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My most recent purchases are several KWZI inks and samples ordered directly from Konrad. They are all great inks.

 

IG Turquoise is a wet and beautiful ink.

 

Splash

fpn_1444288210__kwzi_ig-turquoise-spl.jp

 

Writing samples

fpn_1444288217__kwzi-ig-turquoise.jpg

 

With glass dip pen

fpn_1444288224__kwzi-ig-turquoise-glass.

 

Video

An Instagram video showing the colour change (at 8x speed, maybe, I've forgotten):

https://instagram.com/p/77tbtAKJNR/

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Yes - it's one of few dark turquoises I like.

 

Same.

 

You make it (ans almost any ink to be honest) look wonderful. Thank you Lgsoltek for all your hard work. :)

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jandrese Vintage

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On the strength of this review I bought this ink.

 

I think I'm in love. It's very beautiful and a very good ink that performs flawlessly. Thanks for the review.

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Nice color. I thought it looked like blue black - the type that I like.

i agree.... it looks blue black... there is nothing turquoise here...

 

thank you for the review...

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amberleadavis Pen Dust

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Thank you, LG.

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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Abner C. Kemp Vintage

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i agree.... it looks blue black... there is nothing turquoise here...

 

thank you for the review...

 

Like many of the KWZI IG inks, the color in the name correlates to what the ink looks like when it is initially laid down on the page. If I remember my sample correctly, IG Turquoise goes down a pretty saturated deep turquoise and over time oxidizes to the tealish blue-black you see here.

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Thanks for the review.

I'll admit I'm not hugely enamored of IG Turquoise's color. It's not a bad color, per se; but I had been hoping that it would be a replacement for Turkish Night, the cyan-black (really cyan-green) IG ink made a couple of years ago by FPN member Pharmacist. The KWZI ink goes a lot darker when it oxidizes; it's also not quite as water resistant.

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amberleadavis Pen Dust

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It kind of reminds me R&K Verdigris, what do you think?

I don't think it's quite as green.

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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Clumsy_Penman NOS (New Old Stock)

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I received this ink a couple of days ago.

Mine is much greener... :huh:

interesting. Mine is dark teal when dry and oxidised similar to what Lgsoltek shown. It is called Turquoise, but in my opinion this may be a bit misleading. It has dark turquoise aspects mainly when is wet, but once it dries out completely, the final colour looks rather like very pretty dark teal, which in fact is dark blue-green.

 

I did some tests and review some time ago so for more details please refer to my blog post, but I here it is:

 

WET/fresh but oxidation kicks in already

 

http://www.clumsypenman.com/wp-content/fpngallery/kwz-turquoise-ig/untitled-32.jpg

 

DRY/oxidised

http://www.clumsypenman.com/wp-content/fpngallery/kwz-turquoise-ig/untitled-33.jpg

 

WET/fresh. is much more blue and turquoise

http://www.clumsypenman.com/wp-content/fpngallery/kwz-turquoise-ig/untitled-2.jpg

 

 

DRY/oxidised

http://www.clumsypenman.com/wp-content/fpngallery/kwz-turquoise-ig/untitled-1-2.jpg

 

 

Great shading and lighter with Lamy Safari broad nib vs. wet Noodler's Ahab semiflex nib which gave much darker line.

http://www.clumsypenman.com/wp-content/fpngallery/kwz-turquoise-ig/untitled-29.jpg

 

 

However, it has pretty good water resistance. Grey Gallic components penetrate paper nicely and stay intact even after serious wash with a paint brush

http://www.clumsypenman.com/wp-content/fpngallery/kwz-turquoise-ig/untitled-34.jpg

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When fresh mine is more of a minty greenish colour. Then it oxidates to a dark green teal, not much blue... However, I think it would have qualified as teal, but a green teal. I like my teals on the blue side.

 

Another thing I've noticed. On the copy paper we use at work (a quite good copy paper actually), the ink feathers a bit. It surprised my, since it's an iron gall ink I thought feathering would be the least of my problems. Not many other inks feather on that copy paper, I'm a bit puzzled.

YNWA - JFT97

 

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