Colorverse Methuselah Grove

[yazeh]

Colorverse Methuselah Grove

 

This bundle belongs to the Earth Edition. Methuselah Grove and her big sister Methuselah tree, celebrate the oldest living beings on the planet. 

I got this  5ml bottle on a whim.  It's a dark brown, with gorgeous chroma, short dry times on Rhodia and curiously eternal long dry on many Japanese papers (Midori/ Life/Iroful, slightly better on Tomoe River 68gsm. It has impractical/ cute bottles  :  You can either buy a 15 ml bottle with a 65 ml bottle of Methuselah tree, or a 5 ml separate bottle, with an impossibly narrow opening that’ll need a syringe/ ink miser to fill your pen.   Cleaning was pain, I'm not looking forward to my other pens 

Bottle compared to a 10 ml Herbin bottle, on my messy desk  

 

Ink also stains fingers and is slightly difficult to clean from pens. 

 

Chroma:

 

 

 

Writing Samples:

On the Rhodia sample the 1.1 / B nib lines are reversed. If you see smudge, it’s because it took a long dry time to dry. 

 

 

 

Photo:(Artificial light)

 

 

Iroful

Comparison:

 

Water test:

Left side 10 seconds under running water, after minimum 24 hours to dry. Note how the chroma separates 

 

Art Work:

A New Year

Manga style sketch. 

Kala Nostalgia Gemstone Scapolite (Grey green)

Kala Nostalgia Gemstone Sillimanite (Background)

Colorverse Methuselah grove (Brown)

 

I tried watching Lion King, Pride of the Simba. The only merit of the film was trying to draw a lion cub.

Paper is a very bad Hilroy sketching paper. 

 

Hickory Dickory Dock (Tick Tock)

Inktober yearlong challenge 2025 with my Cat & mouse theme with fountain pen ink on Talens Notebook. 

Colorverse Methuselah's Grove

De Atramentis Document Cyan.

Noodler's Lexington Gray

 

 

·      Pens used: Pilot Kakuno Ef, Lamy (EF/F/M/B/ Stub 1.1), Kanwrite with a Ahabbnib. 

·      What I liked: Colour, drawing, bottle

·      What I did not like: Eternal dry times on Japanese paper, bottle size, spelling the name  

·       What some might not like: Long dry times, small bottle size (5ml), or bundle. 

·      Shading: I didn’t see any. 

·      Ghosting: Yes, a bit on cheap paper.

·      Bleed through: Yes, sporadically on cheap paper. 

·      Flow Rate: Wet

·      Lubrication: Excellent.

·      Nib Dry-out: Did not notice. 

·      Start-up:  I left aside for a week both pens, I needed to prime the feed. 

·      Saturation:  Saturated brown. 

·      Shading Potential: Dismal. 

·      Sheen: No. 

·      Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Did not notice. 

·      Nib Creep / “Crud”: Did not notice.

·      Staining (pen): No. 

·      Clogging: Did not notice.

·      Cleaning: Not so easy. 

·      Water resistance: Decent.

·      Availability:  5 ml bottles, or a 15 ml bottles bundled with a 65 ml bottle of Colorverse 57  Methuselah Tree 

 

Please don't hesitate to share your experience, writing samples or any other comments. The more the merrier  

[Sailor Kenshin]

Need I say how much I love the chroma?  And the sketches?  😸

 

The bottle is cuuuute!  Just not so much the 'other' stuff.  (I'm still cleaning a Platinum that had in it a relatively harmless ink.) This Colorverse looks water-resistant but some ink did lift.  Still legible though.

 

I do have the Sailor Douyou, which I mainly use to clean out other stubborn inks.  As an ink itself, can't say I remember Douyou being one way or another.

 

@yazeh, thanks once again for making life colorful with your detailed, entertaining InkSplorations!  

[InesF]

I can see all the big names there: Simba, the Bremen Town Musicians, the Foucault pendulum, a rainbow in the waterfall test and probably everything else if I just wait long enough. (freely adapted from G.B. Shaw)  

 

Thank you, @yazeh, for providing so much ink review joy in so many variations! 

I do not adore brown inks, but I may not withstand the attractive chroma and the general appearance of this Colorverse ink. I guess this has the power to break my 2025 ink-acquisition moratorium. 🫣 🫢   

[LizEF]

2 hours ago, yazeh said:

It has impractical/ cute bottles

  The only way Colorverse get away with those 5mL bottles is that they're so darn cute!

 

Chroma: The grove is on fire!

 

Writing samples: Hmm.  Looks black to me.  Ah, I see a bit of brown in the photos.

 

Love the swatch card.   Kitty and mouse brave the grove...  What will they find?

 

Mousey chroma and kitty tree!

 

Love your tower of "people". Cute lion cub.  He looks sad, though.  Ah. Mousey is showing such character, swinging on that pendulum.  Kitty is thinking, "Must resist urge to knock him off his pendulum..."

[lapis]

Luv it! If I had known about this one earlier, I would have recommended it to "whoever that was" who was looking for something like this....

PS: Yes, Liz, The chroma is very interesting.... What a mix!!

[yazeh]

2 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Need I say how much I love the chroma?  

Gppd a glass nib experiment/ wash?  

2 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

 

And the sketches?  😸

🙏

2 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

The bottle is cuuuute!

Isn't it? 

