New ink: Diamine 150th Anniversary Dark Forest

[Chrissy]

Diamine 150th Anniversary ink: Dark Forest

One of the 8 New 150th Anniversary colours available in special 40ml bottles
All 16 Anniversary Inks will be made available in standard short European cartridges packs of 20

• Flow Rate: Wet
• Lubrication: Really good on several different papers.
• Nib Dry-out: Not noticed.
• Start-up: Immediate.
• Saturation: Very saturated
• Shading Potential: Very good
• Sheen: Fabulous red sheen seen on some smooth papers :wub:
• Show-Through:
  
  • Tomoe River 52gsm.
  • Cheaper generic 80gsm printer papers & lined pads.
  • Field Notes
  • CiAK InTempo
• Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Seen on Field Notes.
• Nib Creep / “Crud”: Not seen, even after over 2 weeks in the pen
• Staining (pen): Not seen - easy clean-up
• Staining (hands): Not seen - easy clean-up
• Clogging: Not seen. Seems unlikely.
• Water resistance: Water resistant, but not sold as waterproof.
• Availability: Will be available from Diamine Inks web-site and other outlets.

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[KKay]

This is probably the one that interests me the most.

[Chrissy]

This is probably the one that interests me the most.

It's a very good one

[antoniop]

It is very nice, but I prefer Diamine Safari. Thanks.

[Chrissy]

I just popped into this review thread to say that these inks have now been issued and are readily available from Diamine and other retailers.

[Carpio]

Hello,

I don't see what others see. I don't see the blue in the ink, nor the red sheen, but at present, I'm a heathen, I'm sure with time I will learn. Also, I don't understand what saturation means, nor the difference between spread and feathering. That, I will also learn on my adventure.
What I see is Jaguar (the car not the cat) and Aston Martins DBR4 and DBR 5 1959 and 1960 season respectively.
I purchased, last week, 'Tropical Green', from Diamine's 150th Anniversary batch, and I can honestly say, I'm as happy as a dog with two 'of them', and that's just the jar. I don't know what I'll do when I put it into my Kaweco dia 2. (I'm praying I don't wee a little bit).

Carpio