Noodler's Blue Ghost

[ToryLynn]

I'm sort of new to this review thing, and this probably isn't going to be the best one you've seen, but I did just get my first bottle of invisible ink, and thought it was awesome, so I thought I would share it with you. The blacklight picture is a bit fuzzy because my camera hates the light and I can't scan in blacklight, but the text is Emily Dickenson's Love poem X "I died for beauty...".

 

With blacklight

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Gwaxd0S9KL2_7EANQD09kg?feat=directlink

 

Without

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/XOM6d7AvbdsUUGn3t0bR8A?feat=directlink

 

(I tried to embed them, but it wouldn't let me.. or I just couldn't figure it out, so here are the links to the pictures.)

 

I scrawled my name in Levenger Cocoa written from my True Writer, so you all didn't think I had just turned to a different page. The paper is a Moleskine lined cahier, large sized, and it takes in the ink well.

 

Blue Ghost starts off wet as a sort of brilliant ghostly greenish blue, which I loved to see under the blacklight and would have liked to see stay, but as it dried, and it dried pretty fast.. I was writing the third line of the poem by the time first line had faded into the muted luminescent blue that you see on the page, though fuzzily. There was absolutely no bleed through, and no feathering, as I used a fine tipped nib in my favorite quill. (I ordered a Lamy Safari Vista, the only pen to have for an invisible ink, unless it was a Mont Blanc Skeleton 333, which would be the dream pen I want!... I digress. The Lamy hasn't gotten here yet.) The ink behaves well, and as you can see, is invisible in the light of day. I can think of a thousand useful things to do with this ink.. most fun of which is to play tricks on my students.

 

Interestingly enough, there was some residual dip-pen ink still on the quill that I had been unable to remove (stubborn stuff it was.. won't ever go near one of my FP babies), and when I dipped it (carefully) in the Blue Ghost, the Blue Ghost seemed to attack in, waged a brief war, and won, as the ink slid from the nib. Quite the helpful little ink.

 

I did not *see* any crawl... as I didn't really see any ink.

 

So.. was my first review ok?

 

ToryLynn

[Northwoods]

Nice review. That's a particularly difficult ink to show in a review sheet! I found on a canary yellow legal pad, Blue Ghost leaves a very faint pink impression, but is completely invisible on other papers I've tried. Obviously, it works best on papers that don't fluoresce on their own, as standard student notebook paper can.

[professionaldilettante]

Good job with the review. Must agree, It's a difficult shot to take a picture of without special equipment. Keep it up~

[penspouse]

Thanks for the review. Can't wait for my grandkids to be old enough to read so I can send them letters written with Blue Ghost.

[loweevan]

I've run into the same error. You have to right click the image and "copy image address." Using the direct link that Picasa provides says something about not being allowed to use that extension or something, right?

 

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_lkshckRkEts/Stugri97r7I/AAAAAAAAAM0/HH8kFUDjg0A/s512/DSCN5186.JPG

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_lkshckRkEts/StugrHdjzjI/AAAAAAAAANQ/behkwK-755Q/s512/DSCN5185.JPG

[Mille]

Oh yes! My childhood dreams of being a secret agent!

 

How does it look like if you write with an ordinary ink on the paper as well? It might look a little suspicious when I pass over a blank paper to my spy collegues.

[Highbinder]

Oh yes! My childhood dreams of being a secret agent!

 

How does it look like if you write with an ordinary ink on the paper as well? It might look a little suspicious when I pass over a blank paper to my spy collegues.

 

I recommend writing a page in normal ink, and then turning the page upside down and writing in invisible ink. Assuming your writing isn't so big that it completely fills the gap between lines it'll mean there won't be much 'overlap' and your hidden message will be easier to read

[farseer911]

I actually use mine to write a second journal behind my normal one. I run my "inviso text" at a 45 degree angle and use a Lamy Medium nib instead of a Japanese fine. I also purchased a high output UV that is on my desk. this is actually used at bars and nightclubs to check hand stamps and the like. It make writing a lot easier, at least for me.

 

Now you ask why? I like to think of it as being able to transcribe my inner monologue. If those that come after me are lucky enough to find it out about it, then they are in for some entertaining reading.

[Northwoods]

It's a little harder to read if you over-write with visible ink, but it's still quite readable. Just be sure the paper isn't a bleached white that tends to wash out the fluorescing ink.

[ToryLynn]

Oh yes! My childhood dreams of being a secret agent!

 

How does it look like if you write with an ordinary ink on the paper as well? It might look a little suspicious when I pass over a blank paper to my spy collegues.

 

Actually, done two tests. If you write over it with another color ink, you can still see the BG on underneath, but it is difficult to read. Likewise, it is difficult to read if you write over another ink, and I highly suggest writing over a bulletproof ink, as my Levenger Empyrean, even after it had dried, smudged and feathered when I laid the Blue Ghost down on top of it.

 

Another interesting thing though.. I mistakenly got some Lamy Blue in the Blue Ghost ink, thinking my Lamy Vista was empty as I was filling it.. and the Blue Ghost, after a while, completely ate the other Blue. There is not a trace of it in the bottle. How weird....

[Possum Hill]

I actually use mine to write a second journal behind my normal one. I run my "inviso text" at a 45 degree angle and use a Lamy Medium nib instead of a Japanese fine. I also purchased a high output UV that is on my desk. this is actually used at bars and nightclubs to check hand stamps and the like. It make writing a lot easier, at least for me.

 

Now you ask why? I like to think of it as being able to transcribe my inner monologue. If those that come after me are lucky enough to find it out about it, then they are in for some entertaining reading.

 

I trust there are no entries in the visible journal that would give it away, like -

 

"Received Noodler's Blue Ghost today, it really is invisible except under UV. No feathering on journal paper."

[Northwoods]

Something I never considered when buying this: this is a hard ink to clean out of a pen. You can't quite tell if it's gone!