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Noodler's Bottled Ink® [3 oz]
Noodler's Ink®: Bottled Ink
$13.75 Retail
$12.50 Our Price
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Noodler's Ink®...an ink one can use on the newspaper crossword puzzle, most recycled smooth papers, and even card board and industrial brown paper, rice paper and tissue thin papers from the far east. Feathering has been virtually eliminated (unless you use paper towel type material!) - yet the ink is still extremely safe when in contact with vintage pens - safer still than the quick dry formula and more similar to 1950's Skrip for such factors. However, several of the brighter colors were lost in the transition - yet other colors were gained. Those colors people liked to use have been selected as the "basic 36" with other more unusual colors with white tints and neon effects to be offered as custom orders at a later date.
"Quick dry" ink was called by some as "revolutionary" - but it does not behave itself on cotton fiber and some of the higher recycled content papers. The colors may have been intense and with the greatest penetration ability since Parker 51 ink, but it was not an ink to write ideas on the airport meal sheet, back of the newspaper, or on an insert torn from a magazine. Without universal abilities, the utility of such an ink suffered in my opinion and greatly contributed to the decision concerning its elimination. Noodler's ink must be capable of doodling ideas and concepts in as many places and forms as is possible for a fountain pen ink - the greater the utility to the user - the better. I've sent a sample bottle of quick dry ink to Chuck - and some left handed writers will try it out...if they don't mind its feathering tendencies with broad nibs on recycled paper it may be offered again at some time in the future. The benefit of quick dry was intended for left handed writers - as no matter how fast you write and press the freshly written word - it won't smudge...even if it hit the page a fraction of a second earlier. It truly hates recycled papers though - and dislikes broad nibs as it feathers from too wet a nib.
Black is a waterproof ink.
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