Most Disappointing Ink Buy

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Noodler's Bernanke Blue. Feathers way too much on nearly all of my papers.

[Pengrump]

Very recently I bought some Platinum Pigment Blue cartridges to use in my new Platinum Century 3776s. I have three of these pens, being rather enchanted with how they write with every other ink I tried. This ink won't flow. No matter what I do. I made sure the nipple of the cartridge was pierced. I tried the cartridges in f, m, and b nib pens. Then I gave up and tried it in a Platinum pen with a music nib, figuring it would flow in that if in nothing else. No dice. If I get it started by shaking and squeezing the cartridge and dipping the nib in water, it starts pale as would be expected after the water dip, and then it gives up after a few words. Since this ink is supposedly meant to be used with these pens, I am scratching my head. Good thing I only bought a package of cartridges instead of a bottle of the ink. And an even better thing that every other ink I try works beautifully in the pens.

[doggonecarl]

Noodler's Polar Brown. Terrible feathering and bleedthrough.

 

Guess I'll save it for my next expedition to the north pole.

[mhphoto]

Iroshizuku Ina-ho is another stinker for me. The way I see it it's a $28 bottle of Rome Is Burning with slightly better behavior.

[swanjun]

Very recently I bought some Platinum Pigment Blue cartridges to use in my new Platinum Century 3776s. I have three of these pens, being rather enchanted with how they write with every other ink I tried. This ink won't flow. No matter what I do. I made sure the nipple of the cartridge was pierced. I tried the cartridges in f, m, and b nib pens. Then I gave up and tried it in a Platinum pen with a music nib, figuring it would flow in that if in nothing else. No dice. If I get it started by shaking and squeezing the cartridge and dipping the nib in water, it starts pale as would be expected after the water dip, and then it gives up after a few words. Since this ink is supposedly meant to be used with these pens, I am scratching my head. Good thing I only bought a package of cartridges instead of a bottle of the ink. And an even better thing that every other ink I try works beautifully in the pens.

 

I have a Platinum Preppy that I've used w/ various inks (refilling the black cart it came with) with no problem, but I'm experiencing a similar issue with the Platinum Yellow cart (made for the pen!) I've got in it now. So weird.

[terminal]

Iroshizuku Ina-ho is another stinker for me. The way I see it it's a $28 bottle of Rome Is Burning with slightly better behavior.

 

Same here I was pretty shocked. For me it's just like... what a icky color!

[axolotl66]

 

Noodler's Burma Road Brown - it's goose guano with excellent writing properties, unfortunately.

 

 

:roflmho:

 

I am waiting for a bottle in the mail... I am sure I am going to love it!!!!

 

 

 

C.

I hope you love it too! It writes really well, its just the colour that put me off. Got it cos the review pics looked like what I wanted (a sepia type brown) but it's just too green. Gets worse if you dilute it! If you like the colour it's a great ink.

Graham

[mrchan]

Using black for a lot of official documents at work, I'd have to say Montblanc Black was a pure disappointment. Ligh gray with so much shading, this ink was just a no-no despite me really trying to like it. Aurora Black all the way for black inks for me.

[hoppes no9]

I'll add Alfred Hitchcock. Still looks great in the bottle, but on paper, it's brown. I can kid myself and stretch it to a barely perceivable reddish brown, but at a glance, no. Jes plain, dull, old shoes brown. I think I'll do like Ilearnedtoday and dump the ink and keep the bottle.

 

My favorite ink! Go figure.

 

If you're really going to throw it out, I'll send you a tube with a return envelope!

[AlejoPlay]

Private Reserve Sepia. Seriously. I LOVE THAT COLOR and it's impossible to get anywhere else (Noodler's Golden Brown comes close and I may have to give that a shot) but it clogged every single pen I put it in. I just ended up trashing it.

 

Private Reserve Ebony Purple. Too wet and too dark. Traded it.

 

Noodler's North African Violet. Perfect shade of purple (until I made my own Blurple with Waterman Florida Blue and Purple . . . and a drier version with Pelikan Blue and Violet) but it also clogged all my pens. Tossed it.

 

For the people hating Iroshizuku Ina Ho or Sailor Sei Buko . . . I'll take them off your hands if you name a good price ;-)

Edited January 17, 2013 by AlejoPlay

[AlejoPlay]

Iroshizuku Ina-ho is another stinker for me. The way I see it it's a $28 bottle of Rome Is Burning with slightly better behavior.

 

If you want to get rid of it . . . ;-)

 

I was thinking of getting it in Japan. I was interested in using it straight and squirting a tiny bit of MB Racing Green in with it for a little darkness/shading.

