PR Blue Suede

[penguinmaster]

This is a handwritten review by MicheleB, scanned in by myself

 

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[QM2]

This is a very well-behaved ink, but it was too bright for me -- so I mixed it with PR Gray Flannel to create a more subdued dusty-teal colour.

Edited January 5, 2009 by QM2

[Peter from Sherwood Park]

Thank you for the review. To my eye, another good "teal" candidate.

[penguinmaster]

PR blue suede is one of those inks I regret selling. Actually I regret selling off my PR collection of inks as a whole.

 

-penguin

[framebaer]

probably my favorite turquoise color. Right there with syo-ro and with caran d'ache turkois blue!!

[tisfortorrey]

See, I just cannot get this ink to work for me; it's too wet, the shading is usually so dark as to look near-black in every pen I've tried it with, slow drying time... I need to find the right pen and I'm having a lot of trouble doing so. :bonk:

[Ellen]

It's one of my favourites (although it feathers and bleeds a lot in my Moleskine even with a fine nib).

I have it loaded in my pink Sailor sapporo and to my surprise it suits the pen great!

[AndrewW]

I also found PR Blue Suede to be a bit garish. (It's one of those inks that lies currently unused, and not loaded in any pen.) For a turquoise green, I prefer the Diamine Blue Steel, which is much less intense but very nice, especially when freshly filled from the bottle.

[Deirdre]

This is a very well-behaved ink, but it was too bright for me -- so I mixed it with PR Gray Flannel to create a more subdued dusty-teal colour.

Heh, for me it sometimes doesn't seem bright enough. I like obnoxiously bright colors (it's that ultraviolet).

[Hennypenny]

This is an ink that seems to require just the right pen. I've had a bottle for over a year, and never liked it much in the pens I tried it in. I recently used it with a Conway Stewart EF nib and ... I LOVE it! The color is stunning! BTW, I'm going to try mixing it with Gray Flannel, another ink that never appealed until I used it in a vintage flex nib pen. HP

[Joly]

See, I just cannot get this ink to work for me; it's too wet, the shading is usually so dark as to look near-black in every pen I've tried it with, slow drying time... I need to find the right pen and I'm having a lot of trouble doing so. <img src="https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wallbash.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":bonk:" border="0" alt="wallbash.gif" />

 

Try a Lamy with a 1.1 nib and prepare to be amazed!

[Aunt Jill]

I fell in love with Blue Suede when I first started with fountain pens a couple of years ago, but now it's too close to Delamere Green, and I'm using Naples Blue for my turquoise. Adding a little gray to Blue Suede might give me the gray-green I'm looking for.

[clmurphy]

probably my favorite turquoise color. Right there with syo-ro and with caran d'ache turkois blue!!

See to me, this is not turquoise at all.....I agree with the teal label much more.

 

Either way, it is ironic that it is "Blue" suede, but it shows much more green.

 

This was the first bottle of ink that I ever bought, first bottle I ever finished too. Great color. I always liked the way it wrote, and the color was always bright and interesting. May have to get some more

[SnowLeopard]

"Green Suede"...is quite a nice color with very subtle shading on Claire using a1.5 Safari. It's got a vibe similar to one of my Iro inks.Turquoise? with a lot of green. Not in any way similar to Caran d'Ache's Caribbean Sea. CS is just like the color of the sea.PR's ink is like an over chlorinated swimming pool's H2O.

Edited July 4, 2011 by SnowLeopard