EFNIR: Noodler's Chekhov

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Noodler's Chekhov

This is review #285 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: This is a hard-to-describe brownish reddish color. It's not very saturated. Something yellowish tended to settle in the cone of the sample vial, so it needed serious shaking to get it all mixed up before inking. I haven't noticed settling in the cartridge. I forgot to start the water test page when I inked the pen - sorry. Day 5 was the first day I wrote on that page... The microscope smear was dull.

Cleaning was a nuisance. The ink leaves a pink film behind (you can see it in the cartridge in the video). Pen flush doesn't appear to touch it, so you have to rub it off. (As we all know, it's not easy to rub ink from inside a Pilot section...)

Noodler's list this as: bulletproof, eternal, fluorescent, forgery resistant. (It didn't fluoresce under black light for me, at all - though Pasternak sure did!)

Zoomed in photo (Color is too red. Shading is too strong.)

Screenshot (A little too dark. Might be a little too brown, but still not far off.)

Scan of Completed Review (This is the best color reproduction - almost perfect.)

Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (Both are too pale and blotchy.)

Line width (The "I" in "Ink:". 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 319µm. With 285 inks measured, the average line width is 297µm.)

Water Test Results (Very close to the color I see.)

Previous Review: Sailor Kin-mokusei.

Images also available on Instagram: @zilxodarap.

Want to influence the inky sequence? Take the "next ink" poll.

View a list of my inks, complete with review results in a google sheet.

Need to catch up on The Adventures of Quin and Makhabesh? Find the whole story here.

Hope you enjoy. Comments appreciated!

[Sailor Kenshin]

Hmmm.

 

Visually, this ink reminds me of a darker version of JHerbin's Rouille D'Ancre.  It's like a bandage/rust color, and I use it every so often in a broad nib.  It's a dry ink but shades well.

 

Don't got none of the comparison inks, but I do like rusty colors.  Pennonia Regal Crimson looks similar but I am finding it well-behaved so far.

 

”Keptin!  The Klingons are atteking!”  “Can you tell is where are the nuclear wessels?”

 

(Sorry.  Couldn't help myself...those groans you hear are in response to my above smart-alec remarks).

 

Love the story!  'Sometimes he's dense...' lol.  Thanks as always, @LizEF, for making Tuesdays a treat!  

 

 

[LizEF]

9 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Visually, this ink reminds me of a darker version of JHerbin's Rouille D'Ancre.  It's like a bandage/rust color, and I use it every so often in a broad nib.  It's a dry ink but shades well.

Don't have that one, but yeah, it looks similar.

 

9 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Don't got none of the comparison inks, but I do like rusty colors.  Pennonia Regal Crimson looks similar but I am finding it well-behaved so far.

This one definitely looks more red than Chekhov.

 

10 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

”Keptin!  The Klingons are atteking!”  “Can you tell is where are the nuclear wessels?”

 

10 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Love the story!  'Sometimes he's dense...' lol.

Thanks!

 

10 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Thanks as always, @LizEF, for making Tuesdays a treat!  

You're most welcome!

[yazeh]

What a fun review @LizEF 👍sorry the ink gave you a bit of cleaning nightmare. My Kakuno section is so badly stained by multiple ink residues, it is hard to know which ink has done what 😁

I find it creative how you jump cut scenes, instead of taking on a spying journey with Mak and Es 😉

BTW has Es lost hi-th lip-th? 😊

Your quote seems so appropriate for these times of multitude of divisions 😥

[LizEF]

22 minutes ago, yazeh said:

What a fun review @LizEF 👍

Thanks!

 

22 minutes ago, yazeh said:

sorry the ink gave you a bit of cleaning nightmare. My Kakuno section is so badly stained by multiple ink residues, it is hard to know which ink has done what 😁

No worries - at least it came out!    Those Pilot sections, man, they're just really hard to clean - fine when the section is a solid color, not so much when it's clear.

