Tag: Gold Sheen
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Ink Review: Berlin Noterbook No. 5 New Red
A little over a year ago I bought and reviewed Berlin Notebook No. 1 Blue. It was a deep and rich blue ink with a lot of copper sheen on certain papers. It was a beautiful blue and different from the more common super sheening inks. I mentioned in the review that Berlin Notebook also…
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Ink Review: Hankyu Maroon
Hankyu Maroon is a Sailor made ink exclusive to the Hankyu Department Store. Hankyu Department Store, which separated from the Hankyu Railway Company in 1947, is a department store who’s main store is located in Osaka. It has further stores nearby and in other cities further away but the only place to buy these inks…
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Ink Comparison: Carpink set of five sheening inks Part Two
This is Part Two of the Ink Comparison: Carpink set of five sheening inks. Part One here!I was generously gifted a bottle of Carpink Prussian Blue and Shigoku in July last year. I knew nothing about the brand and I’d, in fact, never heard of them but the inks were super sheeny and that always…
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Ink Comparison: Carpink set of five sheening inks Part One
This is Part One of Ink Comparison: Carpink set of five sheening inks. Please read Part Two here!I was generously gifted a bottle of Carpink Prussian Blue and Shigoku in July last year. I knew nothing about the brand and I’d, in fact, never heard of them but the inks were super sheeny and that…
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Ink Review: Sailor Pen’s Alley Shaker Green
Pen’s Alley Shaker Green is a pretty unique and special ink; a green ink with gold sheen. I’ve never seen anything like it before! Pen’s Alley is a stationary and pen store in Okazaki, Japan. They have a series of Sailor Store Exclusive inks in the tall “vase” Sailor bottles of which this is one.…
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Ink Review: Krishna Sakthy
Krishna inks were previously overly expensive to ship from India but are now much cheaper. If ordering from The Pen World in India then a large order is still recommended to get the most out of shipping but after having made a second order just recently the total price of the order has now dropped to what…
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Ink Review: Colorverse Quasar
Colorverse inks are new to the scene inks from late 2017 and early signs were pretty interesting so I took the plunge and bought three of the inks. I was told by Colorverse (who were very helpful!) that the Season 2 “Astrophysics” inks were the sheenier inks so I naturally gravitated towards them. Quasar is indeed from…