Franklin Christoph Urushi Red

[gregamckinney]

For someone who has as much ink as I do, I can't believe I've never done an "official" ink review before. It took an ink as beautiful as Franklin Christoph's Urushi Red to get me off my duff, I guess.

 

A couple notes:

* This is fairly terse, but I think it covers the basics.

* The degree to which this shades in the fine nibbed Waterman doesn't come through in the scan. I was very surprised how much shading I got with a "plain ol'" fine, round nib.

* My scanner turned the color a little more purple than it is in reality, but there are a few inks in the comparison section so you can re-calibrate with your brain.

* I added a '20 sec' Dry Time line because I wanted to know how long was long enough when 15 sec turned out not to be.

* If I were to give a "subjective number grade" (counter-intuitive, I know) to this ink, it would be 9 out of 10. The color is fantastic. Dry time and not quite ideal flow are slight knocks against an otherwise fantastic performer.

 

Thanks, greg

 

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[visvamitra]

Thanks dor the review. I tjhink I'll want to try this one.

[Cyber6]

I need to get me a sample of this one.... to complete my Franklin Christoph ink reviews..

 

 

Thanks for the review...

 

 

 

C.

[inkstainedruth]

While I don't normally like this shade of red, FC Urushi Red looks really attractive -- the shading seems very nice.

Thanks for the review. And not....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[gregamckinney]

One thing I didn't go into in the review is the degree to which Urushi Red looks like urushi.

* I only have one urushi pen (Pilot Custom 845) and the color is pretty close

* I figured others who are more the urushiphiles might have more considered opinions

* There are so many different urushi finishes that calling any one color "urushi" seems kind of silly anyway.

 

Best Regards, greg