Aahhh, Smoke on the Water... my favorite ink of all time! Right next to a strong contender, that Ancient Copper... So many Diamine inks just make me very happy.
I'm definitely will get Smoke On The Water and Desert Rose. I really like your reviews, Dave, but I'm falling even deeper down the rabbit hole with the inks now!
I’ve found that both sheening inks and shimmer inks are not only more difficult to clean out of pens, but are also prone to clogging the feed for the nib which can be a bit irritating. Diamine Garland and Diamine Best Wishes are green inks with shimmer and sheen. Both have a red sheen and Garland is more of a teal color. You should give them a try
The Diamine Coral is similar in colour to the coral of a scallop, which is very yummy. Diamine are a fantastic company. I wonder if JRR Tolkien would have used the wondrous inks available today when illustrating his works. He mainly used a dip pen but what fantastic writing he did with it.
Coral is very orange to be. The smoke on the water and desert rose are my favorites here. You are right that the ochre resembles SBRE Brown but as you indicated, SBRE Brown has tons of shading! Once these inks dried I did not like all the red in the smoke on the water. That majestic blue is really lovely too! The poppy red is gorgeous too!
SBREBrown is made by Diamine and filled and sold by Akkerman (some say most of their line is actually Diamine). I would still go for the Akkerman bottle because it's so unique. It would be interesting to compare the two and decide if they are identical or in any way different.
Correct regarding Akkerman ink being made by Diamine. Although the bottles are the best around, you can get a better bang for the buck, by just buying similar colours from Diamine and refilling the bottles. That said I have a lot of Akkerman inks that I love and would much rather buy the Akkerman variants, even though they are a lot more expensive than Diamine inks. The closest I've seen to SBRE Brown is Diamine Ochre, almost identical, you can tell them apart side by side but in a writing sample you would be hard pressed to see a difference.
@@belle_bookworm2533 I love November Rain. One of my favorite forest greens but does appear very dark and often covered by beautiful metallic pink sheen. I left NR in a pen for several months and it spontaneously began to feature some electric blue sheen! I've been unable to replicate the effect, sadly. Smoke on the Water is also frequently covered in sheen. "Smoky" is a very apt description. I wound up not liking how hazy the tealish color appears. I wish that postage was cheaper. I have plenty of inks I'd be willing to sell or give away some limited samples, including Smoke on the Water.
A bottle of Desert Rose was included by Emy when I purchased my Leonardo Desert Rose pen. I can't say enough good things about both of them, and they haven't been out of my Currently Inked list since they arrived a few months ago.
Diamine Sargasso Sea is the most saturated blue I have used. Similar to Majestic Blue but more saturated and no sheen. I often just refill an empty Sargasso Sea cartridge with water and the ink comes out lighter but still smooth. You can combine Sargasso Sea and Majestic Blue to create Faux Parker Penman Sapphire
I appreciate the mixing tip! In the eye of this bee holder, Sargasso is too purple and Majestic is nice but not nice enough that I'd reach for it over a multitude of other options. Tips on how to use up both inks is appreciated! Do you recall the approximate ratio of each ink?
Hi, i love the smoke on water, will need to get it! As for the coral, it is a color in it's own right! Not pink not orange it's coral i use it a lot for my notes. Love the diamine series.
Thank you for your videos. It’s a good day when I see the notification for one of your videos. I really want to like Ancient Copper especially in my Montegrappa Copper Mule, but it does not flow well through converters. It works better in my Pelikan piston fillers and Visconti power fillers.
Nice review. Thanks. It would be nice if you could a recycle able replacement for the ear buds you are using for the ink swaths to save or help the mother earth with less plastics.
Another really helpful ink comparison video - thank you for taking the time & trouble to do them. The Poppy is lush - might have to get some of that ! Do you happen to have any Octopus Inks? It would great if you could add them to your inky vids list 😊
Interesting video, I have a couple of small bottles of Diamine, amber and golden brown. Having scrolled through your videos, I am afraid we don’t move in the same pen circles, although I do have a Pilot Vanishing Point, albeit a standard model.
