Complete List of Noodler's Ink

[Viseguy]

But I haven't done any mixing yet;

Let us know when you get around to mixing. I just now did your Mystery Blue mix, and that's quite a discovery you made. It's wild how the ink stays the same color after a soak--even after seeing your scans, I expected only the Iraqi Indigo to remain on the page after a soak.

Must say, that mix has become my favorite blue ink. It's really had legs for me. Don't know why the blue sticks around after a soak. Some kind of molecular magic, I guess.

 

Just curious: when you did the mix, did you use Eel Blue or regular Blue? I used Eel for my mix, but I have to believe that the color and waterfastness would be the same with regular Blue. I'd be curious to hear from anyone who has tried it.

[cowdad]

Just curious: when you did the mix, did you use Eel Blue or regular Blue? I used Eel for my mix, but I have to believe that the color and waterfastness would be the same with regular Blue. I'd be curious to hear from anyone who has tried it.

I used regular Noodler's Blue, not Eel Blue. I've written about 5 pages in it today and like it even better today than I did last night. I'm not going to be surprised if this becomes my blue of choice. I had no idea I'd like it this much.

 

It also does very well under the wet hand test, which is a more meaningful test to me than the dip or rinse test. The wet hand test--that's what I call it when you put a little water on your hand and run your hand over the page.

 

Most of that blue in the Noodler's Blue is somehow binding to the page.

 

CowDad

[Viseguy]

Just curious: when you did the mix, did you use Eel Blue or regular Blue?...

I used regular Noodler's Blue, not Eel Blue....

Glad to hear that regular Blue works as well.

[umenohana]

I've added the new Indian Upper Ganges Blue. Is White (if it exists) the most exclusive of 'em all?

 

-Hana

[FLZapped]

I've added the new Indian Upper Ganges Blue. Is White (if it exists) the most exclusive of 'em all?

 

-Hana

I'll bet you never thought it would be this bad, huh.

 

-Bruce

[HeathnKara]

I've seen mention of two Noodler's inks, Permian and Raven, both black. Anyone know where I can find them? Thanks.

 

Heath

[Ink Stained Wretch]

Noodler's, at least on Pendemonium, has a new category, or sub-category. It's called "Near Bulletproof."

 

This category takes in:

 

Aircorp Blue/Black

Blue/Black

Walnut

Red/Black

Zhivago

Navy Blue

Kiowa Pecan

Golden Brown

Marine Green

Standard Brown

 

Now I knew that Aircorp Blue/Black, Blue/Black, Walnut, Red/Black and Zhivago had a Noolder's Black component in them. However I was a bit amazed to see the other colors included in this category. So I tested Navy Blue, Kiowa Pecan, Marine Green and Standard Brown in a soak test. I don't have Golden Brown.

 

And it turns out that each of these has Noodler's Black as a component too! So although the other color would wash away in a soak you'd still be left with a readable black text.

 

So from the way I'm looking at it Navy Blue is sort of a Tahitian Pearl light, Kiowa Pecan is a Walnut light, Standard Brown is an even lighter shade of that and Marine Green is Zhivago light.

 

Now I have even more varieties I can play with! Guess I'd better get some Golden Brown to see what it's like. :roflmho:

[sonia_simone]

I have Golden Brown and I love it. It doesn't look like Walnut Very Light, but what do I know? Lemme know if you want to trade vials--I'm sure you have something I'd be interested in!

[Ink Stained Wretch]

I have Golden Brown and I love it.  It doesn't look like Walnut Very Light, but what do I know?   

Well Walnut is so very dark. I don't know if there's going to be much of anything in a brown ink that's going to not be lighter than it is.

 

Lemme know if you want to trade vials--I'm sure you have something I'd be interested in!

 

I'm not so sure about those vials. I haven't been able to get the caps on straight on one of them yet. :blink:

[James P]

I'm not so sure about those vials. I haven't been able to get the caps on straight on one of them yet. :blink:

 

THREAD HIJACK WARNING!

 

I had the same problem with the ink exchange vials when I started the ink sampler program. I've since solved the problem by buying a supply of glass vials with pretty secure screw caps. I've received no complaints about leakage since I started using them, and I've sent out hundreds and hundreds of vials to what I presume are happy customers.

 

If anyone would like them for the ink exchange, let me know and I'll see if I can arrange some bulk deals with my supplier. I'd be happy to coordinate the distribution, like Dillo has been doing for the plastic Peti-Vials.

 

James P.

Edited December 6, 2006 by James P

[sonia_simone]

I love those little vials that James has. James, I would love a bulk deal for them!

 

I-S-W, if you wanna do a trade, let me know and I can send you a spare one of the little cute glass ones.

