Tag: Robert Oster Signature Ink
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Ink Review: Robert Oster True Blue
Released as part of a batch of seven inks (the others being Burned Orange, Crocodile Green, Deep Purple, Dragon’s Night, Hot Pink, and Red Candy) True Blue came out in the latter part of last year. I’m not sure whether it was a themed group release but many seven inks are some of my favourite…
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Ink Review: Sailor Shumibun Writing Time Jasper Green
Shumibun Writing Time Jasper Green is a Sailor store exclusive ink from Shumibun in Japan. The store itself is makes a Fountain Pen magazine for the Fountain Pen market. The store describes the colour as a “deep green mixed with jasper”. There are two other inks in the series (from which I only have a bottle…
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Double Ink Review: Colorverse String and Brane
Colorverse String and Brane are the pair of inks from Season 3 “Multiverse” series of inks that I, personally, thought was the most interesting pairing. A nice golden brown and a soft olive green. Brane, which comes in the small 15ml bottle, as opposed the String’s 65ml bottle, is also a shimmering ink but is much…
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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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State of the Union 2017: Fountain Pen Ink
The last few years really have been a renaissance for Fountain Pens and this year is no different. Lots of expansions and additions to lineups and several standout inks. I’m going to be talking about how various brands have performed this year and what I hope for next year. This will be, of course, focused…
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Ink Review: Robert Oster Velvet Storm
This ink as some very unique sheen. It doesn’t have a lot but what it does have reacts very differently depending on the paper. Robert Oster teased this ink in August and announced the name in September. “Velvet Storm” is a great evocative name for an ink and suites this dark blue-green ink. Thank you to Pen Chalet who…
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Triple Ink Review: inkArt Robert Oster Ten Dollar Note Blue, Teal, and Green
The Reserve Bank of Australia is releasing a new $10 note on the 20th of September this year. Featured on this note is a couple of fountain pen nibs to represent the fact that the people featured on the note both wrote. There was a suggestion somewhere that an ink should be made to commemorate the…
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Swatch Card Comparison
I like to keep swatches of all my inks in a binder. In the past I’ve used Rhodia 80gsm but paper never felt right; too flimsy and I was never good at cutting accurate and consistent rectangles. In the past there was Maruman Mnemosyne Word Cards (which I never used), this year (2017) there is…