Noodler's Raven: Exclusive Ink

[Signum1]

Well, I wrote the review for this ink in 2016, but didn't get around to posting. I've been shamelessly procrastinating.

 

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[DrDebG]

Wow! Thank you for taking the time to do this and for sharing it with us.

[Signum1]

Wow! Thank you for taking the time to do this and for sharing it with us.

 

Well, I hope it motivates you to pick up on calligraphy with the boring black inks. hahaha.....

[inkstainedruth]

I got to go to Wonderpens a few years ago when I was going to be in Toronto for a conference. I had actually considered buying a bottle of Raven, but after talking to the guy in the store, I decided that it wasn't going to be sufficiently different from black inks I already had, like Noodler's Black and Noodler's Old Manhattan (I think it was before I discovered Noodler's Heart of Darkness), and I don't tend to use black much to begin with. I did buy a bottle of Blues Upon the Plains of Abraham, which is another Canadian exclusive, and I like that a lot; it's a medium blue-grey and I remember it being relatively well behaved.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Eclipse157]

Thank you! This looks quite interesting to me, it's like Noodler's Red-Black except this is red-black-black-black.

[Intensity]

Does the ink really have the visible red component as shown on the review pictures? Do you need a dry pen to have it be visible in writing?

[Signum1]

The red components are coming from the scanner. It is just a lighter shade of black because I dipped the nib in ink instead of loading a converter in the ink. My scanner has difficulty picking up the colours correctly for Noodler's Napalm as well.

 

If you like the lighter shade, then use a pen with a dry nib or dip and write (don't load the converter with ink). As the ink runs out from the nib and feed, a lighter shade will appear.

[Intensity]

Ohh it's such an interesting effect, I hoped it really was a red-brown-black like that. I have Iroshizuku Take Sumi for a shading black with a little something on the cool-toned side

[eharriett]

I have wanted a bottle of this, but am too cheap to pay Canadian shipping to the US Noodlers listed (at least last time I looked) this as the only "Vintage Waterproof" ink in their line. I found and still find that statement interesting.

[Signum1]

New Link.

 

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