[davidmigl]

Just wanted to ask for a little clarification - in the list, the "bulletproof" title is in bold, and the "exclusive" titles are in italics, so does that mean that everything in the exclusives (like prussian blue, manhattan blue, nile ebony, etc. etc.) is bulletproof, or does the "bulletproof" title apply only to that one section?

[sonia_simone]

I will leave Hana to answer it definitively, as it is her posting, but AFAIK all of the exclusives mentioned there are also bulletproof.

 

I don't have a lot of knowledge of some of the rarer ones, though, like Permian Black.

[Eternally Noodling]

There is not an active list of Noodler's Inks - because it is not possible to guarantee that all are in stock or will be available in the future. Several are "retired" because the dye was simply too rare to maintain production beyond a mere handful of bottles. There are other reasons - some explained below....have more to do with passion than what one learns at your average business school.

 

 

Of all the now nearly five hundred Noodler's Inks that are available worldwide, each color is different UNLESS it is a small run for a retailer who requests a color that is already in existence (such as the Raven/Texas bottle in Houston, "NY, NY", or the "Medical Black" in Miami) and desires a unique label specific to their store and region. For example - the colors specific to India are different from those with labels specific to Sweden...and have different properties. Stockholm Indigo can be determined as a unique ink within seconds at any forensics or crime lab worldwide...right down to the bottle - it is a completely unique security ink that has specific light reflective properties and permanence that is unlike any other upon the globe - thus a "specific" security ink. Security inks have different properties - and the retailer who sells a security ink has a list of those particular unique properties (as does the retailer in Stockholm).

 

The Singapore series of 12 unique bulletproof inks is completely different from the 13 in the Russian series ("Lara" is not sold in the US). Germany is different from UK, ...Taiwan from Mongolia...etc.. Some inks have such rare dye components they will never be made again (the dye ran out and can't be replaced) such as the original "Year of the Golden Pig" and "Golden Ghost". There is criticism by some that to issue an ink when one knows in advance the supply will run out is not a good strategy according to the traditional dictums of basic marketing - that any effort spent on a product should account for the expected duration of that product's life. Noodler's would rather see a rare dye made available to a few fellow pen users than to none at all...that's why we came into being! The joy of writing with a unique ink brings me to another issue...the freedom to express any thought upon the page with ink that one desires to express.

 

The Communists vrs. the Fountain Pen:

 

I think most of us would agree that it is a fundamental human right to draw, write, create and form new concepts and ideas freely upon the page... To an ink company - and to somebody who lives and breathes all things ink day after day....the thought of restricting the ability of other human beings to freely express themselves upon the page with pen and ink - is abhorrent!

 

The "Year of the Golden Pig" (named due to the communist ban recently on displays or mention of the year of the golden pig on television or advertising! It was a type of invisible ink similar to the 20 bottle "Golden Ghost" - extremely light specific and next to impossible to know it is there unless you know exactly how to find it! Perfect for what is being done in a small handful of Chinese libraries.) consisted of 18 bottles that were smuggled (only counting the successful ones) into communist China for free use at particular libraries - containing ink that was ebonite specific and was designed to NOT function in the pens of eastern China commonly known to be the preference of Communist agents/police/political hacks. It was also a light specific and paper specific ink - and would not function in other combinations. Since the communists have made Google and Yahoo as well as every other multinational I can think of...kow-tow to the oppression of human freedom - it seemed more than amusing to design an ink that would promote the dissemination of ideas in a way that would be extremely difficult for the communist dictatorship to halt. Now they do not know which book in their libraries may or may not have ideas hidden upon its pages questioning the communist dictatorship...for any and all to see who know how to access such information. The writings of Mao, Marx, and Lenin are likely the perfect texts for anti-communist communications. Also...Noodler's does not sell ink in China (as Taiwan is NOT a part of China! Taiwan is Taiwan!)...so they can scream and threaten all they please. If they object strongly enough, there will be limited editions of ink paying tribute to the fallen heroes who strove to promote freedom of assembly in China: the martyrs of Falun Gong! One edition for each obstruction imposed against the ink. We have no desire for access to their market until the day it is free. Some pro-communist dictatorship retailers in the region have shunned us - but that has happened before and I could not care less (there are numerous people who hate me personally because I happen to believe certain elections in the middle east were a historic turning point in history and that the people there should have as much of a chance at liberty and stability as the people of Japan, Korea, Greece, France, Taiwan, Germany, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Ukraine, etc....as the man from my home state once said: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. "). The Taiwanese series of Noodler's Inks also celebrates freedom and the fact that Taiwan is Taiwanese....and the history of "black water" and the quest for liberty that the symbol inspires. The artwork for Taiwan is still "work in progress" - but the English version of the Tibetan label as well as the English version of the "Golden Year of the Pig" are shown below. Note that outside of China the "Year of the Golden Pig" is the same as the Russian "Lara" - a bulletproof fluorescent bright mandarin yellow highlighter ink (firefly is not permanent, whereas this ink is completely bulletproof). The Tibetan inks consist of the color of the Tibetan flag as well as the classic colors of certain sands used in traditional artistic ceremonies there... The label shown is an ink that combines the spectrum ranges of the Tibetan flag into a single ink. As distribution has been difficult with some of these inks - as well as strains on raw materials (thus 10, 15, 18, and 20 bottle total global supplies for certain rare dyes) many such inks will not be made again. Sometimes it is because it is not possible - whereas other times it is possible, but at heavy losses per bottle. The Red Oak Garnet series cost double what it sold for in the end. One does not need the Chinese market to survive, but losses like that have to be stopped now and then or Noodler's won't be around in 100 years (as I intend it to be!).

