Ink Review: Scribe Garnet

**Chrissy** · January 9th, 2021, 05:48 AM

With many grateful thanks to junglejim

I was able to do some testing on some of the Scribe inks before they went on general sale.

Sadly I don't have any Parker Penman Ruby to compare with Scribe Garnet with but it's a fairly dark purplish red ink that can exhibit some green sheen with the right pen and paper.

I really enjoyed writing with Garnet ink in my Parker Sonnet (18ct M nib.) It's actually not a particularly saturated ink and had no start-up problems, no skipping, no ink starvation issues. Flow and lubrication were both very good.
After a few days it became more saturated and concentrated inside the pen and that's when I could see the sheen.
It didn't show through much on my Tomoe River paper and I could have written on the reverse if I wanted to. Dry time is fairly long but that's true for many inks on TR paper.

I didn't have a problem cleaning it out of my pen nor cleaning it off of my fingers. A really nice ink.

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**Yazeh** · January 9th, 2021, 09:22 AM

Nice colour Chrissy

Thanks

**Pterodactylus** · February 28th, 2021, 05:01 AM

Junglejim also kindly sent me some samples.

Thanks Jim

I really like Scribe Garnet, the color is great and it shades really good, it also behaves without any flaw.
A really good writing ink, for sure a recommendation worth.

It has also some water resistance (but not too much, just the right amount of it) which makes it a really good drawing ink as well.

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(Pelikan M215 Raute - B italic oblique ..... Scribe Garnet, Cretacolor White Chalk Nr.1)

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(Pelikan M215 Raute - B italic oblique ..... Scribe Garnet)