Oh gosh! I’m falling even deeper in the rabbit hole now 😅 I’m a newbie on fountain pens & inks & I just got my first fountain pen (Lamy Safari in Terra Red), F nib & some Lamy T10 cartridges in black. I’m looking into buying some 30 ml bottles of Diamine ink since I got these recommended to me as a good starter ink. Now I want even more of them 😅 But I’ll put some on my wish list for Christmas too so maybe I’m lucky enough to get some. But I want some before that because I’m impatient 😂
Congrats ont he Lamy Safari! Diamine 30ml bottles are great, although the neck opening to try and fill a pen from them isn't as great, but you can get a good 30+ fills of ink for only a few £/$ so they are always great little bottles to pick up. You might want to decant the ink into a smaller inkwell / cone to fill a pen from though if you're using a converter to make it easier to fill the pen.
Hi Frank, The pen is the William Shakour Titan, it’s a pen made by a UK Pen Collector William Shakour. I have a review of two of his Titan's at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2lJrH6Y4Ebw.html and another one at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dweMrPGta5s.html He doesn’t have a website, he’s on Instagram as instagram.com/williamshakour and can make pens to order.
The pen is the William Shakour Titan, it’s a pen made by a UK Pen Collector William Shakour. I have a review of two of his Titan's at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2lJrH6Y4Ebw.html and another one at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dweMrPGta5s.html He doesn’t have a website, he’s on Instagram as instagram.com/williamshakour and can make pens to order.
These are a;; good inks, but thje only ones I like enough to actually use are Ancient Copper, Smoke on the Water, and Coral. Coral is my favborite of the lot. I don't thino of the Coral as pink, red, or orange. I think of it as Coral because when I look at it, I see the same color as , well, coral, and I think it's a unique color, and in a class by itself.
The pen is the William Shakour Titan, it’s a pen made by a UK Pen Collector William Shakour. I have a review of two of his Titan's at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2lJrH6Y4Ebw.html and another one at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dweMrPGta5s.html He doesn’t have a website, he’s on Instagram as instagram.com/williamshakour and can make pens to order.
Well funny thing Chris, I switched from what was a very good £250 Audio Technica headset with boom mic to a £100 Blue Yeti that everyone raves about to try and remove the bonk/bounce noises from the boom mic and occasional pop noises I get on videos. Unfortunately the audio is nowhere near as good as the Audio Technica mics. If only Audio Technica did a desktop mic similar to the Blue Yeti! The audio is definitely more tinny and less bass than the Audio Technica mic. I still don't think for overall sound quality you can beat Audio Technica. I've been playing with filters in production and I think after several weeks of trying, I think I can minimise the tinny and get it a little more bass back to what it was, but there will be around 20 videos I've already recorded with the Blue Yeti that will have more tinny audio unfortunately. Depending on when I release videos, the audio may either be from the Audio Technica mic or maybe from the Blue Yeti mic.
@@PenultimateDave Audio is something we take for granted until it's not quite right, but it's so very important for a good video. It would be interesting to know what equipment other RU-vidrs I watch are using.
The pen is the William Shakour Titan, it’s a pen made by a UK Pen Collector William Shakour. I have a review of two of his Titan's at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2lJrH6Y4Ebw.html and another one at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dweMrPGta5s.html He doesn’t have a website, he’s on Instagram as instagram.com/williamshakour and can make pens to order.
I would have found it much more helpful to see colors next to each other which are really similar...So only diamine browns, blues or purples....the title "comparison" is a little confusing for what's shown in the vid.
@LANCSKID Diamine, Diamine, Diamine 🤣 Ever thought that maybe the name of the brand is important when looking at swatches of colours years later? 🤦🏼♀️
Just bought Poppy red and I like it - no pinkish red -. Very interesting the ancient copper. Watching these swatches makes me want to draw or paint more than writing. Unfortunately all these inks are not water resistent