Diamine Inkvent (Red edition) Calendar 2021

[I-am-not-really-here]

6 minutes ago, Matthew TWP said:

@JulieParadise Beautiful photos! You managed to get a lot more sheen than I did. I'm going to attempt to do a daily video of the calendar... starting here:

 

 

Very well done!  Looking forward to your daily reviews.

[Matthew TWP]

1 minute ago, I-am-not-really-here said:

Very well done!  Looking forward to your daily reviews.

Thanks! I hope that I manage to make them all 🙂

[JulieParadise]

2 minutes ago, Matthew TWP said:

Thanks! I hope that I manage to make them all 🙂

 

Yeah, that would be amazing! (No pressure, though! 🤗 )

[RevGina]

4 hours ago, Dione said:

I thought Seize the Night was meant to be a black ink. Must be the sheen that makes it look different.

 

I thought the same thing at first, but I think it was just the pen I was using. (and hello Matthew TWP! Didn't realise you were here, too! Thanks for responding to my comment on YouTube!)

[A Smug Dill]

6 hours ago, JulieParadise said:

Hopefully this discussion thread is also the right place to show the Inkvent inks?

 

Absolutely fabulous work there, @JulieParadise!  Your artistry in showcasing ink is unparalleled. Thank you for sharing.

 

I got a lovely warm brown colour writing with Seize the Night on the paper in my favourite Muji notebooks, but no sheen whatsoever, or any visible hint of purple.

 

Alas, this ink smells to me somewhat like my bottle of Diamine Sargasso Sea, albeit a little less strong, and that smell just makes me feel sick. I once had Diamine Sargasso Sea in a converter-filled (Moonman 800) pen for several months, and the smell managed to permeate the pen's body material, and just could not be eradicated even after a week's effort; the pen ended up inadvertently destroyed in the process, which was regrettable but I just could not use that pen while that smell continued to emanate from it. So I'm only putting this ink into a unit of the cheapest variant of the Jinhao 51A I have here. (I suppose I could use a better pen, not fill the reservoir to maximum capacity, and flush it out after a few hours instead of waiting to finish using up the fill of ink over several months.)

[Lachryma]

Now I'm jealous and regret not getting one.

 

😭

[AmandaW]

12 minutes ago, Lachryma said:

Now I'm jealous and regret not getting one.

 

You're not alone!

[Lachryma]

Just now, AmandaW said:

 

You're not alone!

Aww, yeah.  Well, meet me back here October-ish 2022 and we'll remind each other! 

[Uncial]

I jumped ahead a bit and dived into two and opened a third. The Seize the Night ink is very interesting. Reminded meca little of Ink of the Witch.  Its a very deep purple that gets deeper as it dries. 

 

Garland is rather nice. I didn't expect to like it but I'm very taken with it. Don't normally like greens that lean strongly to blue and are quite saturated.

 

Ash is awaiting a nib on my sideboard. It looks very curious. It's meant to be grey but holding it up to the light theres a murky green in there. Could be interesting.

 

So far, and I know I'm only into two and a third yet to be used, but I think it might be a lot better than I was expecting from earlier preview pics.

[RevGina]

2 hours ago, Lachryma said:

Now I'm jealous and regret not getting one.

 

😭

Cult pens and Appelboom Pens are still selling them!

[A Smug Dill]

44 minutes ago, RevGina said:

Cult pens and Appelboom Pens are still selling them!

 

As is Pen City in Australia, with free shipping besides, for somewhere more ‘local’ to @AmandaW.

[AmandaW]

9 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

As is Pen City in Australia

 

LOL. With the shipping speed to Western Australia at the moment it would be all over before it got here. I will just have to be content to watch on and enjoy your posts as you open them (And try to avoid the spoilers!)

[essayfaire]

1 hour ago, AmandaW said:

 

LOL. With the shipping speed to Western Australia at the moment it would be all over before it got here. I will just have to be content to watch on and enjoy your posts as you open them (And try to avoid the spoilers!)

You could stash it in the closet for next year and try to forget the spoilers in the meantime!  'Twas an exciting opening tonight!  

[DrDebG]

6 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Absolutely fabulous work there, @JulieParadise!  Your artistry in showcasing ink is unparalleled. Thank you for sharing.

 

I got a lovely warm brown colour writing with Seize the Night on the paper in my favourite Muji notebooks, but no sheen whatsoever, or any visible hint of purple.

 

Alas, this ink smells to me somewhat like my bottle of Diamine Sargasso Sea, albeit a little less strong, and that smell just makes me feel sick. I once had Diamine Sargasso Sea in a converter-filled (Moonman 800) pen for several months, and the smell managed to permeate the pen's body material, and just could not be eradicated even after a week's effort; the pen ended up inadvertently destroyed in the process, which was regrettable but I just could not use that pen while that smell continued to emanate from it. So I'm only putting this ink into a unit of the cheapest variant of the Jinhao 51A I have here. (I suppose I could use a better pen, not fill the reservoir to maximum capacity, and flush it out after a few hours instead of waiting to finish using up the fill of ink over several months.)

