Diamine Inkvent (Red edition) Calendar 2021

[inkstainedruth]

19 hours ago, The Mustard said:

I think Robert Oster’s Blue Night might be a good alternative to Tolstoy for you @inkstainedruth?

Dunno.  I have a sample of Blue Night but haven't tried it yet.  I had thought that Diamine Pelham Blue Sunburst was close, when I first tried it, but now I'm not so sure -- just checked my tests of that ink and it looks a lot bluer than I had remembered it being (either that or Tolstoy is  LOT greener than I remembered, or has changed somehow...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Uncial]

Mountaon of Ink claims Robert Oster Carolina Blue is very close and have comparison pics on their website.

 

The closest match out there is, surprisingly, a very cheap ink by the name of Quink Blue-black. Haven't seen anything else as close.

[essayfaire]

On 12/22/2021 at 5:07 AM, JulieParadise said:

Comparison between Festive Cheer (2019) vs Festive Joy (2021):

 

 

I'd still say that F.Cheer (on the left) is definitely a blue ink, whereas F.Joy is definitely what I would call purple/violet. Both look quite different.

Thanks for the comparison!  Your F. Cheer looks much bluer than my bottle, but even allowing for slight individual variations  F. Joy is clearly "purpler."  Thanks for all the Inkvent explorations.  They've been wonderful.

[Intensity]

2 hours ago, Uncial said:

Mountaon of Ink claims Robert Oster Carolina Blue is very close and have comparison pics on their website.

 

The closest match out there is, surprisingly, a very cheap ink by the name of Quink Blue-black. Haven't seen anything else as close.

The older one or the new formula from a few years back?  The old formula was = Waterman Mysterious Blue that was more gray green.  The new formula = new Waterman Mysterious Blue, which is more blue and barely any green and is a really nice ink.

[JulieParadise]

Sorry for being missing in action for the last day, but my family kidnapped me from my desk and drove me to a vacation where I cannot access the world wide web with my laptop, only from my phone, henco no collage. (If someone had asked me, I'd have ended the calendar before that "I wear all my favourite clothes at once, plus my tingly jewellery and my biggest hat, and then put my make-up on"-mess that the last ink, no. 25 All the Best is for me.) 🤣

[Uncial]

23 hours ago, Intensity said:

The older one or the new formula from a few years back?  The old formula was = Waterman Mysterious Blue that was more gray green.  The new formula = new Waterman Mysterious Blue, which is more blue and barely any green and is a really nice ink.

New formula

[amberleadavis]

21 hours ago, JulieParadise said:

Sorry for being missing in action for the last day, but my family kidnapped me from my desk and drove me to a vacation where I cannot access the world wide web with my laptop, only from my phone, henco no collage. (If someone had asked me, I'd have ended the calendar before that "I wear all my favourite clothes at once, plus my tingly jewellery and my biggest hat, and then put my make-up on"-mess that the last ink, no. 25 All the Best is for me.) 🤣

 

Glad you were returned safe. 

[Audrey T]

I am only now opening the 2021 Diamine Inkvent. Although I do love greys, somehow I didn't expect to get excited about Ash (probably because Monteverde's Black Ash is just black). I really like this ink and hope they sell it in individual bottles. While wet, it goes on a Loden-grey, then dries to either a neutral or a brown grey, depending on the paper (I've just used Clairefontaine & Col-o-ring, thus far).

[Audrey T]

Diamine's Raspberry Red (Day 8, Inkvent 2021) lies somewhere Sailor's Mayo Kuzu and, perhaps, Diamine's own Oxblood. The ink is pleasantly wet. At least in a medium nib, I don't see any shading, but swabs show a range of shades from a pink rose-red to a pinkish wine.

 

[Uncial]

Im loving All The Best. An unusual burgundy.

[dftr]

I had to disassemble nib/feed to get the residual of glitter out from Garland.  There was maybe a slight increase in skips but nothing dramatic and the pen is now working smoothly.

 

  For the remaining glitter inks in this set, I was wondering if I could just use the ink and forget the glitter?  If I don't shake the bottle, glitter piles at the bottom.  Can we draw up the good ink w/ syringe and transfer to an empty 10cc bottle or is the damn glitter still mixed in.  Maybe my wife/kids can use the left over 2cc of ink/sludge for a decoration or something...

 

 

[PithyProlix]

1 hour ago, dftr said:

I had to disassemble nib/feed to get the residual of glitter out from Garland.  There was maybe a slight increase in skips but nothing dramatic and the pen is now working smoothly.

