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Tas,

When you compose that sketch for Lgsoltek, we hope you scan a copy into this discussion!

 

Here is a writing sample of giwa.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/341853-three-oysters-giwa/?hl=giwa

 

The sketch arrived. Here it is as promised.

 

I adore the golden residual line left behind after the original grey is washed away. Totally unique in my experience :wub:

 

http://www.taskyprianou.com/fpn_3oysters_doldam_magnolia_lgsoltek.jpeg

 

(Buds are surprisingly Monaco Red. I wet the page, then dabbed some onto the area from a brush loaded with some picked up from the top of a Preppy nib)

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Neatest sketch I've seen in a long time. Especially -- as you said -- the golden leftovers on the branches. Thousand thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Oh, you’re kidding me. Tas, you ink a lovely drawing. That’s beautiful. It looks like a French artist visiting China. Or a Chinese artist visiting France. It’s hard to decide which.

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Beautiful!! The color is very interesting! So it looks it is maybe more for artistic use then for writing.

 

BTW Van Gogh was Dutch...

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Beautiful!! The color is very interesting! So it looks it is maybe more for artistic use then for writing.

 

BTW Van Gogh was Dutch...

Not at all. This is a beautiful, soft and legible grey :)

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Great review.

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I got a blue-grey Doldam too. Perfectly fine ink. Just not my colour. Lucky it's just a sample.

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I think the brown gray is actually the anomaly. Goulet has updated their page to show the more purple-blue hue now.

 

I'm using mustard and purple gray as 2 of my 4 inks this quarter. Mustard is just superb. Wet, consistent, crazy shading, super legible. Purple gray is EXTREMELY dry. it might be drier than 4001.

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There's always iroshizuku kiri-same. That's a nice warm summer rain gray

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Too bad. The one I reviewed was really lovely. What a shame.

 

Yes! I would love a bottle of the same ink as your sample!

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Yes! I would love a bottle of the same ink as your sample!

 

I'd say kiri-same should scratch that itch, it's one of the warmest greys I know of (maybe faber castell grey but It's hard to find and expensive)

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dumaresq Near Mint

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I bought a bottle of this today, and the colour is exactly as in Lgsoltek's original review!

 

Gold-grey with glints of blue. Mesmerising.

 

I got a blue-grey Doldam too. Perfectly fine ink. Just not my colour. Lucky it's just a sample.

 

In May I actually bought a sample online (from a reliable seller on Ebay), and received the cool-grey "version", which many others have reported experiencing. But at Cityluxe (Singapore) this afternoon, I tested their Doldam and saw that it was the warm grey one!

 

So I don't know... is it inconsistency? labelling error??

 

In any case, I'm so glad this ink is around in the form that Lgsoltek reviewed. It is closest not to Kiri-same, but to GvFC Stone Grey. Except with a brighter sun shining on the stone wall, and melting the last bits of snow.

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Hmmm. I somehow acquired a sample of this ink. And mine is a medium grey. Nice enough, but definitely not what the early reviews showed, and not the more recent description of "blue-grey" either.

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I got a sample from Honeybadgers, and while I would agree I see most of what he mentions in the ink, my experience is a little different. I find the color borders on purple. I guess it would also depend on your light... For me, this is an ink that sort of creeps up on me. First I thought, wow, what flow! and it kept up very well with the flex nibs I got. Then I thought, but I don't care too much for this color - or do I? I kept coming back to it. Now that half of it is gone, I'm contemplating getting a bottle... so far, only contemplating though, there are too many other great inks that see too little use. But I'm glad to know where to find it.

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