EFNIR: Van Dieman's Ink Sweetheart Cherry

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Van Dieman's Ink Sweetheart Cherry

This is review #176 in my series.  Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: Cleaning was quick and easy. This color is really hard to capture. The scanner made it almost hot pink. It's very muted (not bright). It leans orangish to my eyes, and yet in some lights, it seems to have a pinkish hue. (Apparently, I have color perception problems.) To solve this oddity, I did a chromatogram. It shows pink, orangish, and a neon yellow that seems almost greenish in some light! The orangish color between the pink and yellow is pretty much what the ink looks like for me.

I've done the best I could to adjust the colors, but there's no telling whether it'll look right. Since I have a set of Pantone color swatches, I checked and it's really close to Pantone color DS 77-3 U (C10 M75 Y75, K0) - FWIW. The zoom is the only picture that looked somewhat right without color correction, and it's pretty close. The screenshot and absorbent paper images are a little too red. The scan seems too pink. On my phone, everything looks way too saturated...

The line width measurement is one of the lines used for dry time. Magnification is 100x. The grid is 100x100µm. The scale is 360µm, with ten divisions of 36µm each. The line width for this ink is roughly 360µm. (For the curious, with 176 inks measured, the average line width is 291µm.)

Under the microscope there were hot pink flecks sparsely scattered through the ink, but I couldn't get the camera to distinguish, so I didn't include an image.

And here is a screen of the final result, for those not interested in the video:

Scan of Completed Review:

Zoomed in photo:

Absorbent Paper Closeup (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper):

Line width measured via microscope at 100x:

Chromatogram:

Images also available on Instagram: @zilxodarap.

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Hope you enjoy.  Comments appreciated!

[yazeh]

Great job @LizEF 

This actually looks like a very nice brick-ish colour. Reminds me somewhat of ancient Copper. 

I always though shading inks had long dry times (In my experience). But for an ink that doesn't shade to have such a long dry-time, it's a pity. It seems almost pointless. 

 

Pegasus? Zowie... that's a new twist....  

 

 

[LizEF]

7 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Great job @LizEF 

Thanks!

 

8 minutes ago, yazeh said:

This actually looks like a very nice brick-ish colour. Reminds me somewhat of ancient Copper. 

It's a difficult color to capture or describe.  Orange and pink and yeah, a bit of brick...

 

9 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I always though shading inks had long dry times (In my experience). But for an ink that doesn't shade to have such a long dry-time, it's a pity. It seems almost pointless. 

I can't say I've noticed that correlation.  It might be interesting to try to analyze my data and see if there's a relation.  Quantifying or rating shading is difficult though, so I haven't been diligent about it in my database...

 

10 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Pegasus? Zowie... that's a new twist....  

Strange things happen when you fall off a cliff!

[Sailor Kenshin]

Let's sum up:

 

1. Cool color.

2. Cooler chroma.

3. Cool story.

4. Eternal dry time.

I like brickish colors, but I have a lot of them (and created a few).  Inks with the special NeverDri ®️ feature are just not in my line-up.  But I love the story, and your reviews.

 

Thanks!  🎉

[LizEF]

32 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Let's sum up:

 

1. Cool color.

2. Cooler chroma.

3. Cool story.

4. Eternal dry time.

I like brickish colors, but I have a lot of them (and created a few).  Inks with the special NeverDri ®️ feature are just not in my line-up.  But I love the story, and your reviews.

Thanks!

 

32 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Thanks!  🎉

You're most welcome!

[I-am-not-really-here]

This one looks worth a $3 spend for a sample but a bottle would be foolish.  Thanks for the review!

[LizEF]

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

This one looks worth a $3 spend for a sample but a bottle would be foolish.  Thanks for the review!

Samples are sometimes the happy medium.  You're very welcome!

[InesF]

Thank you @LizEF for introducing this ink and for keeping Quin safely mounted on a winged horse (are they all called Pegasus?). Poor exhausted Makhabesh!

 

The cherry colour is highly interesting, the ink seems to have low surface tension.

However, the colour I see in the zoomed photo looks like a twin to P. Edelstein Garnet (another red I love).

 

Makes me looking forward to the upcoming cherry season ... hmmm. 🍒

[jmccarty3]

I like it, but already have Edelstein Garnet and Herbin Rouge Grenat, which are similar enough.

[LizEF]

8 hours ago, InesF said:

Thank you @LizEF for introducing this ink and for keeping Quin safely mounted on a winged horse (are they all called Pegasus?).

You're welcome!  As far as I know, Pegasus is the only name for a winged horse (or was the only winged horse?).  If there's another name, I don't know it.

 

8 hours ago, InesF said:

Poor exhausted Makhabesh!

Yes, lots of flapping!   Hard to say whether all that resting on Quin's shoulder was good (saving his energy) or bad (letting his muscles waste away)...

 

8 hours ago, InesF said:

The cherry colour is highly interesting, the ink seems to have low surface tension.

However, the colour I see in the zoomed photo looks like a twin to P. Edelstein Garnet (another red I love).

Yes, it did spread quite wide!  I have Monteverde Garnet, and PenBBS #234 Garnet, but not Pelikan's.  So, I guess I won't be doing any direct comparison - not this year, anyway...

 

8 hours ago, InesF said:

Makes me looking forward to the upcoming cherry season ... hmmm. 🍒

[LizEF]

23 minutes ago, jmccarty3 said:

I like it, but already have Edelstein Garnet and Herbin Rouge Grenat, which are similar enough.

The relatively fat line would discourage me from getting this ink, and I prefer my reds brighter - despite the bright colors in the chroma, this ink seems rather muted / flat to me.