EFNIR: Waterman Tender Purple

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Waterman Tender Purple

This is review #190 in my series.  Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: Cleaning was quick and easy and showed a lot of pink. None of my other purples are anything like this one. Pelikan 4001 Violet comes closest. The absorbent paper is very wrong (colorwise), as if the camera picked up blue in some places and pink in others, but never both. Copy paper isn't much better. The screenshot isn't too far off, but too blue, I think. Zoom shows too much shading. The scan might be the closest color, but the text isn't quite dark enough.

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 300µm. (For the curious, with 190 inks measured, the average line width is 292µm.)

The microscope slide was so interesting, I decided to include four images.

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:

Microscope slide at 100x. This is what most of the slide looked like, pinker where the ink was thin, bluer near the edges - sometimes far more blue than this suggests. The colors were also much brighter than this image shows, and those pink squares were hot, bright pink. The sharp-edged white streaks were denser and more complex in the bluer areas.

Microscope slide at 100x. These were all the same as those hot pink squares, but like overlapping flakes. There were places with many more, forming long lines of overlapping squares. These were all in the areas without any other ink around them.

Microscope slide at 400x. There were many feathery areas, but none quite like this! It's like a feather-flower. My eyes saw much greater detail and more vibrant color - sorry I couldn't capture it for you.

Microscope slide at 400x. This is the edge of the cover slip. Again, it doesn't show the detail I could see, but the colors are very close to what I saw.  The red looked like crystal spikes stabbing in from the edge of the cover slip.

Images also available on Instagram: @zilxodarap.

Previous Review: Monteverde Garnet.

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Hope you enjoy.  Comments appreciated!

[MissCellany]

Delightful review, thank you! This is one of my faves for finer nibs- I currently have it in my fine Lamy 2000 that I use for work and it's a perfect combination in terms of performance. Looks great on the page, too ;3

[InesF]

Hi @LizEF - thank you for the review, the story (I hope very much, neither the world is falling apart nor the sky will fall on our heads 🧙‍♀️) and for the microscopy.

 

"Self assembling ink" was my instant intuition, seeing the geometric shapes, the lines and, especially, the flower!

 

Waterman Purple is among my favourite inks and always on stock at most (at all?) stationary shops nearby.

Puh, that's a relaxed situation! 😎

[yazeh]

Great job with this one, @LizEF 

My vocabulary is expanding every week, wizardess, snek, so many fun words

Loved the magic inky "orchid", spectacular and that quote, so true, end of the world and bicycle....

[LizEF]

10 minutes ago, MissCellany said:

Delightful review

Thanks!

 

11 minutes ago, MissCellany said:

thank you!

You're very welcome!

 

11 minutes ago, MissCellany said:

This is one of my faves for finer nibs- I currently have it in my fine Lamy 2000 that I use for work and it's a perfect combination in terms of performance. Looks great on the page, too ;3

I would have guessed it would be super-wet out of a Lamy 2000!  Either way, it's a great ink.

[LizEF]

13 minutes ago, InesF said:

Hi @LizEF - thank you for the review, the story (I hope very much, neither the world is falling apart nor the sky will fall on our heads 🧙‍♀️) and for the microscopy.

You're very welcome!  As for the world falling apart, keep reading...

 

14 minutes ago, InesF said:

"Self assembling ink" was my instant intuition, seeing the geometric shapes, the lines and, especially, the flower!

Ikea ink?

 

16 minutes ago, InesF said:

Waterman Purple is among my favourite inks and always on stock at most (at all?) stationary shops nearby.

Puh, that's a relaxed situation! 😎

Waterman inks really are underrated - there may be few colors, but they're really good inks.

[LizEF]

16 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Great job with this one, @LizEF 

Thanks!

 

16 minutes ago, yazeh said:

My vocabulary is expanding every week, wizardess, snek, so many fun words

Fantasy requires new words, you know...

 

16 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Loved the magic inky "orchid", spectacular and that quote, so true, end of the world and bicycle....

[Sailor Kenshin]

Thanks again for another fun review AND the story.  I'm not a poiple ink lover by any means, but this is a nice one.  The Bright/Cheerful aspect calls to me. 

[LizEF]

3 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Thanks again for another fun review AND the story.

You're very welcome!

 

3 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

I'm not a poiple ink lover by any means, but this is a nice one.  The Bright/Cheerful aspect calls to me.

Same here, but the more I review, the more they're "growing" on me.   And yes, the "happy color" appeals to me, too.

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for the review.  I've currently been using it in the sterling filigree overlay Morrison ringtop I got repaired at recently.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

Thanks for the review.

You're very welcome!

 

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

I've currently been using it in the sterling filigree overlay Morrison ringtop I got repaired at recently.

Sounds lovely!

[mizgeorge]

Thank you Liz - how lovely to see your review of a trusted old friend. This is an ink I use a lot - quite apart from being permanently resident in one of my favourite P51s. And you've nailed it, it is that rare thing, a happy purple - something I also associate with Herbin's Violette Pensée.  It's also one of those rare inks that is really true to colour in finer nibs, where others might darken.

 

I feel a bit sorry for Quin. He'd got used to being a bit more important...

 

(and, like others, I love the flower!)

 

 

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, mizgeorge said:

Thank you Liz - how lovely to see your review of a trusted old friend.

You're very welcome!

 

1 hour ago, mizgeorge said:

I feel a bit sorry for Quin. He'd got used to being a bit more important...

Have no fear - I think Quin is destined for great things!

 

1 hour ago, mizgeorge said:

(and, like others, I love the flower!)

Cool, isn't it!?

 

Spoiler alert: ink # 194 is a Shimmer-tastic ink and Holy Cool, Batman!  The microscope slide (so far, we'll see how it changes as it dries more) around the shimmer particles is so cool.