Diamine Red Dragon Fountain Pen Ink

[@AnInkGuy]

Here are the Direct links to the complement ink that I think looks best with this: Krishna Thulsi kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3KcZIGbrq2dbdk

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[@B_Estes_Undegöetz]

Love your analysis. Great job … great video. I think I’ll try this ink due to your vid. Thanks for the superlative effort. New viewer gives you a thumbs up … now you’ve got a new subscriber too!

[@AnInkGuy]

Welcome aboard!

[@FrankDAgostino77]

This is my go-to red! Love the true red tone, and it is well behaved.

[@AnInkGuy]

Anytime you get to know what is your goto in a color family it is a awesome thing!

[@catherinehubbard1167]

My favorite dark red, intense, warm, and well-behaved. Thanks for your review.

[@AnInkGuy]

My pleasure!

[@TheSH1N1GAM1]

Thank you so much for this video. I have never seen an ink review that is so thorough. Looking for a red ink, many people have said this is their favorite. I think I need to give it a try.

[@AnInkGuy]

Just make sure as you try out inks, go with samples. Sample safely, lol.

[@Pharaohfitz]

Just a great review - I was looking for a dark red, fast-drying, easy to clean ink and landed on this one - your review covered everything and this will be my first red ink, as I just don't use the color for work but just wanted to use it for journaling (fast dry) in a black pen with a nice medium Sailor nib. The name really closes the deal.

[@AnInkGuy]

Well Diamine is a solid brand and I doubt you could go wring with any of their inks.... but this is a good one, and the cool name does help it out. Enjoy it.

[@robt4550]

Great review. I’ve been using Diamine Oxblood which is great; however, this Red Dragon looks to be a slightly brighter red. I’ll have to pick up a sample and try it. I agree the color is just fantastic. Thanks for sharing this one.

[@AnInkGuy]

I would say it is a little brighter than Oxblood.

[@prof.cecilycogsworth3204]

I very much enjoy your videos! The complementary colours and the chromophotography and the tiny personal touches make your analyses my go-to references about inks.

[@AnInkGuy]

Thank you

[@greyfriar9008]

My favourite red ink. Excellent review and data.

[@AnInkGuy]

Well with it being your favorite red, I am especially happy you like the review.

[@rds4629]

Damn this is one thorough review. Nice job.

[@AnInkGuy]

Thank you! and it is a couple years old. lol

[@rds4629]

@@AnInkGuy was looking for a green ink and saw your review :)

[@AnInkGuy]

@@rds4629 There's a ton of greens here

[@XHobbiesPrime]

This is some seriously good ink. Looks great.

[@AnInkGuy]

It has the added bonus of being named for Buffalo Bill in "The Silence of the Lambs", or that is just what I think of whenever I look at this great inks. lol

[@paddrino5991]

My top red ink. Love it! Excellent review !!

[@AnInkGuy]

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[@michaelmotz3228]

This is the first red bottled ink that I've tried, and I love it. I have it in a Pilot Kakuno with a medium nib, and it looks gorgeous on every type of paper I've tried it on, most of them cheap. It's very rich-looking and at times almost appears to be a burgundy color. Good choice on Krishna Thulsi as a complementary color. This is the first Ink Guy review I've come across without the extended notes section, and I kind of missed it! Wonderful job, Adam. Well, I have to go now ... "I'm having an old friend for dinner." (grin)

[@AnInkGuy]

It is a great color... especially for Mr. Lecter. It does tend to look very nice on a lot of different papers. Don't tell your friend your having them for dinner.... let it be a surprise.

[@Volkmannx]

Thank you!

[@AnInkGuy]

Welcome!

[@stargazer1359]

One of my favorite inks. Just love it.

[@stargazer1359]

Liked the sweet comment about your Mom.

[@AnInkGuy]

I can see why there are a bunch of people that like this ink. It is a good one.

[@shadowmihaiu]

Nice. Everyone seems to love this ink, but for some reason I never tried it. Gonna put it in my sample list.

[@AnInkGuy]

Enjoy it. Worth trying for the cost of a sample.

[@jackjstrange]

So good. Very similar to Diamine Syrah. Thank you Adam.

[@AnInkGuy]

It is pretty similar.

[@paulherman5822]

I chose Red Dragon for my red ink (at least for now 😁) because of nostalgia, originally. Reminded me of the red of the BIC pens my teachers used grading. Surprisingly, I didn't try to duplicate the other colours they used... It's THE quintessential red ink for me. Thanks for sharing this!

[@AnInkGuy]

Oh cool! Let's face it, red is the only color ink we remember out teachers using.

[@paulherman5822]

@@AnInkGuy Was BIC green, too, for me, but that's not as memorable. 😁

[@AnInkGuy]

@@paulherman5822 lol. I don't remember anything but the red inks.

[@paulherman5822]

@@AnInkGuy My school, green was their initials and such. They usually carried an official "teacher only" (students couldn't have them in school) BIC 4 colour pen, and I really don't remember black and blue ever being used by them. Black and blue were okay for students, so... I opted for different, when I found an old grey Esterbrook J in a barn. Only student to use blue-black ink. 😁

[@ChrisSaenz13]

Wow - it sure does look great on Tomoe River paper!!!!

