Diamine Registrar's Ink is one of two iron-gall inks traditionally used for archival purposes in the UK. The other is ESS Registrar's Ink. It is a true iron-gall ink containing only indigo and gallotanic acid. A wonderful ink!
Thank you for making this video! I am currently looking for some iron gall ink that I can source easily here in Germany. Diamine is one of the brands that are pretty hard to get in stores around here. So far I was not able to locate a brick-and-mortar store in my area that carries it. The only bottle of Diamine (Oxblood) I have is one that I bought when I was in London. What you might want to give a try is Rohrer & Klingner. They make two iron gall inks: „Salix“, which is more on the blue/gray-ish side, and „Scabiosa“ which is more towards purple.
THAT is "Blue-Black" fresh out of the bottle?!? Don't look any darker than a regular Lamy or Sheaffer Script blue. A little darker than Pilot's quote/unquote "blue-black" which isn't saying much, since from a wet nib that Pilot ink is almost as dark as ZEBRA or BiC's ballpoint blue. I don't have six months to wait for it to change to the color it should have been out of the bottle. It might be "better" to clean your pens when you un-ink them, rather than let them sit for months while the ink residue dries out. That's on you. Any ink will do the same, not just Diamine. Anyway, thanks for the fresh from the bottle writing sample. Saved me the cost of a bottle of ink I'd never use. 👍
Registrar's Ink is an iron-gall ink. It writes blue and dries (oxidizes) black with some permanence. That is how the color got its name Blue-Black. Iron-gall based inks require more cleaning care than dye based inks. This was a great video to show what can happen to a pen after using iron-gall ink and neglecting frequent cleaning.
One of the most well behaved iron gall inks, when people like to say Pelikan changed their formula for Blue-Black, I will direct them to this video. Great video! You should give Akkerman #10 Ijzer-galnoten Blauw-Zwart a shot! ESSRI and Platinum Blue Black are also some great Blue-Blacks.
great video, like the sound ,presentation and appreciate the subtitles as i dont speak japanese.I got one question about the nib size of the ls as (from what ive seen in the video) it wasnt shown anywhere.
