Noodler's Chekhov - A pastel pink

[yazeh]

Noodler’s Chekhov is Light pastel pink, belonging to the Russian line. 
One of the most subtle and soft inks I have ever used and one of the best inks, I've ever tried, period. It brings me silent joy. 

From what I've tried and tested, I really like the Russian Series in General. They are well behaved and easy to clean and water resistant.

They have also rekindled my passion for reading poetry. 

A bit about Anton Chekhov:
He was born in 1869 and died at age 44 from tuberculosis. 


He was a doctor by profession, but is considered one the greatest writers of all times. He once said, "Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress." 

Chekhov was author of four plays, the Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya and 3 Sisters, the Cherry Orchard and many short stories. I assume the ink is a nod to the Cherry Orchard an

The ink shades delightfully with broad and flex nibs. It’s a shade that soothes the soul. The ink was slightly less lubricated in my Lamy Safari. It gave just enough feedback to remind me, that I'm writing. 
Dry time is about 15 seconds.
Midori
Ahab

Lamy Broad/ Reverse 

The chroma is simple:

On Tomoe River - Ahab

TR 68gr with Ahab

Comparison:

Here is a written sample on FIELD NOTES, notebooks. These are non FP friendly notebooks, super absorbent.
Front:

Back

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Note Russian series inks are more expensive than standard bulletproof inks. 
Ink is bulletproof however, if you drag a wet Q-tip on the ink, it can be removed to a certain extent. However, under running water it looks fine and rubbing alchol doesn't faze it at all. Ink is fluorescent.  


• Pens used: Noodler’s Ahab/ Lamy Safari Broad
• Shading: Quite a bit on good paper with wide nibs.
• Ghosting: Not on good paper. Check Field notes. 
• Bleed through: On absorbent paper with wide nibs.  
• Flow Rate: Balanced
• Lubrication: Good, but it can be slightly dry depending your pen.
• Nib Dry-out: No
• Start-up: No
• Saturation: pastel
• Shading Potential: With flex and broad nibs.
• Sheen: None
• Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Not noticed…on FIELD NOTES paper a bit.
• Nib Creep / “Crud”: No
• Staining (pen): Easy to clean…
• Clogging: Nope
• Water resistance: Excellent
• Availability: 90 ml bottles

[lapis]

Great! And thanks again for your literary magnetism to Russian sources!! I find it all the more noteworthy -- no, meritorious -- of you to go into detail about what can (at least theoretically) be seen in and/or read out of chosen colours.

Not meant on purpose to get off track, but here, I see less "pink" but more, well, "dried blood".

[yazeh]

  On 12/16/2021 at 7:31 PM, lapis said:

Great! And thanks again for your literary magnetism to Russian sources!! I find it all the more noteworthy -- no, meritorious -- of you to go into detail about what can (at least theoretically) be seen in and/or read out of chosen colours.

Not meant on purpose to get off track, but here, I see less "pink" but more, well, "dried blood".

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Thanks Lapis for the encouragement. I try to keep it to the history to minimum. But I read some intriguing quotes from Chekhov. 

TO be honest it doesn't remind me of dry blood. I wrote several pages with it this morning, and that was the farthest from my mind. But yes, I can see a semblance of it. 

Some even describe as brown.... So go figure

[LizEF]

Thanks for the review, @yazeh!  I really like the print writing in the Lamy broad nib and the Ahab on TR - that's gorgeous shading.  On my monitor, it looks sort of brick red.  And you made me go read the summaries of all four of Chekhov's plays, and I still can't remember which one we did in college (I majored in Russian - utter waste of time, but that's another story).

[inkstainedruth]

  On 12/16/2021 at 10:05 PM, yazeh said:

Thanks Lapis for the encouragement. I try to keep it to the history to minimum. But I read some intriguing quotes from Chekhov. 

TO be honest it doesn't remind me of dry blood. I wrote several pages with it this morning, and that was the farthest from my mind. But yes, I can see a semblance of it. 

Some even describe as brown.... So go figure

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Yes, on my screen it also looks like a warm light brown.

This is one I'd have to think about.  I haven't seen a lot of reviews (or even scans of swabs) of many of the Noodler's Russian series inks, although Akmatova is such a quirky green that it is a keeper for me.  So thanks for doing this.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

  On 12/16/2021 at 10:36 PM, LizEF said:

Thanks for the review, @yazeh!  I really like the print writing in the Lamy broad nib and the Ahab on TR - that's gorgeous shading.  On my monitor, it looks sort of brick red. 

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I do to. That's a broad nib for you.  

  On 12/16/2021 at 10:36 PM, LizEF said:

 

And you made me go read the summaries of all four of Chekhov's plays, and I still can't remember which one we did in college (I majored in Russian - utter waste of time, but that's another story).

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Glad I made you read...must have been an uninspired production...  

