EFNIR: Pelikan 4001 Turquoise

[yazeh]

8 minutes ago, LizEF said:

I hear it's a bear to clean from the pen.  Thankfully, I has all the tools.

I'm still cleaning the white muck from the Pilot. Well, to be honest I have forgotten it in the cleaning solution

[LizEF]

10 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I'm still cleaning the white muck from the Pilot.

 

11 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Well, to be honest I have forgotten it in the cleaning solution

[InesF]

Oh!, turquoise! Hurray, hurray! 👍 Finally an ink that dries quick  - all over the desk! 🙄

Thank you @LizEF for the new episode of the magical adventure! The plot is starting to become mystical and mysterious. I'm already very excited about what will inevitably follow. 🫣

 

As a "standard" ink and predecessor of Edelstein Topaz, 4001 Turquoise lacks some of the qualities of the fancy new formulations but is still a quite useful ink for daily writing. I'm loving both of them (and Waterman Inspired Blue) (and deAtramentis Turquoise) (and Diamine Aqua Lagoon) (and ...) 🤭

 

Now I have to wait impatiently for next Tuesday.  

[LizEF]

4 hours ago, InesF said:

Oh!, turquoise! Hurray, hurray! 👍 Finally an ink that dries quick  - all over the desk! 🙄

 

4 hours ago, InesF said:

Thank you @LizEF for the new episode of the magical adventure! The plot is starting to become mystical and mysterious. I'm already very excited about what will inevitably follow. 🫣

You're very welcome!

 

4 hours ago, InesF said:

As a "standard" ink and predecessor of Edelstein Topaz, 4001 Turquoise lacks some of the qualities of the fancy new formulations but is still a quite useful ink for daily writing. I'm loving both of them (and Waterman Inspired Blue) (and deAtramentis Turquoise) (and Diamine Aqua Lagoon) (and ...) 🤭

 

4 hours ago, InesF said:

Now I have to wait impatiently for next Tuesday.  

Thank you!

[Bo Bo Olson]

Reading this because I'll be getting some non reviewed inks in; one a turquoise, and I was so very sure I had both Pelikan 4001 turquoise and the last bit of my old bottle of Lamy Turquoise; to add to the compare section of the form. No go.

I had found both turquoises to be @ even....but outside Oxford Optic I didn't have any other papers to display either ink. Nice common turquoises; like Waterman Caribbean Sea I think it was. As a noobie 15 years ago, I hadn't realized how really good they were.

 

I was just on the resurrected Sandy1's ink review of this 4001 and ...was nodding my head, at how good the ink was.

I got that particular ... urge. And came up empty.

 

I will now have to open up my older vintage W.Germany bottle of Lamy turquoise.....and hunt and search to see what other turquoises I have.

The other is Lamy blue.

In a way it's a shame, but inks are there to be used.

I'm sure I have enough blue inks, that I'll not have to open the blue bottle.

[LizEF]

50 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

In a way it's a shame, but inks are there to be used.

Exactly!  Much better to enjoy them than to keep them on a shelf for some day that never comes.

 

FWIW, I think the current (well, 2016) version of Waterman Inspired Blue is great as is.  No idea how it might compare to older versions.