EFNIR: Noodler's Revolution Blue

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Noodler's Revolution Blue

This is review #193 in my series.  Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: (Sorry about the audio problem!) This ink is a Goldspot exclusive. Check out their blog about it. The ink is advertised as bulletproof. It stained the pipette used to make the slide, so I switched to using my Penmanship and a cartridge so I wouldn't have to deal with the stain.  Cleaning was a bear. It clings. It stains. I had to scrub the nib with a cotton swab to get it off. Pen flush has no effect. Bleach may remove the stains, but I didn't try it.

The color surprises me - I would have expected it to be darker, but it's quite pale from this nib (wetter, broader nibs appear to show it darker - see above blog). It's a near twin to Montblanc Homer Greek Blue. Nothing else I have comes close (it's all too turquoise or leans too green or is too bright).

Screenshot: text too dark, not enough turquoise

Scan: too turquoise, but close

Zoom: Closest! (Though on my phone, it's too blue and not enough turquoise...)

Absorbent & Copy paper: Off in ways I can't describe, but it's pale and unsaturated on both.

The line width measurement is one of the lines used for dry time.  Magnification is 100x.  The grid is 100x100µm.  The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each.  The line width for this ink is roughly 330µm. (For the curious, with 193 inks measured, the average line width is 291µm.)

For the slide, I forgot to put the cover slip on the slide before the ink started to dry, so I added a tiny bit of water to help spread it out once I added the cover slip. But it turned out pretty boring: it looked sort of chalky or like sand deposited by water. So, no image included.

And here is a screen of the final result, for those not interested in the video:

Scan of Completed Review:

Zoomed in photo:

Absorbent Paper Closeup (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper):

Line width measured via microscope at 100x:

Water test results:

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[InesF]

OK, hmm, its blue! 🙄

 

Hi @LizEF.

This revolution looks good in the zoomed sample and the water resistance is high with this.

However, it's blue. 🤭

 

Looking forward to the first encounter of our wizard-snek-sphinx-team with the down-unders.

(is that PC to write?)

(sorry, I read too many of the funny jokes in the chatter section ...)

[LizEF]

13 minutes ago, InesF said:

OK, hmm, its blue! 🙄

 

13 minutes ago, InesF said:

Looking forward to the first encounter of our wizard-snek-sphinx-team with the down-unders.

(is that PC to write?)

  (Seems fine to me.)

[yazeh]

That looks like a really nice blue, great job @LizEF 

I'm glad I checked the video, where one can truly see the colour and on the bonus side, I love silent movies no helicopters and wizards whooshing around

I'm looking forward to the six legged, centipede

 

 

[welch]

Nice blue color, but your notes make it a "must avoid"

 

- Won't clean up nicely

- Bulletproof is a quality I don't need -- especially if it resists cleaning with ordinary agents. If it sticks so tightly to a nib that pen flush won't clean it, then the ink is a failed science project. You might have tried a higher and higher percentage of ammonia, but whatever resists 10% ammonia on a nib is a mistake.

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

That looks like a really nice blue, great job @LizEF 

Thanks!

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

I'm glad I checked the video, where one can truly see the colour...

Yeah, I find the video usually has the most accurate color - not sure why.

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

...and on the bonus side, I love silent movies no helicopters and wizards whooshing around

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

I'm looking forward to the six legged, centipede

Our heroes are in for quite an adventure!

[LizEF]

32 minutes ago, welch said:

Nice blue color, but your notes make it a "must avoid"

 

- Won't clean up nicely

- Bulletproof is a quality I don't need -- especially if it resists cleaning with ordinary agents. If it sticks so tightly to a nib that pen flush won't clean it, then the ink is a failed science project. You might have tried a higher and higher percentage of ammonia, but whatever resists 10% ammonia on a nib is a mistake.

Yeah, I don't think it's worth it unless you need / want the permanence and don't mind sacrificing a pen (or a converter and a non-transparent pen - though I guess the outsides of some pens will stain).  But that's me - to each their own.  Sailor Seiboku and Souboku are my permanent inks and I can't imagine changing that.

 

34 minutes ago, welch said:

whatever resists 10% ammonia on a nib is a mistake.

It is odd how stubbornly it sticks to metal - the plastic staining, I get, but metal?  And more odd that a simple Q-tip would dislodge it where running water and pen flush wouldn't.  Strange stuff at work...

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks as usual for the review, LizEF.  I wasn't familiar with this ink and don't normally shop on Goldspot's website -- anyone know offhand if Goldspot sells samples?

It would be interesting to see a side by side comparison with Noodler's Baltimore Canyon, which is a similar color and has really good water resistance.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[LizEF]

5 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Thanks as usual for the review, LizEF.

You're most welcome!

 

6 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

I wasn't familiar with this ink and don't normally shop on Goldspot's website -- anyone know offhand if Goldspot sells samples?

They do, or did, of this - that's what I got.

[Sailor Kenshin]

I'm with Welch on this.

 

Love the serial, though!  Thanks once again for the review.  

[LizEF]

35 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

I'm with Welch on this.

 

Love the serial, though!  Thanks once again for the review.  

You're very welcome!