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:

https://youtu.be/pij0t-Gnxa0

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.)
https://fpgeeks.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=84295&d=1715694799

Screenshot (A little too dark. Might be a little too brown, but still not far off.)
https://fpgeeks.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=84296&d=1715694806

Scan of Completed Review (This is the best color reproduction - almost perfect.)
https://fpgeeks.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=84297&d=1715694811

Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (Both are too pale and blotchy.)
https://fpgeeks.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=84298&d=1715694816

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.)
https://fpgeeks.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=84299&d=1715694823

Water Test Results (Very close to the color I see.)
https://fpgeeks.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=84300&d=1715694834

Previous Review: Sailor Kin-mokusei (https://fpgeeks.com/forum/showthread.php/42383-EFNIR-Sailor-Kin-mokusei).

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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,Liz, for making Tuesdays a treat!

[LizEF]

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.

Don't have either of those, but from online images, the first seems similar, and the second is definitely more red.


”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).

:pound: (Every person who's ever seen the original Star Trek was thinking something similar. ;) )


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

:) Thanks!


Thanks as always,Liz, for making Tuesdays a treat!

You're most welcome! :)

[Yazeh]

Thanks for such a fun review :thumb:
If I recall well, I really enjoy writing with this ink and found the colour and fast dry times a plus. ;)
I noticed that you managed to have all 4 characters talk in the same paragraph. Bravo :rockon:
What I find most tedious in writing is, he/she/it said. In screenplays you don't have to bother with that but in novels you have to find ways, to retort, reply... :)

Thanks for making our Tuesdays so exciting :music:

[LizEF]

Thanks for such a fun review :thumb:

:) You're most welcome!


If I recall well, I really enjoy writing with this ink and found the colour and fast dry times a plus. ;)

As we've noted, dry time seems to vary by paper. I don't recall being bothered by dry time during the week of using the ink, but then, I never pay attention to dry time anyway. :) Beyond that, I can't remember anymore. I think the ink didn't particularly stand out either way for me.


I noticed that you managed to have all 4 characters talk in the same paragraph. Bravo :rockon:

:D Not intentional - I'm just reporting what happened.


What I find most tedious in writing is, he/she/it said. In screenplays you don't have to bother with that but in novels you have to find ways, to retort, reply... :)

Books on writing fiction always say to keep those tags simple (because people don't actually read them, they just sort of subconsciously note them), and remove them where possible. I tend to keep them in here either to impact the flow of reading or because I'm not using normal formatting like you'd find in print - that formatting makes it a lot easier to distinguish in other ways who the speaker is.


Thanks for making our Tuesdays so exciting :music:

:) Gladly!

[Brilliant Bill]

Thanks. On my screen, I see a Russian-leaning terra cotta.

[LizEF]

Thanks.

:) You're most welcome!


On my screen, I see a Russian-leaning terra cotta.

:pound: :rofl:

[junglejim]

Lovely color. Shame it's such a PITA to clean, though.

[LizEF]

Lovely color. Shame it's such a PITA to clean, though.

:) Yeah, inks that leave a film behind annoy me. I'm not sure it would impact the next ink (which might well remove the film), though - one would have to experiment. Alternately, it would be better in a pen with a section that's easier to clean. That tab in the Pilot section and the large-diameter "tube" that the converter / cartridge goes around (as opposed to the feed stem and tiny tube for standard internationals) just leaves tight spaces where it's hard to clean.