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    Some final thoughts and tests...

    The color sort of distracted me from the fact that this ink flows well in every pen I've tested from dry to wet: Wing Sung 3003 (Pilot 78g clone), Parker Black-Tipped Jade, Pilot Stargazer, Parker Lucky Curve, and Wahl Ringtop.

    Under extremes I have seen it feather but it actually seems rather feather resistant based on torture testing on my crappy notepad.



    Dry times are reasonable as long as you don't lay down a ton of ink but that's true of even fast drying inks.

    It is actually a little bit resistant to drips. There's a faint yellow line left even after a drop sits for awhile (this was a real life accident, not a staged test). Not that I would ever use this as a work ink but still. The below was written with my Stargazer.



    It looks a little cooler on Tomoe River :



    I notice I am sort of biased in my review here, sort of holding back and damning with fainter praise than the ink deserves.

    It's the color. I can't get past it. More the yellow than the green. I'd like it more if it were mostly dark olive with hints of yellow instead of the opposite. While genuinely glad some of you like it, it is just not my cup of tea. Like, at all. Like. Ick

    No regrets though. I got it to try a totally different color than I'd normally get. What I pictured and what appeared on the page weren't the same, to say the least. But I think I could go for more of a pure, dark olive green ink.

    I got extra ink just in case and now have a 95% full bottle of the stuff. I will split it up among any of you who wants it.

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    Default Re: Mystery Ink #26

    I have a guess based on the various colors in these pictures but the ink I'm thinking off behaves very differently from what was described in these reviews.

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    I liked the ink a lot, I wouldn't use it every day but to me it's nice to use. I liked the golden type yellow that I got from it. I'm going to try it later with a stub dip pen just to see how that goes, but it's definitely a unique ink that works well on cheap paper that I always use.

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    Sooooo tempted....due to the fluorescent greeny-ness lurking in the hinterlands.
    My other pen is a Montblanc.

    And my other blog is a tumblr!


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    I don't really know how to write with a stub nib so forgive the bad penmanship but it was much darker but also putting down a whole lot of ink at once. The second picture is the dip pen nib when I dipped it in water it turns really neon, I couldn't get the darker color floating around in the picture but it was very psychedelic.

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    Writing with two pens on Oxford Optik: a medium JoWo nib in old stock French body that John Twiss (and co) rescued, and a Jinhao 992. The Jinhao writes lighter and so gets more yellow, unless you write heavy-handedly in which case it gets a lot darker.

    IMG_20190605_132510_edit.jpg

    I had three inks on hand to compare this to - it wasn't any of them. Pilot Iroshizuku Ina-ho has more blue in it, KWZ Old Gold has more red (and you could probably tell by the vanilla-ish smell!), and Krishna Inks Ghat Green was closest, but it doesn't have as dark a green-brown in it and not so bright a yellow - diluted you get a lemon yellow, not a neon green. (These are written with a glass dip pen, on paper that is a bit more absorbent - I found dips look closer to the normal colour on that because all the ink doesn't sit on the surface).

    IMG_20190605_132916_edit.jpg

    I'll get a photo of my eyedroppering when it is light again - it changed quite a lot! Oh, and I have a bit on Tomoe River as well.

    I have three guesses of inks (well, three and a half) from different manufacturers it could potentially be, but I don't have samples of any of those so am just going by photos online. It's probably something entirely different
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    Wrote using my Aurora which writes wetter than my Al-Star so I can see more green coming through with this pen. But still a neat color to me with the shading going almost olive in some places.

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    I have two, maybe three more guesses.
    My other pen is a Montblanc.

    And my other blog is a tumblr!


    And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD

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    Here's my ink and a little bit of writing on 68gsm Tomoe River (slightly cream paper). Definitely nice shading there.

    IMG_20190606_143518_edit.jpg

    Here's the dried picture from above! See how bright the yellow edges are on those very diluted parts up at the top.

    IMG_20190606_143140_edit.jpg

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    The Sargasso Sea!

    Have ruled out one guess...almost ruled out another. One is an ink I have, so that was EZ. The second, I've only heard of.

    This is such fun.
    My other pen is a Montblanc.

    And my other blog is a tumblr!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor Kenshin View Post
    The Sargasso Sea!

    Have ruled out one guess...almost ruled out another. One is an ink I have, so that was EZ. The second, I've only heard of.

    This is such fun.
    Let us know what you ruled out?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Voiren View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor Kenshin View Post
    The Sargasso Sea!

    Have ruled out one guess...almost ruled out another. One is an ink I have, so that was EZ. The second, I've only heard of.

    This is such fun.
    Let us know what you ruled out?

    Certainly: J Herbin Vert Pre, much, much lighter in the swab and pale green, not amber-ish. I didn't do a chroma, since the swabs were so different.

    The 'other' ink is 'spensive...I can't even find a review online.
    My other pen is a Montblanc.

    And my other blog is a tumblr!


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    Aha, that was one of the things on my list, though half of the reviews of it did look greener.

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    My Suspect #1 is an ink I own, and enjoy, and the chromas were somewhat close.

    Not spillin' until The Reveal.
    My other pen is a Montblanc.

    And my other blog is a tumblr!


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    Default Re: Mystery Ink #26

    Diamine Wagner was on my list to think about, but I'm pretty sure from someone else's chroma pic that it also has blue in it, so isn't the one.

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    The only inks I've seen that might come close are made by Colorverse and there are more than one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chrissy View Post
    The only inks I've seen that might come close are made by Colorverse and there are more than one.
    Ooo...I MIGHT know which ones you mean.

    And I just also ruled out Suspect #1, via side-by-side chromas and cotton swab tests.

    This ink is like nothing I've seen before.
    Last edited by Sailor Kenshin; June 8th, 2019 at 04:17 PM.
    My other pen is a Montblanc.

    And my other blog is a tumblr!


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    Ah! Sorry this is so late. Got super busy. Here's some writing samples!

    https://imgur.com/a/oXvaGVJ

    What a fun ink! Thanks for this opportunity!

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    ... I can't figure out how I linked an image last time.
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