Lamy T53 Crystal Ink Azurite

[A Smug Dill]

 

 

 

p.s. No feathering and no bleed-through on Rhodia DotPad 80g/m² paper. Show-through is minimal to nil; I can see where the ring from the mouth of the ink bottle is, as well as some of the most heavily shaded squares, from the verso side of the sheet, but none of the writing. Water resistance is very poor, as shown above. Drying time is about 14 seconds when writing relatively dryly; but this ink flows wet. I've deliberately written ‘jot‘ for the lines at 20s and 25s a bit more wetly, and I think a drying time of 23-24 seconds is more likely for real-world use (on Rhodia DotPad 80g/m² paper).

 

[InesF]

Thank you @A Smug Dill for this ink review. The photo has captured the yellow-green sheen very well!

 

This one is on my list for February rotation. Azurite behaves nice on paperblanks paper and on my usual assortment of copy/printing paper as well.

 

All three of the Lamy Crystal series inks I used so far are highly saturated, have either nice sheen or some shading and do well on below average quality paper. I think, they are a bit underrated. The 8-9 € per 30 mL bottle makes them more expensive than Pelikan 4001 or Waterman inks but you get much more for the money. The only negative thing is their smell which I find not so attractive.

[AmandaW]

I am guessing this is a good example of the colour meant by "blurple" - in that visually confusing space in between blue and purple.

 

As I look, at the blocks of tone particularly, the colour keeps shifting from one to the other, like a colour version of that classic image that changes from a vase to a profile and back again. Notan. Colour notan!

[mizgeorge]

Another really useful review @A Smug Dill - thank you as ever!

 

If I liked saturated inks, I'm sure I'd like this one. As it is, It will stay with the rest of its range on the 'if it's on sale at a really, really good price' list! 

[Mannyonpil]

漢皇重色思傾國  --> This looks like it is going to end badly. This is not your usual fare, Mr. Dill. 😉

[Mannyonpil]

The ink under review here stirs recollections of days past. The color of this ink reminds me, and I mean this positively, of the ink of the ballpoint pens of my distant youth. While I am no fan of those pens, there was a bluish-purplish ink in them that I still remember to this day and would like to see in a fountain pen. Could this be it?

[LizEF]

11 minutes ago, Mannyonpil said:

The ink under review here stirs recollections of days past. The color of this ink reminds me, and I mean this positively, of the ink of the ballpoint pens of my distant youth. While I am no fan of those pens, there was a bluish-purplish ink in them that I still remember to this day and would like to see in a fountain pen. Could this be it?

If it is it, you can have my share, too!

 

Blurple might well be my least favorite color.  Thank you, @A Smug Dill , for confirming this is an ink I'm not interested in.

[yazeh]

🙏

[MissCellany]

Lovely review, thank you. I found my bottle to be a bit unruly in terms of drying time and difficulty to clean, but the color is indeed rather nice. May have to revisit this sometime.

[amberleadavis]

Thank you so much for this review!  I really enjoy your reviews and I really appreciate that you did this for me.  You are awesome.

[A Smug Dill]

9 hours ago, Mannyonpil said:

漢皇重色思傾國  --> This looks like it is going to end badly.

 

Coveting and then arranging to steal one's daughter-in-law from one's own son is bad, mmkay? Even if one gets to issue imperial decrees that (effectively) conclude with 欽此 (“Respect my authoritay!”).

 

In case anyone is wondering what we are talking about:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/66274-favorite-lines-of-poetry/?do=findComment&comment=4098364

 

[amberleadavis]

7 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Coveting and then arranging to steal one's daughter-in-law from one's own son is bad, mmkay? Even if one gets to issue imperial decrees that (effectively) conclude with 欽此 (“Respect my authoritay!”).

 

In case anyone is wondering what we are talking about:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/66274-favorite-lines-of-poetry/?do=findComment&comment=4098364

 

 

 

OH my, it did end badly: "so ultimately he commanded her death to save his own skin. She was led to a nearby shrine and strangled."

[Mannyonpil]

It really is quite shocking. Almost as shocking as the next line down concerning the lack of jukeboxes in discotheques. 

[Mannyonpil]

Be all this as it may, your handwriting, Mr. Dill, is a pleasure to behold, no matter the language.

[lgsoltek]

Oh this reminds me of my high school days when we had to remember this loooong poem by heart. 
The ink looks lovely. Kinda like R&K Cassia (an old favourite that I must dig out someday!).

[Preserved_Killick]

This is a really interesting ink with great sheen.  I like it.  I like even more Lamy's Obsydian -- a black ink with great sheen.

[chromantic]

On 2/9/2022 at 6:44 AM, LizEF said:

If it is it, you can have my share, too!

 

Blurple might well be my least favorite color.  Thank you, @A Smug Dill , for confirming this is an ink I'm not interested in.

 Oh noes. I just ordered this on the strength of the sample in Gunkanes' thread in Ink Comparisons. I saw it as blue leaning very slightly purple, not the outright purple Dill shows here. Well, we'll soon see.

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, chromantic said:

 Oh noes. I just ordered this on the strength of the sample in Gunkanes' thread in Ink Comparisons. I saw it as blue leaning very slightly purple, not the outright purple Dill shows here. Well, we'll soon see.

It'll be interesting to hear your thoughts on it.  Ever since learning that every human perceives color a little differently, it's been interesting to me to read all the different perceptions of the same ink.   Hope you like it, however it looks!

[chromantic]

I'm a sucker for green sheen.

[LizEF]

10 minutes ago, chromantic said:

I'm a sucker for green sheen.