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Sorry, the bleach test strip seems to have turned a small section of the review grey. :unsure:

Also, this ink seems to have a very slight hint of teal which came through in the writing but not in the swab, sorry about that (no matter how much I finagled the color it never quite captured it)

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I like this one as well. Lovely colour but my bottle doesn't match the Diamine swab.

The Good Captain

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I really like this ink. Mine produces a lot of shading, but for that I guess you need a broader nib. My only caveat concerns its propension to feathering with juicy nibs broader than an XF, more so than any other ink I've got, other things (paper, pen) being equal.

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Same problem as noted above; I liked the color, but this stuff feathered like crazy on just about every paper I tried, even Kokuyo notebooks, which take ink very well typically.

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It seems that there is a lot of variance in this color between reviews on FPN. The sample I have looks more like this one than any of the other reviews but mine is still much less saturated and kind of a duller greyish blue.

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The blue-green shading rather makes it a bi-color ink, and this not meant positively.
In a Georg Jensen 18K Fine it looks quite good on Rhodia paper, a pleasantly muted strong blue with a hint of blue-black, and bright blue-green shading run wild .....unless I can be troubled to keep the nib wet and ink flow constant. On semi-matte Clairefontaine DCP ivory 100g it is a disaster: heavy feather and some bleed-through making it completely useless.

I prefer "China Blue": if brighter it at least comes without the annoying blue-green shading.

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Wow that is a quick dry time! Really impressed :D

 

Ben

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