*Is this the most unique ink for writing Calligraphy?? Or you have other suggestion for ink that can have this title?*

I feel like you could find this dude in the library and in the hood at the same time. Nice review!

Ink looks great, but I am more impressed by the review. Not too long, yet informative. Everything I needed to know, simple. Pleasure to watch. Looking forward to see your next video.

Goodness...This guy could teach me anything!! Clear...concise...smooth voice...easy to understand...just perfect.

Wow! That ink is gorgeous. Loved Edgar's presentation! Really like that he shared his equipment and paper choices.

Your voice is so soothing and I could watch you write in calligraphy all day! You’re awesome !

I came here from Instagram. I'm not an artist or calligrapher, but I adore shiny, multicolored things and find art channels soothing, so Edgar's post about this ink came up in my suggestions. It really is a great video, having enough information to be useful and interesting and plenty of eye candy for those of us that aren't even relevant but love pretty things!

Very professional review of this ink...one of the best I've seen. This could almost be called an instructional...very VERY awesome. If you ever do a "Ted Talk" I'm gonna be there.

I need your handwriting, I have the ink already 😭

This is my absolute favorite fountain pen ink and also my favorite color in my collection. I just ordered a bottle of the ocean blue from this collection and can’t wait to try it. That and a platinum 3776 with an UEF nib are my birthday presents from myself 😜. Loved the short, sweet, and informative review, keep up the great work, and gorgeous calligraphy ❤️

This was the perfect review. Every single detail you needed, beautiful shots, concise. You, sir, have major talent not just in calligraphy.

This is a great review. Really informative, relaxing to watch, and very well paced. Love it.

Your Calligraphy is beautiful! Thank you for this wonderful and comprehensive video! That is a gorgeous ink and now I am sure I need to have it. Thank you!

I just ordered this ink! I’m so excited to use it. Thankyou for your suggestions and review!

Fabulous review. I wish I could do what you do... it's amazing! I adore writing xxx

What a beautiful demonstration with a truly unusual ink. Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to more videos from Edgar, he has Skills!

Fab video Edgar. Informative and to the point. Plus you have beautiful penmanship 🤩

Of course it's in my collection. It's one of the first inks that I bought when I first got into fountain pens, and it's still one of my favorite! 🖋😎👍

DAMNNNN I’ve seen Edgar’s vids on reddit and I expected him to be some old man scholar lookin type,,,he looks rlly nice and approachable omg!

Phenomenal ink! Thanks for the awesome vid :)

First video of yours I've seen and I truly think it's a perfect video. If this is the style of all your vids I'm subscribing you better believe that. What I like the most is that every sentence of this video is useful. You dont repeat trivial information and have solid speech skills.

Emerald of Chivor

Oh man so nice colors and awesome skill and penmanship

Brah.. your reviews are epic. Good work

Great review, beautiful writing. Excellent skill.

Brilliant Edgar! Way to represent 👍

This is NOT writting! This is ART !!

This ink was my gateway drug into writing with fountain pens. Thanks for the video!

Can you say GORGEOUS!! WOW!!! I am ordering right away, thank you!!

This work is beautiful. Absolutely exquisite.

I have this and another JH 1670 in my collection - rouge hematite, which is a warm red ink sheening ink with gold, also beautiful. I got excited when I saw Edgar using the blue pumpkin, which isn't one I typically reach for, and thought to try it immediately on the Rhodia, HP 32, and canson cold press watercolor. I still found a lot of feathering with the blue pumpkin so prepped the next sheet with hairspray. Still, I couldn't quite get the variations that are typical with this ink.. Brings me to my question- would it be a good idea to add Arabic gum to thicken up the ink and make it better suited for pointed pen ? Thanks for your time and effort in filming this review.

Great video! I like the ink, I have a couple of samples of it. I'm looking forward to getting a while bottle.

Hell yeah, glad this came up in my recommended!

I have all the colors and now I started the 1798 collection, they are thicker and work better with flex dip pen bibs. I love them. They redesigned the bottles and they are better to dip in now.

💚💚💚 Outstanding skill !!! Impressive

Thanks very much for a great video, really informative. Take care, David

I love this video, such beauty is so satisfying!

Your handwriting is amazing!

Nice info. I really appreciate your in depth descriptions.

Love this ink! The more I use it the more I discover about it.