 

  For the remaining glitter inks in this set, I was wondering if I could just use the ink and forget the glitter?  If I don't shake the bottle, glitter piles at the bottom.  Can we draw up the good ink w/ syringe and transfer to an empty 10cc bottle or is the damn glitter still mixed in.  Maybe my wife/kids can use the left over 2cc of ink/sludge for a decoration or something...

 

 

 

 

I suspect there are other threads addressing this - this is the first one that popped up. 

 

I just syringe off the top after the bottle has sat long enough for the shimmer particles to settle. If I want shimmer, I just use my cheapo Jinhao 992 pens - easy to take apart, clean up, and switch in wide stub/italic nibs, which work best for showing shimmer. 

[dftr]

5 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

 

 

I suspect there are other threads addressing this - this is the first one that popped up. 

 

I just syringe off the top after the bottle has sat long enough for the shimmer particles to settle. If I want shimmer, I just use my cheapo Jinhao 992 pens - easy to take apart, clean up, and switch in wide stub/italic nibs, which work best for showing shimmer. 

Thanks for linking the thread.  That'll be perfect for me!

[Uncial]

I did it with the coffee filter paper in the end. It worked out fine and did filter out the glitter but you lose a fair bit of ink that is soaked up in the paper. I cut the filter small and put it in a small plastic funnel. It was a bit of faff, but worked.

Most glitter inks don't clog in my experience, but some pens can react badly to them. It's not hard to dislodge it though - I've never had a permanent or difficult clog, just a dry flow.

[dftr]

10 minutes ago, Uncial said:

I did it with the coffee filter paper in the end. It worked out fine and did filter out the glitter but you lose a fair bit of ink that is soaked up in the paper. I cut the filter small and put it in a small plastic funnel. It was a bit of faff, but worked.

Most glitter inks don't clog in my experience, but some pens can react badly to them. It's not hard to dislodge it though - I've never had a permanent or difficult clog, just a dry flow.

 

That was my experience...  I can't be sure how much is due to glitter; I'd have to compare filtered vs. unfiltered to be sure it wasn't just the ink.  but Garland was my first go at using a Glitter ink.  I liked it a lot but this was in my aurora broad italic and Reform 2.3mm italic that it started to slow up the flow.  I now realize that I don't really have any pens I don't care about enough to endanger with Shimmer ink.  

 

I read some people wet the filter to reduce how much ink is absorbed.  I plan to lose 2cc w/ the syringe so it's probably the same efficiency.  Take care and happy new years!

[A Smug Dill]

9 hours ago, dftr said:

I plan to lose 2cc w/ the syringe so it's probably the same efficiency.

 

2ml out of a 12ml bottle is proportionately a lot.

 

If that is your expectation, I'd suggest you'd be better served by allowing the shimmer particles to settle at the bottom of the container — either by leaving it completely undisturbed overnight in normal circumstances, or using a centrifuge — and carefully (and gently) draw the top 10ml out with a syringe, and only then put the remainder through a small filter paper-lined funnel.

[Dione]

17 hours ago, dftr said:

I read some people wet the filter to reduce how much ink is absorbed.

Always do this. No reason not to.

[JulieParadise]

So-ho-ho-ho, throwback Saturday it is, remembering how Christmas is over already ... (The last days were very busy for me, sorry). 
 

All the Best was the last ink in Diamine's Inkvent Calendar, and, unfortunately, not the very best for me. As I had mentioned before: This ink is a bit too much of everything, although on paper its ingredients might sound promising. Deep Red ink colour, shimmer, saturation, reminding me of a velvety feel ... 
 

Uhm ... not quite. While writing the ink does look very beautiful to my eyes, but it dries more than a tad too dark and heavy, and in the places where the glitter and sheen takes over, it just does not look nice to me. Sorry; I tried.
 

I had this ink in a Pilot Parallel Pen 1.5 mm for about five weeks and did not experience any clogging or hard starts. But when someone in a German forum mentioned her calendar being faulty and missing the last ink, I was more than happy to offer sending my bottle of All the Best over. I love deep reds, but less the kinds of Diamine Communication Breakdown with heavy sheen, more those like Diamine 150th Anniv. Carnival or Sheaffer Skrip Red.

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Another Ink that did not excite me too much, but got a second chance, was #10 Peach Punch. Here you see it from a recently acquired (and altered, I ground the nib from a round M to a medium stub) Montblanc 232g: 

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Here is an overview of all the inks on the stick-on calendar Midori has; the paper feels like the regular MD paper but has adhesive on the back, about the strength of washi tape and hence easily removable (at least from the journal I involuntarily put it into first).

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And these are almost all pens used for this inkvent (one was sold in the meantime):

 

[TSherbs]

This photo album is stunning. Thanks, Julie.

[dftr]

Thanks for the work Julie   See you again w/ the 2022 inkvent !