 

A handful of "Year of the Golden Pig" and Tibetan inks will be test marketed - if results are kind...the line will be expanded...if results are cruel - they will not be expanded beyond where they are now.

 

Year of the Golden Pig is not shown in high resolution because pro-communist counterfeits have been reported to me - each time one is made, another Falun Gong martyr themed ink will "appear" at Chinese public libraries...in the west, where eminent domain seizures of private property and the crushing of individual freedoms are at their most egregious...and where even a tiny ink bottle can be significant in the cause of freedom.

 

It would be nice to be able to smuggle in "Blue Ghost" and perhaps "Golden Ghost" (if more can ever be made) into Iranian, Cuban, and North Korean libraries - any hints as to how are welcome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.

We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

This much we pledge and more.

To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do -- for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.

To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom -- and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

 

.............

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it -- and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. ............"

 

John F. Kennedy - January 20, 1961

Edited May 5, 2007 by Eternally Noodling

[Eternally Noodling]

With a little help from the various "Free Tibet" organizations...the Tibet series Noodler's will soon be more widely available in the border regions of Tibet - and most desired of all - will have the local language instead of English. I will post when more is done and the next time an island of extra time arrives my way.

 

In the meantime - work in progress on the much requested Canadian ink...if enough people call the number listed on the Canadian label I believe the ink might be available in a month or two. If nobody shows any interest - who else will make a Canada specific ink series unique in the world? I hope to make it a security ink with similar properties to Stockholm Indigo in terms of its identifiable traits at a forensics lab.

 

The second sample label is of an ink that is now past the prototype stage and bound for Singapore - "Lotus Grace" the color in the flower petals is the same as that of the ink.

Edited May 5, 2007 by Eternally Noodling

[Bill Smith]

With a little help from the various "Free Tibet" organizations...the Tibet series Noodler's will soon be more widely available in the border regions of Tibet - and most desired of all - will have the local language instead of English. I will post when more is done and the next time an island of extra time arrives my way.

 

In the meantime - work in progress on the much requested Canadian ink...if enough people call the number listed on the Canadian label I believe the ink might be available in a month or two. If nobody shows any interest - who else will make a Canada specific ink series unique in the world? I hope to make it a security ink with similar properties to Stockholm Indigo in terms of its identifiable traits at a forensics lab.

 

The second sample label is of an ink that is now past the prototype stage and bound for Singapore - "Lotus Grace" the color in the flower petals is the same as that of the ink.

 

Nathan,

 

I am calling Akil at Sleuth this morning to add my vote. It would be really nice to launch the ink at the Toronto International Pen Show this July (or at least field test it).

 

Bill

[Latro21]

jeez, 500 different inks?!?!

 

are we able to buy all of these country exclusive inks in the states? [besides the russian, UK, upper ganges, we know can be had]

[Nibble]

Year of the Golden Pig is not shown in high resolution because pro-communist counterfeits have been reported to me - each time one is made, another Falun Gong martyr themed ink will "appear" at Chinese public libraries...in the west, where eminent domain seizures of private property and the crushing of individual freedoms are at their most egregious...and where even a tiny ink bottle can be significant in the cause of freedom.

 

It would be nice to be able to smuggle in "Blue Ghost" and perhaps "Golden Ghost" (if more can ever be made) into Iranian, Cuban, and North Korean libraries - any hints as to how are welcome.

 

Wow!

 

I look at the bottles of ink on my desk in a whole new light.

 

I am often humbled by the bravery, and the suffering, of so many people around the world.

