EFNIR: Pelikan Edelstein Tanzanite

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Pelikan Edelstein Tanzanite

This is review #323 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: This ink was gifted to me by a generous FPNer.  The microscope slide was boring. Cleaning was fairly easy, but I did use a pen flush to speed things - a tiny bit of blue wanted to cling.  If you don't need to absolutely ensure it's all gone, plain water will be sufficient.

This is my kinda color!  Really enjoyed the writing experience, too.

Sorry, forgot to note the performance on absorbent paper (bit feathery) and on copy paper (minor fuzz) during the review, so the review page images don't have it either.

Erratum: "...I think your EF nib will like this in regardless..." - "in" should be "ink".

Zoomed in photo (Might be a smidge under-saturated, but this is very close to what I see.)

Screenshot (Color is too dark.)

Scan of Completed Review (Pretty close. Color is maybe a little under-saturated.)

Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (Pretty close.)

Line width (The "I" in "Ink:". 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 295µm. With 323 inks measured, the average line width is 297µm.) (You can see a little of the red sheen.)

Water Test Results

Previous Review: Jinhao Blue.

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[lapis]

Great! My kinda color three!! Sorta a purple-black, maybe with a touch of blue. There are enough blue-blacks out there but this one has always been a real hit for me  Thanks for reviewing it !!!

[I-am-not-really-here]

Give me blue or give me black but I refuse to buy the gross abomination when the two are combined.  
 

Now if you will excuse me I'll be resetting my eyes with some lovely reds and oranges and pinks.  Ah...blessed happy colors.  I am at peace once again.

 

Thank you for the review. May this ink be discontinued post-haste!

 

 

 

 

 

[LizEF]

27 minutes ago, lapis said:

Great! My kinda color three!! Sorta a purple-black, maybe with a touch of blue. There are enough blue-blacks out there but this one has always been a real hit for me 

This is a fascinating comment to me, since I avoided this ink because I thought it looked too purple in online images.  In person, I think it just looks blue-black (and I don't see purple in the water-test, for example).  But here you are calling it a purple-black.  Human eyesight, brains, and color perception is a mystery!

 

I'm going to try it in my Visconti Homo Sapiens London Fog next time it needs a fill.  Aonibi turned purple in said pen.  Anderson Pens Oshkosh Denim constantly hard starts.  Maybe third time will be the charm. If not, I may have to open up the color spectrum to find a permanent ink for that pen.

 

29 minutes ago, lapis said:

Thanks for reviewing it !!!

You're most welcome!

[LizEF]

18 minutes ago, I-am-not-really-here said:

Give me blue or give me black but I refuse to buy the gross abomination when the two are combined.  

Blasphemy!  Blue and black are only made perfect when they become one ink!

 

19 minutes ago, I-am-not-really-here said:

Now if you will excuse me I'll be resetting my eyes with some lovely reds and oranges and pinks.  Ah...blessed happy colors.  I am at peace once again.

We're going to blame your strange color preferences on cones and rods and nerves and stuffs.   There, now it's not your fault.  Nothing you can do about it.  We like you anyway.  

 

20 minutes ago, I-am-not-really-here said:

Thank you for the review. May this ink be discontinued post-haste!

  You're most welcome!  I promise to use your share!

[chromantic]

25 minutes ago, I-am-not-really-here said:

Give me blue or give me black but I refuse to buy the gross abomination when the two are combined.  

 

I love blue-blacks but the ever-so-slight hint of purple leaves me cold. Blurple is my least favorite color, well, except for mint. Great review, though.

[Sailor Kenshin]

My color ink, too!  Though I've always heard Tanzanite was wet, as in, 'if you have a dry pen, this will cure it.'  I have soooo many blue-blacks....yet this tempts.

 

Our little snek is back.   With a laugh like shedding skin.  That's a good one!   My place in the world... don't get me started.  😁

 

@LizEF,  thanks once again for making Tuesdays magically fun... I always look forward to the review and story. 

[LizEF]

38 minutes ago, chromantic said:

I love blue-blacks but the ever-so-slight hint of purple leaves me cold.

For me and this ink, the only hint of purple would come from the red sheen.  And for whatever reason, that doesn't bother me, whereas purple in the ink itself would bother me.

 

@namrehsnoom did a review of Tanzanite and a shootout with it and MB Midnight Blue, both of which include chromatography, and I see no purple or red there...

 

38 minutes ago, chromantic said:

Blurple is my least favorite color, well, except for mint.

  Even "mint" (perhaps depending on what that means) wins over blurple for me - blech.

 

39 minutes ago, chromantic said:

Great review, though.

Thanks!

[LizEF]

2 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

My color ink, too!  Though I've always heard Tanzanite was wet, as in, 'if you have a dry pen, this will cure it.'  I have soooo many blue-blacks....yet this tempts.

