Organics Studio Ernest's Vintage Writing Fluid Oscar's Copper

[Yazeh]

This is my 3rd and last of the mystery inks, thanks a million @junglejim.

The name is a mouthful

According to Penchalet:

The Vintage series of inks are made using vintage, yet simple ink formulas that are PH neutral, and hassle or clog free inks. They are designed to be easy to clean even if the ink is left in a pen for an extended period of time.

As of now there are three colours in the vintage series, Blue Merle, Scarlett and Oscar’s Copper.

I didn't like the high sheening inks, of Organics Studio. I found them distracting. But with this ink, I'm tempted to be enticed by the brand again

However, the hassle free claim did not materialize It took a day of flushing, soaking and finally pen flush to clean Lamy Safari, where the ink had taken residence for at least a month.
Paradoxically the cartridge was easy to clean, a few flushes with a syringe and it was clean as a whistle. I put the blame on the colour. Pink/ Reds are notoriously difficult to clean, they are clingy and love to stick to every nook and cranny of the section.

So my recommendation is to use this ink in a pen that can be easily dismantled and not a piston filler

Lets start with the gorgeous chroma:
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Writing Samples:
As this was a blind test, my text in regrettably not from Oscar Wilde. The first three are from The Song of Songs translated by Ariel and Chana Bloch.
Note how the colour changes depending on the paper and nib size.

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A couple of photos:
The brown ink is Yama-guri, the blue, Pilot Blue-Black.

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Comparison (Mystery 53 is Oscar's Copper)

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Watertest:
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A little sketch:
It's inspired by Swan of Tuonela inspired from the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. I don't recall the black ink, but it could be Platinum Carbon Black.
This is also a subtle tribute to McTavish the cat. According to google, the tartan of the clan is red/black. Hence the unusual river.



This was inspired by @LizEF 's The Adventures of Quin and Makhabesh, magical texts, aka, message papers in this episode:
The text was written with glass nib, dipped in bleach:




· Pens used: Lamy Safari (Reverse Ef/EF/F/M/B), Kanwrite Ultraflex, Jinhao 450
· What I liked: Multiple personality ink. Very fast dry times even with broad nibs, lovely/ chameleon colour, lovely shading
· What I did not like: You might have Startup issues if the pen is left uncapped, and cleaning (It's a red ink after all, what do you expect )
· What some might not like: Same as above.
· Shading: Yes
· Ghosting: None, only if you insist on writing on cheap paper with wet wide nib.
· Bleed through: None
· Flow Rate: Wet
· Lubrication: Excellent
· Nib Dry-out: No
· Start-up: No
· Saturation: Nice brick red
· Shading Potential: With wide nibs
· Sheen: No
· Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: No
· Nib Creep / “Crud”: No.
· Staining (pen): No
· Clogging: No
· Cleaning: I had to finally resort to a pen flush twice. It took a day to clean. But the Jinhao was much easier and faster to clean.
· Water resistance: Debatable 😛
· Availability: 55 ml bottles.

Please don't hesitate to share your experience, writing samples or any other comments. The more the merrier

[Sailor Kenshin]

Beautiful, Yazeh! I like the polynose (what we called them as kids) in the photo. And the Kalevala swan and kitteh! And the way your sample looks from almost pink to deep red. Mine looked coppery, from a Fine nib.

I did not have that much trouble cleaning this out. (It was probably loaded in a NoNami FauxLamy.) Just soaking the section and converter in water and frequently changing the water for a few days did it.

[LizEF]

Thank you, Yazeh, for your review of this interesting ink. I like the color variation, shading, half-soaked kitty, swan-on-a-conveyor-belt , and message paper example. Meanwhile, I think you've invented the "chroma-devil"!

[Yazeh]

Beautiful, Yazeh! I like the polynose (what we called them as kids) in the photo. And the Kalevala swan and kitteh! And the way your sample looks from almost pink to deep red. Mine looked coppery, from a Fine nib.

I did not have that much trouble cleaning this out. (It was probably loaded in a NoNami FauxLamy.) Just soaking the section and converter in water and frequently changing the water for a few days did it.

Polynose, so that's what's it called, here we called it helicopter, or more precisely "hélicoptère"
Glad you liked the Kalevala Swan. If you haven't seen them the painting of Akseli Gallen-Kallela are quite haunting
Yes, I'm sure the cleanings pen related. My Jinhhao 450 was also easily cleaned That's Lamy for you

Thank you, Yazeh, for your review of this interesting ink. I like the color variation, shading, half-soaked kitty, swan-on-a-conveyor-belt , and message paper example. Meanwhile, I think you've invented the "chroma-devil"!

Most welcome! I like how you re-interpret my "art".
I hadn't noticed that c-devil. You've got a devil detector somewhere

[LizEF]

I hadn't noticed that c-devil. You've got a devil detector somewhere

Perhaps my little fur-demon has me seeing them everywhere... (Kitten-time + fireworks to all hours of the night do not make for a well-rested or well-functioning individual.)

[Yazeh]

I hadn't noticed that c-devil. You've got a devil detector somewhere

Perhaps my little fur-demon has me seeing them everywhere... (Kitten-time + fireworks to all hours of the night do not make for a well-rested or well-functioning individual.)

Our furry not so demon, sees spirits at odd times of the dusk and sometimes dawn (unfortunately) always in the stairwell, fireworks or not. You should do a review with the background fireworks maybe

[LizEF]

You should do a review with the background fireworks maybe

I'll ponder, but I think it will be too hot - the lights used in filming generate a lot of heat, and it will still be quite hot at ~10pm when the fireworks start - and they'll be too sporadic at midnight when it's cooler - legally, they're supposed to stop at 11pm, but they don't... (I usually record my reviews before 11am.)

[Yazeh]

You should do a review with the background fireworks maybe

I'll ponder, but I think it will be too hot - the lights used in filming generate a lot of heat, and it will still be quite hot at ~10pm when the fireworks start - and they'll be too sporadic at midnight when it's cooler - legally, they're supposed to stop at 11pm, but they don't... (I usually record my reviews before 11am.)

Don't even ponder that! I was joking!