EFNIR: Van Dieman's Ink Hanging Lake

[A Smug Dill]

5 hours ago, LizEF said:

I'm also playing with putting ink on a slide, letting it dry, and photographing that.  We'll see whether these microscope pictures become a normal part of reviews.  Feedback welcome!

 

Are you going to keep a trophy case of those slides à la Dexter?

[LizEF]

7 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

Are you going to keep a trophy case of those slides à la Dexter?

  No, though it would make for an interesting wall-display in the living room for the three times (average) per year when someone comes to visit...  Hmm.  Stop giving me ideas!!  I have enough projects!  But wouldn't a backlit display look nice?  Crud.  Now I have to go googling...

 

Prior to this moment, I planned to wash the slide off once I've photographed it and reuse it for the next ink (already done twice) - while I do have a lot of slides (95, plus 2 with depressions), that's clearly not enough, and I highly doubt I would actually want to go back and look at them again...  Maybe I'll keep any that are really interesting.

 

It's highly probable that completion-obsessed me will feel compelled to get microscope images of all my reviewed inks on paper (like the above image), and smears (on slides) of all the inks I still have (don't have all of them any more, but still have at least a little of the vast majority of them).

 

Off to window shop for displays now....

[LizEF]

5 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Off to window shop for displays now....

Well, fortunately, it appears no one makes such a thing (as is in my imagination) for retail sale.  (Here's something similar, in a museum.)  And I'm not about to blow the time and money it would take to build one.  So, obsession will have to get over it!   My rare visitors will have to suffice with whatever other bizarre things they may see in my front room.

[I-am-not-really-here]

27 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Well, fortunately, it appears no one makes such a thing (as is in my imagination) for retail sale.  (Here's something similar, in a museum.)  And I'm not about to blow the time and money it would take to build one.  So, obsession will have to get over it!   My rare visitors will have to suffice with whatever other bizarre things they may see in my front room.

Flat panel lighting?  With LEDs now its nothing.

[LizEF]

4 minutes ago, I-am-not-really-here said:

Flat panel lighting?  With LEDs now its nothing.

Yeah, but to build the display to hold a zillion slides flat against the lighted panel...  Make it all nice and pretty, blah blah ...  Not gonna take the time.

[inkstainedruth]

Nice enough looking color, but the dry time makes it a non-starter.  Thanks for the review, though.  Also thanks to Sailor Kenshin, because I have (and like) Pelham Blue.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[axialix]

8 hours ago, LizEF said:

I've been experimenting with my (real) microscope, seeing whether it would show the writing on paper, and made this image, which shows that the line width for this ink is ~300μm...

 

 

 

That's a thing of beauty it is. Excellent photo!

[LizEF]

2 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Thanks for the review, though.

You're very welcome.

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, axialix said:

That's a thing of beauty it is. Excellent photo!

Thanks!

[InesF]

Patience is a necessary ingredient to await the drying of this ink

- free interpretation of B. Disraeli and @LizEF.

 

While the name of the ink is, scientifically spoken, highly interesting for a non-native speaker, your review made me sure to never buy it. Thanks for the warning in the video! The daily exposure to hazardous substances in my morning coffee and some airplanes per day are the maximum I can handle ... 

 

 

[LizEF]

5 minutes ago, InesF said:

Patience is a necessary ingredient to await the drying of this ink

- free interpretation of B. Disraeli and @LizEF.

 

6 minutes ago, InesF said:

While the name of the ink is, scientifically spoken, highly interesting for a non-native speaker, your review made me sure to never buy it.

It's just as interesting to a native speaker.  I'm thinking a fantasy author (or maybe a drunken geographer) named these lakes.  (If it was a drunken geographer, I'm thinking he meant to name them "hang over lakes", and someone mis-deciphered his handwriting.)

 

7 minutes ago, InesF said:

Thanks for the warning in the video!

You're most welcome! 

 

7 minutes ago, InesF said:

Thanks for the warning in the video! The daily exposure to hazardous substances in my morning coffee and some airplanes per day are the maximum I can handle ... 

In that case, you should stay out of the state of California (because the state of California is known to the state of California to cause cancer).  I hear they're considering changing the state's name to Cancerfornia (which rhymes with "cancer for ya").

[AmandaW]

I could be wrong, but I thought it was named Hanging Lake because it's high in the mountains.

[InesF]

2 hours ago, AmandaW said:

I could be wrong, but I thought it was named Hanging Lake because it's high in the mountains.

@AmandaW, you made me search for it. While I like the story behind naming, true or not, the part about ignoring the fragility of this ecosystem makes me sad.

 

 @LizEF, I guess, the Wikipedia story provides one more background for the ink: the Hanging Lake doesn't dry up either. 

 

[AmandaW]

No, wrong Hanging Lake, it will be named after the one Tasmania cos that's where the inks are made.

 

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Hanging Lake  Situated within the isolated east Arthur ranges of Tasmania’s South West Wilderness is Hanging Lake, one of the highest altitude melt-water tarns, a serene majestic dark blue lake hidden within the rugged back drop of Federation Peak.  

https://www.vandiemansink.com.au/products/van-diemans-the-wilderness-series-hanging-lake-30ml-fountain-pen-ink?_pos=1&_sid=6a2a0558e&_ss=r

 

And there's a picture here.

[LizEF]

7 hours ago, AmandaW said:

I could be wrong, but I thought it was named Hanging Lake because it's high in the mountains.

@yazeh posted a link explaining the naming, earlier in the thread.

[LizEF]

5 hours ago, InesF said:

@LizEF, I guess, the Wikipedia story provides one more background for the ink: the Hanging Lake doesn't dry up either. 

Well, we can excuse them (sort of, while also not buying their ink) for wanting to use the eternal dry-time to remind us of this lovely lake.  (Thanks for the picture, @AmandaW.)

 

Meanwhile, their description of the ink...

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Our reformulated inks now have better flow, less feathering and bleeding, and higher quality dyes.

...left out the phrase, "and much longer dry times, so you can enjoy watching evaporation happen for long enough to ponder how Hanging Lake feels about getting evaporated day after day."

[InesF]

22 hours ago, AmandaW said:

No, wrong Hanging Lake, it will be named after the one Tasmania cos that's where the inks are made.

Sure, that makes sense!

Van Dieman's provides surface tension and pH values for their inks - that's great!

They provide explanations for the properties of their inks in pop-ups. Unfortunately the one explaining flow wetness doesn't work.

[InesF]

16 hours ago, LizEF said:

... to ponder how Hanging Lake feels about getting evaporated day after day."

 , poor lake!

[LizEF]

5 hours ago, InesF said:

Unfortunately the one explaining flow wetness doesn't work.

But inspecting the HTML for the link shows this is what they intend to have appear:

 

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This, quite simply put, is how well an ink flows through a pen, but also dictates how quickly an ink will seep into a page. Flow is affected by both the surface tension and saturation of an ink, but also by other additives such as humectants and surfactants. Inks with a high flow wetness can sometimes, but not always, feather and bleed more than other.

 

[InesF]

Thank you @LizEF for the html hack.

Always ask the experts ... 😎