[@AnInkGuy]

Tomoe Riverf isn't my favorite paper but it certainly can bring out some of the best qualities in an ink.

[@squarebackjedi]

After watching your review, I ordered two of these for my Homies. English professors. Every English professor needs a good red ink.

[@AnInkGuy]

Teachers can use up A LOT of red ink very fast, lol.

[@squarebackjedi]

@@AnInkGuy I’d go crazy if it wasn’t for my Rhodia pads, fountain pens, and ink jars. Somehow, they just ground me and bring a little joy to my heart while sitting at my desk and preparing lectures and grading essays.

[@AnInkGuy]

@@squarebackjedi I tend to write a lot during the day, writing out the speaking plan of a lesson, what happens in the room, sometimes about the conversations kids have. I do think I write a ton because I enjoy using the pens and ink so much. Not sure if it wasn't for fountain pens if I would write nearly as much as I do.

[@ainat141]

You have a fan in Mexico! I want to try this ink :) 🖋 a question … what are your favorites inks ?

[@AnInkGuy]

Asa. line of inks I would put Iroshizuku at the top for many colors.

[@daburger3912]

Hi Adam, thank you for your review. I love red dragon😁😁. Could you sugest me some inks with with the same viscosity like red dragon ore even wetter🤔🤔.

[@AnInkGuy]

Inks that have about the same viscosity... Here's a couple: Callifolio Inti Colorverse Gravity Wave Diamine Autumn Oak Diamine Light Green Diamine Violet Diamine Regency Blue. Just to name a few... Inks that are wetter... Here's a couple: Akkerman #15 Voorhout Violet Birmingham Pen Co Billy Eckstine Blues for Sale Diamine Autumn Oak J. Herbin Rouge Caroubier J . Herbin Vert Olive Hope this helps.

[@daburger3912]

Thank you😁😁

[@AnInkGuy]

@@daburger3912 No problem.

[@instructordominguez5272]

Hi, Adam. Thank you for the excellent review. I really like your commentary on paper. It’s one of the reasons I like your reviews. Two questions. What happens at 15 seconds? Can’t figure out what you’re talking about??? Also, I really like the nostalgic way the review ends. Very classy. There at the very end, you say you like the name of the ink, and then you say something I can’t make out, right at the 11:00 minute mark. What is it you say? Thanks. Great review.

[@AnInkGuy]

At 15 sec, I am making a reverence to the "Red Dragon" from the movie "Silence of the lambs" the quote is "It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again." Movie reverence to a killer that was known as Buffalo Bill and in his stalking of the victims leaves a symbol of the Red Dragon. At 11 min min I said "2 Bam" it's a mahjong term. mahjong in a game my mother used to play when I was young, it has a piece in the game called the "Red Dragon" which is also connected to the red dragon reference I made earlier. Mahjong is an old Chineese tile game. I don't know how common mahjong is, and wasn't sure if many people were going to get that reference.

[@instructordominguez5272]

An Ink Guy Thanks for the explanations-Very interesting. I think I’m going to order a handful of red sample inks, including Red Dragon, and an Apica notebook, which you always seem to like too. 👍🏼.

[@instructordominguez5272]

....and a handful of sample brown inks for the shading. Probably a bunch of Noodler’s.

[@AnInkGuy]

@@instructordominguez5272 I enjoy the Apica CD Notebooks a lot. I just with they were a little more reasonably priced.

[@AnInkGuy]

@@instructordominguez5272 I do love brown inks, lol.

[@rebekahs9701]

It confuses me that this ink is so red, but the chromatography is brown?

[@AnInkGuy]

I don't know, just works that way some times I guess.

[@patoeme]

my favorite red :)

[@AnInkGuy]

While reds aren't my favorite, this is a good one.

[@patoeme]

@@AnInkGuy i found red inks are no always satisfactory , some are pinks, some are orange. turquoises inks are more consistent

[@AnInkGuy]

I do find there are a lot of reds inks that are far from a true red.

[@YvonneRaphaelWriter]

I like it.

[@AnInkGuy]

Who wouldn't. It is named for a movie featuring Dr. Lecter played by Anthony Hopkins

[@YvonneRaphaelWriter]

An Ink Guy gotta love Anthony!

[@AnInkGuy]

The Queen loves him, what's why she Knighted him. lol

[@YvonneRaphaelWriter]

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[@MrTrashcan1]

Adam, something's not right with your viscosity report on Red Dragon. You show that it's an extremely wet ink with a viscosity of 1.48, but that's not consistent with the writing samples. Also in the comments someone asked you about other inks with similar viscosities and the ones you mentioned have normal viscosities. Also your mother played mahjong LOL. Are you by any chance a tribe member?

[@AnInkGuy]

I am not a tribe member... but my family has our roots from tribes. I may have made a mistake in which graphic I put in. As a general rule the viscosity I say will be correct for my test. I sometimes in editing drag the wrong graphic in. One day I will do another video on Viscosity explaining what I have now learned about that in relation to how an ink flows with the pen because the viscosity number doesn't seem to always match the experience. I believe there is more to the viscosity than just the number. I have over 1000 inks tested for viscosity and after I do all those ink reviews I am considering stopping that test for reasons I would explain then.