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The sheen is wonderful!! I'm so happy you and Amberlea suggested this ink! I never thought I could enjoy writing with red this much :cloud9:

 

PS I feel the same way about the bottle and original ink haha I ordered the empty off the Goulet website because I've always wanted one but could never justify spending that much on a juice I didn't love. But there is something so decadent about Red Cashmere that just demands an equally decadent bottle :P

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Well, be sure to send an email to Justwrite.com.au and tell them that Black Stone inks are amazing and please make them.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I just sent them a detailed email and am keeping my fingers crossed that they make this beautiful ink available!

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Thanks!

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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So here I am, way late and a few dollars short.

 

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r151/arkanabar/cashmere-red-scale-0-2.jpg

 

link to full scale (7.1MB)

water test:

 

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r151/arkanabar/cashmere-red-card-scale.jpg

 

link to full scale (4.2MB)

 

Some notes: I'm beginning to think my mandarin yellow Ahab just doesn't like to write. The only ink that has been reliable in it (so far) is Waterman Violet. Everything else has needed a little help to get started, including this. Next time I clean it, I'm going to run SOMETHING down the ink channels to make sure there's nothing in there.

 

On my hideously cheap 10cent broad ruled Norcross spiral notebooks from Walmart, I did get just a bit of strike-through when flexing the Ahab, enough to almost railroad. For people who aren't scoring the paper with the spread tines of an Ahab nib, it's just not likely.

 

I will have to try diluting this ink to ~6% and 4%, to see if it can become the red I want. If it does' then the 16% 3ml pipette that Steve sent me has the potential to last a year or more. Depending on price, I might go for it again, or for a bottle of one of the three reds mentioned above.

 

In spite of shooting in sunlight, I don't think this review is fully accurate. Making color corrections is difficult in no small part because my pens often sit long enough for the ink in the feed to dehydrate and darken. At least the paper is recorded as white, not yellow.

 

Cashmere Blue is next. I'll start at 16% and dilute from there.

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I hope you enjoy it.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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AH, that was Navigator 28 lb paper - though I found out that I had actually sent you 24 lb paper.

 

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Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THank you!

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A cashmere scarf to illustrate the Red Cashmere ink...

 

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How cool would it be if the sheen washed, too?

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Arkanabar, I diluted RC to about 4% and that was the magic dilution for me. I admit that I didn't like the color at all until that point. The ink still behaves beautifully and still sheens on non-absorbent paper.

Life's too short to use crappy pens.  -carlos.q

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You are able to get sheen at 4%? :yikes:

I said the same thing. Mine is mixed at 8% and I don't always get it. Part of that may be the paper though. This has become one of my favorite colors. Right now I have it in my TWSBI 580 (B) and Levenger Pomegranate in my Lamy Al Star (1.1) This is a little darker but both are dark reds.

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"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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You are able to get sheen at 4%? :yikes:

Oh yeah :)

Life's too short to use crappy pens.  -carlos.q

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I suppose I oughta combine my 8% and 16% with enough purified water to make it 4%. 6% was still too dark.

 

Have you seen vossad's color gradient? He diluted down to 1% or so.

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I believe that I have something like a 6%, and I just plain love it. Any lighter or less saturated, and it would lose its monumental appeal. I've compared it to other dark reds, for contrast and contentment...

 

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