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Been using it for a day now and really like it, especially from a wet pen like my Noodler's Ahab where it is just a gorgeous deep red colour. From the dry Safari it is much more orange.

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Thanks for the review: much appreciated.

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Thanks for the review. I was looking forward to this ink for quite some time since I like dark reds, my current one is Diamine red dragon. Do you know how it compare to it?

The long drying time may be a bit of a worry for me (left-handed overwriter...), but it could be way shorter with a fine nib.

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On 3/13/2014 at 10:48 AM, GG917 said:

Thanks for the review. I was looking forward to this ink for quite some time since I like dark reds, my current one is Diamine red dragon. Do you know how it compare to it?

The long drying time may be a bit of a worry for me (left-handed overwriter...), but it could be way shorter with a fine nib.

Okay, you asked for it (awe.... just kidding....) here's a couple of other Diamines. Oxblood and Syrah are even less qualified reds and Pumpkin is too orange but I thought we might look into a few extremes....

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Been using it for a day now and really like it, especially from a wet pen like my Noodler's Ahab where it is just a gorgeous deep red colour. From the dry Safari it is much more orange.

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Thanks for the review: much appreciated.

Thanks for the thanks (everybody else, too!) but what you say about the different pens used here is maybe that which fascinates me most about some inks. One ink + different pens = different ink colours!!

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i can see its resemblance to j.herbin's 1670 hematite, which i have, and a touch brighter. but garnet is a very nice red. thanks for sharing.

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Many thanks for the great review.

 

My bottle arrived today and i really like it in general. It's really awful on cheap paper though (as you mentioned already).

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WOW Lapis - AWESOME Review! Will you mail me that letter so I can torture it in the next test?

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WOW Lapis - AWESOME Review! Will you mail me that letter so I can torture it in the next test?

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WOW Lapis - AWESOME Review! Will you mail me that letter so I can torture it in the next test?

 

Sure will... Gimmee a minute or two.

 

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Those prices are in €.

I don't see much shading. Too bad....

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I don't see much shading. Too bad....

 

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Very beautiful ink and dito bottle, superb red and...

a superb review

 

looking forward fo more of that Cybaea :-)

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Those prices are in €.

I don't see much shading. Too bad....

 

Bo Bo,

I haven't seen much shading with Edelstein inks, except the Topaz.

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I just got my Garnet from Writing Desk! came to £14.82 after shipping to Newfoundland! Great prices

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Any idea when this ink gets released in the US?

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Been using it for a day now and really like it, especially from a wet pen like my Noodler's Ahab where it is just a gorgeous deep red colour. From the dry Safari it is much more orange.

fpn_1394699808__2014-03-13-garnet.jpg

 

Thanks for the review: much appreciated.

How does it compare to the Cult Pens' Diamine Deep Dark Red?

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Drat!!! I have the other 4 (Blue, Green, Brown and Purple but not the Red)... so hang on... some of us do... for sure....

 

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Tanzanite I believe shades...Just opened the bottle...

It didn't want to open! The cap kept returning closed...the glue holding the white cap bottom, kept spinning the cap back....an Omen as it proved later.

 

Lapis in his review had said he believed it would shade with a more flexible nib...My dipped Osmia OBB semi-flex...it didn't ...or not much...

Tried a dip with a '90's Pelikan Celebry; good springy semi-vintage regular flex F....more of got to look for shading....instead of being there. Sigh cubed... :angry:

Sigh to the 9th, a BB that don't shade. :crybaby:

 

:happyberet: It shades well on my finger tips. :gaah:

 

On Oxford Optic 90 g, a good paper; one of the papers I go to to see if an ink is any good.

 

I like Topaz.

Jade didn't do anything for me.

Aventurine does shade, but had feathering problems.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

Ransom Bucket cost me many of my pictures taken by a poor camera that was finally tossed. Luckily, the Chicken Scratch pictures also vanished.

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dneal Vintage

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I'm really on the fence between this and the new GvFC Garnet Red. I love the other colors, but the Edelsteins I've bought have been a disappointment...

 

 

Wow. Edelstein inks are really quite strange in their naming conventions- Topaz is a bluer blue than Sapphire, Garnet is a redder red than Ruby...... Nomenclature notwithstanding, they're fantastic colours, my two favourites from the line.

 

More info than's necessary, but after spending several years selling jewelry I can't help myself...:

 

Exacerbating the problem is that there is variation in the natural stone's color. Topaz comes in a range from light ceylon blue to a darker London blue, so depending on people's experience "topaz" could be several shades of blue. I did expect Sapphire to be darker (although sapphire comes in every color, depending on what the "contaminate" is coloring the corundum), and the most common gem example is dark blue. The ink however is more ceylon blue topaz colored... I agree they got this one backwards.

 

The reds they got right though. Natural ruby tends to be lighter, leaning more toward pink (but there's variance and the darker "pigeon's blood" tend to be more valuable). Garnet is usually much darker, ranging to almost black.

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