Quick Look - Pelikan Edelstein Rose Quartz (2023 Ink of the Year)

[LizEF]

9 minutes ago, XYZZY said:

Another example of watching it do things with glass could be microscope slides.  Hmmm, if only we knew somebody who likes to put ink under a microscope? 😉

[AceNinja]

Now that the Pelikan Hub 2023 is done and over, I think all/most of the participant of the event gets a bottle of Edelstein Rose Quartz as part of pelikan's swag.  So now most of us can give some quick impressions?

 

I'll go first, I find the ink looks quite pale on paper.  I think it'll need a super wet pen (ie like a pelikan pen) for it to look good.  So far I've only tested it in a Kakuno which i think it's a too dry nib for this ink.

[inkstainedruth]

I like Rose Quartz.  It is fairly pale a pink (and is a pretty "girly" pink as well), but is still legible, and has nice shading.  I have it in the M405 Stresemann, with a B nib, and used it yesterday for my MP journal entry (Miquelrius journal). 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Lithium466]

Like many I got a bottle at the Pelikan hub, fully expecting to hate it and give it away as soon as possible. 
I still decided to try it, and inked one of these cheap Sailor with the steel MF nib (always forget the name, 1911 Profit junior or something). I'm really not a pink person, and hate most red inks that can be borderline pink leaning (yuck Star ruby from last time), and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by that Rose Quartz!

 

It represents the name well (to me), and it's surprisingly an "opaque" ink on paper. Much more legible than I expected, and I can see myself using it as a highlight ink. Maybe even in a brush pen as highlighter, or with a Music nib for that use...I'll have to see how it plays with other inks.

So while I still don't like the color, I'm pleased to say I'm finding that Rose Quartz much more useful than anticipated!

(but that will not prevent me to give away the bottle at the first occasion)

[ridiculopathy]

I also got my bottle at the Pelikan Hub. My vision of “rose quartz” is something like Kobe 54 Goshikiyama Ocher, so I was surprised to find that Pelikan’s version was a cool toned pink! (Although I wouldn’t have been so surprised if I had seen @namrehsnoom’s paper towel chromatography.) My preferences are warm toned pinks, so this will be a unique addition to my ink collection.

[inkstainedruth]

8 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

I'm really not a pink person, and hate most red inks that can be borderline pink leaning (yuck Star ruby from last time),

And here I was completely disappointed that I didn't win any of the raffles at the Pittsburgh Hub, and get (another) bottle of Star Ruby.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Lithium466]

48 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

And here I was completely disappointed that I didn't win any of the raffles at the Pittsburgh Hub, and get (another) bottle of Star Ruby.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Haha! I can send you what's left of mine if you want. That's not much, as I gave away many samples!

[inkstainedruth]

 

Oh, I already have at least two bottles (maybe three) of Star Ruby.  Didn't mean I would have objected to another one, mind.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[webgeckos]

Great review!
Last color-changing ink I dealt with was Pen and Message's Cigar. Oxidation taking this ink from a murky green to pink is amazing.

[Cargoblues]

I don't think that the refractive index has something to do with the color. The pink is between the purple (1,53) and the red (1,51) so the pink should around 1,52. That means if we see the red and the blue as they are, awe should see the pink as it is. When I look at my rose quartz bottle I don't understand this green color.

[DilettanteG]

Weird, my bottle only looks green at certain angles thru the glass and only on the bottle's edges. A lighting source issue, perhaps? Otherwise definitely reddish tint. I quite like this ink, but only in extremely broad, wet nibs.