EFNIR: Pelikan 4001 Violet

[knarflj]

I'm late to the party, but thought I should add this comment: I love writing with this ink, but not too long ago I opened a journal from a few years ago and noticed that the 4001 Violet entries were fading badly--to the point that some of them were getting hard to read at all.  So I can no longer recommend it except for ephemera.

[LizEF]

4 hours ago, knarflj said:

I'm late to the party, but thought I should add this comment: I love writing with this ink, but not too long ago I opened a journal from a few years ago and noticed that the 4001 Violet entries were fading badly--to the point that some of them were getting hard to read at all.  So I can no longer recommend it except for ephemera.

  That's unfortunate - fading in a closed notebook is pretty rare.  Thanks for sharing this experience!

[Misfit]

Thanks for another great review. I like purple inks, and this is an attractive one.  Pity it faded in @knarflj’s journal.  I don’t have any Pelikan 4001 inks.

 

This one looks promising. I’ll look for reviews of the blue inks in this line. 

[LizEF]

49 minutes ago, Misfit said:

Thanks for another great review.

You're very welcome!

 

50 minutes ago, Misfit said:

I like purple inks, and this is an attractive one.  Pity it faded in @knarflj’s journal.

I haven't really tried purple inks prior to the set of inks from @A Smug Dill, but they're growing on me.  And yes, this one's lovely.  Agreed, most unfortunate that it fades in the dark (so to speak).

 

@knarflj, do you have any idea whether your notebook might have contributed to the fading?  (Of course, even if it did, this still seems too risky for anything one might want to keep.)

[knarflj]

13 hours ago, LizEF said:

 

@knarflj, do you have any idea whether your notebook might have contributed to the fading?  (Of course, even if it did, this still seems too risky for anything one might want to keep.)

 

That's a distinct possibility, since that particular notebook was an inexpensive one I picked up at Marshalls on spec.  It was fine for writing in, but I have no idea who made the paper.

 

I have been skimming back through old journals and sermon notebooks from the last nine years (that's how long I've had this bottle), and it seems as though the pen and paper both may affect how well the colour stays.  

 

None of the other notebooks (Leuchturm, Clairfontaine, ArTrends, Rhodia, Nanami Paper) show the drastic fading that the one from Marshalls did, I'm glad to say, though there's definite colour change/lightening in most of the examples I found.  But--and this is where the pen comes in--there are a couple places where the ink has stayed more or less dark and true to colour on one page (although I think it almost always ages a little more pink than it goes on), and six months later (or earlier) in the same notebook with a different pen, it's much lighter and more pink.  I think there's a general correlation between nib size and pen wetness and the way the ink ages (stuff written with a Parker 45M has aged a lot better than pages written with a dryish Monteverde Jewelria F), but I don't have enough examples to tell if that's even an exact correlation.

[LizEF]

22 minutes ago, knarflj said:

I have been skimming back through old journals and sermon notebooks from the last nine years (that's how long I've had this bottle), and it seems as though the pen and paper both may affect how well the colour stays.  

Thank you!  This is great information.  Proof again that all three members of the trio matter!

[knarflj]

On 2/12/2022 at 2:02 PM, LizEF said:

Thank you!  This is great information.  Proof again that all three members of the trio matter!

 

You're welcome!  It's not much compared to what I learn here (and certainly not compared to my enjoyment of Quin & Makhabesh's antics).

[LizEF]

Just now, knarflj said:

 

You're welcome!  It's not much compared to what I learn here (and certainly not compared to my enjoyment of Quin & Makhabesh's antics).

  I keep pondering how to add more of Quin and Makhabesh so the story doesn't take so long to unfold.  No more will fit on the review (and folks looking for ink reviews probably don't want more), but I suspect those of us who enjoy the story part of these reviews would like the story to unfold more quickly...  Now I just have to either decide to only do that on my website, or figure out some other alternative...

[amberleadavis]

On 2/10/2022 at 12:57 PM, knarflj said:

I'm late to the party, but thought I should add this comment: I love writing with this ink, but not too long ago I opened a journal from a few years ago and noticed that the 4001 Violet entries were fading badly--to the point that some of them were getting hard to read at all.  So I can no longer recommend it except for ephemera.

 

On 2/12/2022 at 10:39 AM, knarflj said:

 

That's a distinct possibility, since that particular notebook was an inexpensive one I picked up at Marshalls on spec.  It was fine for writing in, but I have no idea who made the paper.

 

I have been skimming back through old journals and sermon notebooks from the last nine years (that's how long I've had this bottle), and it seems as though the pen and paper both may affect how well the colour stays.  

 

None of the other notebooks (Leuchturm, Clairfontaine, ArTrends, Rhodia, Nanami Paper) show the drastic fading that the one from Marshalls did, I'm glad to say, though there's definite colour change/lightening in most of the examples I found.  But--and this is where the pen comes in--there are a couple places where the ink has stayed more or less dark and true to colour on one page (although I think it almost always ages a little more pink than it goes on), and six months later (or earlier) in the same notebook with a different pen, it's much lighter and more pink.  I think there's a general correlation between nib size and pen wetness and the way the ink ages (stuff written with a Parker 45M has aged a lot better than pages written with a dryish Monteverde Jewelria F), but I don't have enough examples to tell if that's even an exact correlation.

 

Thank you for sharing.

[knarflj]

20 hours ago, LizEF said:

  I keep pondering how to add more of Quin and Makhabesh so the story doesn't take so long to unfold.  No more will fit on the review (and folks looking for ink reviews probably don't want more), but I suspect those of us who enjoy the story part of these reviews would like the story to unfold more quickly...  Now I just have to either decide to only do that on my website, or figure out some other alternative...

 

I don't know.  Yes, the greedy part of me would like more of the story faster, but there really is something nice about having the story stretch out over time.  Maybe we're so glutted with "instant" everything nowadays that it's good to have one or two things in life that move slowly and require patience.

 

And of course, eagerness for the next story instalment definitely adds to the anticipation for the next review.

[LizEF]

11 minutes ago, knarflj said:

 

I don't know.  Yes, the greedy part of me would like more of the story faster, but there really is something nice about having the story stretch out over time.  Maybe we're so glutted with "instant" everything nowadays that it's good to have one or two things in life that move slowly and require patience.

 

And of course, eagerness for the next story instalment definitely adds to the anticipation for the next review.

Thank you!  I get excited to share what I've already written (I'm up to review 177 now), so I just assume folks are in a hurry.  I will try to be patient.   (But it's good stuff!  Of course, I stopped at 177 because, once again, I have no idea what happens next, nor why the High Wizard left, and in the next couple of "scenes", I have to figure that out.  If anyone knows why the High Wizard left, please let me know!)

[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 300µm.  (That's Noodler's Shah's Rose showing through.)