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Bondi Blue - Robert Oster Signature Ink


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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!



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On Robert Oster's shop website Bondi Blue is described as follows: "Bondi Blue ~ Aqua's love child. Flows on Blue, dries on like a summery Bondi Beach sea view.".



I believe this one may be popular - for me however it's rather boring. The flow is good, it doesn't cause any bleedthrough or feathering and behaves well, also after few days spent in unused pen.



Drops of ink on kitchen towel




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Software ID



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Tomoe River, Kaweco Classic Sport - eyedropper, B



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Leuchtturm 1917, Kaweco Classic Sport - eyedropper, B




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Oxford



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Comparison




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Interesting. "Bondi blue" was also the blue used in the original iMacs that came out in the late 1990s...

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Gorgeous review. I'm glad I picked this over Australian Sky, the depth and shading is so lovely!

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Awesome blue...

Thank you for review again..

One query.. How is the lubrication

vaibhav mehandiratta

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Vis, more great work. Thank you.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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Not bad but not comparable to most Sailor inks or even, say, Diaminie Mediterranean Blue.

 

thank you

vaibhav mehandiratta

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Using the Robert Oster Bondi Blue ink in my new Lamy Pacific Al-Star. The ink is a very nice match to the color of the pen..

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Fell in love with this ink. Wonderful shading. Good flow. Vibrant, but not like a neon sign shouting in my face. Very good mix of qualities.

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