Orange Inks Comparisons #2

[@CatherineC.2123]

That Sailor Jentle Apricot and its twin are fabulous. The only orange ink I would purchase.

[@WaskiSquirrel]

I had never noticed the sheen on my Sailor Jentle Apricot! I have it right now in a Platinum 3776 with a coarse nib, so it's time to head for the Tomoe River paper. Thank you for this!

[@bobsaffron8284]

The Shakour pen steals the show. Thanks for the review.

[@aleksandarpetrovic8698]

I just LOVE your videos... Nothing else needed to say... With respect, Aleksandar

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks Aleksandar 🙏

[@johnathanrhoades7751]

I love Yu-Yake, Saikor Apricot and it's twin. Robert Oster Peach is lovely if you want the heavy shading. Definitely my favorites. Sailor Bungubox Mandarin is also lovely, but maybe not worth the price...

[@jackiewallace2510]

Thank you for doing these ink comparisons ... they’re really helpful. I have the two Pilot Iroshizuku inks and love them both. My favourite orange ink at the moment is Krishna Caramel ... I keep my Estie Honeycomb inked with it.

[@jackiewallace2510]

I forgot to say that the two I like the best and don’t yet have are the Sailor inks ... so I’ll be on the look out for the one that isn’t Apricot 😊

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks Jackie, I’m glad you’re finding them useful!

[@killiansred100]

Love Pelicans and Pilot’s. Never tried Sailor expensive and hard to get here, but Noodlers Apache sunset is one of my tops.

[@PURau]

Thank you for the second basket of oranges. I too found that some crust and crud (Krishna Goldfish Gold, Montblanc Lucky Orange) but Pelikan Mandarin and the Fuyu Gaki don't,nor do the Noodlers. Really interesting comparison of the Sailors.

[@MujahidJazz]

Fuyu-gaki was the first orange ink I used and so far the only one I like of that color. In my opinion, it is more like a ripe persimmon. I tried various orange inks, but did not like any other. I'm going to try Diamine Vermillion and D. Sunset inks.

[@chrislj2890]

Although orange is my least favorite color I'd pick Fuyu-gaki for an ink. But the Sailor looks more like a true orange and reminds me of some of the marigold flowers my wife planted this spring. It seems weird but I really like orange flowers like those and our day lilies but I don't like it anywhere else.

[@jamesaritchie1]

It's odd, but I hate gray ink, yet my most expensive bottle on ink is Montblanc Elixir Parfumeur, Wood & Tobacco scent, which is gray. I thought I paid eighty-one dollars for it, but I just looked at the receipt, and I paid eighty-five, plus tax. I tried fighting it, but the "wood and Tobacco" scent finally did me in. I couldn't resist buying it just to see if they got the scent right. They pretty much did, and I'll admit it's the best gray I've tried. It actually looks gray, and not as if it were a failed black.

[@chrislj2890]

@@jamesaritchie1 That really sounds intriguing, but I could never shell out that much for a bottle of ink. Right now I'm using Diamine Earl Grey and I think it's a pretty decent gray, but like most you need a rather wet nib.

[@paulmetdebbie447]

The Organics could be nice in a bronze coloured pen. So far I only use the Edelstein and love it. Thanks for the tests, they are great.

[@oseenerby3031]

greatings from Germany. I like your camparision videos a lot. Thanks for showing. Specially I am interested in Akkerman inks. At my next visit in Den Haag I will buy my first couple of different bottles. I never had Akkerman inks before.

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks Ose! Akkerman inks are basically made by Diamine but rebottled into the old looking chemist style bottles, the bottles are very practical and if you like and have tried Diamine inks then you should like the Akkerman inks.

[@MultiEbbot]

Kin mokusei and diamine pumpkin is my favourites. I like the colour of Pelikan Mandarin but I can´t get it to work in many of my pens I find mine to be very dry and I don´t use it anymore.Robert Oster orange zest looks interesting.

[@PenultimateDave]

I still haven’t tried Diamine Pumpkin yet.

[@MultiEbbot]

@@PenultimateDave Its a lovely normal behaving ink, it leans a little towards red-orange compared to the others and pops out is bright and saturated.

[@jamesaritchie1]

I know I bought a bottle of Diamine Pumpkin, but I haven't used it in so long I don't reemember whether I liked it or not.

[@sistergoldenhair0727]

Fuyo-Gaki is my favorite here, but you are definitely missing some epic oranges: KWZ Grapefruit and Monteverde Copper Noir and Diamine Firefly and Pumpkin inks and Monteverde Mandarin!

[@kevinu.k.7042]

Thanks for this and #1 I have been looking for a good golden orange. A couple of folk whom, I regard as Inky-Masters, swear by Robert Oster African Gold. Do you know this ink please? I managed to find a bottle from Stiloeste in Italy. Waiting for it to arrive. I'm not sure if it is discontinued. But this Robert Oster Journey on you channel has been fun and useful. Ta!

[@cyntoh9265]

Thanks for review. The Organics Studio is a very muddy orange almost brown on my screen, so I think I'll skip that one. I recently tried the Ferris Wheel Press, Pumpkin Patch for 30inks30days on Instagram and I like it quite a bit. You might like it as well, since you like the punchier oranges.

[@jamesaritchie1]

That's interesting. I've tried three Ferris Wheel Press inks, and all three were so thin, so unsaturated, so washed out that I could barely read what I wrote with a fine nib.

[@cyntoh9265]

@@jamesaritchie1 Many of the inks that Ferris Wheel Press are very pale, their most recently relased spring inks for example. But their first set and most of the second set of releases are quite saturated. The Pumpkin Patch is a saturated ink and is quite a lovely orange. It has some lovely shading and I enjoyed writing with it as it was very legible. Not hard on the eyes at all. I used a broad nib though, so you may see different results with a finer nib.

[@rachitmardia3136]

Very interesting pen you have there - any details please?

[@PenultimateDave]

The pen is a 3D Printed pen made by William Shakour in the UK. He's at instagram.com/WilliamShakour

[@john-allenduskglass3193]

so far autumn oak is my favorite, but probably due more to its name. i love pumpkin oranges, but i'm actually looking for an ink that lays down like orange peko tea in the glass, and dries beautifully. would you know of such an ink? i enjoy your videos, and they have helped me pick out which ink samples to buy, quiet often. have a great day!

[@PenultimateDave]

Perhaps Robert Oster Red Orange or Organics Studio Golden Orange perhaps are the closest I've seen so far.

[@sheiguan2202]

Hilarious comments on the organice studio dirty orange.

[@MorganScorpion]

I love Diamine's Blaze Orange, which has lots of shading, even with a fine nib.

[@SwayvillDelgarian]

Quite tempted by Fuyu-gaki and Kinmokusei. Your ink comparison reviews are always a lot of fun, but they are starting to become a little costly for me, I should probably unsubscribe :)

[@PenultimateDave]

I’ll see if I can pick some colours you don’t like next 🤔😅

[@jamesaritchie1]

There isn't an Iroshizuku ink that I don't like, at least yet. I still have eight to try. Fuyu-Gaki is in my top three orange inks. Number one is a good deal cheaper ink. It's Private Reserve Orange Crush. I'm not as crazy about orange inks as you are. Or I'm pickier about what I like. I tend to like darker orange, and several I've tried were just too light, to washed out for my taste. It's personal taste, of course, but I don't like shading in any ink. I'm old enough to remember when an ink that "shaded" was considered a cheap, poorly formulated ink that wouldn't hold its color. Only the very poor would buy it. And skinflints, I guess. Then the advertisers and the marketers took on the task of selling these cheap inks, came up with the word "shading", and called it a feature, rather than a bug. Sorry, to me, shading means it's just a bad ink. Try writing a letter to someone who's never used a fountain pen, which is about ninety-eight percent of the world's population, and use an ink that shades heavily. They aren't going to think how pretty it is. They're going to wonder why the writer didn't buy a cheap BIC so he wouldn't look like a slob. I buy inks because I love the color, so why would I want that color to change several times in one sentence? Or in one word? Some "shading" is almost certain with most of today's inks, but fortunately, I can take the shading out of most inks with paper and nib choices, and I do to the greatest extent I can. Which is why I still really like some of these inks, even though they shade badly, if you don't control them. Anyway, shading is one of two reasons I have so many bottles of ink, so many samples, and a whole shoebox full of ink cartridges. I'm always looking for inks that don't shade. Needless to say, Apache Sunset is my least favorite ink. The other reason is because I'm always on the lookout for my Grail green, purple, and dark red inks. Of the hundreds of inks I have, my favorites right now are Monteverde Yosemite Green, De Atramentis Purple Violet, and Diamine Red Dragon. It's odd. I have more than two hundred and sixty bottle of ink, but I don't think I have a single bottle of Robert Oster. I don't like those three, but I will have to look for some purple and green Robert Oster inks. I really like the Sailor inks. I do think you should try to get a sample of the Organic Studios Golden Orange. It's difficult to tell on a monitor, but it looks, well, muddier, than I remember it. I used close to when this video was made, and I remember the Golden part being a bit brighter than it appears here. If you haven't done so, you should review Noodler's North African Violet. It's a somewhat light purple, but it's instantaneously as waterproof as an ink can be, and writes perfectly on the cheapest paper made. Even on very, very cheap legal pad paper, it doesn't ghost or bleed. More amazing, I can write a sentence, jump up and run to the sink, put it under full faucet pressure, and it doesn't even budge. This is because it's a Vmail ink, of course. The military needed an ink that would print on extremely cheap paper, and that would be waterproof as soon a sit went down on paper. Soldiers had to be able to read letters from home, and receiving a letter that couldn't be read because it got soaked just wasn't acceptable.

[@NickT6630]

The Sailor Gentle and Kinmakusai are the clear winners I think

[@jamesaritchie1]

Not for me, but we each have our own likes and dislikes. For me, the Iroshizuku Fuyu-Gaki is the best ink here. It's my second favorite orange that I've tried. Just barely edging it out for number one is Private Reserve Orange Crush. It's as close to the perfect orange as I've found.

[@sistergoldenhair0727]

That organic one looks like baby poop!