Deep Sea Green - Graf Von Faber-Castell

[Bo Bo Olson]

My first thought was Herbin Vert Empire. (Japanese ink was horribly expensive Germany until Amazon....and my few words Japanese is 55 years out of date. In I don't even have the 100 mainland Euro inks (half only), I don't have any Japanese inks.)

 

It does seem to shade well.

 

The Atlantic was a bit darker when I sailed it in a troop ship in '65'.

[chromantic]

My carts came and I'm trying it out in a Pelikano P450. I also see it as more blue/grey than blue/green but the color is very nice and it's well-behaved, too, no show/bleed on the office laser paper. It's not super wet, like Sailor, but it's wet enough for a smooth line in the P450 (reminds me of the Pelikan 4001 Pink I have another 450). It doesn't dry super fast in the nib while I cogitate, either, like some other inks. Very pleased. Pleased enough to spend $45 for a whole bottle? Maybe a couple more packs of the carts and look for something cheaper for the M300. Thanks again, vis.

 

ETA: The lack of green I noticed might be down to the fluorescent lighting at work; at home under mixed lighting, a slight greenish cast was more apparent. Looks a little like Diamine Teal.

Edited April 11, 2017 by chromantic

[SUNIL GARG]

If you are in perfumes how can you not be in appreciating the bottles they come in.

 

To me if you are into FPs & inks you have to have at least a Bottle of some GvFC Ink.

Then the latest leaning CdA Bottle. Old CdA 30ml square too. Iroshi, J Herbin 1670, Omas.

Maybe Diamine 150 triangle, yes of course. And how can you do without the famous Old &

New little Mont Blanc glass shoes. Yes this current Waterman Ink Bottle is a design Classic.

 

To me, all the above look just great & Except for 1670 highly functional & friendly designs.

Edited June 16, 2017 by SUNIL GARG

[ManofKent]

Thank you for the review. I like the colour, but if it's that dry and unsaturated it's not for me.

[Aquaria]

I was prepared to love this ink, because I'm a huge blue-green fan, but I was definitely underwhelmed with this one. I love most of their other colors, but this one is just...off, somehow.

[Intensity]

I got a set of cartridges of this ink for my 3+ week-long trip to Italy early this summer, to avoid the leaky converter issues while flying. About a third of the way through my trip I ended up going to a local fountain pen shop and getting a set of Visconti Sepia brown cartridges instead. It's not really that I hated using Deep Sea Green, but indeed the color was bland and uninspiring, and pale, and wasn't flattering pure white pages. I had had enough and couldn't wait to swap it out for something darker--hence the brown ink. Perhaps DSG will work better with cream paper: I'll try it again at some point. I was significantly more pleased with the darker brown of Visconti's Sepia that also wrote a more wet and saturated line in the same Kaweco Perkeo Fine pen.

 

With that said, I have sent out 3 post cards written on in Visconti Sepia and also 2 in GVfC Deep Sea Green. I was apprehensive about the ink writing surviving the inevitably long journey from Italy to USA unscathed, as it did take one such card literally a month and week to arrive to my address in USA. But both inks did admirably: no signs of smudging or any kind of fault to the writing--looks just as it did when I first wrote in my hotel room.

Edited July 22, 2018 by Intensity