Handwritten Review of Sheaffer Skrip Purple

[Breck]

 

Fig. 1: Thanks to friend of the blog Brian Excarnate for color correcting these shots. Click for approximately life-sized.

 

This is the purple that started it all. When you hear on the grapevine that I went crazy and ordered eight different purples one night, this will be the ink you can blame for getting me started.

 

I never thought I'd be a purple ink guy, and yet here we are. I only like the blue-ish purples though, really. Well, a few reddish ones. Although this one is right in the middle, and I sure like it pretty well....

 

Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, I like purple, to my surprise. I realized this around the same time that I figured out how cool black chased hard rubber* pens are. Maybe they're related.

 

Anyway, purple looks awesome in a flex pen.

 

 

*I've got a pen coming with the Scallop 3 pattern.

 

 

 

 

edit to add: This color was previously reviewed by Goodwhiskers. Also added the link at the asterisk.

Edited January 9, 2009 by Murderface

[rickyriz]

Fig. 1: Thanks to friend of the blog Brian Excarnate for color correcting these shots. Click for approximately life-sized.

 

This is the purple that started it all. When you hear on the grapevine that I went crazy and ordered eight different purples one night, this will be the ink you can blame for getting me started.

 

I never thought I'd be a purple ink guy, and yet here we are. I only like the blue-ish purples though, really. Well, a few reddish ones. Although this one is right in the middle, and I sure like it pretty well....

 

Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, I like purple, to my surprise. I realized this around the same time that I figured out how cool black chased hard rubber* pens are. Maybe they're related.

 

Anyway, purple looks awesome in a flex pen.

 

 

*I've got a pen coming with the Scallop 3 pattern.

 

 

 

 

edit to add: This color was previously reviewed by Goodwhiskers. Also added the link at the asterisk.

 

This is my favourite purple.

I love purples, above all not too saturated and not too reddish ones, and that it's perfect.

I find it very,very,very similar to Omas Violet.

 

I admit that on my monitor it doesn't pop-out from the paper as it really does, so my disinterested advice is to try it, it's simple to fall in love after.

 

Thanks for the review.

 

Regards.

 

[PenTieRun]

I like the layout of your review. Very well done

 

Strangely enough, I love purple ink and I love Sheaffer inks, but I just don't like this one. Far too light. I have it in carts; perhaps the bottle is different.

 

As you embark on your purple journey, here's what I've discovered.

 

Purple like Sheaffer but with more color: Visconti and J. Herbin Violette Pensee

 

Bright purple: Waterman and Pelikan

 

Dark purple: Noodler's Purple Wampum and Montblanc Purple

 

Gorgeous bright gray purple: Caran d'Ache Storm

 

If my condo were burning and I could only grab one on the way out the window, then the Montblanc and Noodler's would engage in a death match.

 

Keep us abreast of your purple journey.

[Gran]

Thanks much for your review. This is one of my most favorite inks, and my current favorite purple.

[Goodwhiskers]

When I want purple ink for text, I use violet (blue-leaning) inks like this one, and I like this one. It is comfortable to read and predictable in any pen. From a medium-flow or dry writer, it is also fairly well-behaved on bad paper (better than Waterman Violet/Purple and Lamy Violet). Just don't keep paper with this ink written on it exposed in a sunlit room because sunlight (even filtered by window glass) makes it fade.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I like the layout of your review. Very well done <img src="https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbup.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="thumbup.gif" />

 

Strangely enough, I love purple ink and I love Sheaffer inks, but I just don't like this one. Far too light. I have it in carts; perhaps the bottle is different.

 

As you embark on your purple journey, here's what I've discovered.

 

Purple like Sheaffer but with more color: Visconti and J. Herbin Violette Pensee

 

Bright purple: Waterman and Pelikan

 

Dark purple: Noodler's Purple Wampum and Montblanc Purple

 

Gorgeous bright gray purple: Caran d'Ache Storm

 

If my condo were burning and I could only grab one on the way out the window, then the Montblanc and Noodler's would engage in a death match.

 

Keep us abreast of your purple journey.

 

 

Thank you on your break down. I live in Germany and Noodlers is expensive imported ink.

 

A Sheaffer cartridge pen is coming...when the time comes if I like it, I'll get a converter.

 

The new pen gives me a chance to check out Purple.

 

I like it's shading, being into shading inks. If need be and it more than likely will be I can or will either fill a mini-inkwell with cartridge ink or unscrew a nib and shoot it in to see how it works with semi-flex nibs I have.

Eventually, when I do a paper survey.

 

I have taken notes. thank you

[bwnewton]

I have this ink and am very, very satisfied with it. Between it and Lamy Violet, I have a red-leaning and a blue-leaning purple. And both are affordable and come in user-friendly bottles.