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    Default EFNIR: Sheaffer Skrip Purple

    Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Sheaffer Skrip Purple

    This is review #316 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:


    Post-recording notes: Added a couple drops of water to top off the cartridge. This is a nice purple color that shifts from red-lean when wet to blue-lean when dry. It also goes sort of pastel-ish when it dries - while wet, it's more vibrant.

    Cleaning was quick and easy.

    The ink is too blue in the video, by far. Also, I forgot to set the camera to over-expose the video - sorry - will continue to work on making that a habit. (I've added a sticky note to the camera mount to remind myself.)

    Zoomed in photo (On one monitor, it's a little too chalky and blue; on the other, it's too red. :/)


    Screenshot (A little too blue on one monitor, very close on the other.)


    Scan of Completed Review (A little too blue on one monitor, almost perfect on the other.)


    Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (Colors are pretty close. CP is a little too blue.)


    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 306µm. With 316 inks measured, the average line width is 297µm.) (Shows a bit of sheen, but I never saw it in the writing.)


    Microscope image (400x (both images). The ink made little dumbbells and feathery branches. The inset is closer to the actual color, the background image is too dark and too blue.)


    Previous Review: Ohto Black.

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    Default Re: EFNIR: Sheaffer Skrip Purple

    Pretty color! Especially in the exotic flower and floating tree-covered island. You know I'm not a poiple ink lover but I might still have a lone Sheaffer Purple cart. Do you happen to know whether your cart was new or old stock?

    Yeah, I'm with Quin here (seeks hiding place/blankets, and no Friday the 13ths). Some of this reminds me of LOTR.

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    Default Re: EFNIR: Sheaffer Skrip Purple

    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor Kenshin View Post
    Pretty color! Especially in the exotic flower and floating tree-covered island. You know I'm not a poiple ink lover but I might still have a lone Sheaffer Purple cart. Do you happen to know whether your cart was new or old stock?
    I've never felt driven to get a purple ink (unlike blue-blacks and murky greens, of which I can't have enough ), but I do find I enjoy them when I do reviews (unless they're really blurple - don't like that color). If you do still have the Sheaffer cartridge, it may or may not bear any resemblance to mine. Heaven forbid that the ink recipes be kept when the company transfers ownership... My cartridge was part of a multicolor blister pack purchased from Anderson Pens in December 2021. I think it was the kind with the black cardboard (not the white and blue cardboard), but I'm not 100% certain of that.

    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor Kenshin View Post
    Yeah, I'm with Quin here (seeks hiding place/blankets, and no Friday the 13ths).
    While I also tend to prefer nice comfy spots and invisibility, I'm reminded of a G. K. Chesterton quote:

    An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor Kenshin View Post
    Some of this reminds me of LOTR.
    All similarities to other works are either coincidence (if I have zero exposure) or subconscious (as in this case, as I have read LOTR), or intentional (in which case, I'll mention it).

    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor Kenshin View Post
    Thanks, Liz, for making Tuesdays magical and fun... I always look forward to your review and story!
    You're most welcome! And thank you!

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    Default Re: EFNIR: Sheaffer Skrip Purple

    Great review Liz,
    Like, Sailor, I have a love and hate relationship with this colour. I don't like the lighter iterations, sort of love the chalkiness that others hate, like the darker shades etc.
    Love Quin's story arc and am curious where it would lead him. Now, I'm curious if Makhabesh has a similar arc and what about the Snek. As he's a reptile, maybe they don't have mommy/daddy issues

    Thanks for making Tuesdays, hopeful, thoughtful and creative 🙏🙏🙏

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    Default Re: EFNIR: Sheaffer Skrip Purple

    Quote Originally Posted by Yazeh View Post
    Great review Liz,
    Thanks!

    Quote Originally Posted by Yazeh View Post
    Like, Sailor, I have a love and hate relationship with this colour. I don't like the lighter iterations, sort of love the chalkiness that others hate, like the darker shades etc.
    Sheaffer Skrip Purple (the one I had anyway) might be matte enough for you to like - it's pretty close to chalky. Of course, I doubt it has water resistance...

    Quote Originally Posted by Yazeh View Post
    Love Quin's story arc and am curious where it would lead him. Now, I'm curious if Makhabesh has a similar arc and what about the Snek. As he's a reptile, maybe they don't have mommy/daddy issues
    Thank you! Well, Essri did flee his village because everyone was making fun of his lisp, so I imagine he, too has family issues (e.g. they didn't stand up for him enough, or something). But I haven't explored Essri's back-story much. And we all know about Makhabesh's commanding mother... Still, Quin's adventures seem to be taking center stage, don't they? Perhaps our next adventure (after all this grey spot stuff is resolved) should center around one of the supporting cast.

    Quote Originally Posted by Yazeh View Post
    Thanks for making Tuesdays, hopeful, thoughtful and creative 🙏🙏🙏
    You're most welcome!

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    Default Re: EFNIR: Sheaffer Skrip Purple

    Quote Originally Posted by LizEF View Post

    Sheaffer Skrip Purple (the one I had anyway) might be matte enough for you to like - it's pretty close to chalky. Of course, I doubt it has water resistance...
    I believe I have a few favourites, which are waterproof, Tchaikovsky, I believe was one Otherwise, I can just mix some permeant red and blue, and create my own purple

    Quote Originally Posted by LizEF View Post

    Thank you! Well, Essri did flee his village because everyone was making fun of his lisp, so I imagine he, too has family issues (e.g. they didn't stand up for him enough, or something). But I haven't explored Essri's back-story much. And we all know about Makhabesh's commanding mother... Still, Quin's adventures seem to be taking center stage, don't they? Perhaps our next adventure (after all this grey spot stuff is resolved) should center around one of the supporting cast.
    A village of Snenks, eh? I thought it came out of an egg and got lost somewhere on his way back endways adopted by Quin and Makhabesh

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    Default Re: EFNIR: Sheaffer Skrip Purple

    Quote Originally Posted by Yazeh View Post
    I believe I have a few favourites, which are waterproof, Tchaikovsky, I believe was one Otherwise, I can just mix some permeant red and blue, and create my own purple


    Quote Originally Posted by Yazeh View Post
    A village of Snenks, eh? I thought it came out of an egg and got lost somewhere on his way back endways adopted by Quin and Makhabesh
    Essri's story starts in review 181, and in review 183, we learn:

    "The otherth made fun of me becauthe of my lithp, and then the goat witch chathed me under the Muirdoor. I want to go home, find friendly thnekth who won't make fun of me."
    Granted, it's not as detailed, but yes, he was running away from home. Were it not for the nightmare of the holiday season, I would have written up a little story that reveals more, for InesF's thread. I still plan to do it, but holy cow the interruptions and demands won't end. (More plumbing problems along with everyone wanting me to come to their party... I'm seriously thinking I'm going to be quarantining next year with whatever CDC-made virus is popular.)

    Meanwhile, at this rate, I'm never going to get today's review recorded - my boys will not go take their afternoon nap!

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    Default Re: EFNIR: Sheaffer Skrip Purple

    Whew, ~that's really a bright purple! ~It fairly ~glows~!! That would make a better passionate Valentine's Day message that any of the mild pink ones I'm thinking...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skip View Post
    Whew, ~that's really a bright purple! ~It fairly ~glows~!! That would make a better passionate Valentine's Day message that any of the mild pink ones I'm thinking...
    It is indeed bright. And yeah, purple is a good Valentine color.

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