B S B

[mr2txaggie]

I've been wanting to try BSB for some time now. I finally bought some and filled my Al-Star. It is all black, including the nib!!

 

Pulled out some Clairefontaine Triomphe Stationery and started writing with a 1.5 mm stub on the Al-Star feed. WOW. Now I see what folks are so excited about with the BSB.

 

It is such a wonderful shade of blue!!

 

Staining is not a fear with the all-black of my Al-Star/nib combo. It truly is beautiful.

 

Just get a black pen/nib set up & staining will not be a problem!!!

 

BTW, is BSB normally scented? It seemed as I filled my syringe, to squirt into my T-10 cart that I smelled a pleasant aroma. Not knowing that much about inks that it, BSB, was of a smelly thrill !! Ideas?

[Fuzzy_Bear]

Most Noodlers inks have a smell. My Texas Bluebonnet smells like a permanent marker.

[torstar]

I call the smell electric blueberry.

 

I have noticed that the smell can be very powerful sometimes, if I'm writing at the office desk and hunched over, I can almost taste it.

[amberleadavis]

Have fun with the BSB. I really love the vividness of the ink.

[FPRebel]

I haven't seen it in person, but watching some of Nathan's YouTube vids in anticipation of one of his pens, I watched a short clip he did on BSB. I hadn't realized how completely waterproof it is on paper! Seems so many inks stain our hands, fabrics if we're not careful, but are not waterproof on paper, and that's fair, they don't advertise to be. I just hadn't realized that BSB is a waterproof ink!

[Arkanabar]

BSB may have remarkable water resistance, but it will fade almost regardless of what you do to preserve it.

[mulrich]

Noodler's website has a pdf of the properties of all their inks (http://noodlersink.com/wp-content/uploads/NoodlersInkProperties.pdf) if anyone wants to know about water resistance and fading. As has been mentioned, BSB is listed as waterproof but not fade resistant.

[torstar]

it's best when i'm scuba diving with the water resistance

 

and is amazing at first, but it doesn't last, not at all

[bso]

I'd like to know if anyone else has the same problem. The issue I have with BSB is, if I don't use the pen that has BSB for a few days, the next time I write with it, the nib will ooze out a big blob of ink. And once this started, the probably will happen after every few sentence.

 

I have only tried three pens but with the same result:

 

- Pilot Cavalier Medium

- Waterman Kultur Phileas Fine

- Cheap clear plastic pilot Extra Fine (PFP50RNCEF not sure what this is called)

 

All I have made into eyedropper eventually. But the same happened when I used converters.

 

The same pens have absolutely no problem with other inks, before, or after.

 

I'm totally unsure what pen to put BSB in at this time.

 

Washing the ink out from the barrels was nightmarish... the sink is all blue for a long time!

 

Edited June 9, 2016 by bso

[wallylynn]

BSB may have remarkable water resistance, but it will fade almost regardless of what you do to preserve it.

My 5+ year journal entries are still very nice.

[torstar]

I'd like to know if anyone else has the same problem. The issue I have with BSB is, if I don't use the pen that has BSB for a few days, the next time I write with it, the nib will ooze out a big blob of ink. And once this started, the probably will happen after every few sentence.

 

I have only tried three pens but with the same result:

 

- Pilot Cavalier Medium

- Waterman Kultur Phileas Fine

- Cheap clear plastic pilot Extra Fine (PFP50RNCEF not sure what this is called)

 

All I have made into eyedropper eventually. But the same happened when I used converters.

 

The same pens have absolutely no problem with other inks, before, or after.

 

I'm totally unsure what pen to put BSB in at this time.

 

Washing the ink out from the barrels was nightmarish... the sink is all blue for a long time!

 

 

 

Yuppers!!

 

There are probably 50 threads about the hassles with BSB, that's certainly one of them.

 

Gets very entertaining sometimes.

 

Stuff will stain your stainless steel sink for days....

[wastelanded]

Nice colour. But life is too short to worry about "ink maintenance". Especially when one is a Grand Master Klutz, like yours truly. Motorcycles and BSB are no-go zones for me.