 

And I thought I was imagining it . . . the smell that is.  It reminded me of my Grandmother's closet.  Then it hit me . . . mothballs.  It smells like mothballs.  It did not make me sick, but it was noticeable.  

 

I have been writing with the Seize the Night all day on several kinds of paper - 52gsm Tomoe River, Rhodia Dot Pad, Fabriano Ecoqua, Exacompa Bloc, Cambridge Premium Notebook and HP copy paper.  Some are off-white papers and some are white.  On each paper, the ink was slightly different.  Some looked more brown because of the heavier gold sheening, and some more purple with less sheen.  Tomoe River and the Cambridge notebook paper seemed to separate out the sheen a bit, so that the ink had shades of wine to purple to brown and the pockets of gold sheen.  Very interesting.  The ink does shade nicely both with my stub nib and a fine nib.  Also, I liked that the ink is moderate to moderately wet with a slight bit of lubrication.  

 

Overall, a great start for the next 25 days.  

 

(I did a short musing of the ink here: https://fpgeeks.com/forum/showthread.php/35955-Musings-on-the-2021-Diamine-Inkvent-Calendar

[JulieParadise]

8 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Absolutely fabulous work there, @JulieParadise!  Your artistry in showcasing ink is unparalleled. Thank you for sharing.

 

I got a lovely warm brown colour writing with Seize the Night on the paper in my favourite Muji notebooks, but no sheen whatsoever, or any visible hint of purple.

 

Alas, this ink smells to me somewhat like my bottle of Diamine Sargasso Sea, albeit a little less strong, and that smell just makes me feel sick. [...]

 

Oh, thank you! Although the pics are rather sad and dark (I was waiting for the sun to come out or at least light up a bit and push the heavy clouds away yesterday, but I missed the moment at about 14:00 when it became darker again, arrghhh!) one might get the point: This is an interesting ink! 

 

Over at the German PenExchange forum Heinrich/vanni52 prepared some chromatographies to show that the ink consists of a purple and a yellow component. The brown spectrum shown in his first pic here turned out to still be a mix of those two components. https://www.penexchange.de/forum_neu/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=31328&p=364622&hilit=chromatogramm#p364622

 

This also explains the weird behaviour depending on ink flow and paper and maybe also individual perception. Violet and yellow does mix to (purplish) brown or brownish purple. 

[JulieParadise]

I spilled and smashed some more ink on different papers. This paper testing pad (Yamamoto Paper Fountain Pen Friendly Paper Collection no. 6) I got at the Berlin stationery store Luiban https://www.luiban.com, but I fear they do not have them for sale anymore. However, this allowed me to try out Diamine Inkvent 2021 Red Edition No. 01 Seize the Night (and the following inks, too, of course) on these papers and see how they behave. Sooooo

 

This is a little overview of the cover of the A4 paper pad, brief impressions of the two papers with watermarks I picked (Spica Bond and OK Fools) and a look at Glassine paper, a very translucent paper, much like onion skin.
 

 

This second collage shows the ink on different papers, the lower right being the glue-on Midori calender sheet for December 2021, where Seize the night does look pretty brown.

 

 

On Tomoe River 52 gsm (upper left) and Cosmo Air light (lower right) the golden sheen (that was not even advertised, this is supposed to be standard ink) comes out remarkably pronounced, whereas on Fritz Schimpf Leinen (an A5 letter pad with a defined structure) the ink takes on another more reddish hue. The lower left shows Seize the night on Glassine paper.

 

 

Remember: this is all the same ink, dropped on paper from the same bottle in the morning, photographed in the same lighting, the files then being treated to the same cropping and brightening procedure. Aren't inks + paper amazing!

[PithyProlix]

Wowee, Seize the Night looks amazing! Looks like a must-buy for me.

 

How long after Diamine issued the 2019 Inkvent did it take them to issue the individual Blue Edition versions? (As much as I like the cuteness of the Blue Edition bottles I hope they do their standard-issue 30ml bottles.)

[essayfaire]

After all the discussion about the scent of "Seize the Night" I took a whiff after opening tonight's door... I think it smells like bicycle shop/tire.

[essayfaire]

15 hours ago, JulieParadise said:

Aren't inks + paper amazing!

Absolutely!  Thanks for your smashes and spills!

[A Smug Dill]

18 minutes ago, PithyProlix said:

(As much as I like the cuteness of the Blue Edition bottles I hope they do their standard-issue 30ml bottles.)

 

I don't expect Diamine will, certainly not at the lower price(s) at which one may be accustomed to seeing 30ml bottles of Diamine ink in ‘standard’ colours, or even ‘refill‘ bottles for the Flower and Music sets. Nor is Diamine likely to do it on account of it making shipping by post to the end-customer cheaper, instead of using containers made of glass.

 

Assuming how much it costs (per millilitre?) you as the end-consumer effectively is not what makes you ‘hope’, but you have other concerns such as the ‘carbon’ costs of transporting something heavier, then perhaps there's a good reason to try and sell the idea to Diamine.

 

As long as the customer is not trying to lower his/her spend for a given (volume of a) product that is wanted in the marketplace, I think most companies would be interested to hear his/her thoughts.