EFNIR: Colorverse Ham #65

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Colorverse Ham #65

This is review #173 in my series.  Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: Cleaning was easy with plain water but did require an extra flush or two, suggesting lots of dye in this ink.  Once again, the cameras chose to ignore the green component of this ink. The screen capture ink color is too blue and doesn't show enough shading. The absorbent paper isn't too far off. The scan is pretty close. The zoom is a bit too blue, and pale because the feed was a little dry when I started. Even the line width and microscope smear are too blue. Go by the scan, it's closest.

The line width measurement is one of the lines used for dry time.  Magnification is 100x.  The grid is 100x100µm.  The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each.  The line width for this ink is roughly 310µm. (For the curious, with 173 inks measured, the average line width is 292µm.)

The slide smear is boring, so I'm not including it.

And here is a screen of the final result, for those not interested in the video:

Scan of Completed Review:

Zoomed in photo:

Absorbent Paper Closeup (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper):

Line width measured via microscope at 100x:

Images also available on Instagram: @zilxodarap.

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Hope you enjoy.  Comments appreciated!

[yazeh]

Nice one @LizEF 

Funny such a discrepancy between scan and screenshot, love techonlogy !

Hope your cold is better.

We have cliff hanger moment this time... that must be fun

 

[InesF]

Thank you @LizEF for this review and for the microscopy image.

 

This is a beautiful colour. If it isn't teal, maybe it's petrol? 😊

The Colorverse inks seem to be special, as there is little feathering on the puzzle paper but some fuzz on the copy paper. Strange.

I also like the microscopy image a lot. Between heavy saturated areas I can see left-outs, some small polyedric spots in between paper fibres. There is still so much to learn about ink behaviour on paper. 👩‍🎓

[mizgeorge]

Thanks as ever @LizEF - nice review of a nice-looking ink. 

 

Nuff said

[LizEF]

9 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Nice one @LizEF 

Thanks!

 

9 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Funny such a discrepancy between scan and screenshot, love techonlogy !

Right!?  So bizarre.

 

10 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Hope your cold is better.

Thank you!  I'm almost back to 100%.  I think another day will do it.

 

10 minutes ago, yazeh said:

We have cliff hanger moment this time... that must be fun

Wait until you see what happens Friday!

[LizEF]

9 minutes ago, InesF said:

Thank you @LizEF for this review and for the microscopy image.

You're very welcome.

 

10 minutes ago, InesF said:

This is a beautiful colour. If it isn't teal, maybe it's petrol? 😊

I think "petrol" is a color only Europeans can imagine.  Indeed, it may not be a color at all, but only a colour... This is a blue that leans slightly green, but not far enough to be something other than blue, regardless of what the images suggest...  Whatever else is true, I like it.

 

12 minutes ago, InesF said:

The Colorverse inks seem to be special, as there is little feathering on the puzzle paper but some fuzz on the copy paper. Strange.

Hmm.  You might need to zoom in on the puzzle paper - the ink seems pretty fuzzy on both to me - perhaps because it's so wet.

 

13 minutes ago, InesF said:

I also like the microscopy image a lot. Between heavy saturated areas I can see left-outs, some small polyedric spots in between paper fibres. There is still so much to learn about ink behaviour on paper. 👩‍🎓

Given how wet the ink is, I would have thought it would sink into the "warp and weft" of the paper, but apparently not.  It would be interesting if we could do a sort of 3-D image of the paper's "terrain" - it could be revealing to see just how deep a valley has to be before the ink skips over it...

[LizEF]

12 minutes ago, mizgeorge said:

Thanks as ever @LizEF - nice review of a nice-looking ink.

You're very welcome!  & Thanks!

[Sailor Kenshin]

A,  My kind of color! 👍🏻

B,  Cliffhanger!  👍🏻
C, If my ham turned that color, I'd throw it out.  😱

 

Thanks for another great review!  🎉

 

 

[LizEF]

8 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

A,  My kind of color! 👍🏻

 

8 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

B,  Cliffhanger!  👍🏻

 

8 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

C, If my ham turned that color, I'd throw it out.  😱

For those who don't know: wikipedia article.

 

10 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Thanks for another great review!  🎉

You're very welcome!

[dragondazd]

Aha! The use case for two bottles with and without shimmer. I love the shading.

 

 

[Sailor Kenshin]

35 minutes ago, LizEF said:

 

 

For those who don't know: wikipedia article.

 

You're very welcome!

In that case I'd rush him to the vet.

[LizEF]

35 minutes ago, dragondazd said:

Aha! The use case for two bottles with and without shimmer. I love the shading.

Yes, sometimes it makes sense.  Other times, it's just cute (and expensive).

[LizEF]

24 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

In that case I'd rush him to the vet.

  Right?  Either way, the color doesn't seem to relate strongly to the name...

[axialix]

@LizEF Great review and a very nice color. Kinda reminds me a bit of Supernova with the strong shading, but Ham is darker. Would love to try this one but only see the Glistening available here in the US. Did you buy the 65ml bottle?

[LizEF]

11 minutes ago, axialix said:

@LizEF Great review and a very nice color.

Thanks!

 

11 minutes ago, axialix said:

Did you buy the 65ml bottle?

Yes, I got the set: 65mL of Ham #65 and 15mL of the glistening version.  You can get a 4mL sample of the regular, non-glistening version from Vanness, but that's the largest source I know of short of buying the whole set.  Of course, if the glistening is the same (I haven't actually used it yet), you could always get it and just let the glitter settle before filling...

[dragondazd]

Newbie question: Why put the penmanship in a prera? why not leave in the penmanship?

[yazeh]

28 minutes ago, LizEF said:

  Right?  Either way, the color doesn't seem to relate strongly to the name...

Maybe it has to do with the green eggs

 

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, dragondazd said:

Newbie question: Why put the penmanship in a prera? why not leave in the penmanship?

I find the Prera more comfortable - I started with the nib in the Penmanship, then tried it in a Metropolitan, and finally put it in a Prera, where's it's been ever since - most comfortable grip / pen of all the Pilot steel-nib pens I've tried.

[LizEF]

40 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Maybe it has to do with the green eggs

[dragondazd]

5 minutes ago, LizEF said:

I find the Prera more comfortable - I started with the nib in the Penmanship, then tried it in a Metropolitan, and finally put it in a Prera, where's it's been ever since - most comfortable grip / pen of all the Pilot steel-nib pens I've tried.

Ahhh thanks.