Efnir: Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki-Yo

[A Smug Dill]

TL, DR: I deleted all prior votes from my poll, so please vote again if you have a preference!

 

First!

 

72 inks to go. Is that going to take 72 weeks, or 36 weeks?

[Tas]

 

Bought a bottle having swooned at this clip years ago.

Sold it on ebay days afterwards. Not for me

[RJS]

 

Bought a bottle having swooned at this clip years ago.

 

Sold it on ebay days afterwards. Not for me

Oh God, I listened to that video just now. Like nails down a chalk board. That sounds like the nastiest, scratchiest nib in history. Horrendous!

[Tas]

Oh God, I listened to that video just now. Like nails down a chalk board. That sounds like the nastiest, scratchiest nib in history. Horrendous!

 

But the nib, the nib . . . and the handwriting

Edited October 14, 2020 by Tas

[Tincansailor]

One of my favorite inks, love the color and the flow. Have a sample of the Sailor Blue-Black too - love the sheen! Oh heck love all Blue-Blacks especially vintage.

[yazeh]

 

Deep Sea Green is one of my top favorites too. It's a very complex ink, looks different depending on pen and paper. Great color complexity. Poor lubrication and quite translucent, but using smoother nibs and higher flow pen, and you get some great shading.

I'll bear that in mind if I ever get around to getting it

[yazeh]

 

But the nib, the nib . . . and the handwriting

I love the sound of that nib. It's so comforting.... It reminds me of reed/dip pens stuttering on the page.. Therapeutic

[LizEF]

 

First!

 

72 inks to go. Is that going to take 72 weeks, or 36 weeks?

 

Thank you! And this morning I deleted the ink I'll be inking tomorrow (technically tonight around 10pm), and the results showed as they used to, so hopefully this will work for most of the way (the ink I deleted is ink 53).

 

At least 42 weeks. (4-5 days per ink.)

Edited October 14, 2020 by LizEF

[LizEF]

 

Bought a bottle having swooned at this clip years ago.

 

Sold it on ebay days afterwards. Not for me

Isn't it awful how videos never quite reflect what you get in real life? Meanwhile, that guy makes me wish I knew how to write. And the video makes me think maybe I should put some of my remaining sample into my Falcon and try it out!

[LizEF]

One of my favorite inks, love the color and the flow. Have a sample of the Sailor Blue-Black too - love the sheen! Oh heck love all Blue-Blacks especially vintage.

It's a common disease, I'm afraid. One for which there appears to be no cure except to get more blue-black ink!

Edited October 14, 2020 by LizEF

[LizEF]

I love the sound of that nib. It's so comforting.... It reminds me of reed/dip pens stuttering on the page.. Therapeutic

Yeah, me too - I kinda like the scritch-scratch. My own Japanese EF nibs do that on sketch paper - not that I can sketch, but I can make sketchy noises.

[RJS]

I love the sound of that nib. It's so comforting.... It reminds me of reed/dip pens stuttering on the page.. Therapeutic

Nooooooooooo

[RJS]

Excellent handwriting in the video, though.

[RJS]

It's a common disease, I'm afraid. One for which there appears to be no cure except to get more blue-black ink!

I second that. Gotta love the blue-blacks... and gotta buy more than you can ever use!

[yazeh]

Isn't it awful how videos never quite reflect what you get in real life? Meanwhile, that guy makes me wish I knew how to write.

 

 

It has to do with the flex. When I write with a dip pen, my handwriting becomes noticeably elegant, at least in my eyes

I once did a comparison, writing a sentence, first with dip pen, then vintage flex, then modern flex, fude, obliques etc and finally a plain old ball pen...... the devolution of my handwriting was obvious.... not very comforting.... to achieve the handwriting of a caveman.....

 

IYeah, me too - I kinda like the scritch-scratch. My own Japanese EF nibs do that on sketch paper - not that I can sketch, but I can make sketchy noises.

[raleighrover]

I have an interesting relationship with this ink. I’m not sure if that says more about me or this special ink. Tsuki-Yo appears quite different to my eye from pen to pen and from paper to paper, and sometimes I swear from hour to hour. Sometimes it appears more teal and others darker blue. it’s definitely always on the bluer side of blue/black, at least for me. It dries differently depending on the paper more than others, and on nicer, glossier paper it dries to a shiny dark teal. It’s one of those inks that when I run across some handwritten notes it still catches my eye and I recognize it instantly.

 

I use this in regular rotation at work in my desk pens, and those are usually nicer modern Pelikans with wet medium nibs. I prefer inks that won’t alarm folks in a legal office but aren’t merely monolith black or a nondescript blue. While I’d like to say I’m irritated by the inconsistency in appearance, I somehow managed to end up with 4 bottles of it, which is unprecedented for me in more than 25 years of fountain pen use and collecting. So I must like it more than I realize. If you have any interest in teals and blue/blacks this is worth a try.

[LizEF]

I have an interesting relationship with this ink. I’m not sure if that says more about me or this special ink. Tsuki-Yo appears quite different to my eye from pen to pen and from paper to paper, and sometimes I swear from hour to hour. Sometimes it appears more teal and others darker blue. it’s definitely always on the bluer side of blue/black, at least for me. It dries differently depending on the paper more than others, and on nicer, glossier paper it dries to a shiny dark teal. It’s one of those inks that when I run across some handwritten notes it still catches my eye and I recognize it instantly.

 

I use this in regular rotation at work in my desk pens, and those are usually nicer modern Pelikans with wet medium nibs. I prefer inks that won’t alarm folks in a legal office but aren’t merely monolith black or a nondescript blue. While I’d like to say I’m irritated by the inconsistency in appearance, I somehow managed to end up with 4 bottles of it, which is unprecedented for me in more than 25 years of fountain pen use and collecting. So I must like it more than I realize. If you have any interest in teals and blue/blacks this is worth a try.

Thanks for this addition! It certainly helps explain why my memory of a previous sample doesn't match my use in this pen. And I find it amusing that it appears this ink was the a precursor to the latest "looks different on different papers" inks that now seem all the rage.

[RJS]

I received a new bottle of this last week, years after my old one was finished. It's different to what I remember, and different to what is shown in this thread. I have it in a wet pen, and rather than the dark blue/black/green it's pretty much just a medium-dark turquoise with little blue. Very odd...

 

Edit: I took a couple of photos of it, but weirdly my iPhone makes it appear much bluer than I perceive it.

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, RJS said:

I received a new bottle of this last week, years after my old one was finished. It's different to what I remember, and different to what is shown in this thread. I have it in a wet pen, and rather than the dark blue/black/green it's pretty much just a medium-dark turquoise with little blue. Very odd...

 

Edit: I took a couple of photos of it, but weirdly my iPhone makes it appear much bluer than I perceive it.

Interesting.  Maybe some more folks with newer Tsuki-yo will chime in (here or elsewhere).

[LizEF]

Here's the line width measurement. The line is one of those used for dry time.  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 275µm.