Ink Comparisons: The Summary 

The dog is adorable! 😍

On this channel the best comlarison of inks I have found Thanks a lot

A wonderful compendium and resource! Thank you, I have really enjoyed the series. Very inconsiderate of daughter director to go back to university.

Thank you for the comparision. Dartmoor twilight , Akkerman's Zeeblauw look excellent!.

A very good round up. Thanks.

For a heavily sheening blue ink I recommend Pure Pens Westgate Hotel.

thanks for the video!! I like your handwriting and also the presentation style as this gives a very good understanding of the color. My only point would be that if these were 1080p or higher, I would enjoy these even more 😊. I placed an order for Sargasso Sea!!

I enjoy your ink reviews so, so much. They're informative and effortlessly entertaining, and I hope you'll make more in the future.

Great ink choices! I really like the Edelstein Sapphire. I picked up a bottle to pair with a pen I recently purchased, and for me, it is a winning combo. More subtle and enigmatic.

Now I know who of my neighbours to raid when I am short of Ink 😂 man you have ink shop their.

I have LOVED this series. I'm rather taken by that Ancient Copper. The Majestic sheening (NO NO autocorrect I do not want shining) was beautifully visible - compliments to you the director. Playtime over....... back to my task lists for work tomorrow..... Thank you for such enjoyable & interesting minutiae that are so so important but not an awful lot of folks get excited about.

Diamine Wild Strawberry is my favorite red ink because I once sold a short story to Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine with the title "Wild Strawberries. Then, when I stumbled across Diamine Wild Strawberry, I couldn't resist. Seemed like an omen. I love green and purple, but the only ones I've found that are perfect for me are Diamine Imperial Purple, and Noodler's Forest Green. For my own use, I lighten both with distilled water until I get my favorite shade. It takes about thirty to thirty-five percent of distilled water, depending on the ink batch. As is, Noodler's Forest Green is dark enough to use for business, at least with my wetter pens. But as much as I don't care about black, either, I have what seems like gallows of Noodler's Heart of Darkness sitting around. It does everything I need a black ink to do. I write using Noodler's Black Swan In English Roses very often. I love it. I've found only two brown inks I like. One is Waterman Absolute Brown, which is, well, just brown. But that's what I wanted. The other, my favorite brown in, in Montblanc Walnut. It shades wonderfully. I don't usually like inks that shade very much, but this own is different. The shading make sit look like real walnut, at least to my eyes. I often use a dip pen for my writing. Whenever I have plenty of time alone and in my office. Oddly, I find many of the ink colors I use look very differently with my dip pens. Noodler's Navajo Turquoise is a prime example. It's too bright and a bit pale for my taste out of all my regular fountain pens, but darkens and stabilizes to a beautiful blue with mt dip pens. Anyway, great summary. And great reviews. I've really enjoyed these videos.

I started watching this as I was doing my fortnightly refill of Red Dragon and Sapphire Blue, into my pair of Platinum PTL-5000 M pens. These small pens are kept in my shirt breast-pockets for instant use. Small pens, because I have small hands and having spent my early years using pencils, I am comfortable with these pens. I dislike blue-black ink, probably because that was the smelly stuff that our teacher used to pour into our desk inkwells , at junior school. Using dip-pens, of course, we got it over our fingers. Maybe that is also the reason that I like Sapphire Blue, Mediterranean Blue and Havasu Turquoise. Thanks for your Herculean effort ploughing through all those inks. Ah, yes, I also like Graphite.

Very much enjoy your vids and appreciate your time. Well done! Cheers

Useful and very entertaining. I enjoyed this series and this is a neat conclusion. Thank You.

I've also enjoyed this series of yours and I have the videos saved in a separate file for easy referencing. Seriously, thank you. Also, I'm a former dog musher from Alaska and at one time my kennel had 52 dogs. I REALLY hate cutting dog toenails.

My fave is diamine oxblood . Will have to buy some . Thanks for the review 😃

I've just finished watching this series and i believe i'll start it over again. You sir earned a new subscriber. Diamine is my favourite ink brand, it's easily accesible here in UK, it's affordable, very good quality and such variety! But i wouldn't mind watching you do this for different brands, or even other Diamine inks. I really hope you'll do another series like this!

Fantastic resource, watched the whole series and liked them all. I plan on buying Diamine exclusively because I want all my bottles the same and theirs are square, simple, and well designed. Also I like their colours, and this was very helpful to see as I plan my purchases. Thank you for putting in all this effort. I've shared a link to this video on Reddit/r/fountainpens, I imagine many others would enjoy seeing your work. :)

Here is my suggestion, since you like blue inks about as much as I do, it seems: Sailor (basic) Blue, formerly known as Sailor Jentle Blue. It's very reasonable in price (about 15€ for a 50 ml bottle on my side of the pond), it's a beautiful, classic, safe-for-business dark blue, but (on decent paper) it has a subtle red sheen, even when used in fine nibs. It's also a fairly wet and very well-behaved ink; I use it as my baseline ink to try out new pens. PS: Spot on pronunciation of "Zeeblauw"! :)

It seems it was cloudy that day. And because of that light was a bit on a cold side.

Someone who has managed to collect all the Sailor Kobe inks should send him a box full of samples now. Hahahahaha! But really, this was a fun video series. I got to see tons of inks in use that I only previously knew by name.

Thank you so much for your time and effort. This was very helpful

You fulfilled the upload of the video. Great analysis ... thanks for give it to us!

Thank you so much for doing this, Sir. I've been watching your Diamine ink comparisons series for a month now and this is a great way to start the day and continue doing my school works. Have you seen and tried Diamine's Flower and Music Set? I think it would be a lovely addition to your collection :D

I'm loving the Red Dragon. I currently have it inked up in my Lamy Scala with a Lamy Aion Broad nib. Very smooth, lovely color. The Diamine Steel Blue is one of my favorite new inks. I'm intrigued by the Ancient Copper and the Deep Dark Red.

Mike, your dogs are beautiful. I enjoyed your review a lot. I am looking for an orange, Big fan of the University of Texas! Their color is burnt orange.

I use autumn oak and majestic blue all the time. I like these inks a lot. Also, I must endorse your dog's opinion on the garish inks you haven't reviewed so far. She obviously doesn't like them already.

Such beautiful colours. Diamine Dartmoor is particularly delicious.

Hi Mike, thank you for the video, I really enjoyed it！ Just a question, I can’t find anywhere to buy Diamine Dartmoor Twilight ink which looks amazing. Could you please share the information？ Thanks a lot! It’s Christmas Eve and I wish you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Thanks for this video Mike! As someone who is a full-time writer like you, what makes you choose a brand that largely sells washable inks? I get the point Diamine makes some wonderful colors and they may even be easily available in the U.K, but shouldn't water resistance be high priority for you? What's your take on this?

interesting and informative as usual, you do notice lack of daughter/director though

Diamine actually makes an ink called “Twilight”, which is quite nice.

Really thank you for this ink comparison videos. Can you tell me please if I ink up a teal-blue ebonite pen, which ink will be a good match? Thanks. Can I get the still pictures of the writing at Instagram?