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Noodler's Bottled Ink® [3 oz bottles]
Noodler's Ink®: Bottled Ink 3.0 oz.
$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.
DARK MATTER:
A vintage replica ink that exhibit classic period ink behaviors with mild (when compared to our modern bulletproof and eternal inks) water resistance upon the page (particularly after the passage of time, a week or so or more upon the page will increase the ability to resist water). Please bear in mind these are classic style inks and will NOT exhibit the durability of the more modern eternal and bulletproof lines...as none resist the rays of the sun nor many of the chemical tools of the forger. As inks of the era they would have most certainly been classed as being "permanent" by the industry of that time. Government issue v-mail inks would have most closely resembled "Dark Matter", though the bright colors of the "V-Mail" series replicate inks of the era that had similar labeling themes relating to the conflict that spanned all oceans and all continents.
We were given enough information to conclude it was the genuine: the ink of Los Alamos, New Mexico…cir. Mid-1940s, "Project Y"- the Manhattan Project. Better still, it could be successfully rehydrated and replicated.
It has been named "Dark Matter" and has an image of the leading scientist of the Manhattan Project upon the label – with his most famous quote imprinted upon his image. The ink could be distinguished between other inks of the era with a variety of tests – yet it was a very conventional ink and though water resistant, is not completely waterproof (though at the time it would have certainly been classed as being "permanent"). If you wrote a document while sequestered at Los Alamos during "the project"….apparently, you even had to use the right kind of ink when not using a pencil or bit of chalk...
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