1º Fountain Pen Ink: Diamine Macassar
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The Journey
When getting into fountain pens? I started off with two inks. Those inks being
I chose two brown inks as my first inks because all throughout my life, in school, I'd been using blue or black. I needed new colours to spice up my life and brown is close to black while still being colourful.
For quite a while now, I'd been using "Lie de Thé" in my 1.5mm Lamy Vista and Diamine Macassar in my Medium Green Lamy Safari.
However, recently I ran out of ink in the 30 J.Herbin bottle
Well I didn't run out, the level of ink got so low that I couldn't fill up my pen from the nib or the converter. Hopefully, I'll be able to get a syringe soon.
In losing access to J.Herbin's "Lie de Thé", I've switched to using diamine Macassar in both of my Lamy Safaris.
The ink itself
The ink itself is a deep rich brown in my broad pens, while being black with hints of brown in my fine pens.
The ink is on the dry side, compared to "Lie de Thé".
I've found it quite useful to add a pinprick of dish soap to my converter so that when in the pen the ink writes wetter.
The ink's special properties are it's shading. It shades from a black down to a dark chocolate brown.
Opinions
I think that this ink is a great brown ink to begin with. I've heard that most diamine inks are well behaved and this is no exception.
Writing Samples
The Paper being used is Oxford Optik paper and both of my Lamy Safaris are used.