 

 

[yazeh]

  On 12/16/2021 at 11:49 PM, inkstainedruth said:

Yes, on my screen it also looks like a warm light brown.

This is one I'd have to think about.  I haven't seen a lot of reviews (or even scans of swabs) of many of the Noodler's Russian series inks, although Akmatova is such a quirky green that it is a keeper for me.  So thanks for doing this.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

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Thanks Ruth. Glad you liked Akhmatova. 

Maybe I should post a comparison with the few browns I've got... to give you a bit of contrast....

[LizEF]

  On 12/17/2021 at 1:30 AM, yazeh said:

Glad I made you read...must have been an uninspired production...

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More like so long ago there's no room left in my RAM to contain the memory and that sector of my hard drive had its index corrupted, so good luck retrieving the memory!

[inkstainedruth]

When I was in college, the theatre department was doing a production of The Sea Gull, and my friend Ed's roommate Noah was on set crew.  The director decided to go "realistic" and wanted a real seagull, so Ed took Noah down to Seaside Park in Bridgeport, CT.  Ed brought his BB gun to shoot at the gulls, but of course the BBs were just bouncing off the gulls, and apparently the gulls were looking at the guys going "Dudes, what is your PROBLEM?" 

They did (somehow) managed to find a dead one on the shore and Noah triumphantly brought it back to the director -- who immediately went "EWWWWW!  That is just so GROSS!" and I think went running for a bathroom to puke up lunch!  (They apparently ended up using a cloth stuffed one that someone sewed up....)

I can't remember if I actually went to see the production or not (I had had to read the play for I think my AP English class in high school and thought it was dreary....)

I must say that while I'm not overly enamored of this color ink, at least it isn't dreary-looking on my screen....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

  On 12/17/2021 at 2:21 AM, LizEF said:

More like so long ago there's no room left in my RAM to contain the memory and that sector of my hard drive had its index corrupted, so good luck retrieving the memory!

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Well, I wouldn't dare to go there, would I? 🤣

[LizEF]

  On 12/17/2021 at 3:32 AM, yazeh said:

Well, I wouldn't dare to go there, would I? 🤣

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  Wait, go where?

[namrehsnoom]

Thank you for this review - beautifully presented. And good to hear that it is a well-behaving ink. The colour is not really my thing though - but that’s what FPN is for: to get a thorough insight in inks so you can make up your mind if it’s worth getting a bottle.

BTW - when I saw the title, I was thinking: Ah… Pavel Checkov finally has an ink of his own (also a famous Russian, just born on a different stardate).

[PithyProlix]

My favorite short story writer! Even in translation (I don't begin to understand Russian). I think you made be right about the ref to the Cherry Orchard since the color, what I see on my screen at least, does invoke certain kinds of cherries to me.

I love this color and you present it wonderfully - thank you! I might backpedal on no longer using Noodler's ink. I'm really tempted to find samples of this one, Akhmatova (because of your other review), and Burma Road Brown. I really doubt I'd use this one in a everyday writing pen but, if I had it, I think it would go right into one of my flex pens.

[LizEF]

  On 12/17/2021 at 9:51 AM, namrehsnoom said:

Pavel Checkov finally has an ink of his own

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[yazeh]

@inkstainedruththanks for sharing the story. I was a fan of Russian literature when a teenager, and their dreary, style suited well my teenage angst. It's good to revisit these works with hopefully more mature eyes....

Here is  a scan comprised with a couple of browns. There's some pink btw in Polar Brown...

@LizEFYou know where...

@namrehsnoom 🖖

@PithyProlix Good to know there are some Chekhov lovers. The shading happens on some papers only, to dissuade you

 

 

[amberleadavis]

This is a great review. Thank you!

[yazeh]

  On 12/17/2021 at 8:31 PM, amberleadavis said:

This is a great review. Thank you!

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Thanks Amber. Means a lot

[InesF]

Thank you @yazeh for this review.

An interesting background for a well behaved and nice looking ink always makes for a great combination and a, somehow, special writing feeling.

(knowing from a similar experience with the deAtramentis Virginia Woolf ink in the MB Virginia Woolf fountain pen ...)

 

For a moment, for a first split-second, I really thought this ink will be about Star Trek ... , because me not remembering the 'h' difference in the names.

[yazeh]

  On 12/19/2021 at 9:30 AM, InesF said:

Thank you @yazeh for this review.

An interesting background for a well behaved and nice looking ink always makes for a great combination and a, somehow, special writing feeling.

(knowing from a similar experience with the deAtramentis Virginia Woolf ink in the MB Virginia Woolf fountain pen ...)

 

For a moment, for a first split-second, I really thought this ink will be about Star Trek ... , because me not remembering the 'h' difference in the names.

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Most welcome. 

Funny enough, I didn't make the association at all. And I'm quite Trekkie myself. It is intriguing so many FP lovers are sci lovers too....