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    Default Re: Ink Review: Pelikan Edelstein Olivine ink of the Year 2018

    Your reviews are very nice. I’d put you up there with Amberlea


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    Default Re: Ink Review: Pelikan Edelstein Olivine ink of the Year 2018

    Like Smoky Quartz, I got a second bottle of Olivine....

    If the ink is dry for your pens, try a semi-flex nib.

    IMO semi-flex is not a slow to write Calligraphy nib that many misuse the nib for.... but a soft ++ nib with some ease of tine spread....so a wet writer.
    Being a wet writer, unless a perfect match of paper and ink, shading is lost or lessened.

    I just scribble right along with semi-flex as fast as with any other nib....and let the nib give me some of that old fashioned fountain pen script...with out me having to do anything at all.

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    Default Re: Ink Review: Pelikan Edelstein Olivine ink of the Year 2018

    Oh this is a gorgeous ink! I have the M205 Olivine but didn't manage to score a bottle of the ink. Seeing your review, I really wish I had been able to....
    [EDIT]: Stupid me, I'd assumed that the ink was sold out. But it isn't! I'll be sure to add a bottle to my next Goulet order
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    Default Re: Ink Review: Pelikan Edelstein Olivine ink of the Year 2018

    Great review again, Chrissy.

    Very tempting ink, but I think I have enough in the color range for now.

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    Default Re: Ink Review: Pelikan Edelstein Olivine ink of the Year 2018

    """Very tempting ink, but I think I have enough in the color range for now. """""

    Some years ago, I had no interest in green inks, I was chasing purples.
    A store had a sale and they had half a bottle of 4001 Brilliant Green, for next to nothing.
    The ink Shaded!!!!
    In the course of that year I ended up with some 14 green or greenish inks, now have 19.

    Never did get back to chasing purple.

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    Default Re: Ink Review: Pelikan Edelstein Olivine ink of the Year 2018

    The things one does with too much money in one's pocket. I'd bought this Olivine and Smoky Quartz...then did it again the next year.

    I had NOT noticed that Olivine had a woolly line like Aveturine. Perhaps it don't with narrower nibs. I was very happy with it before this BB semi-flex. I loaded Olivine in it, as it's a good shading ink.

    I won won some some 9 pens, 6 fountain pens in a live auction.
    One was an Osmia/Faber-Castel 52 listed on the barrel as a BB that was actually an OBB. Semi-flex # 2 size nib.
    It is a very wet ink.

    I have a honking big magnifying glass, 1 1/2"/7cm thick, wide 4"/10cm, long 5"/12 cm.
    On good to better paper the ink had a slight woolly line. On good Swiss papers; Mondi 100g color copy, Artoz 90g & Elit Leinen/Linen effect no gramage but Elit is a good Swiss paper.
    And on my best paper, German, Gmund, Beige-Beige 170g in creme. There was a slight woolly line.

    Bare eyed the Elite showed no woolly line. The rest one could see it if looking....and I am a bit AR about woolly lines.
    Even got my my very own scale of how bad it is.
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    Default Re: Ink Review: Pelikan Edelstein Olivine ink of the Year 2018

    I would be very surprised if there was no woolly line with most dye based inks when using any BB or OBB nib. Not everyone will look at it under magnification so I wouldn't worry about it. If your hearts desire is to have absolutely no woolly line at all with any papers then you should consider permanent or Indian ink from a dip pen, felt tip, fineliner or rollerball.

    The actual dimensions of a magnifying glass are not what make the difference. The difference is what the actual magnification strength is. i.e. 5x 10x 12x etc. etc.
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    Default Re: Ink Review: Pelikan Edelstein Olivine ink of the Year 2018

    2.8x/7D/250 which says not much to me...
    Think it's 2.8 magnification.

    And I'm thinking the the old '@ 52/53 Osmai-Faber-Castell pen is way too wet, well wetter than any of my OBB/BB nibs,
    I think I have a gasket problem. It is a pen fresh from the auction house.

    Emptied the Olivine, and put in the old discontinued 4001 Brilliant green and it was a slight tad woolly, not as much as the Olivine.....but I don't expect any woolly lines from the 4001 inks (discounting the dull green)

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