Inky T O D - Color Swatches - Orange - Please Post Your Pictures And Tell Us Your Thoughts

[SLinkster]

Just got my bottle of Edelstein Mandarin. 

 

This orange is slightly more yellow than the other orange inks in my collection. It seems dry on a glass nib, with acceptable (ie minimal) feathering on uncoated card stock.

 

I have Moonstone in a broad m205. Hopefully the Mandarin will behave similarly in the broad orange bird for which I bought the ink. 

 

I'm bummed that the box arrived damaged - it matches damage on the package. 

[pgcauk]

On 1/22/2024 at 6:57 AM, Baggins said:

Hi.

I loved Osters Burned Orange swatch I made on Tomoe River S. I have been using it on my Parker 75 Cisel Sterling with an 18k broad nib. But I find it dry? Would that be due to the nib or the ink being dryer?

Z.

'Zacly! I found this quite frustrating at first, in a dip pen or brush it's magnificent, all the way from rust to sheening-black, but in any fountain pen, fine or broad, it's anemic and flat. The best answer I could find was to stick to juicy nibs; dip-pens, flex nibs or fude.

This is not just specific to this ink, but seems common with orange and pink inks, both of which I love - they need wet pens!

Recent 'penventories' have shown that, out of my favorite palette of inks, some are better suited to fine nibs, some to broads and some, like this, to gushers, with a few, maybe, across the board?

[Baggins]

 

 

 

 

Edited February 17 by Baggins
Forgot to quote now will have to redo the msg

[Baggins]

14 hours ago, pgcauk said:

'Zacly! I found this quite frustrating at first, in a dip pen or brush it's magnificent, all the way from rust to sheening-black, but in any fountain pen, fine or broad, it's anemic and flat. The best answer I could find was to stick to juicy nibs; dip-pens, flex nibs or fude.

This is not just specific to this ink, but seems common with orange and pink inks, both of which I love - they need wet pens!

Recent 'penventories' have shown that, out of my favorite palette of inks, some are better suited to fine nibs, some to broads and some, like this, to gushers, with a few, maybe, across the board?

The best option for this color would probably be my Lamy 2000 B. But now it is inked with Diamines Ancient Copper, that marries very well with Iroful. 
Maybe I will use it on my hocoro with the fudge nib and decoration of my letters. Maybe someone here can help for pen/paper combination for this ink. I really love the swatch I made on TR52…