly sheen. I have already contacted Missing Pen, but has anyone experienced this? Just kind of bummed since I was so looking forward to it. Best regards, Patrick





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