Waterman Tender Purple

Review of Waterman Tender Purple fountain pen ink using a Pilot Penmanship EF nib.

Chapters:
00:00 Swatch color comparison
00:06 Zoom (microscope) photo
00:12 Microscope smears
00:36 Line Width
00:42 Written review
00:57 Dry Time
01:10 Writing Sample
02:29 Subjective Analysis
03:04 Zoom of absorbent paper
03:44 Quote & Writing Prompt
04:26 Close-up of completed review
04:38 Scan of completed review
04:44 End screen, links to channel and previous review

Post-recording notes: Cleaning was quick and easy and showed a lot of pink. None of my other purples are anything like this one. Pelikan 4001 Violet comes closest. The absorbent paper is very wrong (colorwise), as if the camera picked up blue in some places and pink in others, but never both. Copy paper isn't much better. The screenshot isn't too far off, but too blue, I think. Zoom shows too much shading. The scan might be the closest color, but the text isn't quite dark enough.

The line width measurement is one of the lines used for dry time. 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 300µm. (For the curious, with 190 inks measured, the average line width is 292µm.)

The microscope slide was so interesting, I decided to include four images.

Microscope slide at 100x. This is what most of the slide looked like, pinker where the ink was thin, bluer near the edges - sometimes far more blue than this suggests. The colors were also much brighter than this image shows, and those pink squares were hot, bright pink. The sharp-edged white streaks were denser and more complex in the bluer areas.

Microscope slide at 100x. These were all the same as those hot pink squares, but like overlapping flakes. There were places with many more, forming long lines of overlapping squares. These were all in the areas without any other ink around them.

Microscope slide at 400x. There were many feathery areas, but none quite like this! It's like a feather-flower. :D My eyes saw much greater detail and more vibrant color - sorry I couldn't capture it for you.

Microscope slide at 400x. This is the edge of the cover slip. Again, it doesn't show the detail I could see, but the colors are very close to what I saw. The red looked like crystal spikes stabbing in from the edge of the cover slip. :)

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[Snick]

Hi Liz—I came back to Waterman TP after a brief flirtation with Cross Purple—sometimes OG loves are more fulfilling after all. Thanks, as always, for the valuable review and cheeky prompt.

[kevinu.k.]

Great review thank you.
The microscope material was interesting, but I am not sure what to do with it other than multiply 300 micrometres to get 0.3mm as your nib width Chuckles.
For me this ink pipped Diamine Imperial Purple as the one I chose between the two, in this more saturated shade. I think it a very well behaved ink.

With my medium nibs circa, 0.7mm, its somewhat darker.

Thanks :)

[Igor_Itkin]

This is my favorite ink in my Sailor F-Nib. Do you know other equal bright saturated inks that are easy to read in any color ?

[storge]

I am having my usual Monday night withdrawals
Whilst I *_<impatiently>_* wait for the next episode/review, I am checking out old reviews.
I am very surprised that I have not left a comment on this ink yet. It's one of my faves

[bookswithblake]

All I can think of at the beginning of your subjective analysis is the - "not like a puurrplee... but more of a - commercial lol.