Noodler's (Swisher) Antietam

[Slush99]

Yes, excellent. I used it in my Frontier with good results(except I can't understand how I managed to bend the nib! )

 

It's a very very bloody color and looks just like blood on my fingers.

[krz]

I was having real trouble with the Noodler's Antietam Red. It was taking up to 20 minutes to dry! I liked the color so much I just put up with it.

 

Then I bought a new little Duke Mini from Todd to dedicate for the Antietam red. It has cool little red sparkles in the glossy black finish (kind of like halographic sparkles you find at the art supply store). I'm very pleased with the new little pen.

 

Anyway, after I inked up the Mini I found that drying times for the Antietam were thankfully back to normal!

How could this be? (Hercule Poirot might say).

 

After closer inspection of the 1st pen I had the Antietam ink in I could see clear gel-like lubricant in the piston filler chamber (it too was a new pen). I think the over-abundant lubricant was mixing into the ink and causing it to dry oh so slow. The Mini is a squeeze filler which needs no lubricant.

 

Magnifique! My best red ink now drying properly in the cool little pen .

 

All the best,

Edited January 8, 2006 by krz

[cmeisenzahl]

Nice pic and review!

[leicalvr]

Karin,

 

The Noodlers Habanero is great. I posted some thoughts on this in another thread here. Bryan was kind enough to post a nice scan of the ink and it is pretty much in line with my experience.

 

I would definitely give it a try.

 

Ron

 

Actually the thread was under Inky Thoughts not under reviews.

Edited January 19, 2006 by leicalvr

[TMLee]

Hi Folks ...

Bought Noodlers Tiananmen and Antietam not too long ago. I am experiecing real slow drying with both inks. Rather annoying. I just encountered smudges on my journals and bloodlike stains on my fingers and whats that fleshy part of the hand that rests on paper? The ink looks dry on the surface, but its not , my left hand smudged the completed left page .... Rats .... I Don't encounter this with the other few inks that I have. Whats this thing you add to the ink to make it dry faster ?

[alexanderino]

The blood-stained fingers are part of its charm When Antietam saturates the paper, it takes a while to be absorbed. In normal use, its drying time is about average.

 

Bought my first bottle today, and couldn’t be happier. Attached is a sample for your perusal.

Edited December 17, 2007 by alexanderino

[Robert Hughes]

Color of brick, claret, orange/red/brown? Nonsense. Noodler's Antietam is the color of blood! Just perfect for signing your soul away to an angel of destruction.

 

As a historical note for our non-American posters, the Battle of Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, was the bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War. From the National Parks Service web page:

 

"23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing after twelve hours of savage combat on September 17, 1862. The Battle of Antietam ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia’s first invasion into the North and led to Abraham Lincoln’s issuance of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation."

[Romeo Dog]

Anyone know if this tends to stain? I write with a lot of Vacumatics and see-through piston fillers.

[alexanderino]

I must confess that my previous scan is far too bright and pink-ish, so it's been removed.

 

As for staining, I had my Lamy 2000 inked with Antietam, but for less than a day. No staining detected

 

Here's Antietam written with the Pilot 78G BB nib, and on different paper. The initial flow was very wet:

 

After a few hours, normal flow resumed, and this is what I now get:

 

Goes to show how wetness can affect colour.

Edited December 19, 2007 by alexanderino

[Melnicki]

Goes to show how wetness can affect colour.

 

I'm running all my inks through a new pen I got (comparison scan will eventually be posted), a Caran d'Ache Ecridor (oooh.....), but I was completely surprised to find that Antietam looked more orange than usual. This is strange because in most pens it was definitely red with rusty yellow overtones. And the Ecridor was very generous in flow with all the other inks. I saw the Antietam in the converter had strange surface tension when I turned it upside down.

 

Inks are amazing. There are probably very few that look the same in every pen. Part of the fun is discovering the variation. I'm keeping an ink book so eventually I'll be able to post scans that show their pen-to-pen variability. Paper is a whole other story....

[ahab78]

This is a great ink that I use every day to grade papers because it allows me to use the traditional reddish color without all the negativity associated with bright red ink. I find that students can see my comments more clearly in contrast with the black ink of their papers.

[Fabienne]

Habanero and Antietam are very similar but Habanero shades much more and the shading is yellow and goes into orange. Antietam shades but lighter Antietam to darker of the same color. It is less intense than Habanero, too. Habanero is more of a wild orange-red (with yellow shading) and Antietam is a more subdued blood red. You could mistake Antietam for blood, but not Habanero. Hope that was a sufficient discussion.

[grahamtillotson]

Great posts! I'm into my first bottle and was hoping for a brighter color, but I'm warming up to it. Seems a bit dry, but have not tried across multiple pens yet. Slow drying to be sure. Get that great "Tom Riddle" effect when I open my journal after closing and see I've got olde tyme smudges across the pages ;-).