Inky T O D - Color Swatches - Violet - Purple - Please Post Your Pictures And Tell Us Your Thoughts

[Anne-Sophie]

Thank you so very much for the link ENewton!

 

The reformulation seems to have occurred 4 years ago, so I am late to the program.

 

I am very happy to see that the new color is a rich burgundy, less dusky and purple-y than the old formula, I believe this is why Larmes De Cassis was created, a soft purple.

 

Big thanks to the forum members who made the reviews and, as always, thank you to Amberlea for keeping this forum growing.

Edited July 2, 2018 by Anne-Sophie

[amberleadavis]

 

Big thanks to the forum members who made the reviews and, as always, thank you to Amberlea for keeping this forum growing.

 

 

Thank you.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

What a wonderful day to grab a pen and let the ink flow.

Pen: Faber-Castell M.

Ink: Kaweco Summer Purple.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Rohrer & Klingner Cassia.

Great color with a good flow, very saturated, a bit sheeny, not much shading.

[bob_hayden]

http://statland.org/PenPix/burgundy1.jpg

[bob_hayden]

This site got better for a while but now seems slow again. All along I have been experiencing erratic behavior. Yesterday and today I am having trouble posting images. I managed to post the one above just to see if I could before typing in text that would only get lost if the system choked on the image. Today I got the image up, but when I tried to edit it to add the text, the system thoughtfully deleted it instead. So here is the text as a separate message.

 

There is no thread for burgundy so I suppose it goes here?

 

Recently I got three old burgundy Wing Sung 840 pens and created a test sheet for them, using three different burgundy inks. One pen had serious problems, and much of the page above tracks my struggles with that (not relevant here). Later I received a bottle of 5280 brand ink and thought I would test that on the same sheet where I already had three other burgundies. There were two blank lines at the middle of the page where I put that. I found it too brown and wondered how it might compare to other burgundies so I added three more to the left and right of 5280. In the end there were seven burgundy inks all tested recently, all on the same paper, and all copied with the same scanner and software. (Alas, not all with the same, or even similar, pens.) I thought that might be of interest, even though the page itself is rather a mess, and has none of the artistic quality of most of the posts in this thread.

 

The top and bottom thirds of the page are in the ink that proved to be my favorite of the lot. This mix originated when I noticed that a very old bottle of Rotring Red ink had faded and changed color. Staring at the sorry mess that resulted, I tried to imagine what I could add to it that might shift it in a useful direction. I decided Diamine Oxblood was the way to go, and indeed that worked. Alas, I do not know how you or I could duplicate this, unless we could find another bottle of Rotring Red that had deteriorated in just the same way.

 

The other inks, top to bottom and left to right, begin with Binder Burgundy looking a bit shy here is an XF nib. Mont Blanc looks paler and browner, and Monteverde even paler. The 5280 is darker and browner in a c.1962 Sheaffer with a broad gold nib. Black Swan in Australian Roses is very similar to the ink based on Rotring Red is a close second in my book. Old Wino is home brew made from Thornton inks when those were being cleared out at about $2.50 per bottle. I have tried a number of Thornton mixes aimed at burgundy, and all seem too brown. The 5280 Vineyard Burgundy is browner still, but more saturated than other brownish inks.

 

I hope this is useful and that you will enjoy your burgundy in moderation;-)

[amberleadavis]

Bob we could start a burgundy thread, but I think you should add the one above to the red thread.

[bob_hayden]

After all the trouble I had uploading that ONCE I don't want to try again but I will add a link over there.

[amberleadavis]

I added the photo over there. You just need to use the little tree icon and copy and paste the url of the image. If you would like, I will find the instructions again.

[bob_hayden]

OK. I don't think the problem was not knowing how. Here's what happened. I scanned the page using the same computer and software I have been using all along. Then I clipped out the bit pertaining to the 5280 ink and posted that to the 5280 thread. Moments later I tried to post the full page here in just the same way but got an error message telling me the system did not accept files in that format. Both images were JPEGs, and as you saw, the system did accept it after a struggle on my part, and again when you reposted it. I guessed the issue was related to the slowness of the site recently. I have noticed a variety of erratic behaviors during this period, in addition to the slowness. For example, recently the little window that pops up for you to enter the image URL has been popping up off-screen and I have to scroll around looking for it.

[amberleadavis]

Hmm.... I don't know. Is it still working doing it?

[amberleadavis]

Ink of the Witch, this thread doesn't have an image for Bungbox Ink of the Witch.

[amberleadavis]

Here is Ink of the Witch from Vismamitra's review. https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/283288-the-ink-of-witch-bung-box/

 

http://imageshack.com/a/img540/6564/osLcuR.jpg

[bob_hayden]

I hope Amberlea saw the Hallowe'en image on the main Google search page. It is still up as I post this but will likely soon disappear. I did a screen capture but am not sure if it's OK to post it here.

[amberleadavis]

SURE

[bob_hayden]

http://statland.org/PenPix/Amberlea.jpeg

[amberleadavis]

Thank you, I think it is darling!

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

bob_hayden, I also thought about amberleadavis when I saw that doodle, so adorable!

[amberleadavis]

AWW

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Rohrer & Klingner Scabiosa and Cult Pens Deep Dark Purple. Love them both, but Scabiosa needs a very wet writer. I keep it in my Pelikan MK10 which leaks a bit. ^^