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Thanks for the review. Like it.

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what would be the sheen that this will give?

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Nice review but an un-nice green. IMO. Totally non-classic. Olive or teal would fit (maybe). If it's nice on the pen and paper, okay. But it's not getting onto my inks-to-buy list.

 

Mike

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I'm with lapis on this one -- not a color for me.

Thanks for the review, though.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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This is my new favorite ink!

I bought a set of Diamine inks "for school" (they have the best bottles for school use, heavy glass and broad based!), but the students can have my Tokiwa Matsu and Salamander, I'm keeping this!

Reminds me of the mood I got from Organics Studio "Walt Whitman", a beautiful but unfortunately unusable ink; neither blue nor black but ambiguous, like light filtering through seawater! Inks that read "green" are a bit harsh for me, but this is nicely discrete.

Kobe #49 is the closest I had found previously, a lovely "drab" writing ink that no one will notice, but there is a blue component that comes out in the wash (as Tokiwa Matsu), that makes that one less useful for sketching.

First flush of a new love, but right now I'm very happy!

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Reminds me of the mood I got from Organics Studio "Walt Whitman", a beautiful but unfortunately unusable ink;...

First, I also love Diamine Classic Green - gorgeous shading and sufficiently different from "normal" green to be interesting.

 

Second, why do you consider OS Walt Whitman to be unusable? I have a bottle - it was the closest thing I could find to Montblanc Jonathan Swift Seaweed Green - and really like it.

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S.I.T.B!

Both my sample and my full bottle were clogging up nibs within a week, and the bottle grew pond slime! I filtered it, added some Smirnoff and keep it for dip pens only now. I had the same experience with their Willow Green,

another gorgeous color, so I sadly gave up on the company them after that.

But if yours is problem free that makes me happy! I really thought I had found a favorite ink with that one, so pleased to have Classic step into that role.

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S.I.T.B!

Both my sample and my full bottle were clogging up nibs within a week, and the bottle grew pond slime! I filtered it, added some Smirnoff and keep it for dip pens only now. I had the same experience with their Willow Green,

another gorgeous color, so I sadly gave up on the company them after that.

But if yours is problem free that makes me happy! I really thought I had found a favorite ink with that one, so pleased to have Classic step into that role.

I decided to go check it, since it's been a long while since I've used it, and there was nothing fuzzy, hairy, or stringy in it, so I'm thinking it's fine. Hopefully it stays that way!

 

Glad you're enjoying Diamine Classic Green instead - I don't think there's any worry about SITB or availability of that one. :)

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I have been in the Ocean most days this Summer, and there's a whole range of olives and grey-greens when you're submerged in that world (as well as that astonishing turquoise when you look up at the light through a breaking wave)!

I made a list of my "glaucous" inks, suitable for Grey Eyed Athena:

Vert Empire - so grey I thought I had a bad batch, twice, but possibly remarkably sophisticated? I need to circle back to this again.

Walt Whitman - discussed above.

Kobe #45 Hachibuse Silhouette Green - near black.

Kobe #49 Kitano Olive Green - "drab"!

Diamine Classic Green - seaweed?

Robert Oster Crocodile Green.

The latter three have more chlorophyll, the former more Grey, but all of these are classy without shouting "Green!" at you!

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I have been in the Ocean most days this Summer, and there's a whole range of olives and grey-greens when you're submerged in that world (as well as that astonishing turquoise when you look up at the light through a breaking wave)!

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Very cool! I've been enjoying your posts over in the "greens" thread too. So many colors, so little time. :( :D

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Very cool! I've been enjoying your posts over in the "greens" thread too. So many colors, so little time. :( :D

It's interesting isn't it? Violet, which I love, I bought Scabiosa and am still bewitched, orange I have stuck with Autumn Oak from the get-go, recently adding a couple of Oster's, but green has been a four year quest where I feel that I've been "collecting the set", and I'm just now getting to a range I am comfortable with!

 

If you look at Ostwald, green and blue make up half of the color circle, but it's the "safe" half so we pay much less attention to it (including the distribution of names)!

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