Krishna Goldfish Gold (Version 2)

[lgsoltek]

Here is Goldfish Gold from the Indian brand Krishna. It's sold (on Fountainfeder) as "version 2" which means, I suppose, there is/has been a version 1 as well, but I've never seen that one.

 

Goldfish Gold (v.2) must be one of the most aptly named ink I've had. It's a gorgeous orange ink, leaning slightly to red, with a golden sheen. The sheen can be more or less noticeable depending on the wetness of your pen and the paper combo.

 

Goldfish Gold (v.2) has a medium flow and ok lubrication. Not water resistant. Not quite easy to clean, but in no way as difficult as their Jungle Volcano.

 

Splash

Writing Sample

(on Rhodia)

(on Tomoe River)

(on Tomoe River, against 6500K light)

(on Tomoe River, against sunlight)

Comparison

[Tas]

Loving these ultra close-ups !

[namrehsnoom]

Super review. And even though I’m mostly into more dark & muted colours, I quite like this one. We mostly have different tastes, but with this beautiful orange-red we touch common ground ;-)

[amberleadavis]

I love these reviews. Thank you.

[Sakura FP Gallery]

Nice ! How do you make these long swatches ? With an automatic pen ?

[lgsoltek]

Nice ! How do you make these long swatches ? With an automatic pen ?

 

I use the end of a pen holder to swab some ink on paper, then I spread it out.

[Tas]

What's an automatic pen ?

[taimdala]

OOOOH! This is definitely going on my wish list.

I'm currently looking for a replacement for Lamy Copper Orange and this one looks even nicer. ^_^

[Honeybadgers]

ooooo daddy like.

[Cassotto]

I've got a bottle of this, and I've noticed that whenever the bottle sits unused for some time, some sort of solid residue appears at the bottom of the bottle. I had never seen this, except for a couple of shimmering ink bottles, in which all the shimmer particles fall to the bottom of the bottle, but after shaking the bottle for a while they move around all over the place.

 

With Goldfish Gold, it's not shaking the bottle "for a while". I must shake it for ages, and then the ink looks like the foam in a glass of beer (while there's still some solid matter in the corners of the bottle), or rather, like the foam you must skim whan making raspberry or strawberry jam. Is this normal?

[Cassotto]

I've decided to open the bottle (which I hadn't done yet), and I must say I find the ink disappointing. Probably it's because of a wrong pen / paper combination. I'm using a Lamy Safari with an M nib (which is the pen I use for shimmering inks or any other ink that I think might cause clogging problems), and I've tried writing on Tomoe River, normal copy paper, and even one of those papers that they use over here for bus tickets (the type of paper they use for this sort of ink that disappears with time, or with heat). In all cases, I get a rather boring light-to-medium orange with no sheen at all, not even shading. I've looked at it both under a lightbulb and in direct sunlight, and although it looks a bit darker outdoors, it's still dull. The colour is more or less the one in the smudge to the right of the word "shading" in the second photo above. Too light to be comfortable to read for a long time.

 

I gave the ink bottle a good shake (as described in my previous message) before lunch. In spite of waiting for three hours before inking the pen, what's inside the converter looks as frothy as can be. It doesn't inspire much confidence.

 

And, on top of that, it seems the ink will be difficult to clean. I don't think I'll be using it much.

 

(By the way, I read ealier today that Krishna are going to stop making several inks -this included- owing to scarcity of the materials needed. Is that true?)

Edited March 14, 2020 by Cassotto

[Cassotto]

[taimdala]

Uh oh. Perhaps performance and saturation degrades if left unused for a long time. Maybe I should check my bottle. I got it about a year ago and haven't opened it yet. Like a bottle of wine or champagne, I was saving it for a special occasion.

[Honeybadgers]

I noticed that my bottle of jungle volcano doesn't want to clean out of a TWSBI 580 very easily with water. I had to throw in a tiny bit of dilute ammonia, but that flushed it out instantly.