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Introducing Manggis. A Diamine extreme sheen exclusive for Pen Gallery.

 

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manggis02.jpgTo be honest, I really like this ink. It is extreme in tone ranging from near black to light pinks. I appreciate that most pen users won't ever experience this but the opportunities are there and the base colour together with the metallic green sheen is simply stunning! Available exclusively from Pen Gallery in Malaysia.

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Looks rather similar to their Maureen for Cult Pens.

 

Similar, very similar but not as pinky. A tad more yellow in it. Very concentrated though! It gets everywhere!

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It is beautiful! I am one of those who will likely never be able to coax those effects out of it, but I really appreciate your artwork!

 

- P.

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Stunning ink and review, thank you. Delighted is is near to Maureen- I have a bottle to play with.

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My Manggis ink finally arrived. It is very strange ink. On copy paper is a nice bright burgundy, on Tomoe River it sheens so much it is all green, and on some papers it is a mix of burgundy and green such that it is something of a muddy brown. Not sure I like it, but not ready to give up on it yet.

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My Manggis ink finally arrived. It is very strange ink. On copy paper is a nice bright burgundy, on Tomoe River it sheens so much it is all green, and on some papers it is a mix of burgundy and green such that it is something of a muddy brown. Not sure I like it, but not ready to give up on it yet.

 

That's typical extreme sheen behaviour. BUT it does force you try different paper surfaces and that's a very good thing to do in any case, as fountain pen ink (no matter what the concentration) behaves differently on each and every surface type.

To view the full article and images please visit my blog: **** WWW.NICKSTEWART.INK ****

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My Manggis ink finally arrived. It is very strange ink. On copy paper is a nice bright burgundy, on Tomoe River it sheens so much it is all green, and on some papers it is a mix of burgundy and green such that it is something of a muddy brown. Not sure I like it, but not ready to give up on it yet.

My experience is the same. I dislike how this ink's sheen is there all the time, from all view points. Where my Organic Studios monstersheeners display the base color from one angle and a fully opaque sheen from another, this ink instead has the sheen showing all the time making it busy and/ muddy looking.

 

On top of that I was a disappointed with the base color thinking this is more of a purple than the dark pink it really is. I don't really like magentas. On pengallery's website it is described as a "deep purple" which I don't think this is.

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