Diamine Sepia

[Carrie]

I've looked back through the topics and couldn't see a review of Diamine Sepia, so I thought I'd show you all a sample because I think it's quickly becoming my favourite ink colour of the moment. I've always liked brown inks, but ones like Conway Stewart brown that I've used in the past have been much darker than this Diamine. I can see me getting through this bottle in record time.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/carrieh/sepia.jpg

[Leslie J.]

I like the idea of Sepia coloured ink. I bet it would look nice on off-white papers. I would probably like to try this one.

[Carrie]

I tend to use cream coloured paper quite a lot when I'm writing letters and I can confirm that this ink does look lovely on a cream paper.

[southpaw]

THANKS. How does it flow and how quick does it dry? TIA

[Carrie]

This is my first time using Diamine ink, but I've found that it flows just fine and dries quick enough for it not to be a problem for a leftie like me.

[wimg]

Hi Carrie,

 

Thank you for posting that exemplar. For some reason I always like to see how people here write. Makes it more personal somehow.

 

Regarding the ink: it looks like your exemplar shows some shading in the writing, so I would love to see some writing with a fairly broad italic nib, if you have any, or a dip nib.

 

Certainly looks like a candidate for an extensive review .

 

Warm regards, Wim

[Ann Finley]

What a pretty color! I'd have named it Honey-Sepia. It's similar to my Herbin Amber, but with a slightly more caramel tone.

 

Thanks for the review.

Ann

[Carrie]

Wim, it does show shading and whilst I can't show you what it looks like in a broad nibbed pen, I have popped it into a couple of other pens and dipped the little Televisor that I posted about in the fountain pen forum. The result is that the ink colour looks similar in all pens. Maybe it looks slightly warmer in colour when used in the Parker 61, but it's certainly not a major difference.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/carrieh/scan003.jpg

[Carrie]

My Parker 61 finally died the death during this ink test It's been glued together for years and really started flooding ink out into the inside of the pen a few weeks ago. Today the glued section finally found its way apart again. I definitely need a "new" Parker 61 because it's a pen that I love and the one I have has definitely been a well used one, poor little thing is worn into grooves where someone has held it when writing.

[wimg]

Hi Carrie,

 

Sorry to hear about your Parker 61. Hope you will be able to get it fixed, or find a replacement, soon.

 

Regarding your latest exemplar: great, I love it. It looks like a sepia version of Noddler's Cayenne, so I guess I'll have to give it a try sometime. I've added it to my list of future inks .

 

Warm regards, Wim

[Maja]

Thanks for the review, Carrie! The colour sure lives up to its name, doesn' it? (I am thinking of old sepia photographs...)

 

Just out of curiosity, what type of Hero Doctor's pen did you use in the first example?

I know there are ones with 14K nibs available, but mine is a celluloid one with a gold-plated nib that I got about 2 years ago....

[Carrie]

Hero Doctors pen is one I got off EBay, presuming gold plated nib (if it's even that). Certainly nothing special at $14 for three pens, but still very nice writers.

 

Wim, I seriously don't think my 61 is worth repairing. The bit that screws into the barrel has completely broken away from the rest of the nib section (it was in this state when I got the pen). It's a shame because it's got a very nice nib and I want to get a similar replacement. I'm assuming it's a medium, it puts down a slightly thicker line than my 51. If I were to post pictures of the pen and further details of the size of my writing in that sample, would anyone on here be able to say better than I can what size the nib actually is?

[Gerry]

Carrie, somewhere I have a chart that can be used to measure (estimate) the line width of nibs. If you're interested, I could try and track it down and send it to you.

 

The other usual ways employ magnifiers (helps if they are calibrated).

 

Gerry

[Slush99]

Sepia is a really pretty color. Thanks for the sample. And I like your handwriting.