[mr2txaggie]

 

 

Yes, I have a " stainless steel " sink until it came to BSB. But I just scrubbed it with a soapy paper towel or two & got it clean. It is worth it to me. I now know to be a little more careful, lining the sink with shop towels. And turning the faucet down when cleanING a cart so it won't splash

[Fuzzy_Bear]

My 5+ year journal entries are still very nice.

The original quote is because exposed to UV light, BSB fades, and very quickly.

[torstar]

Yes, I have a " stainless steel " sink until it came to BSB. But I just scrubbed it with a soapy paper towel or two & got it clean. It is worth it to me. I now know to be a little more careful, lining the sink with shop towels. And turning the faucet down when cleanING a cart so it won't splash

 

Your stainless steel sink will clean quick, and you have the tools at hand.

 

Your friend's or your prospective in-laws sink won't have the cleansers to help out.

 

And they won't be impressed.

[IrishEyes]

Yes, I have a " stainless steel " sink until it came to BSB. But I just scrubbed it with a soapy paper towel or two & got it clean. It is worth it to me. I now know to be a little more careful, lining the sink with shop towels. And turning the faucet down when cleanING a cart so it won't splash

 

I love the color. It's my favorite "true blue". Yeah, it stains, but a little care with filling, and putting it in a cheap pen that the staining won't matter make it easy for me to love this color! I didn't know it's prone to fading, though. I guess I'll have to watch it in my journal, but hopefully the lack of light in a closed journal will preserve the vivid color for much longer than if it was exposed to light all the time.

[torstar]

wish something else came along with this output that didn't have the fuss and didn't fade

[ScienceChick]

TXKat has a t-shirt she tie-dyed with BSB. It's... vivid

 

I have a dedicated BSB pen; I don't care much about staining, it's the nasty reaction of the BS inks with other inks that I want to avoid. Try it in a vial sometime. Yowsa!

[inkstainedruth]

I'd like to know if anyone else has the same problem. The issue I have with BSB is, if I don't use the pen that has BSB for a few days, the next time I write with it, the nib will ooze out a big blob of ink. And once this started, the probably will happen after every few sentence.

 

I have only tried three pens but with the same result:

 

- Pilot Cavalier Medium

- Waterman Kultur Phileas Fine

- Cheap clear plastic pilot Extra Fine (PFP50RNCEF not sure what this is called)

 

All I have made into eyedropper eventually. But the same happened when I used converters.

 

The same pens have absolutely no problem with other inks, before, or after.

 

I'm totally unsure what pen to put BSB in at this time.

 

Washing the ink out from the barrels was nightmarish... the sink is all blue for a long time!

 

 

If you hadn't said you'd had the same problem with c/c pens, I would have said it was the eyedroppers; the downside to that type of fill system is that you have to keep the pen pretty full, or there's a problem with inks burping everywhere from the change in air pressure (the upside, of course, is that they hold a huge amount of ink.

Right now I have BSB in a Noodler's Charlie, and I have to keep the pen fairly full, because it's an eyedropper pen. But I also dilute the ink slightly with distilled water, because I've had bad feathering issues with BSB on cheap paper in any pen that has an open nib (my original BSB-dedicated pen was a cheap Chinese demonstrator with a hooded nib, but I broke the finial off the cap when the clip got caught on a piece of elastic in a pen case).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[torstar]

 

If you hadn't said you'd had the same problem with c/c pens, I would have said it was the eyedroppers; the downside to that type of fill system is that you have to keep the pen pretty full, or there's a problem with inks burping everywhere from the change in air pressure (the upside, of course, is that they hold a huge amount of ink.

Right now I have BSB in a Noodler's Charlie, and I have to keep the pen fairly full, because it's an eyedropper pen. But I also dilute the ink slightly with distilled water, because I've had bad feathering issues with BSB on cheap paper in any pen that has an open nib (my original BSB-dedicated pen was a cheap Chinese demonstrator with a hooded nib, but I broke the finial off the cap when the clip got caught on a piece of elastic in a pen case).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

All my plastic EDs burped

 

All those converted with metal (egads!!!) have been fine

 

I won't put BSB on metal parts of a FP ever ever ever again, trust me...