Graphite - Diamine

[Sholom]

Graphite and my Parker 51 have fallen in love and are inseparable.

[Detman101]

Just received my bottle of "Diamine - Graphite"...and its a fail.
Unfortunately, I received a "Green" bottle...meaning, the ink is more green than Grey.

With my CIS Opus-88 Demo and the aperture wide open...the ink is wet, pools, but doesn't coagulate and spreads...leaving no shading. 
I can manipulate this by closing the aperture and writing slower in areas where I want it darker, but that method is unnatural...forced, requiring extra effort.

It resembles my bottle of "Vert Atlantide" (as I feared) when I don't shake it to agitate the shimmer particles.

I, honestly, wish I knew about this ink first as it's monumentally cheaper than the bottle of "Vert Atlantide" was...and it existed long before.
I could have saved $20....ah well, double-loss it is I guess.

Maybe it will darken up after sitting for a year, the way my bottle of "Cacao Du Bresil" did...

For now, I've got a pen full of Army-Green for the next few weeks....

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