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Actually, I kind of like it. Might even look for a bottle at the Commonwealth pen Show in Boston - September 20th.

 

Hope someone brings some for sale - HINT, Hint, hint! ;) ;)

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Do you have Diamine Midnight? and could you compare the two?

 

I don't currently have any pens inked up with Midnight, but here's a swatch comparison:

 

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I like it :)

 

But I am not sure its a spectacular colour..

No, it doesn't jump off the page. But I really like its subtlety. :)

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I don't currently have any pens inked up with Midnight, but here's a swatch comparison:

Thank you for the swatchs. Currently my favorite blue-blacks are Midnight and Salix. This looks like it may fall in between those. I like, but I'm not sure I'm ready to spend the $99 to get the whole Music set; hopefully I will be able to find it at the SF Pen Show.

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Thank you for the swatchs. Currently my favorite blue-blacks are Midnight and Salix. This looks like it may fall in between those. I like, but I'm not sure I'm ready to spend the $99 to get the whole Music set; hopefully I will be able to find it at the SF Pen Show.

Oh, I guess I didn't make it clear enough in the review, but you can order individual 30ml bottles of all of the flower and composer inks directly from Diamine's website. :)

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Oh, I guess I didn't make it clear enough in the review, but you can order individual 30ml bottles of all of the flower and composer inks directly from Diamine's website. :)

No, you did make it clear, sorry! I just lost that part somewhere in the empty recesses of my mind by the time I posted.

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I love this ink but just don't use it enough!

The Good Captain

"Meddler's 'Salamander' - almost as good as the real thing!"

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gylyf's reviews make everything look so good.

Looking for a cap for a Sheaffer Touchdown Sentinel Deluxe Fat version

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Thanks for the great reviews. I am a huge fan of the old Black Box Omas Blue, and I also like Diamine Blue Velvet, but now thanks to you I am on the hunt for a bottle of the new White Box Omas Blue as your swatch and writing sample made that looks so darned good. Sadly, it turns out the one Omas dealer in town has told me he isn't going bother with Omas inks any longer having been burned several times with mislabeled shipments.

 

I like your angled shots and the swatches. They really give you a sense of the ink and your colors always seem correct and the pictures are so clear.

 

Kobe #14 looks like good stuff, the Faber-Castell looks pretty dusty.

Looking for a cap for a Sheaffer Touchdown Sentinel Deluxe Fat version

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Thanks for the great reviews. I am a huge fan of the old Black Box Omas Blue, and I also like Diamine Blue Velvet, but now thanks to you I am on the hunt for a bottle of the new White Box Omas Blue as your swatch and writing sample made that looks so darned good. Sadly, it turns out the one Omas dealer in town has told me he isn't going bother with Omas inks any longer having been burned several times with mislabeled shipments.

 

I like your angled shots and the swatches. They really give you a sense of the ink and your colors always seem correct and the pictures are so clear.

 

Kobe #14 looks like good stuff, the Faber-Castell looks pretty dusty.

 

Unfortunately, it seems the sample I received, unbeknownst to me, was of the old, darker, OMAS Blue, while the bottle I ordered based on that sample contains the newer, lighter blue. It's still a nice ink, but not nearly as nice as the darker blue I thought I was going to receive...

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Yet another nice dark blue. There must be a fair number of people like me who love these colors, because the ink makers keep coming out with more of them.

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