 

2 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

 

 Just not so much the 'other' stuff.  (I'm still cleaning a Platinum that had in it a relatively harmless ink.) This Colorverse looks water-resistant but some ink did lift.  Still legible though.

2 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

 

I do have the Sailor Douyou, which I mainly use to clean out other stubborn inks.  As an ink itself, can't say I remember Douyou being one way or another.

 

2 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

 

@yazeh, thanks once again for making life colorful with your detailed, entertaining InkSplorations!  

A pleasure 🙏

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, InesF said:

I can see all the big names there: Simba, the Bremen Town Musicians, the Foucault pendulum, a rainbow in the waterfall test and probably everything else if I just wait long enough. (freely adapted from G.B. Shaw)  

Not to mention Harold Lloyd and Chaplin   🙏

1 hour ago, InesF said:

 

Thank you, @yazeh, for providing so much ink review joy in so many variations! 

A pleasure! 

1 hour ago, InesF said:

I do not adore brown inks, but I may not withstand the attractive chroma and the general appearance of this Colorverse ink. I guess this has the power to break my 2025 ink-acquisition moratorium. 🫣 🫢   

 

[inkstainedruth]

Not sure this is a color for me, but thanks as usual for the comprehensive review.

I do have a couple of questions.  Is Colorverse marketing the same ink under different names depending on the size of the bottle?  That seems very strange....  Or are they actually slightly different inks depending on the bottle? Because I know that they often seem to pair up a larger bottle and a smaller one of slightly different inks as sets.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

58 minutes ago, LizEF said:

  The only way Colorverse get away with those 5mL bottles is that they're so darn cute!

 

 

58 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Chroma: The grove is on fire!

The inky grove

58 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Writing samples: Hmm.  Looks black to me.  Ah, I see a bit of brown in the photos.

Scanner isn't the best. But yes it looks black. I've been using a lot of "ambiguous" inks recently, and when I use them especially on cheap paper, the look more or less dark/ black  

58 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Love the swatch card.   Kitty and mouse brave the grove...  What will they find?

 

The saw Vika, Makhabesh, Quin and Espri  

58 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Mousey chroma and kitty tree!

 

 

58 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Love your tower of "people".

58 minutes ago, LizEF said:

 

Cute lion cub.  He looks sad, though.  Ah.

 

He didn't like to be in a badly scripted movie  

58 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Mousey is showing such character, swinging on that pendulum.  Kitty is thinking, "Must resist urge to knock him off his pendulum..."

 I should not look. Yes, I should, no I shouldn't. Mouse or pendulum. Too many choices.... 🙀

[yazeh]

21 minutes ago, lapis said:

Luv it! If I had known about this one earlier, I would have recommended it to "whoever that was" who was looking for something like this....

Clever !  

21 minutes ago, lapis said:

PS: Yes, Liz, The chroma is very interesting.... What a mix!!

Isn't it?

[yazeh]

4 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Not sure this is a color for me, but thanks as usual for the comprehensive review.

A pleasure. Glad your purse is safe this time

4 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

I do have a couple of questions.  Is Colorverse marketing the same ink under different names depending on the size of the bottle?

No. It is my understanding that Colorverse has many series. Spaceward,   Astrophysics, Earth etc. These inks come in two bottles 65nl / 15ml (different colours). But you can buy some of the 15 ml bottles in 5 ml sample bottles. 

Probably this page of Goulet's would be more helpful

 

4 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

 

 That seems very strange....  Or are they actually slightly different inks depending on the bottle? Because I know that they often seem to pair up a larger bottle and a smaller one of slightly different inks as sets.

You got it

[LizEF]

15 minutes ago, yazeh said:

The saw Vika, Makhabesh, Quin and Espri  

 

16 minutes ago, yazeh said:

He didn't like to be in a badly scripted movie  

:knowing nod: Yes, poor little lion cub.

 

17 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I should not look. Yes, I should, no I shouldn't. Mouse or pendulum. Too many choices.... 🙀

[LizEF]

21 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Is Colorverse marketing the same ink under different names depending on the size of the bottle?

No.

 

Colorverse have, to my knowledge, three sizes of this shape bottle: 5mL (basically, an expensive ink sample), 15mL, and 65mL.  The 15mL and 65mL bottles come together in a set and have different inks in them that are thematically related.  I don't know if it still holds true, but back in my ink shopping days, you could not buy the members of the set separately, nor was there a larger option for the ink that came in the 15mL bottle.  (These were complaints folks had.  I don't know if Colorverse have addressed them.)

 

Colorverse also have at least one other bottle shape, in 30mL, for other ink lines.

[inkstainedruth]

Okay, that's what I THOUGHT I remembered about the "sets" -- that they were different but related inks.  Which is why I was so confused about "Methuselah's Grove" vs. "Methuselah's Tree".

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

@inkstainedruth @LizEF

Liz said it all. The 30 ml bottle are very cute too  

Very well designed. 

These are the 30 ml bottles

https://www.penboutique.com/collections/colorverse-earth-edition/products/colorverse-ink-earth-edition-joy-in-the-ordinary-delicious-sleep

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

These are the 30 ml bottles

https://www.penboutique.com/collections/colorverse-earth-edition/products/colorverse-ink-earth-edition-joy-in-the-ordinary-delicious-sleep

Awww, kitty cat.

[yazeh]

2 hours ago, LizEF said:

Awww, kitty cat.

They have them for dog lovers, coffee lovers, etc  

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

They have them for dog lovers, coffee lovers, etc