Fire Engine Red - Robert Oster Signature Ink

[visvamitra]

Robert Oster is new player in fountain pen ink market. He operates through ebay shop. The inks are sold in 50 ml PET bottles with a tightly secure twist cap. I don't know who makes the inks for the shop, but the colors look interesting and fresh. At the moment Robert Oster inks are available in colors

1. Aqua
   
2. Australian Sky Blue
   
3. Barossa Grape
   
4. Black
   
5. Blue Black
   
6. Blue Denim
   
7. Blue Night
   
8. Blue Sea
   
9. Bondi Blue
   
10. Burgundy
    
11. Chocolate
    
12. Claret
    
13. Copper Brown
    
14. Deep Sea
    
15. Emerald Green
    
16. Ever Green
    
17. Fire Engine Red
    
18. Forest Green
    
19. Graphite
    
20. Green Green
    
21. Green Lime
    
22. Green Olive
    
23. Jade
    
24. Khakhi
    
25. Light Green
    
26. Marine
    
27. Moss
    
28. Orange
    
29. Peach
    
30. Pinky
    
31. Red Orange
    
32. Royal Red
    
33. Ruby Red
    
34. School Blue
    
35. Spearmint
    
36. Torquay
    
37. Tranquility
    
38. Turquoise
    
39. Yellow Sunset
    

I received sixteen samples (marked in cursive) from well known ink enabler - Cyber6. Thank you Claudia You rock!

On Robert Oster's shop website Fire Engine Red is described as follows: "This beautiful shade of red is unique. Red has never looked this much like living, moving, coals of fire. Flows on bright Red, dries on like the sheen of a Fire Engine."

The color is nice and it shades quite a lot. Some of the photos are oversaturated. I'll try to make some additional photos tomorrow.

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Tomoe River, Kaweco Classic Sport - eyedropper, B

Leuchtturm 1917, Kaweco Classic Sport - eyedropper, B

Oxford

Comparison

[AD64]

Another red that pleases me immensely. Thank you so much for this review.

[Cyber6]

Lovely Red.... I am quite taken by these Robert Oster's inks... :wub:

 

Your pics make it look a tad more brighter than what it is. It almost looks like Irori Red, which Robert Oster Fire Engine Red is not. But is a lovely red nonetheless.

 

 

C.

[migo984]

Thanks for your review. I'm not a fan of Oster reds. His weakest inks, I think. Your red looks nothing like my bottle. Mine is much less saturated, paler & rather boring I'm afraid. I wish his reds were as good as his greens because I love a good red ink.

[visvamitra]

Here's the photo taken from the window (8 AM, no sun, cloudy sky, QPcard used to set white balance). It's not as saturated as in my review. Sadly my scanner, even though calibrated can't deal with reds. It always makes them too pinkish. Therefore when I review reds I always use camera, and sometimes the results aren't the best.

[visvamitra]

I have some of Fire Engine left in broad Caran d'ache nib. I'll try t write some text on white paper and capture the true face of Fire Engine

Edited June 12, 2016 by visvamitra

[visvamitra]

[Cyber6]

Yep!!... That's better....

 

C.

 

 

 

 

[amberleadavis]

Thank you for your detailed reviews. Thanks Migo and Cyber6 for the correction. I haven't inked up any of his reds. I was really impressed with Aqua, and Barbossa Grape made me smile.

[DrDebG]

Thank you for another great review. Not my color, though.

[Ileach]

Can you say something about the flow? Looks quite good from the photos but I'd be interested in your opinion.

 

About scanning and photography: If you get a gray card (18% neutral gray) it is pretty easy to set the perfect white balance.

[lgsoltek]

My scanner can't handel red either. It always makes them more saturated than they really are.

[mehandiratta]

Nice....

[KKay]

I would like to try the Oster Red Orange one of these days. I liked your review, very nice!