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    Default Ink Review: Diamine Lion Rock (Hong Kong Exclusive)

    Diamine Lion Rock is a Hong Kong exclusive ink. It’s a warm, dark brown ink that leans slightly red and it has a very attractive metallic green sheen. I recommend you should use a free flowing pen and coated paper to see it’s sheen at it’s best.

    Lion Rock flowed nicely through my pens, wasn’t particularly wet, and felt reasonably lubricated with a touch of feedback when writing across the page. I saw some nice shading and some sheen on the Tomoe River and Mnemosyne papers.

    I didn’t notice any skips or hard starts when I put the uncapped pen down to do swab tests, dry times and water resistance. I didn’t see any feathering on the papers I wrote on.

    When using Lion Rock on coated papers dry time is extended to over 20 seconds.

    Available only from Muze Pens in Hong Kong in 80ml glass bottles.
    My sample was kindly provided by Diamine Inks for review purposes.
    I would love to get my hands on an 80ml bottle of this one. It’s on my Christmas present list.

    • Start-up: Immediate.
    • Nib Dry-out: Not noticed.
    • Nib Creep / “Crud”: Not seen.
    • Staining (pen): Not seen after several days - easy clean-up.
    • Staining (hands): My hands were clean after one wash
    • Clogging: Not seen.
    • Water resistance: Not sold as waterproof and water resistance is low.


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    Last edited by Chrissy; September 22nd, 2020 at 09:28 AM.
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    Default Re: Ink Review: Diamine Lion Rock (Hong Kong Exclusive)

    A lovely review, thank you!
    Sorry for hijacking, but since I see a Doyou swab... how do you like Doyou's performance?

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    Default Re: Ink Review: Diamine Lion Rock (Hong Kong Exclusive)

    Quote Originally Posted by aurore View Post
    A lovely review, thank you!
    Sorry for hijacking, but since I see a Doyou swab... how do you like Doyou's performance?
    You're welcome.
    Doyou is pretty wet, can exhibit a nice sheen, and I like the way it cleans stains from some pens. However I really don't like the colour. It's one of those almost black inks. If you leave it in some pens it becomes a black ink.
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    Default Re: Ink Review: Diamine Lion Rock (Hong Kong Exclusive)

    Quote Originally Posted by Chrissy View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by aurore View Post
    A lovely review, thank you!
    Sorry for hijacking, but since I see a Doyou swab... how do you like Doyou's performance?
    You're welcome.
    Doyou is pretty wet, can exhibit a nice sheen, and I like the way it cleans stains from some pens. However I really don't like the colour. It's one of those almost black inks. If you leave it in some pens it becomes a black ink.
    Totally agree with Chrissy's assessment....It's one of those masquerading inks.... It pretends it's dark brown, it's not. It looks black, but you know it ain't', it's wishy washy.... especially with fine nibs.....
    It's one of those inks that makes me shudder every time I fill a pen with' and I ask myself why? ...... one day maybe I'll find the right pen for it....but for now I have to restrain myself not to tempestuously throw it down the toilet drain.....
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    On a less dramatic note, it's well behaved ink. I even used it with dip pen, no feathering, nothing....

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    Default Re: Ink Review: Diamine Lion Rock (Hong Kong Exclusive)

    Thank you, gentlemen! I quite agree. Though I enjoy it in Waterman Man 100 Fine, it allows writing with a 0 pressure and looks fairly dark brown The lubrication it provides is rather impressive.

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    Default Re: Ink Review: Diamine Lion Rock (Hong Kong Exclusive)

    Great review, accurate...best brown ink I've ever tried. The green sheen only shows with the flex-gusher nib on my Penbbs-487 but it's still beautiful in my regular flowing pens.

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