Pure Pens Inks, Glens of Antrim

[Bo Bo Olson]

Pure Pens Ink Reviews…Glens of Antrim

The glass bottles are a bit too tall and thin, so are dangerous when filling.

The inks are made for Pure Pens by Diamine…. like when Diamine makes Akkerman inks to specs. These inks are not archival or waterproof. Mercian was so nice as to telephone the company, seeing he is in the neighborhood for that info.

Pure Inks said they were looking for inks that are a bit out of mainstream normal colors. These so appear. I will do three more inks later.

I was given advice to use a normal copy paper in many folks don’t have good to better paper like Clairefontaine Triomphe 90g or Rhoda 80g.

I had written about how poor I found a certain HP paper, and for some inks this Cannon, Black Label Premium 80g was surprisingly good, but not for Pure Inks.

I don’t have a glass dip nib…and my dip pens don’t seem to want to work well enough to dip some other ink. I have too many pens to out, over 35, to start dipping clean pens in ink bottles to see what colors are near.

The missing pen in the third place is a Hunter Toledo B. Glens of Antrim, is my 22^nd green-greenish ink. I will use it.

Thanks to Mercian for recommending it. None of the others come to mind when thinking about it. Herbin Vert Empire is darker.

 

[LizEF]

This one seems like a nice bright spring or summer green, very cheerful!  I like it.   Thanks for joining us in the world of ink reviews, @Bo Bo Olson!  Great job!  Looking forward to whatever comes next.

[Bo Bo Olson]

My computer half crashed so it will be a good week before I do...input the next three Pure Ink Reviews. Celtic Sea, Porthcurno Cove and Saltire Blue. That too will be a 9 pen review.

I will have time the two to three days to clean out some narrow..to me...F's and I find I have more EF's...dirty than I expected.

Next I'll have to run out of the partial fills of the inks I did do. I have some 33 or more pens inked...don't need 40 or more.

 

I 'lost' my files, my D drive is 'gone'. And I have a couple other small things for him to do So when I take it in on Tuesday (closed Mondays), it will be Friday or Saturday before I'm back to full strength. .

[LizEF]

Take your time, @Bo Bo Olson!  Sorry about the computer crash.  Hope you're able to recover files.

[Penguincollector]

 Nice review, @Bo Bo Olson! What a pretty color!

[Bo Bo Olson]

4 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

What a pretty color!

I think so too....so will be using it.

[Mercian]

4 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Glens of Antrim, is my 22^nd green-greenish ink. I will use it.

Thanks to Mercian for recommending it. None of the others come to mind when thinking about it.

 

I am very glad to see that you like Glens of Antrim 😊

 

I'm also very relieved - I'd have felt terrible if you'd bought it and then found it unsatisfying!

[Bo Bo Olson]

You thought it looked good. It did on the sample, and is a good shading green ink. Thanks.

[inkstainedruth]

I just looked at their website, and was surprised that their exemplar of the color was lighter than I was expecting (the shading made it look much darker).

Hmmmm.  Do I REALLY need another green ink? 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

I only have 23 green-greenish inks...........

I can remember when thinking why in the wold would any one have that color ink.I was chasing crayon box purple...leaning towards blue, and never got back to that hunt.

I got a half empty bottle of 4001 Brilliant Green...a good lively shading ink....not the duller than mud dark green replacement.

That year I bought 14 green-greenish inks.