I'm Often Asked Why I Like Noodler's Black ?

[John Cullen]

who sells that jumbo bottle?

 

I know it is crazy but part of me wants to buy one and stick it away some place safe, dark and cool for a later date. Probably stupid, but I admit I have the impulse.

[XiaoMG]

I went with Sailor Kiwaguro for my first good black primarily for availability reasons, but I got a sample of Noodler's Black and put it in one of my pens. I keep thinking "maybe I should try to get more of this stuff," but then I worry I may stop using Kiwaguro.

 

Great photo set, thanks for sharing.

[chris.hale]

Noodler's black is excellent, my only minor gripe with it is the nib creep. I bought some in my quest for an extremely black black, and have since stopped looking.

[impossiblebird]

who sells that jumbo bottle?

 

I know it is crazy but part of me wants to buy one and stick it away some place safe, dark and cool for a later date.

Not crazy at all. I know I want one.

[Joshua J.]

Anyone who sells Noodler's ink can special order the bulk bottles, you just have to wait a few weeks for it to arrive at the retailer. IIRC my bottle of Noodler's black was around $60.

[Ad_Astra]

Anyone who sells Noodler's ink can special order the bulk bottles, you just have to wait a few weeks for it to arrive at the retailer. IIRC my bottle of Noodler's black was around $60.

 

Wait wait, so your megabottle holds as much as ten regular 3 oz bottles and instead of costing 10*12, cost...half as much?

 

I knew there would be some discount for bulk, but that's amazing!

 

...you're making this very hard to resist ordering...

[reprieve]

I don't use black inks. I don't like them. I want color. I want an ink that stands out from the hoards of black ballpoints and rollerballs and felt tips. And yet I use Noodler's Black 'cause it's just that good.

[Joshua J.]

Anyone who sells Noodler's ink can special order the bulk bottles, you just have to wait a few weeks for it to arrive at the retailer. IIRC my bottle of Noodler's black was around $60.

 

Wait wait, so your megabottle holds as much as ten regular 3 oz bottles and instead of costing 10*12, cost...half as much?

 

I knew there would be some discount for bulk, but that's amazing!

 

...you're making this very hard to resist ordering...

 

Oh, umm, just to be clear, "technically" the retail price for those is a bit higher, whether or not the retailer will give you even more of a discount is their prerogative.

 

I think the price that I should have quoted is closer to $80. :embarrassed_smile:

[P.A.R.]

I don't use black inks. I don't like them. I want color. I want an ink that stands out from the hoards of black ballpoints and rollerballs and felt tips. And yet I use Noodler's Black 'cause it's just that good.

+1.

 

Almost all of my inks are blues (one brown and two reds in the mix as well.) I only use black for essays (if I don't have a blue inked pen), check signing (I hardly ever do this), or mass quantities of note taking (because highlighting shows up better against black.) Noodler's Black is my "nice" ink for doing this, but I also have Pelikan's Brilliant Black for the note taking.

 

I have, however, discovered the practice of diluting ink with distilled water, and just bought a gallon of distilled water (~$0.90) This will cut my ink costs nearly in half, as most of them are pretty saturated.

[GemMayhem]

Fabulous photos! They do indeed say it well.

 

So, um, exactly which retailers sell the wonderfully large bottle?? :roflmho:

[JohnS-MI]

This is still the best FP related purches that I have, and probably ever will make.

 

http://i.imgur.com/z15yC.jpg

 

You seem to have caused several serious cases of "ink envy."

[uojfe]

 

 

You seem to have caused several serious cases of "ink envy."

 

+1 I can't even use that much ink, yet I am strangely attracted.

 

Noodler's black is my favorite 'go to' utility ink.

[jkrewalk]

I agree with this assessment and also extend this assessment to Noodler's Heart of Darkness which has the same properties and is the blackest of all black inks I have ever used!

[ever onward]

Wow. I'll have to give it a try.

 

-eo

[inkpenguin]

How black is it compared to HOD? I"m a Heart of Darkness fan and use it a lot.

[JimB]

I have Black and HoD and can't tell the difference. I only got HoD because a recipe ink called for it.

[subbes]

I have the same kind of love for X-Feather, but I could be persuaded to switch my allegiance if provided with an example of how Noodler's Black fares when run over with a pencil eraser (preferably a latex-free variety). Pencil erasers are X-Feather's primary weakness, as my smudged sketchbook page can testify.

[dcpritch]

Shoot! Reading this thread reminds me I don't have a pen currently inked with Noodler's Black. Even though I have ... 14 pens currently inked, I think that now I will have to grab another one out of the pen box and put Noodler's Black in it, just so I can keep up with everyone else.

[Messmer]

I just re-inked with noodler's black two day ago. It is a great black. It was my first noodler's. Still, I don't use this ink too much. Black is not the best ink to annotate a photocopy!

[Lennart Wennberg]

Bravo PenFisher,

 

Just two minor flaws:

 

I. Nib creep

 

II. Long drying time and a tendency for smearing on Clairefontaine paper

 

...but I can handle this, especially when it works nicely with Moleskine without bleed through.

 

Lennart