Flex-Pen Ink Review: "Pelikan Edelstein - Smoky Quartz"

[Detman101]

An old favorite...reloaded

[inkstainedruth]

Nice review.  I don't have any pens that flex that much.  But I do really really like Smoky Quartz, especially in the 1990s era M400 Brown Tortoise, with it's springy and wet F nib.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[lapis]

Great ink for sure. But I ask myself if the use of a flex-pen -- which does and/or can lay down a nice amount of ink to get the "depth" of it all -- results in an un-nice amount of show-through/bleeding....

[Detman101]

23 minutes ago, lapis said:

Great ink for sure. But I ask myself if the use of a flex-pen -- which does and/or can lay down a nice amount of ink to get the "depth" of it all -- results in an un-nice amount of show-through/bleeding....

No bleed at all...
One of the reasons I love this SODF Flex-nib Unit so much...It lays down the ink wide and thin...
(EDIT: don't mind the scribble on the left-side of the pic...had to edit out some data)

 

[yazeh]

Nice one @Detman101 I mostly enjoyed the combo of teddy bear with chocolate chip cookie...  😛

 

[Detman101]

29 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Nice review.  I don't have any pens that flex that much.  But I do really really like Smoky Quartz, especially in the 1990s era M400 Brown Tortoise, with it's springy and wet F nib.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

One of the things I love about this SODF Nib unit. I can go from XXF to BB at will.
Smoky Quartz was the first dry brown ink I ever had. I purchased it to attempt to tame a Penbbs-456 that ran so wet it would dump ink on the page when writing. It worked for that pen, but I wound up returning the pen to stock and giving it to my wife. I just didn't like the shape of the thing...and it had a bad habit of bleeding out the butt when filling....ugh.
The ink is marvelous though.   I'm very happy to enjoy it once again after so long...

[Detman101]

1 minute ago, yazeh said:

Nice one @Detman101 I mostly enjoyed the combo of teddy bear with chocolate chip cookie...  😛

 

Hehehe...thank you! This ink brings back all those warm lovely feelings. Chocolate cookies and hot chocolate cuddled up in bed with a nice plush warm teddy bear. Winter fun...hehehe.
I even considered wearing my chocolate brown vest this morning but ran out of time on the way out the door after reloading the pen with this ink. 😛

[namrehsnoom]

One of my favourite brown inks, and it looks really gorgeous in that flex nib. With truly great behaviour - I too had expected lots of bleed-through, but no such thing. That’s simply amazing.

[lapis]

2 hours ago, Detman101 said:

No bleed at all...
One of the reasons I love this SODF Flex-nib Unit so much...It lays down the ink wide and thin...

Thanks.  I now not only like the ink (since its birth) but also your pen. A good recommendation!

[LizEF]

Very nice, @Detman101!  Thanks for a warm and fuzzy review!

[Detman101]

5 hours ago, namrehsnoom said:

One of my favourite brown inks, and it looks really gorgeous in that flex nib. With truly great behaviour - I too had expected lots of bleed-through, but no such thing. That’s simply amazing.

Yep, it's got great consistency when it's in the right pen. Real good stuff! It's just dry enough to do what you need, while wet enough to still lay down good on the paper.

4 hours ago, lapis said:

Thanks.  I now not only like the ink (since its birth) but also your pen. A good recommendation!

Hehe, Glad to hear that! Let me tempt you with a little more glamour...hehe. 😛

2 hours ago, LizEF said:

Very nice, @Detman101!  Thanks for a warm and fuzzy review!

Hehe, always happy to post a nice warm fuzzy one when I can