[AlejoPlay]

I was pretty disappointed by Noodler's Air-Corp Blue-Black. I mean, I knew what to expect (really a dark greenish blue), but I still wasn't blown away, and for whatever reason I was expecting to be blown away by it.

 

Your loss was my gain. Thanks again by the way. So far it hasn't acted like every other Noodler's ink I've gotten (I expect the illusion to be shattered with my second draw from the bottle) and I've been liking it - I'm pretending it's Sailor Miruai actually - but what do I know!

 

Inks that I fell in love with until I actually got them:

 

PR Sonic Blue - too blue

PR Gray Flannel - too soft and fuzzy looking

Herbin Cacao du bresile - too mauvish/pink

R&K Sepia - not quite brown enough; though it's starting to grow on me.

Noodler's Whaleman's sepia - WAY too pink/purple, plus there's some sludge settling out from it.

Noodler’s Burma Road Brown - IT'S GREEN! plus it's too wet and saturated.

Noodler's Army green - too bright, almost electric looking.

 

Hard to please that's all!

 

PR Sonic Blue is one of my favorites. I have a Reform 1745 that LOVES it. I get such gorgeous flow/shading with it.

[Biber]

PR Sonic Blue is one of my favorites. I have a Reform 1745 that LOVES it. I get such gorgeous flow/shading with it.

 

My thinking when I bought it was that it would be a blue-black with a bit of character that wasn't necessarily blue-black - follow that reasoning! It had more of a denim color about it and was too blue for my tastes. I seem to really become fond of inks until I actually get them and realize that they're not what I thought they were. Now I do A LOT of swatch shopping and hemming and hawing over colors before I actually buy an ink. And it's still an iffy proposition, but I'm getting better at it.

[AlejoPlay]

PR Sonic Blue is one of my favorites. I have a Reform 1745 that LOVES it. I get such gorgeous flow/shading with it.

 

My thinking when I bought it was that it would be a blue-black with a bit of character that wasn't necessarily blue-black - follow that reasoning! It had more of a denim color about it and was too blue for my tastes. I seem to really become fond of inks until I actually get them and realize that they're not what I thought they were. Now I do A LOT of swatch shopping and hemming and hawing over colors before I actually buy an ink. And it's still an iffy proposition, but I'm getting better at it.

 

I get it because blue-black is many different things in the ink world. I can't wait to see when a Blue Black shows up that's actually red or something :roflmho:

[pen_addict]

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Noodler's Polar Brown. Terrible feathering and bleedthrough.

 

Guess I'll save it for my next expedition to the north pole.

 

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Got a bottle of the Winter 2009 formula as a Christmas gift.... Have half a fill in my Ahab and so far not impresses... Flow is OK but tons of bleed through with just about any paper. The color doesn't really do much for me either... Bases on online color swarches, not what I was expecting to see at all... The only good thing out of this/ I'm now curious about brown inks... Although that can be a slippery slope... First though to decide what to do with polar brown

[..lol..]

Pelikan 4001 Red! It's the only ink which worked in no pen I owned at the time. And it's the only ink I've ever poured down the drain out of anger and spite.

 

+1!

[permanente]

Disappointing inks for me : MB Diamond,MB Seaweed Green,MB Einstein ( though MB have great inks: Midnight Blue, Lavender Purple, Hitchcock , Toffee brown...); Edelstein Mandarin, Sapphire ( but Topaz is very good); and Sheaffer purple.

[TheGreatRoe]

So far I've only purchased Noodler's ink, and generally have been happy with them. That said I do have three I wish I'd not gotten.

 

Bernanke Black - The color is fine, but the side effect of it's quick-dry properties, is that it spreads into a thicker-than-I-would-like line. I have very small loops in my handwriting and this ink and I don't work well together.

 

Widow Maker - One of my first purchases was Ottoman Rose because the seller was out of Widow Maker. I then got a bottle by accident when a seller sent the wrong color. It's a nice color, but not different enough from Ottoman Rose to justify having both in my toolbox.

 

Dragon's Napalm - I can't put my finger on exactly why I don't like this one. Without the proper experience in describing inks, I would say that this one is very bright, but without brilliance.

 

As soon as I've been a member long enough I plan to put these up for cheap or for trade.

Edited January 25, 2013 by dcroe05

[Bill Wood]

Another vote for PR black cherry. Not sure what color it's supposed to be.

And anything with the word 'ebony' in front of it I'm still waiting for it to dry.

[Fabienne]

Visconti purple. No shading, kind of a pink/magenta not the stately picture I saw on someone's scan. Sold it quickly.