La Reine Mauve

[Ellen]

Just ordered a bottle! Really looking forward to it. As for the scans this is a great looking purple!

Btw: Greenman508 on ebay has it available too (I ordered there).

Edited November 8, 2008 by Ellen

[Silvermink]

The scans remind me a lot of CdA Storm, though it may be a little lighter - anyone got both and want to do a comparison in the same pen?

 

I might be able to do this myself once my bottle of Storm comes in...

[arz]

I just got this ink in the mail today! I'm very happy with the color and having a purple I can use to grade. Great initiative, kookychick & FPNers!

 

It really stained my plastic dip pen; I've used this pen to test Noodler's Red/black and Hunter green too, but this didn't happen. I purchased it from isellpens and Todd has a note about this on his site.

 

So, two questions:

 

I just wonder what is the experience of those of you who have been using the ink for a longer amount of time? I'm thinking about putting it in my Hero 892, which has a semi-hooded gold nib and black feed/grip area, but a permanent converter. Good idea? Bad idea?

 

Would diluting the ink also help make it less prone to staining?

 

Thanks! arz

[skipwilliams]

Try and washing the plastic dip pen off with a dilute bleach solution. I use Fantastik w/Bleach often for such jobs.

 

Skip

 

 

I just got this ink in the mail today! I'm very happy with the color and having a purple I can use to grade. Great initiative, kookychick & FPNers!

 

It really stained my plastic dip pen; I've used this pen to test Noodler's Red/black and Hunter green too, but this didn't happen. I purchased it from isellpens and Todd has a note about this on his site.

 

 

Thanks! arz

 

[Chupacabras]

I've got my bottle and definitely like the color, not at all chalky and it does have pretty decent shading for a color this dark.

 

The only negatives so far:

 

The nib creep is extreme, even for a Noodler's. In the VP I'm using, the whole nib is purple.

The nib dries out quicker then any of my other Noodler's, though I haven't tested that in other pens.

Stinky. I can smell the ink on the nib from six inches away and having the bottle open is... unpleasant...

 

I can live with the low points, just wanted to point out that there are a few. I love Noodler's inks and this one will most likely be in constant use, so far this is the only non-black bulletproof I actually like.

[ccajackson]

 

Here is a side-by-side scan of La Reine Mauve and Baystate Concord Grape. The bottom swipes are with a Q-tip. Interestingly, I have not had any problems with nib creep, or stinkiness, with my bottle of Reine Mauve.

 

Cheers!

C-C

Edited November 13, 2008 by ccajackson

[kookychick]

Great scan! Thanks, ccajackson!

 

I also haven't had a problem with stinkiness (this is no Rachmaninov, which I also love and ALWAYS have a pen inked with, but has a strong odor!). I've had a little bit of nib creep with my Sensa Meridian, but far less than Legal Lapis or Polar Blue. I have a triangular strip in the middle 1/3 of my nib. It doesn't drip onto the section or inside the cap.

 

I have found that this ink is a little drier than The Violet Vote/Iraqi Indigo, for example. If I pause a really long time, it takes a stroke or two to get it started again. However, then it flows beautifully for quite a while (and doesn't gush, like some inks). And even leaving it for a few days in the pen doesn't require water to get it started or anything--just a quick stroke or two, and it's off to the races!

[Chupacabras]

The heavy creep could have to do with VP clicking. Most Noodler's will creep pretty mightily in a Vanishing Point but what I'm seeing borders on spectacular.

 

What one person perceives as stinky, another may not. I expect nibs to have a little smell on 'em, but I can definitely smell it a good distance away from the pen, becoming more pronounced whilst writing; I smoked for 20ish years, my nose is not the most sensitive.

[HDoug]

Stinky. I can smell the ink on the nib from six inches away and having the bottle open is... unpleasant...

 

I've noticed this with Noodler's Pasternak. It has a strong, industrial fragrance I can smell when I write with my Falcon, which doesn't even have an exposed external feed. Fortunately, I don't find the smell offensive -- I'm weird, I guess.

 

I'm wondering if La Reine Mauve has the same smell. I'll find out when I get my bottle in a week or two.

 

Doug

[Deirdre]

The worst for stink is Noodler's Kuprin. I've stopped using it in meetings. Compared to it, La Reine Mauve doesn't smell much at all.

[SamCapote]

I love this La Reine Mauve color.

[BucolicBuffalo]

Got mine and have been playing with it for several days in a Sailor 1911M med. It's a darker purple than Pelikan 4001 violet, which I consider a purple's purple. Nice wet flow. Drys very fast and doesn't bleed though junk paper. We use a cheap recycled copy paper at work. The very slightest of feathering. When I sign and write delivery instructions on multiple pages, it drys so fast I am not getting any smearing, or blotting on the backs of top copies.