Bordeaux Red - De Atramentis

[visvamitra]

De Atramentis is german manufacturer of calligraphy and writing ink. The inks are hand made (the entire production process is done manually in their manufacturing center) by i's founder - Dr. Franz-Josef Jensen. I believe he uses high quality dyes from well established European companies like BASF and Bayer.

De Atramentis offers a variety of "traditional" fountain pen inks and a broad selection of special and scented inks. I believe they should get more attention as the quality od these fluids is very good and some colors are simply stunning.

Bordeaux red is rather decent ink with good properties however it's not stunning. And as I'm biased and try a lot of inks I look for these that will make me say WOW.This makes me say: "nice" and nice is too little once you've tried 300 - 400 inks.

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Rhodia - Pilor Custom Heritage 92, M nib

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[SunFly]

Are you using a firm nib? I have a bottle of Bordeaux Red too but it doesn't come out as dark red like yours. More like the diluted red colour of "1s, 5s, 10s, 15s" smudge.

[visvamitra]

Well - it's regular Pilot Custom Heritage M nib.

 

PS: it's cool to look at our flags one above the other

Edited December 7, 2014 by visvamitra

[SunFly]

Well - it's regular Pilot Custom Heritage M nib.

 

PS: it's cool to look at our flags one above the other

 

 

Mine is M nib too. Well, perhaps my pen writes drier than yours.

 

Right! I didn't notice our flags are upside-down.

[amberleadavis]

Sunfly, the Bordeaux wasn't as bright as the Merlot, in my experience.

 

Vis, thanks for another wonderful review!

[SunFly]

Sunfly, the Bordeaux wasn't as bright as the Merlot, in my experience.

 

Vis, thanks for another wonderful review!

 

 

@Amberleadavis: I don't have Merlot so I'm not sure how it looks like compared to Bordeaux Red, but I just got my flex pen and it does write darker (like the photos in the review) than my Parker M nib. So... perhaps my M nib is drier?

[amberleadavis]

Highly likely!