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Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Robert Oster Heart of Gold


This is review #71 in my series.  Here's the YouTube video:


Post-recording notes: In real life, the color looks a little brighter and more yellow than the zoom photo.  Also, there's more glitter than the photo shows, but shifting the light so the glitter sparkled also made the color less accurate, so I went with something in between.  Cleaning was mostly quick and easy, but some glitter decided to cling to the feed, so I threw it into the sonicator, where one cycle did the job.  In normal use, the next ink would surely have flushed the glitter out unnoticed.


And here is a screen of the final result, for those not interested in the video:
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Scan of Completed Review:
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Zoomed in photo:
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Absorbent Paper Closeup (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper):
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Screenshots also available on Instagram: @zilxodarap


Previous Review: Robert Oster Bronze.


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Hope you enjoy.  Comments appreciated!

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Lovely review LIz. 

The quote was priceless :)

II have a feeling that you need to turn Quintus' adventures into a comic book ;)

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7 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Lovely review LIz. 

The quote was priceless :)

II have a feeling that you need to turn Quintus' adventures into a comic book ;)

Thank you! :)

 

Maya Angelou has said some things worth repeating.

 

If I could draw worth a darn, I might.  Maybe I could convince @Tas to do the drawing part. ;) We'd have Stick-Quintus and Stick-Makhabesh :D  (Don't ask me what a stick-sphinx looks like, but I did discover he has wings - not all sphinxes do, you know - and he's a he, which counters the original sphinx, but otherwise, he's "normal" (for a sphinx) - lion body, person head - just very small.)

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18 minutes ago, LizEF said:

 

 

If I could draw worth a darn, I might.  Maybe I could convince @Tas to do the drawing part. ;) 

Great choice.

Tas has the gift to make anything look nice :);)

 

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36 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Thank you! :)

 

Maya Angelou has said some things worth repeating.

 

If I could draw worth a darn, I might.  Maybe I could convince @Tas to do the drawing part. ;) We'd have Stick-Quintus and Stick-Makhabesh :D  (Don't ask me what a stick-sphinx looks like, but I did discover he has wings - not all sphinxes do, you know - and he's a he, which counters the original sphinx, but otherwise, he's "normal" (for a sphinx) - lion body, person head - just very small.)

 😊

17 minutes ago, yazeh said:

 

Great choice.

Tas has the gift to make anything look nice :);)

 

🙏 😇 🙏

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1 hour ago, Mr.Rene said:

it seems like old ink in some vintage papers or documents

:D Well, if you ignore the glitter.... :lol:

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7 hours ago, LizEF said:

:D Well, if you ignore the glitter.... :lol:

 

Not necessary some old text has "glitter" made of solid gold or silver dust to be precise...Medieval times I refer..you can see .. there's nothing new under the sun...

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14 minutes ago, Mr.Rene said:

 

Not necessary some old text has "glitter" made of solid gold or silver dust to be precise...Medieval times I refer..you can see .. there's nothing new under the sun...

Good point.  Of course, it had a fancier name, I'm sure, but yeah, I'd forgotten about illuminated manuscripts.  Thanks for the reminder!

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1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Always fun to watch your reviews.  Pretty color, but.....

 

GLITTER!  NOOOOOO!

 

😱

:D  If it makes you feel any better, the next 3 reviews are not glitter inks, and it appears I only have 2 glitter inks left, neither of which is near the top of the list of "next inks" - though that could change overnight, based on historical voting trends... :)

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59 minutes ago, namrehsnoom said:

Surprisingly readable for a gold-toned ink. I like the colour, but glitter... no thanks. 

The base color is not that different from R.O. Gold Antiqua, actually. :)  So you could just get that.

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On 1/13/2021 at 11:55 AM, LizEF said:

:D  If it makes you feel any better, the next 3 reviews are not glitter inks, and it appears I only have 2 glitter inks left, neither of which is near the top of the list of "next inks" - though that could change overnight, based on historical voting trends... :)

 

Whew.  😜

My latest ebook.   And not just for Halloween!
 

My other pen is a Montblanc.

 

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I *love* this ink. Looks like liquid gold on the page, especially when it's drying. Wrote my Christmas cards with it in a flex pen. Thanks for the EF review- I may try it yet in a finer nib pen...

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1 hour ago, aimi said:

Thanks for the EF review

You're very welcome!  And yes, this would be a good ink for Christmas cards. :)

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This strikes me as an appropriate use of shimmer.

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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Here's the line width measurement. The line is one of those used for dry time.  Magnification is 100x.  The grid is 100x100µm.  The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each.  The line width for this ink is roughly 285µm.

 

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I bought a bottle of this and am having a hard time getting my pens to write with it.  The ink just doesn't flow.  Tried a glass pen and a Fine Platinum.  Any suggestions?  Add glycerine or soap?

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15 minutes ago, GreenMountain said:

I bought a bottle of this and am having a hard time getting my pens to write with it.  The ink just doesn't flow.  Tried a glass pen and a Fine Platinum.  Any suggestions?  Add glycerine or soap?

Is it just that you're not getting glitter in the writing, or the ink won't flow through the pen?  I think the solutions would be quite different.  While glycerine might increase flow, it's usually recommended as a lubrication aid rather than a flow aid.  You could try liquid dish soap in a sample vial - tip of a toothpick swirled in the sample, but personally, I'd go with Vanness' White Lightning.

 

But I'm more concerned with it not working with a glass dip pen - can you describe more what you're seeing?  If it won't stick to the glass long enough to pull it from the bottle and write, then you don't want a flow aid - it's already too wet.  If it won't come off the dip pen, then, yeah, OK, that might mean it needs to be a little wetter.  Anyway, please let us know in more detail what behavior you're seeing, then I or someone else can give better advice.

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