Today I'm reviewing Cult Pens Pumpkin Shimmer ink, one of their latest Diamine exclusive inks. This ink comes as a 50ml glass bottle with four small feet like those used for the Diamine Red & Blue Edition inks.
Pumpkin Shimmer is a bright orange coloured ink with gold shimmer. A great ink for writing Halloween cards.
I found it a well behaved ink that flowed well and felt reasonably wet. Lubrication felt quite smooth across the paper I used.
It didn’t suffer from any hard starts or non-starts when I put the uncapped pen down to do swab tests, dry times and water resistance. I found no start-up problems after leaving the pen overnight. It dried fairly quickly on most papers and once dry it didn’t smudge or smear.
I saw hardly any show through and no bleed through on the papers I used.
- Flow Rate: Good.
- Lubrication: Smooth
- Nib Dry-out: Not noticed.
- Start-up: Immediate.
- Saturation: Unsaturated ink.
- Shading Potential: Some shading seen.
- Sheen: Gold shimmer seen.
- Show-Through: None seen.
- Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Not seen.
- Nib Creep / “Crud”: Not seen.
- Staining (pen): Not seen after several days in the pen. Very easy clean-up.
- Staining (hands): Clean after one wash.
- Clogging: Not seen. Seems unlikely.
- Water resistance: No water resistance.
- Availability: 50ml glass bottles exclusively available from Cult Pens, UK.
My thanks to Cult Pens for sending me this sample to review.
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