[hardyb]

The "Year of the Golden Pig" (named due to the communist ban recently on displays or mention of the year of the golden pig on television or advertising! It was a type of invisible ink similar to the 20 bottle "Golden Ghost" - extremely light specific and next to impossible to know it is there unless you know exactly how to find it! Perfect for what is being done in a small handful of Chinese libraries.) consisted of 18 bottles that were smuggled (only counting the successful ones) into communist China for free use at particular libraries - containing ink that was ebonite specific and was designed to NOT function in the pens of eastern China commonly known to be the preference of Communist agents/police/political hacks. It was also a light specific and paper specific ink - and would not function in other combinations. Since the communists have made Google and Yahoo as well as every other multinational I can think of...kow-tow to the oppression of human freedom - it seemed more than amusing to design an ink that would promote the dissemination of ideas in a way that would be extremely difficult for the communist dictatorship to halt. Now they do not know which book in their libraries may or may not have ideas hidden upon its pages questioning the communist dictatorship...for any and all to see who know how to access such information. The writings of Mao, Marx, and Lenin are likely the perfect texts for anti-communist communications. Also...Noodler's does not sell ink in China (as Taiwan is NOT a part of China! Taiwan is Taiwan!)...so they can scream and threaten all they please. If they object strongly enough, there will be limited editions of ink paying tribute to the fallen heroes who strove to promote freedom of assembly in China: the martyrs of Falun Gong! One edition for each obstruction imposed against the ink. We have no desire for access to their market until the day it is free. Some pro-communist dictatorship retailers in the region have shunned us - but that has happened before and I could not care less (there are numerous people who hate me personally because I happen to believe certain elections in the middle east were a historic turning point in history and that the people there should have as much of a chance at liberty and stability as the people of Japan, Korea, Greece, France, Taiwan, Germany, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Ukraine, etc....as the man from my home state once said: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. "). The Taiwanese series of Noodler's Inks also celebrates freedom and the fact that Taiwan is Taiwanese....and the history of "black water" and the quest for liberty that the symbol inspires. The artwork for Taiwan is still "work in progress" - but the English version of the Tibetan label as well as the English version of the "Golden Year of the Pig" are shown below. Note that outside of China the "Year of the Golden Pig" is the same as the Russian "Lara" - a bulletproof fluorescent bright mandarin yellow highlighter ink (firefly is not permanent, whereas this ink is completely bulletproof). The Tibetan inks consist of the color of the Tibetan flag as well as the classic colors of certain sands used in traditional artistic ceremonies there... The label shown is an ink that combines the spectrum ranges of the Tibetan flag into a single ink. As distribution has been difficult with some of these inks - as well as strains on raw materials (thus 10, 15, 18, and 20 bottle total global supplies for certain rare dyes) many such inks will not be made again. Sometimes it is because it is not possible - whereas other times it is possible, but at heavy losses per bottle. The Red Oak Garnet series cost double what it sold for in the end. One does not need the Chinese market to survive, but losses like that have to be stopped now and then or Noodler's won't be around in 100 years (as I intend it to be!).

 

A handful of "Year of the Golden Pig" and Tibetan inks will be test marketed - if results are kind...the line will be expanded...if results are cruel - they will not be expanded beyond where they are now.

 

Year of the Golden Pig is not shown in high resolution because pro-communist counterfeits have been reported to me - each time one is made, another Falun Gong martyr themed ink will "appear" at Chinese public libraries...in the west, where eminent domain seizures of private property and the crushing of individual freedoms are at their most egregious...and where even a tiny ink bottle can be significant in the cause of freedom.

 

It would be nice to be able to smuggle in "Blue Ghost" and perhaps "Golden Ghost" (if more can ever be made) into Iranian, Cuban, and North Korean libraries - any hints as to how are welcome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.

We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

This much we pledge and more.

To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do -- for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.

To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom -- and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

 

.............

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it -- and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. ............"

 

John F. Kennedy - January 20, 1961

 

Freedom is always written in ink colored by the blood of the people willing to fight for it, suffer for it, bleed for it. No amount of paint , censorship or oppression can cover it up, nor dim its allure nor keep it from being read, dreamed of and sought. It is something you hold in your heart, carry in your pen and someday will write the epitaph of all tryants. Your freedom, your free will, your God granted rights are not the property of any state, any leader or government. Keep making ink and revolution and thanks. B.

Edited May 23, 2007 by hardyb

[Excoriar]

Seeing as this thread has not been updated...

 

For Taiwan:

 

Fort Zeelandia: An interesting blue ink that writes dark, but turns lighter as it dries. Bulletproof. I'm sure it's the paper, but this ink feathers on almost all the papers I have tried it with (not very high quality ones, but still...)

 

Black Water: I don't own one, but it's suppose to be really black. Bulletproof.

 

And a note on the Tibetan Green: It's actually not a very dark green, but I am surprised to find guck on the inside of the bottle cap. Bulletproof. But same as the Fort Zeelandia, this one feathers all over the place. I'm not too concerned though, as I'm thinking about mixing the ink with some MB Black (all I have) to see if I can make the ink thinner and make it darker.