Hi Edgar, I loved this video. I call this a perfect one. You talked most wonderfully, ... No drag or waste of words and time. Do you teach?

Amazing skills brother!

Your video was insanely thorough. Thank you.

Beautiful review. Thank you for posting! If I can share with you guys some tips for ink flow issue you can either add a bit of Ox Gall into your mixture or just dip your nib every now and then into water when you feel that the flow gets harder. Most of the time it does the trick.

Your writing is exquisite!

Late to comment on this post, but really great review and insightful. Thanks much!

You have talent, great vid.

TU, nice work! Watercolor paper is sized to hold watercolors differently by manufacturers. It allows for a longer drying time to manipulate the colors longer.

I bought this ink with a set of 2 others (Rouge Hematite & Stormy Grey). Emerald of Chivor is by far my favorite ink, followed by Stormy grey in not so close second. It's so unique, but unfortunately the paper is a huge factor. Every paper used in this video was pretty good quality, even the printer paper. As he said, this isn't the normal with printer paper. You'll want laser jet paper for the ink resistance if you're going to go cheap, but Tomoe River is really where it's at. I tried Rhodia and didn't even really achieve as much as this video shows. That being said, the red is all you'll miss out on if you go with cheaper papers. There's a shading effect (light blue to dark green), a sheen effect (red), and a shimmer effect (gold specks), depending on your pen and technique you'll see all except the sheen on any paper, but wow does it pop on tomoe river, all 4 effects at once make this look almost prismatic. This whole anniversary lineup is a great match for any generously flowing pen, as you can drag out the pools with the reverse side and achieve any desired shading. Stormy gray is just as cool on cheap paper, its shimmer makes a signature look like it's worth more than it is. I'd say it's more professional looking if that's what you're going for. I love the Diamine line of shimmering inks (like Enchanted Ocean), but the J. Herbin ones definitely flow better, so if you're going to go with anything smaller than medium you won't want to risk the starting and stopping that will happen after only an hour or so of settling (at least with a Japanese extra fine).

Very interesting effects, Edgar! Have you tried it yet mixed with Gum Arabic? I wondered if that would keep the ink from bleeding through on the Tomoe River paper. If you have tried mixing with Gum Arabic, did you find it changed the flow of the gold in the ink?

Wow this ink is out of this world.

Could you tell me your top 3 ink for dip pens? I bought Pelikan 4001 but I think it's for funtain pen...Thank you!

beautiful work!!

you talked about how to load the nib so you don't get a heavy bleed. Which I find is happening after I load and touch the paper for the first stroke....every single time. Please post a video on loading dip pens, with various nib. thanks.

About that ink flow. When used in a fountain pen, the gold flakes do tend to clog up your pen. I filled up a TWSBI 580AL with a well shaken ink, and naturally ran into some issues. If you allow the pen to sit for a day, you'll be greeted with an extremely dry nib next time you write. If you keep on scribbling with that for a while, the solid particles that clogged up the nib will begin to find their way on the paper. After the clear up scribbles it writes like a normal fountain pen ink, but I don't think I'll ever put this ink into a pen with an already dry nib. My pen has a wet medium nib, so it's able to deal with this ink. I had a few hard starts because of this ink, but after about a week of using it, most of the trouble making particles are gone, and now the ink is giving me no trouble at all. Perhaps next time I'll fill up the pen without first shaking the bottle.

just got the ink, looks greenish, with mixing just more glitter, is it the paper that makes the ink look reddish in places?

Great review, thanks!

How do you have such control over your pen strokes? My hand just kind of spazzes and I get shaky lines.

A beautiful ink for fountain pens as well! 😍 Been wanting to get this for my pens since a long time, but I've heard that this ink is notorious for clogging the feed in fountain pens and give a hard time flushing them...

hi, this inks works on simple Lamy M or S size? i want one!

When I use fountain pen ink for calligraphy, I put a little bit of the ink in a separate inkwell like a dinky dip type container and add a little gum arabic to thicken it.

Great video! Does this ink clogg fountain pens? Thank you so much!

That in is so cool, thx for sharing

Never had an ink flow problem with this ink with the medium nib Momt Blanc or Broad Nib Pelikan, but have had issues with the fine nib waterman. Paper wise I have had bleed issues with staples printer paper and it's not particularly great on Moleskine notebooks. It's really good on Rhodia and Midori's notebook paper as well as the thin paper on my Traveler's Company notebook inserts (possibly also Midori paper?)

