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Pelikan Edelstein Star Ruby – a lazy review


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Colour: More of a dark pink than a red
Flow: Moderate
 
Feathering: Not observed on Rhodia Dotpad 80g/m² paper, looking closely at the thinnest hatching lines, and words/glyphs ‘reverse-written’ with the nib upside-down (i.e. the bottom of the feed facing up)
Show-through: Low to nil
Bleed-through: Not observed
 
Drying time: 9–10 seconds
Smudging after fully dry: Didn't happen when I rubbed my thumb over the hatching/stippling panel and the largest Chinese hanzi characters
Water resistance: So apparently poor that I don't think I need to soak some part of the sheet for an hour or so
 
Shading: Very subtle, when the range of colours that can come from this ink is so narrow
Sheen: None observed — and I checked with a loupe and a bright LED light
Shimmer: None
 
My thoughts: My initial impression is that this is an uninspiring colour; and, looking at some old writing samples, I thought it is similar to Pilot Iroshizuku Tsutsuji. However, I've since done a side-by-side comparison of those two, and the apparent differences actually made this ink seem slightly more appealing now. If I wanted to use a red ink that dries quickly and exhibit a reasonably consistent colour, such as when I'm marking up draft documents that I'm not keeping for future reference, this could actually be quite suitable.

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Thank you for this lazy review. I like that this ink is not a red nor a pink, but right in between. Makes it a more interesting colour. What I don’t like about this one is that it stains quite a lot - takes some work to clean your pens after using it. Seems to be a common theme for red inks...

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Thanks... but... I don't like this ink for the exact opposite reason. It's neither red nor pink. Doesn't resemble any real rubies I've seen. The name Raspberry would have fitted a bit better, but only a bit.

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3 hours ago, lapis said:

It's neither red nor pink. Doesn't resemble any real rubies I've seen.

 

I was told that's what star rubies look like; but I've never seen one in person, to the best of my recollection.

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