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I'm so happy for this post. Lurking through topic, I kind of fell in love with Salamander... only to discover in this post it's very similar to Rikyu-Cha (which I have and love). At least: the text is, the leafs less. So thanks for preventing near duplication! (and saving me some € once the Rikyu-Cha is empty)

Errrmm. On my calibrated screen Salamander is green and Rikyu-cha brown(ish). You definitely need both!

Add lightness and simplicate.

 

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Errrmm. On my calibrated screen Salamander is green and Rikyu-cha brown(ish). You definitely need both!

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I don't know anything about color correcting, etc. The sample below looks a lot more gray and less green on my monitor than it does on paper. Wish I could do a better job of capturing what is a fascinating and complex ink.

 

http://www.fototime.com/%7B296FF988-CCEC-4EDE-8318-8E720951CBEF%7D/origpict/Storm%2520Warning.jpg

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I don't know anything about color correcting, etc. The sample below looks a lot more gray and less green on my monitor than it does on paper. Wish I could do a better job of capturing what is a fascinating and complex ink.

 

I see the green you speak of. Good job!

Put me on the list!

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Add lightness and simplicate.

 

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Rikyu Cha is an exceptional ink.
Salamander is its own beast, one of the two most mutable inks I know, shifting between bluish-green and earth even the same writing on the same paper under different lights - which sounds charming, I'm just not sure that I enjoy any of those colors (the green is too bluish for me)!
Wagner and Storm Warning are both quite lovely. I would like to see Wagner alongside Stipula Verde Muschiato, Storm Warning against Kobe #45 and 3 Oysters Giwa (and that Pilot Birthday Happy God one!) - I love those colors but I need to be convinced of the u.s.p.!

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In your original review of this ink you mentioned letting it sit in the pen before using. Is that the case here? Liked in then, and I also find this appealing.

Add lightness and simplicate.

 

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In your original review of this ink you mentioned letting it sit in the pen before using. Is that the case here? Liked in then, and I also find this appealing.

 

 

Oh this is an extremely wet Pelikan M1000 Broad. Any pen less than that would only result in a pathetic colour!

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This is my favorite thread evah.

. . . . and could get very expensive!

So far I need; Wagner, Storm Warning, Provoke the Puritan

. . . . which was enough to send me down the rabbit hole and am now identified as needing Shinzan, Tanna Japonensis, Uca Arcuata and Pantorama Tinctorum too!

. . . . . but what I really need is self-restraint - it's not easy!

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Ooops.

 

http://www.taskyprianou.com/fpn_kwz_confederation_brown_scriptus_2017_swatch.jpeg

I find this to be such a strange color. It's name says "Brown", but most of the time I use it it looks "green". Could it be both?

Brad

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The only ink I've owned I would call murky is Noodler's House Divided https://www.jetpens.com/Noodler-s-House-Divided-Ink-3-oz-Bottle/pd/21831 I'm not sure what they were going for, apparently it's a red base and a blue something. Anyway, to me it was so aggressively uninteresting I gave away a nearly full bottle. In my eyes it's almost an anti-color.

 

I guess I'm not a murky kind of guy.

 

p.s. I'm new to these threads, can someone briefly explain "T O D" to me? Thanks.

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The only ink I've owned I would call murky is Noodler's House Divided https://www.jetpens.com/Noodler-s-House-Divided-Ink-3-oz-Bottle/pd/21831 I'm not sure what they were going for, apparently it's a red base and a blue something. Anyway, to me it was so aggressively uninteresting I gave away a nearly full bottle. In my eyes it's almost an anti-color.

 

I guess I'm not a murky kind of guy.

 

p.s. I'm new to these threads, can someone briefly explain "T O D" to me? Thanks.

See the third pinned topic in this forum.

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This reminds me so much of the unobtainium Montblanc Jonathan Swift Seaweed Green (which got me started in murky) that I'm going to have to buy a bottle one day. Amazon is the only place I can find it, so no sample first.

Fountainfeder has samples of Seitz-Kreuznach iirc

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Ooo, yeah, great choice. (Just looked up your review. I love this site!)

 

http://www.taskyprianou.com/fpn_week_22_seitz_kreuznach_tundra_green.jpeg

I find this to be such a strange color. It's name says "Brown", but most of the time I use it it looks "green". Could it be both?

It's a changeling. Could have something to do with the day of the week or perhaps wind direction? Who knows. Part of its charm, I think :rolleyes:

 

 

 

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I find this to be such a strange color. It's name says "Brown", but most of the time I use it it looks "green". Could it be both?

 

 

Yes! A little dilution will bring that green more to the front.

Add lightness and simplicate.

 

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Fountainfeder has samples of Seitz-Kreuznach iirc

Thanks! But, I'm in the US. Unless there are US retailers offering a sample of it, I may as well buy the whole bottle from Amazon. Fortunately, it's not terribly expensive. :)

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