Great vid, great review.

Would the Brause have crisper lines against the Mitchell Round?

Thanks for this great video!!! Can you also use this ink with the Pilot Parallel Pen?

Hi Mr Edgar, first of all, thank you very much for the comprehensive review of the ink. You have inspired me to purchase the ink last week. However, I have encountered a problem here. Using a Pilot Parallel 6mm nib, I tried writing on the Rhodia Dotpad 80g/m and also the Tomoe River 68g/m - The green ink and gold shimmer are outstanding, but the red sheen has never appeared at all no matter how much I dip or flood the nib. Is there anything that I am doing wrongly? Or is there other alternative paper you will recommend? Looking forward to hear from the masters! Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the great video! Can I use the ink with the Pilot Parallel Pen?

Beautiful review

So so so sooooo beautiful!!

Wow you are so damn talented! 😍

I've heard of this ink from the goulet pens KZfaq channel . I hope one day to purchase it. But I would like to get another fountian pen to use for just shimmer inks .

I don't do calligraphy, but this was my third bottle of ink when I got back into fountain pens. I have dedicated a TWSBI Eco to it

I would have liked to see how this beautiful ink comes out on black paper 😌

I have a huge fountain be pen ink collection and do use fountain pens. Ive seen people use fountain pen ink the way you are using it. Mine attempts come out watery. Btw theres a nickname for this ink-Emerald of Chicken because auto correct kept changing the name of Chivor. Tomoe River is known to be very fountain pen friendly. Its Japanese paper. Its super absorbent.i love Tomoe River paper and have a good supply of it.

I really enjoy this ink with my lamy 1.1mm stub

Edgar, one more quick question! You mentioned that you like Strathmore 300 gym watercolor paper. I’ve never tried it, as I always use Arches 140 lb Hot Press. Are you using the Strathmore HOT PRESS paper? (I’m assuming you are, but wanted to be sure) Really enjoy your Engrosser’s/Copperplate hand. It’s has beautiful bones!

jesus christ that is beautiful handwriting

Every demonstration video I see of this ink is so beautiful. Pity I'm not a calligrapher T.T

I can't find any of the nib and holder in amazon... So how can i get them?

Awesome! Do you have any tips about using a glass pen?

LOVE IT!!!

Had to turn 4k res on to appreciate the true colors and true shimmer.

See, this is the kind of sh!t that makes me want to just pack it in give it up! Fine work! I need to get around to buying some more imperial nibs or a brausse like he's using and some high quality paper such as Strathmore. When I first started attempting copperplate I was unfortunate to start with paper that was inadequate and it was really discouraging. Also I had a problem try to getting my nibs prepped to properly hold ink. I'm improving and hopefully one day far off I can be 1/10th as good as dude

Watercolour paper is sized (usually with gelatine) to make it absorb liquid slower to allow the watercolour artist time to paint and create their desired affects. That's why your ink dried slower on it.

Best ink ever!

that's so beautiful

"I will be using everything besides a fountain pen" You didn't try it in a ballpoint!

Mirando este video me doy cuenta de que ninca aprendere a escribir asi'. IMPRESIONANTE

Love the ink but the colour really depends on the paper i use ...its little bit tricky

Bro your shirt is awesome! "Chips"

Has anyone tried this ink with parallel pens? I don't have much success with anything other than pure ink in those pens, lots of clogging between the nib plates.

I bought some of that 52 g Tomoe paper and it doesnt perform well at all! As soon as I touch the paper with my pen it sucks the ink out and just makes a mess. I must have bought the wrong format I don’t know!

Sir pls send link to purchase glass pen ink particular name

Watercolor paper is designed with sizing which is to help the water and pigment “float” with the goal of not immediately drying. Normal paper doesn’t have that and soaks up liquid better

It makes me wonder… Had I tried to use a quill and cook inks in my notebooks in high-school, would it have made school less of a hell for me…? Probably not, and someone would have probably spilled it on me “by mistake”, but anything that makes me wonder if that experience could have been a little less tortuous helps…

Gothic is my most favourite 😍😍😍😍

No entiendo nada pero... exelente caligrafía amigo 👍

that was soooo incredible man it's so cool