Deep Sea - Robert Oster Signature Ink

[visvamitra]

Robert Oster is new player in fountain pen ink market. He operates through ebay shop. The inks are sold in 50 ml PET bottles with a tightly secure twist cap. I don't know who makes the inks for the shop, but the colors look interesting and fresh. At the moment Robert Oster inks are available in colors

1. Aqua
   
2. Australian Sky Blue
   
3. Barossa Grape
   
4. Black
   
5. Blue Black
   
6. Blue Denim
   
7. Blue Night
   
8. Blue Sea
   
9. Bondi Blue
   
10. Burgundy
    
11. Chocolate
    
12. Claret
    
13. Copper Brown
    
14. Deep Sea
    
15. Emerald Green
    
16. Ever Green
    
17. Fire Engine Red
    
18. Forest Green
    
19. Graphite
    
20. Green Green
    
21. Green Lime
    
22. Green Olive
    
23. Jade
    
24. Khakhi
    
25. Light Green
    
26. Marine
    
27. Moss
    
28. Orange
    
29. Peach
    
30. Pinky
    
31. Red Orange
    
32. Royal Red
    
33. Ruby Red
    
34. School Blue
    
35. Spearmint
    
36. Torquay
    
37. Tranquility
    
38. Turquoise
    
39. Yellow Sunset
    

I received sixteen samples (marked in cursive) from well known ink enabler - Cyber6. Thank you Claudia You rock!

On Robert Oster's shop website Deep Sea is described as follows: "Deep Sea is just that. A fabulously exact likeness of ocean deep waters. Flows on darkest Blue Green, dries on distinctly deep deep sea Turquose. If there ever was an edgy colour to display on your desk, this is one to be proud to own.".

As some of you already know I dislike such hues and Deep Sea is no different - as most of them it causes some unpleasant sensation in my brain. On the other hand the ink is wet and well behaved so if you enjoy "teals" this one may really please you.

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Software ID

Tomoe River, Kaweco Classic Sport - eyedropper, B

Leuchtturm 1917, Kaweco Classic Sport - eyedropper, B

Oxford

Comparison

[Cyber6]

Vis, on a wet pen.. you will see a lot more blue.

 

 

C.

[migo984]

Thanks for the review. I think this is one of the very best, if not the best, Oster inks; it is rich, deep and with phenomenal shading, and some sheen. Not a sign of the dryness of a number of some of his other inks. It's a gorgeous lush colour.

Mine is a lot deeper in colour than your pics, and more blue, although definitely still a green-teal ink. I get a wonderful line of colour from my extra fine and fine nibs. It also cleans out easily.

[mehandiratta]

Nice..

Thank you for the review...

Love the shading..

I prefer murky greens though

[amberleadavis]

Robert Oster has some terrific teal inks. Like Vis, I'm not a huge fan of teal inks. Even the blue-black is darn teal:

 

http://www.sheismylawyer.com/2016-Ink/06-June/slides/2016-06-16_01.jpg

However, the performance is spectacular and Deep See and Aqua both sheen.

 

http://www.sheismylawyer.com/2016-Ink/06-June/slides/2016-06-16_06.jpg

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for the review.

This is a color I can pass on. Reviews like this are better for my wallet than the reviews showing inks I want....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Uncial]

Like Cyber I get a lot more blue with this ink which makes it appear an awful lot less teal than what is shown here. That may be due to my propensity for using very wet nibs.

[Cryptos]

I prefer not to be too Po-faced about colours, and so ...

 

 

Oster Ink Deep Sea, Jowo 1.5 mm stub, Rhodia Drive Paper!