Solid daily red.

Cannot wait to use this ink

I've had a Montblanc Starwalker for many years, but I've never gotten it to work well. I had it looked at by Montblanc service and that didn't help. I even purchased the Montblanc piston converter, but that too did not make it work well. Then I tried using inks from other companies than Montblanc. This Diamine Oxblood works awesomely, and I can now use this pen as I'd hoped to when my wife gave it to me.

Love the ink

Gotta keep it on hand at all times. Excellent for recording the events of vampire-themed D&D campaigns. Also great for making blood splatters on your journal pages (in case you need that sort of thing).

Great colour.

Great for Shark 🦈 pens! Lol.

This ink is a little bit lighter than Diamine's Burgundy Royale but equally gorgeous. There's a reason it's a hit. Grab your sample and see what the fuss is all about.

This ink is Writer's Blood but a little warmer and brighter, or Red Dragon but a little dustier. It gives the pleasing "flat shading" effect that looks more like water ripple shadows than clearly divided chunks of bright and dark shades. This shade of red did not end up being my favorite, but the ink is high quality.

A bit more brown than expected.

Definitely has the characteristic ox blood, darker red color. Can appear more brown when diluted or when thick. I use it art and haven't loaded in a pen yet.

An excellent ink when you want something that's both considerably different and yet elegant, sober. Like most Diamine inks, it performs well.

My experience with Goulet Pen Co is always a pleasure. The Lamy 2000 is definitely one of my favorite fountain pens in my collection.

It bleeds through too much and too dark of a red-brownish tone.

This ink is incredible. I have always loved the idea of writing with a dark maroon/red that wasn't too bright. Diamine's Oxblood lays on paper beautifully and offers lovely variation depending on the paper you use. I found most success with Rhodia and Cosmo Air Light papers.

This ink is exquisite.

The ink flowed well through my pen and there was no feathering to be seen even on cheaper paper. While the quality of the ink was very good, the color was not what I thought it would be. I was not expecting a crimson red, but I was surprised the color of was a rust brown. At first, I thought it might had been the paper I tried the ink on. However, after trying the ink on a couple of more kinds of paper, the color remained more brownish than red.

I found the sample size to be a bit too small for adequate testing.

I found Ox Blood to be a very usable ink. It flows well and is nicely saturated. I found no shading which is of no concern to me. What I liked the best was shade of the black/red ink. It is maintains its red color while being dark enough to use in work settings. I recommend you try a sample of Ox Blood a bottle of this ink is destined for my desk.

Got a vial of this to see what all the hype was about online. It's certainly a beautiful color -- a dark shade of red with subtle hints of purple. For me, I'm happy I tried it but I can't use this as an accent color for my notes. It doesn't stand out enough from black ink for my purposes. Another downside is that if your hands aren't completely dry the ink will smear across your paper. If your looking to write with this ink as your primary color on paper that isn't black, I'd recommend checking this out.

Love this ink! Color and works so good in my pens. Will invest in the bottle. Thank you your sample size very generous after this I will be invest in the large bottle. This color is a keeper. Very pleased.

The team at Goulet handled my request with that high level of customer service you hear about with them. Thanks to them! I tried Oxblood because I heard so much about it, and found it to only be a nice shade of brown unless it's in the sunlight. It's there that the reddish tones come through a bit more. It was a bit underwhelming, honestly. But, it's a solid ink that flows nicely, dries quickly enough and doesn't smudge so much.

I had hoped for more shading with this one, but it stayed pretty consistent in hue. I used it with a glass dip pen on Tomoe River 52 gsm white paper, and it came out as a brownish red (akin to the color of dried blood). It's nicely thick, and has a great flow on the dip pen while not needing to be re-dipped very often. So functionally it's a 5-star ink in my book, it just disappointed me a bit in color variation and hue.

Beautiful ink, writing with a Jinhao Dragon pen, medium nib on a Marumon Mnemosyne notebook. I had no feathering at all and it dried in around 10 seconds. Excellent flow rate for my pen and writing speed. I also tried it on some Post-it notes and it performed very well too, minimal feathering and dried almost immediately. I will definitely be getting a bottle of this ink.

This is my new preferred color for general writing and note-taking. It might be a bit bold to use for something formal that would normally be done in blue or black, but you could get away with it if you wanted to make a statement. When dry it really does look like dried blood in a deep red brown. It's not as blue as some inks that you might think of as more burgundy.

You can't enter the Fountain Pen world without hearing about Diamine's Oxblood Ink. It's one of the Holy Grail Inks, and from the pictures, I can see why. It's a gorgeous color. Distinct but still subtle. But between my day job needing my research notes to be waterproof, and then still wanting a waterproof ink to do my writing edits in the evenings / weekends, I admired it from afar, but kept talking myself out of trying it for fear of loving it, and rarely having a situation to really write with it. Then I caved, and bought a sample... The ink had varied results based on the pen used and the paper written on. Since I greatly appreciated the really thorough reviews others left on here, I want to do the same. PEN: Monteverde Innova EF Nib (drier writer of my two pens)- Copy Paper: Nice Flow, decently smooth. Behaves well. - Exceed Notebooks: Flow isn't quite as smooth; it's running dry and a little toothy. It doesn't put down much ink and leaves it looking anemic.PEN: Hong Dian Black Forest EF Nib (from Amazon) (wetter writer of my two pens)- Copy Paper: Wet flow, too wet. Heavy spreading along with feathering, bleed-through, and ghosting. But damn it's a gorgeous color. - Exceed Notebooks: Writes beautifully with this pen. Takes a little longer to dry, but the color is rich, saturated, and gorgeous. And I see why this ink is so loved. OVERALL NOTES: - It doesn't transfer back and forth between the two pens and papers very easily. But it's a gorgeous color, and when it writes well, it writes really well. So now the debate is whether or not it's worth buying a bottle for only occasional use when waterproofing isn't critical... If it had written well across both papers with one of my pens, it would have been a definite purchase.

With Resurrection, Sunday fast approaching, I need something spectacular in the cards that I'm sending out. I have the Easter cards; now, I needed the ink to emphasize the blood of Christ. I found the perfect pigment of blood-red color in the Diamine Oxblood Red Ink. I got a vile sample, and with an eye-dropper, I dripped the blood ink on all the cards. The Diamine Oxblood red ink did an accurate depiction of blood. Next time I'll get the bottle.

Russet red color � the shade definitely grew on me over time, though I was expecting a more saturated true blood red. Easy and reliable to write with. Water resistance is lower than I would like, the ink reveals a glowing strawberry pink tone when exposed to water. Would be open to repurchasing.

Nice dark rich color. Very pigmented.

I found this color to be rather pink. Alas, this is my least favorite Diamine ink so far.

A beautiful ink that drys fast and lubricates well in vintage pens,DO ink is a rich and smooth dark red.