Efnir: Robert Oster African Gold

[LizEF]

Oh, so it's official... his name was adopted, hurray

[Dimy]

Oh, so it's official... his name was adopted, hurray

I wonder if this would be accidental information leakage or intentional....poor fellow will now have to deal with calls along with laundry

[Misfit]

I have a sample of this Oster gold also. It too will get to fill the Edison Beaumont Molten Ores. I’m still needing to finish Copper Noir, then De Atramentis Silver Grey before the Oster gold samples.

[LizEF]

I have a sample of this Oster gold also. It too will get to fill the Edison Beaumont Molten Ores. I’m still needing to finish Copper Noir, then De Atramentis Silver Grey before the Oster gold samples.

 

Looking forward to seeing writing samples.

 

I have Copper Noir, but not Silver Grey.

 

[Misfit]

That will probably take me forever, but I will try once the other inks have had their time.

[LizEF]

That will probably take me forever, but I will try once the other inks have had their time.

No worries - FPN is forever. (Unless the database crash is forever. )

[vtgt]

I came across this ink in the catalogue while looking for inks like Noodler's Rome Burning. Anybody ever had both to compare?

[LizEF]

On 12/10/2020 at 3:31 AM, vtgt said:

I came across this ink in the catalogue while looking for inks like Noodler's Rome Burning. Anybody ever had both to compare?

 

I've added this ink to my list of inks to sample, but I won't be buying samples until after winter, so that's probably not fast enough for you.  Still, FWIW.

[skeskali]

How's the nib creep/nib crud with this ink? Does anyone know? 

[LizEF]

9 hours ago, skeskali said:

How's the nib creep/nib crud with this ink? Does anyone know? 

I didn't notice any during the time I had it in the pen (4-5 days). FWIW.

[skeskali]

Thanks, @LizEF!

[LizEF]

53 minutes ago, skeskali said:

Thanks, @LizEF!

You're very welcome!

[Misfit]

I filled this pen with a sample of Oster African Gold in February. At last I remembered to post a photo here. Thanks to LizEF for letting the opposite of EF nibs post photos here. 

[yazeh]

3 minutes ago, Misfit said:

I filled this pen with a sample of Oster African Gold in February. At last I remembered to post a photo here. Thanks to LizEF for letting the opposite of EF nibs post photos here. 

 

Nice! Really nice! Thanks!

[Misfit]

Thank you @yazeh I’m finding the two Robert Oster gold inks I got samples of are dark enough to read.  I used this ink and Gold Antiqua in a letter, and both were easy to read.  They weren’t the kind of inks that would make the reader wish not to read a page of it. 

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, Misfit said:

I filled this pen with a sample of Oster African Gold in February. At last I remembered to post a photo here. Thanks to LizEF for letting the opposite of EF nibs post photos here. 

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Lovely!  This is definitely an ink that does better in big nibs - I think that's generally true for paler inks.  Thanks for posting the pic.

[Misfit]

You are welcome. I was posting on Stub O’ the Day, and remembered I had the Beaumont filled with the second Oster gold ink sample. It’s so easier to post photos with the 2021 update to FPN. 

 

I’m tempted to get a bottle of one of the gold inks, not sure which one yet. 

[LizEF]

20 minutes ago, Misfit said:

I’m tempted to get a bottle of one of the gold inks, not sure which one yet. 

Ah, a new thread was started today, just for this!

[skeskali]

Thank you, @Misfit! I am in love with this ink!

[Misfit]

You are very welcome @skeskali  

And thanks to @LizEF for all the Efnir reviews for us to see the inks, and share comments on.  I’m glad Liz welcomes photos of the ink being reviewed in a decidedly not EF nib.