INK REVIEW: Diamine Grey

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A quick look at Diamine Grey..

This color is a true gray (grey, for those of you who insist).  Stately and professional as I said in my Fifty Shades of Grey post last month.

It's a bit darker than I like. If I'm going to get that close to black, I may as well go black.  

It smeared a bit on my Hammermill Premium paper, but it's tolerable. Some shading is nice. Tiny bit of feathering - even on the index cards below.

The water test is a fail - not so much from the Q-Tip across "Water Test," but more from the standing test in the word "from" below.  

But..it is a true gray (ok, grey!) and I do appreciate that.

I'm not going to buy a full bottle of this ink (testing was done from a sample as usual). There's just nothing that special about it.

Tyler Dahl LOVED this ink. A true sign that YMMV.

Have you tried it? What do you think? Wonderful or just meh?

UPDATE:  For some odd reason, this post received a whole big mess of spammy posts. I've closed comments on this post, but please contact me if you have something to add to the conversation! xo