Organics Studio Edgar Allan Poe, Handwritten Review (Dark Red)

[requiescat]

http://yoonhalee.com/images-inks/os-poe.png

 

NOTE: I have since discovered that this ink tends to make my red Parker Vac a hard starter if allowed to sit more than a day--the issue seems to be that the Vac has a nib creepy nib and the ink dries up into red-brown cruft and makes it hard to write. Cleaning the nib takes care of the problem (until next time).

 

This is a writing sample with the same ink I did for my Nakaya Naka-ai with a cursive italic, so you can see how the ink looks in an italic nib. I had no starting/flow problems in the Nakaya, which does not really display nib creep.

 

http://yoonhalee.com/images-inks/nakaya-os-poe.png

 

Anyway, this is now one of my favorite reds. Yay!

[Alexandra]

Oooh, that looks nice.

[Beagle]

RED??? Really? It looks purple to me. Your avatar looks red but the writing sample looks purple...unless I need a new monitor; or eyes, or both...

[requiescat]

RED??? Really? It looks purple to me. Your avatar looks red but the writing sample looks purple...unless I need a new monitor; or eyes, or both...

It's quite possible--it looks dark red to me, but I don't have great eyesight *and* I don't have a great scanner either.

 

Edit: I should add, my avatar has always looked rather unpleasingly orange-ish red to me!

Edited August 21, 2013 by requiescat

[mikehodgman]

I think it is more the scanner. For me, Poe shows up more red. Beautiful ink.

[amberleadavis]

Very nice. I always like your doodles.

[georges zaslavsky]

pretty neat color looks close to pr reserve burgundy myst

[F104]

It's a very nice red, with good shading, but in my experience prone to clogging the feed. Ink in the detached converters was still fluid and, as befits an ink dedicated to Poe, rich bloody red; but it crusted on the nibs and must have coagulated to near solid in the feed. Within two days in the first pen and five in the second.

[penemuel]

It's a very nice red, with good shading, but in my experience prone to clogging the feed. Ink in the detached converters was still fluid and, as befits an ink dedicated to Poe, rich bloody red; but it crusted on the nibs and must have coagulated to near solid in the feed. Within two days in the first pen and five in the second.

This is the first mention I've seen from anyone having the same problem I've been having. Everyone else seems to have no trouble at all with this ink, and I WANT to love it but it's just terrible as far as clogging/drying out goes. It seems to only work in a freshly cleaned and inked pen - by the next day it's refusing to write again. I'm not sure if I got a bad bottle, or what...

[F104]

This is the first mention I've seen from anyone having the same problem I've been having. Everyone else seems to have no trouble at all with this ink, and I WANT to love it but it's just terrible as far as clogging/drying out goes. It seems to only work in a freshly cleaned and inked pen - by the next day it's refusing to write again. I'm not sure if I got a bad bottle, or what...

 

If you got a bad bottle, I must have, too. I haven't tried again since plugging up my Preppy and Safari test pens, but...who knows? Maybe it will work with one of my other pens. I'm reluctant to risk it after those experiences.

 

But...it might have its uses with my glass dip pen. Let's see it clog that.

[sthsenior]

I've used it for over a week now in a 580 with no problems at all. It reminded me at first of Diamine's Ancient Copper, which I love, but not very red. Closer also to Oxblood than a red/red. It does flow nicely in the Medium TWSBI nib and I've not had a problem with drying etc.

[F104]

Maybe the screw-on cap makes the difference. A tighter seal than the snap-caps on Preppies and Safaris might keep it from drying in the feed, which was my problem. The ink was fine and fluid in the converter, and if the feed had been free, I can't see why my pens wouldn't have kept writing. I'll have to think about this: I've got a couple of 580s clean and dry waiting to come back into play, and a medium nib around here somewhere. It may be time for another test.