EFNIR: Pelikan Edelstein Tanzanite

February 5

"This can't be a small ink, as I have found my place in the blue-black world with this specific Tanzanite" - unknown author of the present

Thank you, @LizEF, for the ink review, for keeping the story going and for keeping our magical party busy! Always a Wednesday morning pleasure to switch the computer on and see a new EFNIR entry popping up! :thumbup:

To my old and tired eyes, P.E. Tanzanite is more of a blue-grey (it's not dark in any not-firehose pen) and never before observed sheen with it. Maybe it is this rare appearance why some people see a blurple-grey on the paper? Whatever colour it is, at least it is a well behaving whatever-colour and always a joy to use. I feel lucky having a still 3/4 full bottle of P.E.T.

Looking forward to next week's episode!

February 5

7 hours ago, lgsoltek said:

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...

It does sheen nicely - not too much, not too little (if you're going to sheen, go ahead and sheen, but don't be so sheeny you infect everything in a quarter mile radius with sheen-flakes). (Don't go yammering about the metric system - sheen uses imperial measurements! )

February 5

5 hours ago, InesF said:

"This can't be a small ink, as I have found my place in the blue-black world with this specific Tanzanite" - unknown author of the present

:lol:

5 hours ago, InesF said:

Thank you, @LizEF, for the ink review, for keeping the story going and for keeping our magical party busy!

You're most welcome!

5 hours ago, InesF said:

Always a Wednesday morning pleasure to switch the computer on and see a new EFNIR entry popping up!

5 hours ago, InesF said:

To my old and tired eyes, P.E. Tanzanite is more of a blue-grey (it's not dark in any not-firehose pen) and never before observed sheen with it. Maybe it is this rare appearance why some people see a blurple-grey on the paper? Whatever colour it is, at least it is a well behaving whatever-colour and always a joy to use. I feel lucky having a still 3/4 full bottle of P.E.T.

Blue-grey works for me - as a color, though why we reverse it is beyond me. For example, if we had a green that leans blue (but isn't quite teal), we would call it a blue green. If we had a blue that leans a little green (but isn't quite teal), we'd call it green blue. But when we have a blue ink that leans grey, we call it blue-grey instead of grey blue. (Of course, perhaps you see this as a grey ink that leans blue, in which case, blue grey makes sense...)

5 hours ago, InesF said:

Looking forward to next week's episode!

Thanks!

February 5

A great review of my favourite Pelikan ink. This is my top Edelstein, with Topaz and Smoky Quartz as runner-ups. In my opinion, one of the best blue-blacks available - it’s that dusty grey feel to it that makes it a winner.

It’s been ages since I loaded up a pen with it. Which is going to change right now…

February 5

41 minutes ago, namrehsnoom said:

A great review of my favourite Pelikan ink.

Thanks!

42 minutes ago, namrehsnoom said:

This is my top Edelstein, with Topaz and Smoky Quartz as runner-ups. In my opinion, one of the best blue-blacks available - it’s that dusty grey feel to it that makes it a winner.

A winner, for sure!

42 minutes ago, namrehsnoom said:

It’s been ages since I loaded up a pen with it. Which is going to change right now…

Hooray! Bringing love to neglected ink bottles everywhere!

February 5

15 hours ago, lgsoltek said:

Blue-blacks tend not to be my kind of colour

I used to think that as well. But there are enough really nice ones out there that my mind has been changed.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

February 5

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

I used to think that as well. But there are enough really nice ones out there that my mind has been changed.

Resistance is futile! We have a broad range of hues and saturation levels! We'll get everyone eventually.

February 5

Yeah, what probably won me over was how well behaved Waterman Mysterious Blue is in a vintage Parker Vacumatic (the Red Shadow Wave) and also how GOOD it looks coming out of that pen....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

February 6

21 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Yeah, what probably won me over was how well behaved Waterman Mysterious Blue is in a vintage Parker Vacumatic (the Red Shadow Wave) and also how GOOD it looks coming out of that pen....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

That's a good pairing! Waterman Mysterious Blue is only allowed in the blue-black club due to tradition (as opposed to color).

Friday at 12:09 AM

Well, I had some people at my local pen club convinced that it was a GREEN ink one time a few years ago. And I was going, "Nope -- it's WMB! I KNOW what's in this pen...."

But on whatever paper that was, it sure looked green to me as well.... So maybe the name is well merited....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Friday at 12:15 AM

4 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Well, I had some people at my local pen club convinced that it was a GREEN ink one time a few years ago. And I was going, "Nope -- it's WMB! I KNOW what's in this pen...."

But on whatever paper that was, it sure looked green to me as well.... So maybe the name is well merited....

:lol: I think the green-leaning formula is long gone. The current one is a pale blue with a little grey.