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Diamine - "Kong Girls" (H.K. Exclusive...)


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Woohoo! After months of waiting...it has arrived.
Sadly, I don't have a competent pen for it currently...but it's a beautiful Purple/Blue/Pink!
I thought it was a dry ink at first, but it is not...the pen I used at first just sucks.
The dip-pen effort was a failure as well.
After switching to a working pen, I was able to use the ink properly...though I could not get any shimmer from the Jinhao-x750.


Overall, the ink is great! The pens I tested with are trash...minus the Jinhao-x750, so please ignore the first page.
Though I included the messed up first page, the second test page is valid with some actual review metrics. Please excuse the (bleep) pics...my phone is ancient and sucks.
The scans of the actual ink-on-paper are better though.
Once I have a better pen to test with...or clear out my Penbbs-355 main pen, I'll post new pics of writing with the ink.

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Bravo! Thanks for the review.

 

From the parcel's packaging you showed, at first I thought it was going to be a Bruce Lee jumpsuit yellow ink. ;)

 

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1 hour ago, A Smug Dill said:

Bravo! Thanks for the review.

 

From the parcel's packaging you showed, at first I thought it was going to be a Bruce Lee jumpsuit yellow ink. ;)

 

Hehehe...you're welcome.
Happy to contribute finally 😛


Oh...and here's a pic of the Sky Blue shimmer in action!
 

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thanks for the review

Second review color looks great, from packing of Bruce lee to a anime character in box to color in first post to second, not gonna lie always had me in the first half😏

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11 minutes ago, Dimy said:

thanks for the review

Second review color looks great, from packing of Bruce lee to a anime character in box to color in first post to second, not gonna lie always had me in the first half😏

Hehe...that packing got me too! I had to send my source a message to thank her for the awesome packaging. I'm putting them in my journal after I cut them off of the package.

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Figured I'd upload a letter written in "Diamine - Kong Girls" earlier today...

 

 

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OK, I'll ask, even though it's off-topic. How did you break not one, but two, PenBBS 355 pens? I have two myself, and even though they're far from being my favourite pens, I didn't find that they needed breaking per se. The stupidest thing I did was to assemble a replacement nib unit for it (using a collar, feed and O-ring from the official PenBBS spare parts pack) using a Nemosine nib, without first checking for headroom — on the assumption that if it worked in my PenBBS 308 and 309 pens, it'd work in the 355 with an opaque cap I cannot see through — and bending the tines sideways badly when I screwed the cap shut; but that didn't damage the pen itself as far as I'm aware, other than putting a couple of scratches in the metal ceiling inside the cap. I can understand if you broken a flex nib doing the same thing; but breaking the pens themselves? I can't imagine how.

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On 3/7/2021 at 7:15 AM, A Smug Dill said:

OK, I'll ask, even though it's off-topic. How did you break not one, but two, PenBBS 355 pens? I have two myself, and even though they're far from being my favourite pens, I didn't find that they needed breaking per se. The stupidest thing I did was to assemble a replacement nib unit for it (using a collar, feed and O-ring from the official PenBBS spare parts pack) using a Nemosine nib, without first checking for headroom — on the assumption that if it worked in my PenBBS 308 and 309 pens, it'd work in the 355 with an opaque cap I cannot see through — and bending the tines sideways badly when I screwed the cap shut; but that didn't damage the pen itself as far as I'm aware, other than putting a couple of scratches in the metal ceiling inside the cap. I can understand if you broken a flex nib doing the same thing; but breaking the pens themselves? I can't imagine how.

Oh no, I knew about the possibility of "head-room" differences when looking at the nib setup. I always take the finial out and cut the shaft of the threaded part in half, lengthwise, with a jewelers saw before installing any flex nibs into Penbbs pens.

1. Clear-glass Penbbs-355: Installing FNF Ebonite feed/housing unit with modded FPR Ultraflex nib...unit apparently oversized, screwed into pen section...section cracked. Epoxied for now, but pen runs wetter than normal, not completely sealed properly...replacement section incoming (2-3 weeks).

 

2. Snowflake Penbbs-355: Dropped pen, shock transferred to section area where shutoff valve hole resides, chip broken from rim of section-end therein...shutoff valve 86% functional. Pen being retired to "test-unit"...as it still functions, but does not completely shut-off ink flow as normal.

 

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