Pelikan Edelstein Aquamarine

[TSherbs]

This one doesn't really strike my fancy, but something more teal might end up on my shelf. I don't have any teals yet. We'll see.

[The Good Captain]

Well then all best wishes for this, that and, of course, the other.....

 

http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu264/peli46/Nigel14032016.jpg

 

Just for you, my friend!

You are always so kind!

[proton007]

I like how some areas of it appear blue and others green. Might get a bottle.

[Uncial]

Thanks, everybody. Uncial, that GvF-C up there probably looks so dark -- just like everything else -- because I was using a glass dip pen (from Herbin) with only very little wipe-off (on the inside of the ink bottle neck rim). If I wipe off a lot more, that Deep Sea Green does look a bit lighter, as can be seen below. The Aquamarine and Yama Dori dips (also those below) are less wiped off, just like all of the other inks shown above.

Carlos, good idea (as you always have)... don't know why I didn't think of Yama Dori myself. Thanks, again.

Lotus... that's the nicest thing you could say. "... a green that is blue, or a blue that is green". You put my love of the gem in a nutshell !

 

http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu264/peli46/Aquamarine_Yama.jpg

 

I'm glad that some of you like it as much as I do (no, I'm not selling it....).

Mike

 

 

Thanks. I might try putting it into a Pilot Parallel or a very, very wet stub to see what I can get out of it.

[Mishka5050]

Lovely thanks for the review

[roklpokl]

Great review! I like the color of this one, might order a bottle.

[Old_Inkyhand]

I am very glad you like this ink, unfortunately I am not a fan of its colour... It reminds me of hospitals and surgeons... I enjoy Yama-Dori, though!

[Tyrosh22]

Very good review, thank you

[migo984]

Seitz-Global now have it for $16.56 + $3.90 shipping. Free shipping worldwide over $25.

[lapis]

Hmmm.... at Goulets, I make it $27.80

[ScienceChick]

I bought a bottle from Seitz-Global on Amazon. $20 and free shipping.

[namrehsnoom]

Very nice and informative review. I like the colour ! My own bottle is in the mail, and I'm eagerly awaiting its arrival. Looks quite similar to iroshizuku ku-jaku, which is one of my favourite colours. A few more days, and I can explore the ink myself...

[dcwaites]

Hmm. If PetersOfKensington don't get their act into gear Real Soon Now, I might have to deal with the Seitz-Global people.

Pricing doesn't look too bad, but not as good as AU$17 a bottle.

[MsRedpen]

I am adding a bottle to the shopping cart. La Couronne price is 13.95€.

[lapis]

Otherwise, you could try it in my store (where I don't work). They have it for only 12.52 Euros plus shipping. Of course, you'll also have to compare the price limits above which there is free shipping (especially for Europe).

[Dronak]

From the pictures here, this ink looks mostly green to me. If so, then I'm glad I only ordered a box of cartridges and not a bottle. I was really hoping that this would lean more blue, given the advertising pictures I saw before. Once my ink arrives, I'll be able to see it in person myself though, and I can decide how much I like it then. It sounds like a good ink overall, just maybe not my color (unfortunately). Thanks for the review.

[Bo Bo Olson]

The color of the this ink depends on the paper.

 

As some know....I dithered for some three years on which Gmund fountain pen papers I would order...some 18 were examined with different inks and nibs.....the cheaper papers are E50 for 50 sheets. The more expensive E50 for 35 sheets which were not better that I could see. Unexpectedly, the 120 beat the 170g of the same paper by a hair.

 

The scribble paper from my printer is 90g what ever....ok, but no cigar. Aquamarine was greenish, and showed some wooly line. I'd expected more a teal, as I'd seen on the 80g paper.

 

I opened up my quick ink check papers....the old Rex paper that was sadly only sold at Aldi for two years, some Southworth, and those Gmund papers. Some G.Lolo 160 and 125 G papers also. Some of the three M&K papers also...worth ordering in the German postage is cheap to the States.

 

I'll not break down unless asked....in most wouldn't know Aldi or Gmund.

I had a number more blue than green and only one 'teal'....a surprise....seeing the 80g copy paper tole me it was teal.

I was also using just a 'true' regular flex F Pelikan green marbled Celbry cartridge pen.

Different widths, and flexes could have different colors on these papers. In the color was not 'set', with a regular flex F. There was say 1/5 into green not quite teal.

I had actually expected more a teal...or green-blue than some of the 'aquamarine' blue I got on many papers.

 

 

I have my own system...of four levels.. .... of feathering and woolly lines..that any one AR enough with a Honking Big Magnifying Glass would develop.

 

On 1 or 2 of the 20 papers I 'tested' with a 'two words' there was no woolly line at all. On many under a Honking Big magnifying glass...2.8x 7D/250 or 4"x3" x 1" thick....there was slight woolly line.

That means it is a very good ink.

 

The way I grade inks....using the BHMG....Big Honking Magnifying Glass.

 

BEF...bare eyed feathering seen from a sitting position.

NEF, near eye feathering...wooly line. When the paper is brought up to the eyes.

MagF.....using a honking big magnifying glass, wooly line or feathering....in this case a Slight woolly line. Buy the ink and paper.

NoMagF....perfect ink. Stockpile the ink and paper....buy it on the black market, smuggle it in.

Edited December 28, 2016 by Bo Bo Olson