New M200

[chromantic]

On 10/8/2021 at 6:10 AM, N1003U said:

 

Do let us know what you think of the Golden Beryl. I am still on the fence with that ink, and I am looking for as many experiences as possible. I am most interested how legible the color remains with the shimmer components. Gold-ish colors I have seen are, on their own, already a bit hard to read on white papers. I wonder if the shimmer makes if worse.

 

I'll share my experience. I have it in a green marble M200. Using on the copy paper at work, it's an amber color that shades nicely from a light yellow to a darker golden amber, not really brown, per se. I was baffled for the first few weeks as I could not discern any shimmer. I figured it was my poor eyesight. When I topped it off about half way through the fill, I made sure to shake the bottle vigorously to get the flakes swirling. Still no shimmer that I could see when I wrote.

 

I do sudokus at work so it's always nice to use inks that don't dry out quickly on the nib. I must say the Beryl is great in that regard (as much so as my Stipulas); it always writes straight away with no hard starts. The sudokus are two on a page and I don't often sit and do both but the other night I did one and was getting the usual shaded amber color and as I proceeded to do the 2nd one I suddenly saw a thick layer of gold on the numbers, so thick it looks like the gold paint in those fiber-tipped paint pens. And this is on copy, mind you. I've tried it again a couple times since with the same results, 1st puzzle plain, 2nd one thick shimmer. I'm almost thinking heat from my hand is playing a part in it.

 

I'm noticing on my little BnR pad at home that I'm now getting a pretty decent amount of shimmer (though not the thick layer I see on the sudokus), whereas looking at earlier scribbling there isn't any to speak of. Maybe I didn't shake the bottle enough the first fill? Or it needed to settle in for a bit, like sheening inks sometimes need to do.

 

It's quite pretty, and while legible enough, it's not dark enough that I'd want to read pages of it.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I have 5 or so Diamine glitter inks (the ones that shade) ...still got to look for it with holding the paper to the light often to really see it  shimmer.

 

My dark gray Herbin gold?? glitter is the only one that I have that I see the glitter with out any problems.

?? Could be silver, I've not used it in a few years....it was a costly small bottle so I've been thrifty with it.

[Eccles]

I'm underwhelmed by my newly arrived Golden Beryl M200.  Without ink the effect is rather bland, the sparkles don't show up much against such clear material, unlike the darker Star Ruby and Moonstone issues.  I've not opened the ink to fill it because I don't like to have multiple pens inked; I'm retired so I'm not writing anywhere near as much as I used to.  But when I do, I am not confident that my level of enthusiasm will peak very much.

Hoping for better next year.

Speaking of which, my M900 ordered in May has still not reached Cult Pens for them to forward it to me. Looks like that'll be next year too.  😪

Glenn.

[N1003U]

On 10/9/2021 at 8:26 PM, chromantic said:

 

I'll share my experience. I have it in a green marble M200. Using on the copy paper at work, it's an amber color that shades nicely from a light yellow to a darker golden amber, not really brown, per se. I was baffled for the first few weeks as I could not discern any shimmer. I figured it was my poor eyesight. When I topped it off about half way through the fill, I made sure to shake the bottle vigorously to get the flakes swirling. Still no shimmer that I could see when I wrote.

 

I do sudokus at work so it's always nice to use inks that don't dry out quickly on the nib. I must say the Beryl is great in that regard (as much so as my Stipulas); it always writes straight away with no hard starts. The sudokus are two on a page and I don't often sit and do both but the other night I did one and was getting the usual shaded amber color and as I proceeded to do the 2nd one I suddenly saw a thick layer of gold on the numbers, so thick it looks like the gold paint in those fiber-tipped paint pens. And this is on copy, mind you. I've tried it again a couple times since with the same results, 1st puzzle plain, 2nd one thick shimmer. I'm almost thinking heat from my hand is playing a part in it.

 

I'm noticing on my little BnR pad at home that I'm now getting a pretty decent amount of shimmer (though not the thick layer I see on the sudokus), whereas looking at earlier scribbling there isn't any to speak of. Maybe I didn't shake the bottle enough the first fill? Or it needed to settle in for a bit, like sheening inks sometimes need to do.

 

It's quite pretty, and while legible enough, it's not dark enough that I'd want to read pages of it.

Thanks for the impressions. Sounds like an interesting ink after all.