  See my comments on flow.  It's an interesting one.  We'll see how it does in my very wet Visconti (either when I finish the fill of Anderson Pens Oshkosh Denim, or when I get too frustrated with its hard starts and kick it out early).

 

4 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Our little snek is back.   With a laugh like shedding skin.  That's a good one!

🐍

 

5 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

That Mr. Collins must be my mirror opposite.  😁

  Me and you both.  Little things frustrate me too much.  I'm trying, though.

 

5 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

@LizEF,  thanks once again for making Tuesdays magically fun... I always look forward to the review and story. 

You're most welcome!  And thank you!

[Penguincollector]

  In 2022, I had this ink in a Jinhao 51a EF for a long time, and loved every second of it. What a lovely, smooth ink, even in a very budget pen. It was a fill from a Hub bottle. At the time, it was sold out everywhere and soon went out of mind. I should put it on my buy list. 
 

  Great review, as always. AWW, ESSRI 🥰 

[LizEF]

28 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

In 2022, I had this ink in a Jinhao 51a EF for a long time, and loved every second of it. What a lovely, smooth ink, even in a very budget pen. It was a fill from a Hub bottle. At the time, it was sold out everywhere and soon went out of mind. I should put it on my buy list. 

Sometimes reminders are a good thing, sometimes not - your wallet will have to decide!

 

29 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

Great review, as always.

Thanks!

 

29 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

AWW, ESSRI 🥰

 

[yazeh]

Great review @LizEF   No more cartridges, no more Jinhaos, yay 

The colour is elegant and classy. There's a greyish tinge, slate like quality

The village of 4 indeed  Glad to see Essri and Makhabesh bringing lightness to Quin's angst.  

 

Thanks for returning to ink bottles/samples and bringing light to this grey, cold Tuesday 🙏

 

 

 

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

@LizEF Thanks as usual for the review.  Good to know that Edelstein Tanzanite has at least *some* water resistance (I seem to have somehow ended up with two bottles of it, so I should probably start using it again...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Great review @LizEF 

Thanks!

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

No more cartridges, no more Jinhaos, yay 

Exactly!!  We should have a party.   I'm using up all my Waterman Mysterious Blue cartridges because they had evaporated down to almost half volume, and I didn't want to clean my Carène before using it longer (it originally had the included Waterman Serenity Blue cartridge in it), so I just stuck a Mysterious Blue cartridge in and ran with it - no problems!   I plan to use them all up (on my second now - think there are 2 more to go).  Maybe I'll just use all my remaining standard international carts in the Carène - looks like that's only my Kaweco - 4 colors, probably 4 carts of each...

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

The colour is elegant and classy. There's a greyish tinge, slate like quality

Yes!  I love this sort of color.  Am very grateful to my friend across the ocean for sending me a sample.

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

The village of 4 indeed  Glad to see Essri and Makhabesh bringing lightness to Quin's angst.  

That's what friends are for!

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Thanks for returning to ink bottles/samples and bringing light to this grey, cold Tuesday 🙏

You're most welcome!

[LizEF]

23 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

@LizEF Thanks as usual for the review.

You're very welcome!

 

23 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Good to know that Edelstein Tanzanite has at least *some* water resistance (I seem to have somehow ended up with two bottles of it, so I should probably start using it again...).

  Lucky you!  It definitely deserves some use.

[senzen]

You captured the colour well; to me this is a grey ink with a soupçon of blue; not what the box promises but still a good ink. In a Capless M and a Geha Scholier EF at the moment. For some reason it absolutely did not get on with a Pelikan MC110 1.5.

[LizEF]

49 minutes ago, senzen said:

You captured the colour well;

Thanks!

 

49 minutes ago, senzen said:

to me this is a grey ink with a soupçon of blue; not what the box promises but still a good ink.

  So fun to read everyone's descriptions / impressions of this ink's color.  You know it's an interesting ink when everyone has their own way to describe the color.

 

50 minutes ago, senzen said:

In a Capless M and a Geha Scholier EF at the moment. For some reason it absolutely did not get on with a Pelikan MC110 1.5.

  Interesting that it didn't work well in your Pelikan.  I'm looking forward to trying it in other pens to see which I like best.  I do have an m405, so I'll have to put some in there to see if it likes my Pelikan.

[inkstainedruth]

Well, it didn't work all that well, when I put it in my M600 Violet and White, because it seeped into the cracks in the cap.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

cracks in the cap

Sorry to hear about this.  So frustrating when pens crack.

[lgsoltek]

Blue-blacks tend not to be my kind of colour, but I remember being impressed by a gorgeous layer of copper sheen of Tanzanite a few years ago at a pen meet...