 

23 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I find it creative how you jump cut scenes, instead of taking on a spying journey with Mak and Es 😉

Thanks!  The spying journey wasn't exciting, and this tale of events in Ferovere is going to be long enough as it is!

 

24 minutes ago, yazeh said:

BTW has Es lost hi-th lip-th? 😊

  No.  You may recall that long ago I had a thread asking about how to relay his lisp in the text without being annoying, and the general consensus was to write it in some of the time, mention it some of the time, and leave it out the rest of the time - so when he's nervous / afraid / excited (and when I want to emphasize it for some reason), I include it, and the rest of the time I leave it to the reader to remember.  (Unless you were being literal and meant lips rather than lisp (lithp), in which case, I'm confused, and no, his lips are right where they should be - do snakes / sneks really have lips? ...googles...  Confirmed, snakes (and therefore sneks) do indeed have lips. )

 

26 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Your quote seems so appropriate for these times of multitude of divisions 😥

I was thinking of the story when I selected it, but yes, very applicable to current events as well.

[yazeh]

2 hours ago, LizEF said:

 

 

Thanks!  The spying journey wasn't exciting, and this tale of events in Ferovere is going to be long enough as it is!

 

2 hours ago, LizEF said:

 

  No.  You may recall that long ago I had a thread asking about how to relay his lisp in the text without being annoying, and the general consensus was to write it in some of the time, mention it some of the time, and leave it out the rest of the time - so when he's nervous / afraid / excited (and when I want to emphasize it for some reason), I include it, and the rest of the time I leave it to the reader to remember.  (Unless you were being literal and meant lips rather than lisp (lithp), in which case, I'm confused, and no, his lips are right where they should be - do snakes / sneks really have lips? ...googles...  Confirmed, snakes (and therefore sneks) do indeed have lips. )

 No I meant lisp. My Snek has gone a bit rusty

 

2 hours ago, LizEF said:

 

I was thinking of the story when I selected it, but yes, very applicable to current events as well.

 

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

My Snek has gone a bit rusty

It's so hard to stay fluent in a foreign language!

[InesF]

Oh, a déjà-vu ink review! Thank you, @LizEF for introducing this ink and for the story part! 

 

Do I misunderstand you right, that we have here a reference to Star Trek?

WOW!, an ink that is named after Pavel Chekov!  (the German Wikipedia has a nice photo of the crew in front of the Space Shuttle Enterprise)

That's exactly my déjà-vu - I told this already somewhere else ....   ... there is something about one "h" in the name.

 

PS, trivia: dissolved fluorescent dyes decay over time and loose their fluorescence property gradually. Alternatively, it may had happened that all the (maybe eosine?) now sticks at the inside of your converter (and feed) and didn't leave your pen during writing ... 🙄

[LizEF]

7 hours ago, InesF said:

Oh, a déjà-vu ink review! Thank you, @LizEF for introducing this ink and for the story part! 

You're most welcome!

 

7 hours ago, InesF said:

Do I misunderstand you right, that we have here a reference to Star Trek?

 

7 hours ago, InesF said:

WOW!, an ink that is named after Pavel Chekov!  (the German Wikipedia has a nice photo of the crew in front of the Space Shuttle Enterprise)

Oh man, can you say 1970s clothing?   (And someone forgot to beam the captain down!)

 

7 hours ago, InesF said:

That's exactly my déjà-vu - I told this already somewhere else ....   ... there is something about one "h" in the name.

Origin point:

 

7 hours ago, InesF said:

PS, trivia: dissolved fluorescent dyes decay over time and loose their fluorescence property gradually. Alternatively, it may had happened that all the (maybe eosine?) now sticks at the inside of your converter (and feed) and didn't leave your pen during writing ... 🙄

Ah, that could be.  My sample was a gift, so I don't know how old it was.  I didn't think to shine my UV light on the pen itself, but my guess would be age.  Thanks!