In good news; new ink arrived. In not so good news; I gambled with filling up a couple more pens than normal and now have no spare pens to try these inks in.

As the old meme goes ; Man I took a calculated risk, but boy am I bad at maths.

Inks are AftH X Diamine Arthur Job and Oh betty's.

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Hoo boy, it's #NewInkDay!
After some fuckery with customs, here is:
- Esterbrook x The CoffeeMonsterzCo - Forgotten Iced Coffee
- Robert Oster Signature - Fire

I'm especially obsessed with the Estie ink, it dries to a stunning color. Well worth the money!

New ink day.

The fuyu-gaki is a wonderful orange red colour. I love it. It's so smooth in the parker. It's like writing on glass.

The Jacques Herbin is unfortunately disappointing. While I can smell a sense of some perfume from the ink, it also smells rather... Dead, like all the volatile compounds died two years ago. It's also very very scratchy in the Waterman: it makes me feel as if I'm using a quill.

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As it was my birthday I took the opportunity to polish off my ink collection and fill in the missing holes in my ink themes.

This is the last of Diamine x Cult pens Wonder's of the world collection and the rest of the normal wine themed inks that Diamine do.

Prussian blue also made it in as I prefer dusky colours for the most part. That preference is something I never would have guessed when I was staring out.

Out of this set I've only tried Autumn Oak so far, in my Kaweco EF. It reminds me of a tree trunk photo after I've dialed the saturation up 50 percent. I'd say its fittingly named.

Shading wise the colour varies from a light oak barrel to oak tree log left out in the rain. I'd say its fittingly named.

That's me done with getting new inks for a long, long, loooongggggggg while. I collected all the ones in my themes so now it's time to enjoy using them.

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I tried Van Dieman’s Sacagawea on a couple of different papers. The Dickens quote is on a cheap HP watercolour paper and Create It is on Iroful. This ink has some pretty shading.
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Another couple of new inks, Diamine Safari and Van Dieman’s Sacagawea. I like them both a lot. I need to try them on some different papers, this is Clairefontaine.
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I just got this ink, Sailor Kusa Asobi - Yukiusagi. I can’t stop scribbling with it. When it first goes down it looks like the zigzag at the bottom but as it dries it turns into a lovely blur/brown/grey colour.
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Trying out Hongdian Coral ink. It’s nice, a bit of shading, smooth flowing, 60ml wide necked stable bottle.
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These are the most Phaelon and Crater coded inks I have found.

Now I've just got to continue running down a TWSBI so I can stick Failing Upwards into it. Fluster Cluck is also my first and only shimmer :)

(Diamine x Art from the Heart - Fluster Cluck + Failing Upwards)

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