Informal Review - L'artisan Pastellier Callifolio - Baikal

[amberleadavis]

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[amberleadavis]

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[leeowens337]

Amberlea,

 

As always, and awesome review, nice pics, and great doodles!

 

Sorry, however, that the ink didn't live up to your expectations, or at least hopes... It definitely looks chalky, and to me very blue-grey instead of a rich deep blue-black.

 

-Lee

[lapis]

Great! Although I usually don't like chalkiness, I do find that this blue-gray and its chalkiness fit nicely together. Nonetheless, one of my favourite blue-grays -- which is fuyu-syogun -- seems to have absolutely no chalkiness. Cloudiness and snow, yes....

[visvamitra]

Interesting - the way you presented it, Baikal looks acceptable. However in the package that I've received from L'Artisan Pastellier few months ago the ink named Baikal was awful. Take a look (text is written with Pilot 78G with broad nib):

 

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[lapis]

Neat! Maybe it's a charge/lot thing. Your images look a lot more purple and chalky than Amber's, but it's still a beautiful colour (IMO).

 

Mike

[amberleadavis]

I don't know these inks are too similar to one another and they are just not exciting enough. Mike, I sent you a sample of each of the three colors. I guess I expected it to be so much more exciting.

[Morbus Curiositas]

cool ink! Nicely written and like the pictures...

 

Such a review shows all the facets of the ink

 

Greetz Peter

[Seele]

Perhaps it is blue-black in colour but not blue-black in nature, as in the writing turning black over time to become more permanent. Come to think of it, a lot of people I talked to did not know that as one of the performance criteria of a blue-black, but then I might be a bit of a dinosaur...

[amberleadavis]

Perhaps it is blue-black in colour but not blue-black in nature, as in the writing turning black over time to become more permanent. Come to think of it, a lot of people I talked to did not know that as one of the performance criteria of a blue-black, but then I might be a bit of a dinosaur...

 

 

Okay, now you must elucidate and educate us all.

 

Sir Dinosaur, What is the criteria of a blue-black?

[Seele]

Amberlea,

 

When I was young, fountain pen was still a mainstream writing instrument, and blue-black ink means one that is darker than washable blue, but after drying the colour turns towards black and becomes quite permanent; this performance characteristic was pretty much expected as an integral part of this ink. With the benefit of hindsight, iron gall formula was likely the norm for blue-black to the point that there was no need to mention it, much like watches were watches, without a need to say it's mechanical (as opposed to quartz).

 

I would even hazard a guess that relative newcomers to this fountain pen business thinks that some blue-black inks are faulty, as writings turn black after a while!

[amberleadavis]

Amberlea,

 

When I was young, fountain pen was still a mainstream writing instrument, and blue-black ink means one that is darker than washable blue, but after drying the colour turns towards black and becomes quite permanent; this performance characteristic was pretty much expected as an integral part of this ink. With the benefit of hindsight, iron gall formula was likely the norm for blue-black to the point that there was no need to mention it, much like watches were watches, without a need to say it's mechanical (as opposed to quartz).

 

I would even hazard a guess that relative newcomers to this fountain pen business thinks that some blue-black inks are faulty, as writings turn black after a while!

 

 

See, that's good to know. I was playing with ESSRI the other day. (and IG ink). It starts out a vibrant blue -- like Noodler's blue -- and then dries dark and continues to darken. ESSRI actually makes it fun to watch ink dry.

 

I found a video that is a different IG ink that shows that effect (go to about the middle and see how it darkens).

 

[amberleadavis]

Interesting - the way you presented it, Baikal looks acceptable. However in the package that I've received from L'Artisan Pastellier few months ago the ink named Baikal was awful. Take a look (text is written with Pilot 78G with broad nib):

 

http://imageshack.com/a/img855/1682/j6uq.jpg

http://imageshack.com/a/img36/3172/humr.jpg

http://imageshack.com/a/img839/138/riyg.jpg

 

 

I can say that my Pelikan is tuned to lay down a lot of ink. I can only guess that it's naturally a dry writer. Here are the other two colors I tried. As you can see they don't look like the pictures that Callifolio gives us.

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/2014-Inklings/slides/2014-Ink_146.jpg

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/2014-Inklings/slides/2014-Ink_136.jpg

[amberleadavis]

Remember this is what they promised us:

 

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[amberleadavis]

This ink really did perform well. Never dried out, reasonable water resistance. Alas, if the manufacturers had advertised the color accurately, I would have loved the ink.