A few months back, I did a review of Sugar Turtle Studio’s four Diamine inks and recently remembered that I still had more of their inks in my review bin, so here we are! Tom Forsythe of Sugar Turtle Studio released another collaboration with Diamine - a 3 ink set called “Slowpoke Series 1”, his first ink series!
The Sugar Turtle Slowpoke Series 1 is a set of 3 inks: Lollygag, Dawdle, and Trudge. This set of inks launched last summer and come in Diamine’s 30ml plastic bottles.
As in the past, all swatches were done on Col-O-Ring cards using a Kakimori steel dip nib, while writing samples were done with a TWSBI Go with a Medium nib and a Lamy Vista with a steel Medium nib. The TWSBI Go is a wetter writer and the Lamy is a drier writer, so these two give me a good idea of how an ink will look from different pens. The notebook used for writing samples is the Endless Recorder with 68 gsm Tomoe River paper. Dry times for the Vista are shown with “(V)” and the Go will be below that and might also be shown with “(T)”. Dry times may be a bit slower on 52gsm TR or faster on paper like Cosmo Air Light, Rhodia, copy paper, or with drier or finer nibs, etc.
Tom describes Lollygag as a “cranberry ink with yellow sheen”, but I think of it more as a magenta ink with a greenish sheen. The sheen is not overpowering in writing samples, despite how it looks in larger swatches.
Dawdle is described as “blue-leaning gray…a Blue-Black”. Looking at the label and the cute koala, I was expecting a muted purple. When I swatched it, it looks a bit blue-black with a touch of purple in it, but I wouldn’t call it purple either. I checked the bottle to make sure I swatched the right one as well as checking the website’s swatches to make sure I had the right color.
All 3 inks behaved well and wrote nicely. Dry times weren’t too bad, but Dawdle was the fastest to dry 30 seconds, while the other two were 45-60 with a wet writer.
The Diamine x Sugar Turtle Studio Slowpoke Series 1 set is currently available on their website or in their Etsy shop for $25/set (shipping is not included). Given that this is Series 1, I hope this means that a second series will be coming soon!
(Disclaimer: Brad bought these inks from Sugar Turtle Studio. All other inks and notebooks are my own.)
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