EFNIR: Robert Oster Green Lime

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Robert Oster Green Lime

This is review #101 in my series.  Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes:  The "VueScan" image has the best color, followed by the scan and the zoom.  The full-page photo isn't bright enough.  Cleaning was quick and easy.

And here is a screen of the final result, for those not interested in the video:

Scan of Completed Review:

Zoomed in photo:

Absorbent Paper Closeup (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper):

Extra Image, VueScan scanner software:

Images also available on Instagram: @zilxodarap

Previous Review: Robert Oster Thunderstorm.

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Hope you enjoy.  Comments appreciated!

[yazeh]

Refreshing colour much in the same league as Diamine Kelly Green and Apple Glory.... 

Great job, Liz! 

I see Mac is come to the rescue

 

 

[LizEF]

48 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Refreshing colour much in the same league as Diamine Kelly Green and Apple Glory.... 

Exactly!

 

48 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Great job, Liz! 

Thank you!

 

48 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I see Mac is come to the rescue

Yes, just haven't quite figured out how.  I'm a day late on recording my latest review, and if I go through with it, I just make everything worse, with no idea how to get them out of it!

[namrehsnoom]

Great colour! A happy green indeed. I’m a big fan of these light & bright greens and yellow-greens. For some reason, they always bring a smile to my face. Looking forward to coming EFNIRs in the green series!

[LizEF]

29 minutes ago, namrehsnoom said:

Great colour! A happy green indeed. I’m a big fan of these light & bright greens and yellow-greens. For some reason, they always bring a smile to my face. Looking forward to coming EFNIRs in the green series!

Thanks!    Me too!  Feel free to up-vote any of the remaining greens.  There are only 10 left:

• Diamine 150th Anniversary Safari
• KWZ Green Gold
• Monteverde Gemstone Olivine
• Pelikan Edelstein Olivine
• Pennonia Zöldike (Greenfinch)
• Pilot Mixable Colour Green (cartridge)
• Pilot Mixable Colour Light-green (cartridge)
• Robert Oster Lemon Grass
• Sailor Kobe INK Story #67 Ogo Farm Green
• Thornton Green (extracted from disposable)

One of which is going into my pen shortly.

[namrehsnoom]

31 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Thanks!    Me too!  Feel free to up-vote any of the remaining greens.  There are only 10 left:

• Diamine 150th Anniversary Safari
• KWZ Green Gold
• Robert Oster Lemon Grass

I’d like to see your opinion on Safari. Never used that one with an EF. 

[yazeh]

21 minutes ago, namrehsnoom said:

I’d like to see your opinion on Safari. Never used that one with an EF. 

That would be nice, in Ef Lamy safari

[LizEF]

38 minutes ago, namrehsnoom said:

I’d like to see your opinion on Safari. Never used that one with an EF. 

Me too!   Go to the poll - up-vote! Up-vote!  I am subject to the whims of my voters (and my own indecision).

 

16 minutes ago, yazeh said:

That would be nice, in Ef Lamy safari

Alas, I don't have a Lamy Safari.  I do have an Al-Star, but I guess that wouldn't be quite the same...

[LizEF]

Just looked.  Poor Safari has no votes.

[yazeh]

1 minute ago, LizEF said:

Alas, I don't have a Lamy Safari.  I do have an Al-Star, but I guess that wouldn't be quite the same...

Here you go: 

[LizEF]

7 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Here you go: 

Stop that!  No tempting me.  Yes, the color is perfect (for me and for my murky green inks, including Safari), but I have absolutely no need for another pen!  Meanwhile, I've just figured out a future scene for Quin & Makhabesh's story! <making notes> Oh, and I've figured out a twist at the end of that scene, sec, notes.....    The back of my brain works in mysterious ways!

[mizgeorge]

Really excellent review as always Liz - thank you so much

 

I have very mixed feelings about these bright greens - I like the idea of them, but find many of them (this one included) just a shade too dark for me to really love them - I like my greens either a bit lighter or brighter (and perhaps a bit yellower) or much, much swampier. 

 

Which is why when I did a bit of a Robert Oster Green topup recently, I didn't include this one. Thank you so much for confirming that I was right!

 

btw, you don't need a Safari, there are much nicer murky green pens out there

[I-am-not-really-here]

My eyes my eyes!  Misnamed, should be called green slime. Obviously a typo.

 

thank you for the review!

[A Smug Dill]

Thanks for the ink review! I don't think I'll be getting this one for my collection. Bright and retina-searing is one thing; but bright green doesn't really convey happy, ready or go-go-go! to me.

 

On 5/19/2021 at 6:57 AM, yazeh said:

That would be nice, in Ef Lamy safari

On 5/19/2021 at 8:58 AM, mizgeorge said:

btw, you don't need a Safari, there are much nicer murky green pens out there

 

I just cleaned Diamine (150th Anniversary) Safari from my wife's EF-nibbed Aurora Optima Oliva, after she handed it to me on the weekend telling me it'd written dry and needs refilling. Specks of dark ink crud when I flushed out the piston-filler's ink reservoir with a syringe. Not another one of these (in two days), I thought to myself. Then I went and checked my inking log book, and that pen was last filled 18 months ago! Can't really blame the ink for crudding, then.

 

Edited May 20, 2021 by A Smug Dill
wrong pen model corrected

[LizEF]

35 minutes ago, mizgeorge said:

Really excellent review as always Liz - thank you so much

Thank you!  And you're welcome!

 

36 minutes ago, mizgeorge said:

I have very mixed feelings about these bright greens - I like the idea of them, but find many of them (this one included) just a shade too dark for me to really love them - I like my greens either a bit lighter or brighter (and perhaps a bit yellower) or much, much swampier. 

Well, if cash is burning a hole in your pocket, you could try Caran d'Ache Delicate Green - it's a little lighter and just as lovely.

 

37 minutes ago, mizgeorge said:

Which is why when I did a bit of a Robert Oster Green topup recently, I didn't include this one. Thank you so much for confirming that I was right!

Hmm.  I hope you plan to share some of these greens of yours!   Glad to make you feel good about your decisions.  

 

38 minutes ago, mizgeorge said:

btw, you don't need a Safari, there are much nicer murky green pens out there

Thank you for discouraging irresponsible spending (encouraging responsible non-spending?).  My curiosity and I will try to get over your "murky green pens" comment...

 

[LizEF]

20 minutes ago, I-am-not-really-here said:

My eyes my eyes!  Misnamed, should be called green slime. Obviously a typo.

 

thank you for the review!

You're very welcome!  Try gazing at some Diamine Salamander for a while, or maybe some nice Kyo No Oto Aonibi, that might heal your retinas.

[LizEF]

19 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

Thanks for the ink review! I don't think I'll be getting this one for my collection. Bright and retina-searing is one thing; but bright green doesn't really convey happy, ready or go-go-go! to me.

You're very welcome!  And we'll forgive your strange color-reactions.

 

20 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

I just cleaned Diamine (150th Anniversary) Safari from my wife's EF-nibbed Aurora 88 Oliva, after she handed it to me on the weekend telling me it'd written dry and needs refilling. Specks of dark ink crud when I flushed out the piston-filler's ink reservoir with a syringe. Not another one of these (in two days), I thought to myself. Then I went and checked my inking log book, and that pen was last filled 18 months ago! Can't really blame the ink for crudding, then.

How fortunate your wife is!  I would not likely be so patient...

[A Smug Dill]

17 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Try gazing at some Diamine Salamander for a while,

 

The equivalent of sniffing a jar of coffee beans to clear one's olfactory?

 

15 minutes ago, LizEF said:

I would not likely be so patient...

 

I didn't really think buying her 50 or so pens implies a guarantee of lifetime after-gift service for everything. Now I remember why I always declined to just turn my clobbered-together, proof-of-concept prototype software ‘production ready’ in my last job, but always insisted that management send the requirements and specifications I finalised from the study over to the bureaucracy of the IT department and do the proper (and stretched out) implementation thing…

[inkstainedruth]

This one is not for me (especially after the comparison with Diamine Kelly Green, one of the first greens I ever tried).  Just too eye searing for me, I suspect. 

But thanks for the review.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[LizEF]

2 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

I didn't really think buying her 50 or so pens implies a guarantee of lifetime after-gift service for everything.

..for broader or finer, for fuller or emptier, in glitter and in sheen, to refill and to clean, till death us do part...

 

2 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

Now I remember why I always declined to just turn my clobbered-together, proof-of-concept prototype software ‘production ready’ in my last job, but always insisted that management send the requirements and specifications I finalised from the study over to the bureaucracy of the IT department and do the proper (and stretched out) implementation thing…

Good choice.  Slightly different relationship.