EFNIR: Diamine Earl Grey

[inkstainedruth]

14 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

I have a bottle of Lexington Grey (another one that others seem to like a lot but I've never warmed up to) and I might try a comparison later today, if only to convince myself that Earl Grey really is neutral. 

 I tried a sample of Lexington Grey, and other than the fact that it's pretty water resistant/waterproof it didn't wow me at all.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

5 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

 

Yeah, but a #2 dip pen nib is a firm italic/roundhand... 😉  I'll try with a Tachikawa G nib and maybe a fountain pen with a semi-flex nib tomorrow.

Keep us posted

[PithyProlix]

12 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

 I tried a sample of Lexington Grey, and other than the fact that it's pretty water resistant/waterproof it didn't wow me at all.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Lexington Grey is definitely not one that 'wows'. And my bottle feathers about as worse as any other ink I have. Earl Grey behaves much better in comparison. I wanted to use LG to compare to EG because I thought LG was a neutral grey. (But now that I have discovered the drab olive undertone, albeit in a very limited condition, I think LG might have good murky potential if the undertone can somehow be brought out more.)

[Sailor Kenshin]

Thanks for the review!  I was on a gray kick a while back, but instead of this one, I got Silver Fox and 'just' Gray from Diamine.  I also mixed a darker gray that I call Greystoke.  😆

[LizEF]

8 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Thanks for the review!

  You're very welcome!

 

8 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

I was on a gray kick a while back, but instead of this one, I got Silver Fox and 'just' Gray from Diamine.  I also mixed a darker gray that I call Greystoke.  😆

My voters have had me on a grey kick for quite a while not...  Thankfully, today I inked a different color!  Greystoke sounds fun!  Does it swing through jungles?

[Sailor Kenshin]

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

  You're very welcome!

 

My voters have had me on a grey kick for quite a while not...  Thankfully, today I inked a different color!  Greystoke sounds fun!  Does it swing through jungles?

 

 AND bellows while doing so.

[LizEF]

33 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

 

 AND bellows while doing so.

[LizEF]

33 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

 

 AND bellows while doing so.

Please tell me you have a complementary ink named Jane, too!?

[LizEF]

Here's the line width measurement. The line is one of those used for dry time.  Magnification is 100x.  The grid is 100x100µm.  The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each.  The line width for this ink is roughly 310µm.