EFNIR: ESS Registrars Ink

[LizEF]

37 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

'You shouldn't shrug with a sphinx on your shoulder.'  Quote of the day!  👍🏻

 

37 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

This ink is right up my color ally, but I'm afeared of iron galls.

Everything I've read says there's no need to fear with gold nibs.  And all inks with permanence require extra cleaning...

 

39 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Thanks once again for a fascinating review! 

You're most welcome.

[Tas]

Awww. I miss it.

Akkerman's #10 kind of bested ESSRI for me and I gave my 2/3 bottle away (I think).

I love these hard working no nonsense inks. Thanks for reminding me of its charms. 😊

[LizEF]

12 minutes ago, Tas said:

Awww. I miss it.

Akkerman's #10 kind of bested ESSRI for me and I gave my 2/3 bottle away (I think).

I love these hard working no nonsense inks. Thanks for reminding me of its charms. 😊

  You're very welcome!  Maybe I'll add Akkerman #10 to my list of inks to sample next year, when I run out...

[Mercian]

I have a question for @LizEF;

at the very end of your review of ESSRI, you have written “AAR: Low” - what do you mean by that?

My apologies if it’s blindingly-obvious, and my thanks to you in advance for the answer.

 

Slàinte,
M.

[LizEF]

18 minutes ago, Mercian said:

I have a question for @LizEF;

at the very end of your review of ESSRI, you have written “AAR: Low” - what do you mean by that?

My apologies if it’s blindingly-obvious, and my thanks to you in advance for the answer.

 

Slàinte,
M.

  Only obvious if you've seen previous reviews where I spell it out: "Aircraft Attraction Rating" (sometimes "Automobile Attraction Rating" and other times I've used "Helicopter...", "Moving Vehicle...", or "Vehicular..." - or something like that).  I added it as a way to humorize my frustration over being interrupted by helicopters, light aircraft, every one of my neighbors leaving the subdivision at the same time, etc.  It's a reflection of how many times I had to pause during the video and wait for the noise to drop.  Once the video is sped up, it's hard to notice these, though you might notice the sudden disappearance of a background noise.

[Mercian]

Ah, yes - I remember watching earlier reviews in which National Guard helicopters were ‘buzzing’ your house (perhaps to get a closer look at the ink?). In the video, they sounded like buzz-saws.

 

Thanks 🙂

[LizEF]

29 minutes ago, Mercian said:

... (perhaps to get a closer look at the ink?)...

We have infrared goggles, night vision goggles, and now see-ink-through-the-roof goggles.  Let's hope they never invent ink-seeking missiles!

[A Smug Dill]

24 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Let's hope they never invent ink-seeking missiles!

 

Slingshot one of the 72 ink samples at the aircraft encroaching your airspace, i.e. directly above your property and within slingshot distance?

 

Maybe just the remainder of the ESSRI. (Acid attack!)

[LizEF]

2 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

Slingshot one of the 72 ink samples at the aircraft encroaching your airspace, i.e. directly above your property and within slingshot distance?

 

Maybe just the remainder of the ESSRI. (Acid attack!)

I suspect that's a federal crime - or would be if my slingshot could go that far and I could aim accurately.

 

"But, your honor, I looked through the statutes, and nowhere did it say it was a crime to splatter fountain pen ink on Army helicopters..."  😇

 

(Now I'm envisioning a stick woman...  And now - moments later - I'm envisioning a new video game... )

[A Smug Dill]

15 minutes ago, LizEF said:

"But, your honor, I looked through the statutes, and nowhere did it say it was a crime to splatter fountain pen ink on Army helicopters..."  😇

 

I was actually alluding to how to divert ink-seeking missiles.

[LizEF]

2 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

I was actually referring to how to divert ink-seeking missiles.

Oh, even better!  We need a video game programmer now!

[Mercian]

4 hours ago, LizEF said:

"But, your honor, I looked through the statutes, and nowhere did it say it was a crime to splatter fountain pen ink on Army helicopters..."

As your Attorney*, I advise you to not try to twang ESSRI at military helicopters!

 

Whilst there may not be any statute that proscribes any attempt to ink any inbound Army/NG Iroquois (UH-1), I’m fairly sure that aiming ESSRI at them would, in light of its acidity, not only be prosecutable as being tantamount to attempted assault with chemical weapons, but as such it might even be viewed by the local NG commander as constituting justification to send out a ‘gunship’ helicopter to launch a retaliatory strike against you.

Those tend to carry ‘Hellfire’ missiles - if the NG decides to hit your house with one of those buggers, the only way to show that you were ever even there might be to look for scattered bits of BSB-stained debris!

 

* Caveat lectrix: I am not an Attorney, and nor do I even play one on television.

[LizEF]

54 minutes ago, Mercian said:

As your Attorney*, I advise you to not try to twang ESSRI at military helicopters!

 

Whilst there may not be any statute that proscribes any attempt to ink any inbound Army/NG Iroquois (UH-1), I’m fairly sure that aiming ESSRI at them would, in light of its acidity, not only be prosecutable as being tantamount to attempted assault with chemical weapons, but as such it might even be viewed by the local NG commander as constituting justification to send out a ‘gunship’ helicopter to launch a retaliatory strike against you.

Those tend to carry ‘Hellfire’ missiles - if the NG decides to hit your house with one of those buggers, the only way to show that you were ever even there might be to look for scattered bits of BSB-stained debris!

 

* Caveat lectrix: I am not an Attorney, and nor do I even play one on television.

  Thank you for your wise counsel.  I shall use my ink-launcher only to launch decoys for the ink-seeking missiles, so they explode away from my house.  And just in case they fail, I'll order one each of the Baystate colors, and maybe some Kung Te-Cheng, to strategically position in different parts of the house - for help analyzing the blast pattern...

[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.

 

[Nick T]

Thank you for this review @LizEF This ink is fast becoming a favorite. 

[LizEF]

 You're most welcome!  Essri will be pleased to know you're enjoying his eponym.  

[Nick T]

@LizEF sorry to disturb (abashed) but do you know where I can buy a new bottle of ESSR? The website says they don’t ship internationally anymore and I’m getting low. Thanks!!

[LizEF]

43 minutes ago, Nick T said:

@LizEF sorry to disturb (abashed) but do you know where I can buy a new bottle of ESSR? The website says they don’t ship internationally anymore and I’m getting low. Thanks!!

Sorry, I have no idea.  I had assumed it was only available from them and I can't find any other source.

[inkstainedruth]

I had thought the same thing.  

And if they aren't shipping internationally from the UK?  I wouldn't even know where to begin to get a bottle, unless being able to find some person in the UK to buy it and ship it to the US -- or being able to to travel to the UK and buy it directly.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Nick T]

I will reach out to them in an email tomorrow and ask if they have a US distributor. Fingers crossed. 🤞