Kwz Ink Iron-Gall Green #2

[lgsoltek]

IG Green #2 is a nice ink with wet flow and lubrication. The water resistance is very good. Dry time could be a bit slow with a wet pen. The colour is a bit too blue for my taste, but should be a perfect choice for those who love this hue.

 

Splash

Sample

Comparison

Personally I prefer the yellower IG Green #3.

[crahptacular]

This one looks nice, but I think I'd prefer #3 as well. Is that a silver sheen in the splash? And if so, does it show up anywhere else?

[NicolausPiscator]

Thank you, Lgsoltek! Nice ink snail house, a good idea to present and compare inks. ... I have to confess: I love the ink splashes! There is purple in it! ... although not my green, but the splash is great! I have to think of a way to write with splashes...

[lgsoltek]

This one looks nice, but I think I'd prefer #3 as well. Is that a silver sheen in the splash? And if so, does it show up anywhere else?

 

 

Thank you, Lgsoltek! Nice ink snail house, a good idea to present and compare inks. ... I have to confess: I love the ink splashes! There is purple in it! ... although not my green, but the splash is great! I have to think of a way to write with splashes...

 

 

Hmm that I don't consider as sheen. KWZ inks are not sheenful inks. Some of them, at a large amount, will show something like the splash, a kind of paint-like reflection.

[NicolausPiscator]

a kind of paint-like reflection.

 

 

Oh! I never have seen something like this before, so I should test KWZI. It sounds interesting. ... I should check your CRV.

[Flaxmoore]

Am I seeing this right that it could basically pass for black when it dries and sets?

[tim77]

Am I seeing this right that it could basically pass for black when it dries and sets?

 

A single line of writing might, but the colour is more obvious on a full page. The same goes for many of KWZ's darker IG inks.

[A Smug Dill]

A single line of writing might, but the colour is more obvious on a full page.

 

 

@Flaxmoore would be well advised to also keep in mind that marks made with iron-gall inks on the page do have a general tendency to lighten in colour over time. I have no idea what his 'work appropriate' criteria are exactly, in terms of hue but also remaining so for the useful lifetime of the handwritten content.

 

I recently found a sheet on which I wrote with various iron-gall inks last December, lost among piles of paper on my 'desk'. (It isn't any of those sheets shown in the photos, but a companion sheet on Rhodia Dotpad paper.) The colour of every ink on it is now noticeably lighter; and KWZ Ink IG Green #3 is, well, green.

[Intensity]

All of my IG inks have either gotten darker or at least changed hue a bit; Ive tried around 15 now, from KWZ, Stipula, R&K, Platinum, Montblanc. Thats without light exposure. Some inks have poor fading resistance when exposed to daylight regularly.

Edited October 9, 2020 by Intensity

[inkstainedruth]

This is too blue leaning a green for me. But I rather like IG Green #3.

Thanks for the review (somehow I missed this thread before now).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth