Orange Inks Comparison #1

[@danadrian2752]

Autumn Oak and Apache Sunset for Me :)

[@walterfoster2582]

Love this! More please!

[@aidenkylo4349]

You probably dont care but if you're bored like me atm then you can watch pretty much all the latest movies on InstaFlixxer. Been watching with my girlfriend these days xD

[@lewisfrank7117]

@Aiden Kylo yea, I've been using instaflixxer for months myself =)

[@teresaharris-travelbybooks5564]

Excellent review. I've decided on Autumn Oak.

[@catchacoolbreeze]

the day has finally arrived...Penultimate Dave ink comparisons. Yes, more please. Great vid! I also appreciate your commentary on your experience with the inks and not just showing us the colors.

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks! Glad you're liking it, I have 4x more made so far which I need to find time to edit and plan on making a load more.

[@bahaven1896]

Hi Dave, any day you can, just keep them coming!!!! I LOVE your reviews! I LOVE ink too!

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks, I'll keep them coming!

[@vergitube]

thanks for the video. diamine blaze orange looks awesome

[@jamesbaird1342]

I love this. I recently started collecting and pens are expensive but I can collect a few inks. Yeah.

[@ryanfairfoot263]

I really enjoyed this new type of video. Quite often we spend ages agonising over which shade of colour X to get, so these kind of videos are well received. I have Diamine Autumn Oak but mine has nowhere near the same amount of brown that yours has.

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks Ryan! I'll definitely do some more. My Diamine Autumn Oak is probably 3 years old, so it probably would be from a different batch and may have even aged over the years, but I'd say probably down to the subtle changes in batch colours.

[@jamesaritchie1]

My Autum Oak is nothing but brown and red. There's no orange in it that I can see.

[@mikes10663]

I would live to see ink comparisons! Any day that works for you is fine with me. I do have several range inks that I like a lot--Diamond Pumpkin and The Pen Addict Fire on Fire ( made by Robert Oster, sold by The Pen Addict).

[@Alliejay-C]

I have yet to find an orange ink that doesn't make my eyes bleed so this is excellent information!

[@PenultimateDave]

Well I have a really good green that will make your eyes bleed for sure coming soon ;-)

[@PenFriends]

Autumn Oak is on my next ink I think

[@jamesaritchie1]

If an ink doesn't make your eyes bleed, what good is it? I can get all sorts of nice, quiet inks with gel pens. With fountain pens, I want inks that are so bright and bold you can read them in the dark.

[@joeringer4373]

More please. Brown, greens ...

[@AdzPower]

I love videos like this, would love to see more.

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks, I'll definitely create more!

[@pamelaboxall7015]

Wow! Fascinating video and only halfway through your orange inks! Yes, please, a regular ink comparison is always enjoyable. I have one orange ink (never been a fan of orange anything), bought in the last month and only put in a pen this week. It’s Graf von Faber-Castell Burned Orange. It’s really nice and I am writing my journal with it so it’s passed the test of being tollerable for more than a few sentences. Ultimately, though, I think that I’ll find I prefer reds to oranges.

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks, I'll definitely create more!

[@JoelTurrell]

I'm partial to Diamine Pumpkin, because it stands out on the papers I use.

[@PenultimateDave]

Diamine Pumpkin is an orange ink I keep forgetting about, that's a really nice orange that I will have to pick up soon!

[@chiarac358]

@Joel Turrell What papers do you use?

[@kevinu.k.7042]

Eighteen Orange inks? You are definitely the man to watch for orange. I'm watching these because Orange is not the sort of colour I think I like. Although whilst it's not an orange Diamine Ancient Copper is a favourite. As is Diamine Ochre... So I guess I'm on the margin here. Thanks for this series. I really enjoy them. :) (I struggle with some of Noodler's ink names, but calling an ink Napalm is stomach turning. Forget the rights or wrongs of the war. So many people were horribly killed or survived with maiming and dreadful disfigurements from that horror.)

[@pilesofthings]

Orange is my favorite colour but I have only 3 orange inks! Travesty! Lol, thank you for the comparisons.. I am still not sure which one I want to add to the stash but it's good to see them all next to each other like that ❤

[@Michelt007]

I suggest using a syringe to fill up from a J Herbin standard 30 ml bottle. Admittedly, there is the small discomfort of having to wait for the ink to propagate through the feed before using it. But if you really like a color, like lie de thé, then the 100 ml will do well!

[@MorganScorpion]

The shading on the Blaze Orange shows up really good here.

[@sistergoldenhair0727]

Kwz grapefruit is my fav!

[@PenultimateDave]

KWZ Grapefruit is a beautiful ink!

[@jeanneprice312]

Wednesday sounds good.

[@jeanneprice312]

My top 3 : #1 Kobe Ikuta #2 Sailor Jentle Irori #3 Diamine Blood Orange

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks, I haven't tried any Kobe inks yet, mostly because we can't easily get them in the UK, I haven't tried Sailor Jentle Irori but the ink swatches I see look really nice, thanks!

[@SharonH11100]

I very much enjoy and appreciate these ink color comparisons and your comments. I think your accent is lovely, but I hope you don’t mind my telling you that, as an American, every time you said the word, “coral,” I heard, “coal.”💁🏼‍♀️

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks Sharon! Haha yes our British accents tend to be quite different than American. Especially when we say ROOTER instead of ROWTER.

[@SharonH11100]

@@PenultimateDave Oh, we have "Roto-Rooter" here: a gizmo that drills muck out of one's sewer. If that makes a bit of sense to you 🙆🏼‍♀️

[@davecharvella4854]

Some real gems here! But, I'm really liking that Montblanc "Lucky Orange"!

[@NickT6630]

Love the videos. I would like to of seen Pelikan Edelstein Mandarin in this list but I like the colour of the MontBlanc Lucky Oronge.

[@PenultimateDave]

That's coming in the next orange video ;-)

[@chrislj2890]

Of all colors orange is my least favorite, as it seems it can't decide whether it wants to be red or brown, lol. But I do have Autumn Oak and Apache Sunset, although I rarely use them. I've never had a problem with any Noodler's inks staining, even the Baystate line that you have to clean with a bleach solution. But I won't use a Baystate in any expensive pen just to be safe.

[@PenultimateDave]

I'm like that but more so with colours where they say they are green and they turn out to be teal or a blue green. The last time I used Baystate Blue in a cheap indian piston demonstrator it stained it within 5 mins. No matter what concentration of bleach would it remove the blue hue from the clear plastic. At that point I decided to give it away as samples. It didn't stain the converter though that I had dedicated it to in another pen.

[@blackletter2591]

Thankyou, very insteresting. I like Diamine Coral and I've always liked Dragon's Napalm, reminding me of the old mercurochrome antiseptic which inspired it. Dunno if I'd write a letter in it though. Robert Oster has a bunch of good ones, as you'd expect, notably Orange, and Orange Zest. I'd like to see his Fire on Fire, but I can't get it in Australia (!😞), and his Ng special is good too. His Orange Rumble is better than it looks in samples. Blackstone's Wild Orange is worthy and Birmingham's Albert Einstein Relative Cadmium is good. There's the famous Diamine Pumpkin, Krishna Goldfish is very interesting and then we can open the Iroshizuku box, although some of them have sparkly-arklies in. Fuyu-Gaki is nice though.

[@PenultimateDave]

I think I need to use Dragon's Napalm some more, I literally have a full bottle (Nathan style). I've probably only used about 3 converters of the bottle. Robert Oster Fire on Fire did look nice but I haven't had that and Ng special.

[@cyntoh9265]

Wednesday sounds good. Thanks for the video, and I like this format. I've enjoyed this video a lot. It gives an opportunity to see several inks swabbed up on the same sheet of paper and allows you to see a good color comparison. Orange is not an ink that I consider seeking out a bottle for purchase. The ones I do have came with a purchase, that said, the Mont Blanc Lucky Orange is an ink I might have to think about purchasing. I also like that you not only show what the ink looks like wet, but also when it dries. I have one ink that I have that I think looks amazing when it's wet. But it's actually very flat and chalky looking when it dries. So seeing the dried ink is nice to be able to judge before and after.

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks, I'll definitely create more! I think keeping it to up to 9 inks makes it easier to see on one page, I could do ink swatches smaller and get more on there but I think 9 inks makes it a good size video. Yes, I've seen so many videos where people do an ink swatch and either just show it wet or just show it dry, but I've had so many times where an ink goes on one colour and dries a completely different shade, so I felt it was important. I have to wait about 35 mins though with Tomoe River to let the ink dry, and just leave the camera running and edit out the large chunk of it drying. I may look to see if I can do a time lapse on that bit though so you could see it drying slowly over the course of a minute or two.

[@cyntoh9265]

@@PenultimateDave Nine is a good number, it gives you a nice size swatch, and I think allows you plenty of time to talk about what you like and don't like about a particular ink. I would love to see the time lapse of the ink drying, I think that would be pretty cool.

[@stevekail4543]

Have you tried Monteverde "Mandarin Orange"? It's one of my favorites.

[@PenultimateDave]

I haven't, but I'll have to go and take a look at it now!

[@MujahidJazz]

Thank you very much for your reviews. Tell me, what do you think about leaving a bottle open so that some of the water evaporates and the ink darkens a bit? Of course, leaving the lid half open so that no dust enters. I want to try it with the Lamy Red and Diamine Blaze Orange

[@PenultimateDave]

I think depending on the environment you're in, you will most likely increase the risk of mould getting into the bottle and other contaminates, e.g. dust. If you wanted to do this the safest way is to ink up a pen and just leave it inked up for weeks at a time before trying to used the pen. The other way would be to decant 1ml of ink into a vial and leave that uncapped for a while for water to evaporate. What you will find is that if an ink has sheening properties becausei t's already quite thick, it will sheen more when water evaporates and the ink will become thicker.

[@StefanEdek]

You should try Caran d’Ache Electric Orange.

[@PenultimateDave]

I do have Caran d’Ache Electric Orange, it’s a very bright orange 🍊, although I do find it dries and goes crusty quite quickly, similar to Montblanc Lucky Orange.

[@belphegor_dev]

Caran d'ache inks are terrible.

[@jochwil42]

Please do these often! (or don't, you've already gotten me to buy 6 new inks...)

[@PenultimateDave]

Thanks Joshua, glad you're enjoying them!

[@pguste]

Great video. I like the Montblanc and J Herbin. Napalm is fantastic until it dries! Have you ever thought about using a glass nib for ink tests!

[@chiarac358]

I like that Dave uses his fountain pens as dip nibs. It's interesting to see which pen he pairs with the inks being compared. As glass pens seem to be carrying a lot of ink, more than FP dipped nibs, I think we get a better feel for the tonality of the inks. Besides, if Dave uses a glass pen, that would rule out him using his Visconti Homo Sapiens London Fog with a Fine 23 kt Pd nib should he ever compare grey inks. :) Yes... very self-serving on my part! I've seen the Visconti Homo Sapiens Blue Lagoon; it's very pretty, but nowhere near the London Fog, imo.

[@lakd77]

KWZ Grapefruit is one of my favorite inks and I don’t like most orange inks.

[@lukaszpokoju]

Gorgeous color although it's closer to red.

[@jpg5540]

Nice ink videos 👍... have you tried Sailor Apricot?

[@PenultimateDave]

Yes I have both Sailor Jentle Apricot and Sailor Kin-Mokusei

[@daviddelburgo2851]

love this, thanks Dave! HOW are you changing those inks so quickly behind the camera though? you'd have to clean the nib and dry it in the seconds between swabs, seems like black magic to me...

[@PenultimateDave]

A lot of magical editing. I do clean the nib off and dry it between each inking, so a 10 min video you see takes me about an hour to record. I edit out all the boring stuff to make it more watchable.

[@daviddelburgo2851]

@@PenultimateDave see I thought i was clever and looked at the drying ink to see if any sudden changes were visible, but no luck

[@stardust5379]

Perhaps Diamine could release an ink called Trump Orange. Pumpkin is my favourite.

[@catchacoolbreeze]

Are you using Tomoe River for your ink reviews?

[@PenultimateDave]

Yes, it's a single sheet of Tomoe River A4 that I place on top of one of my Oxford Optik notepads so there are some faint squares that can be seen through. I do that mostly just to stop the ink bleeding through onto the desk and to provide a soft writing experience.

[@catchacoolbreeze]

@@PenultimateDave love that you are doing it on paper people actually write on. I found that those ink cards don't always accurately display the ink.

[@john-allenduskglass3193]

my autumn oak is a bit more yellow, hmmmm. odd. a friend of mine did samples online and theirs was even more yellow than mine. both were bought this year.

[@PenultimateDave]

You can actually get variances between batches of ink that are made, it's not uncommon so it can happen. Likewise some dyes used can become affected by light or even age. My Autumn Oak was purchased in 2016.

[@TheGingerNinjaJournals]

My Autumn Oak is much more yellow too, so much so that I rarely use it. Only to periodically try and make myself like it, which never works.

[@johnathanrhoades7751]

I got Noodlers Apache Sunset, and then Robert Oster Peach, and I much prefer the Robert Oster coloration...

[@PenultimateDave]

I need to check out Robert Oster Peach as that's one I haven't tried.

[@jamesaritchie1]

I like all of these inks, with the exception of Apache Sunset. I absolutely detest everything about it. But I don't see Autumn Oak or Coral as orange inks at all. To me, Autumn Oak is a brown and red ink, not an orange one. Coral, on the other hand, is its own color. It is not orange, and it is not pink. It is coral.