Diamine Oxblood - Compact Review

[Jan2016]

[Tas]

Love the chromatography strip and the top right line looks like a wound.

 

Thank you.

[Uncial]

Does anyone know if this stains? Thinking of putting it in a demonstrator eye dropper.

[namrehsnoom]

I like this one... with the pen/nib you use, it's almost a red-black. Nice!

[Jan2016]

@Tas: yes this is the ink which for me comes most close to the color of blood...

 

I can prove it, but then everyone will think i am a freak (or creep..)

[aardvarkbark]

@Tas: yes this is the ink which for me comes most close to the color of blood...

 

I can prove it, but then everyone will think i am a freak (or creep..)

 

This is probably closest to dried blood. But for that healthy oxygenated spewing-from-a-fresh-arterial-laceration, few beat Red Dragon.

[mulrich]

I currently have this inked in a Conid with a F titanium nib and it looks more brown than red and definitely like dried blood. I still really like the ink.

[Jan2016]

But for that healthy oxygenated spewing-from-a-fresh-arterial-laceration, few beat Red Dragon.

With that I fortunately do not have personal experience....

and I try to keep it that way.

[Honeybadgers]

It's a lovely ink. I only have a 30ml bottle but when I run out will but an 80. It's a very gothic red, it doesn't like like real dried (or fresh) blood, as a medic I know that look (noodlers antietam is the best analogue to dried blood)

 

What I like is that it is the color of comic book blood. It's artsy blood colored.

 

I have it inked in my wing sung 698 with a pilot stub nib, it's such a great ink in a demonstrator.

 

I dabbed up some ink that had seeped during the elevation change on my road trip and threw the tissue in the toilet. It absolutely looked like blood there! (Gross as that is.)

[Honeybadgers]

Does anyone know if this stains? Thinking of putting it in a demonstrator eye dropper.

Been in my wing sung 698 demonstrator for two weeks now, zero discoloration.

 

Noodlers acrylic is prone to staining kind of arbitrarily, however.

[Jan2016]

@Honeybadgers: that is great to hear, reds can be difficult in demonstrators, and I guess Oxblood must look pretty good...

[jbutle04]

Recently this ink gave me my first experience with that phenomenon where something resembling a crystalline organism grew out of the tip of my pen's nib. I would love it if anyone could give me a basic explanation of what's going on in this situation. I still love the color and I'll probably keep using it, but it's certainly a weird occurrence.

 

I've also heard this is known to happen with Diamine's Ancient Copper, but I've never tried that particular ink.

[Jan2016]

it is called:

 

Creep

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk

 

 

I do not know exactly, so this is just my humble 2 cents, I think it is a kind of crystallization of ink components. Ink gets at the nib, fluid evaporates. Ink gets over saturated and starts forming crystal.

But then again, that is just what i think.

[Bookman]

I usually reserve red ink for specific instances—note-to-self alerts, red-letter dates on the calendar, Christmas cards, etc. Diamine Oxblood, however, is a good everyday almost-all-purpose ink.

[encremental]

In the UK, Oxblood usually refers to a particular shade of leather - often seen on shoes or boots. It wouldn't be associated with anything especially gruesome.

 

 

I spent most of my youth wearing oxblood Dr Martens like this!

 

John

[Tas]

In the UK, Oxblood usually refers to a particular shade of leather - often seen on shoes or boots. It wouldn't be associated with anything especially gruesome.

 

 

 

I spent most of my youth wearing oxblood Dr Martens like this!

 

John