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The scary part is... I find those swatches quite different from each other.. as in REALLY different.

 

I guess that happens when you have 100+ bottles and you need to justify getting more..... "Is not the same, is a TOTALLY different reddish-burgundy-thingy...."... ;)

Looking at the written part (as opposed to the swabs), Oxblood and Rustic Brown look almost identical on my screen; Syrah is obviously different -- it's redder/pinker than the other two.

I have some inks which are similar (but different enough that I'm happy to have both) such as Yama-budo and BSiAR. And last fall I got a bunch of samples of burgundies and purplish-blacks last fall in what turned out to be a fruitless attempt to match the color and sheen of some gel pen ink on a thank you card I got from someone. But I found a lot of inks I really liked (Scabiosa, Noodler's Purple Heart) and some I'm waffling over (Diamine Merlot, De Atramentis Patchouli).

I also have a bunch of samples of black ink, for an ongoing project. Last year's subjects didn't perform all that well in their designated pens (Platinum Preppies set up as rollerball pens, but I just realized that I have to do something about the pens soon -- I only have about 3 weeks before picking the ones to be this year's contenders.... :headsmack:

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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well, now, if you purchase Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses, you'll be getting another deep purple ink (in case you already have that color group). Brian Goulet has posted a notice about the color change, and the old version is sold out.

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My favorite is J. Herbin Rouge Opera. But I bought a bottle of Sailor Grenade because it's been discontinued and if I wait I will never know what the sheen is people talk about.

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No, I don't. But I probably certainly would if I had more money and more space, or if I went through ink faster.

"To read without also writing is to sleep." - St. Jerome

 

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You got rid of the AG? I'd dump BM first, I never could enjoy the ink.

 

Didn't get rid of it, I love it; it's on holidays until myosotis runs out (not much left now).

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

 

B. Russell

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Hi,

 

I actually do get a few colours that are quite similar that I use all the time. I'm not sure if people notice that they're different, but I do.

 

Montblanc Royal Blue and Pelikan Royal Blue

OMAS Green and Pelikan Brilliant Green

 

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I have a bottle of Kon-Peki and Edelstein Topaz.

Every now and then when I have both inks in different pens and go to refill them I have no clue which ink is in which pen!

Me too... I even got the two of them in the same order...

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I have a bottle of Kon-Peki and Edelstein Topaz.

Every now and then when I have both inks in different pens and go to refill them I have no clue which ink is in which pen!

Thanks, that's great to know because I adore Topaz and also love Iroshizuku inks. I'm so excited by this!

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If two colors are similar, or almost identical, as much as money concerns, I'll buy 'em and study the differences.

 

"Life is too short to use only some inks." (Semiquot.)

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Iacopo

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All of my blues look the same!

Waterman, Noodler's, Parker, and so on.

-William S. Park

“My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.” - Graham Greene

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