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Drawings and a pen list and a calamity.

6/28/12
A while back on the FPN, there was a thread where people showed the drawings that the folks who send out Goulet's orders sometimes draw in invoices. I thought that would be neat, so I asked for a drawing on my last order. Drew totally drew me something. Sweet, right? I may have mentioned in the past that I need a list to keep track of the pens/inks that I'm currently using. My list was messy last...

Check out Lee Smallwood's blog.

6/26/12
Lee posted this review of an ink called "Honorable Blue" from Noodler's Ink over on his blog: The Inked Nib. We met Lee at the Triangle Pen Show shortly after I found his blog. He does really nice reviews and such over there, and it's definitely worth perusing. His blog always tempts me to post videos, but I haven't done it yet. Maybe one day... Best, M...

Noodler's Dark Matter

I have more blues to show, but I haven't taken pictures yet, so today you get a black. Dark Matter is basically a black ink. It's not a total-black, though. I'm never sure exactly what separates this ink from a real black, but there is something. It might be that it shades very subtly. It might be that it has hints of grey in it. Perhaps it's really a serious black about which my wife...

Posting from the road!

6/24/12
Aud and I are driving back home from Knoxville, and I thought us try out the Blogger app for the iPhone. It's a pretty slick app if you can't make it to a real keyboard. Another app that I've just found out about is called Waze. If you do a lot of driving, then you should check it out. It's free and it crowd-sources gas prices, accidents, traffic jams, and speed traps. Pretty cool....

Noodler's Liberty's Elysium

6/22/12
This is the new blue that is exclusive to Goulet Pens. It generated a good deal of controversy in the FP community, but I'll get to that in a bit. I was psyched about this ink, and I bought a bottle as soon as it was released. Liberty's Elysium is a fairly saturated true blue. It shades well even from a very fine point, and it doesn't seem to feather very much. You'll find a little feathering if...

Noodler's Ottoman Azure

6/20/12
Ottoman Azure is one of the blues from April's Ink Drop. It is a solid sapphire blue that shades well even from a very fine nib. I was originally disappointed in the ink because of it's poor performance in my Ahab. I liked the color so well, though, that I had to try it in another pen to see if it would perform better in some other pen. It totally did. Here's the difference between the...

Noodler's Zhivago

6/18/12
There are two almost-blacks that I really like. I talked about Air Corps Blue-Black a while ago, and I've recently gotten a bottle of it at the Raleigh Pen Show. This ink might well be my next purchase. Zhivago is a really dark ink that looks like a black, but it's really a super-dark green. Air Corps can look a bit green (depending on the paper and lighting), but this one is the sort of color that...

Noodler's Dragon's Napalm

This ink might have the coolest name. Ever. Dragon's Napalm is a color that is a hard to accurately describe. It's a bright orange, but it's also got a tinge of pink in there. It's a color that will certainly get your attention. It's really pleasant to look at, and it is a great secondary color. When I'm taking notes on something, I almost always do it in more than one color. The second (or third,...

Black Swan in English Roses

6/13/12
This Noodler's ink is one of the Black Swan series. These inks are meant to shade well and to exhibit a halo effect when you use them with absorbent papers or flexible nibs. Whereas Australian Roses is a more purplish ink (not far from Elderberries), English Roses is a deep red with a tinge of maroon or brown. It dries about the same color as dried blood. As I say in the written sample,...

June's Ink Drop!

6/9/12
I sort of forgot that the ink drop was coming this last Monday. I'm usually checking the mailbox (compulsively) on the 3rd of the month, but this June 3rd I was distracted. My wife was finally home from Cambodia and we had just been to the Triangle Pen Show and I was trying to write some more philosophy for a web course that I've been working on this summer. Anywho, I'm glad that I had a couple of...

Murasaki-shikibu

6/7/12
 Purple is my least favorite color. I got my undergraduate degree at SMU, and our bitter rivals (tcu) use purple as their school color. As a loyal Mustang, I can't stand tcu, horned frogs, and the color purple. I only tested this ink at all because I'm planning to pass it off to my sister who is a Tri-sigma, and purple is their color. I was just gonna do a little scribbling with it for the blog...

A couple of inky mistakes for Tuesday

6/5/12
Hi folks, I have a bunch of inks to show you, but I discovered a couple of pens with mild issues yesterday, so I figured I'd start the week off with them. First up, I had a Wing Sung 233 loaded with Diamine Meadow. I used this pen for a bit, and then I put it away for a week or so. I opened it up yesterday, and this is what I found. This funk was probably caused by my not quite closing the cap....

Raleigh Pen Show and a Soak Test

6/3/12
Hi Folks, My wife is home from Cambodia, and she brought back the camera, so I can get back to more regular posting about inks and such. I have a number of them read to go. If you are on the FPN, then you've seen the controversy over the new Goulet's exclusive ink: Liberty's Elysium. It is (was?) billed as a bulletproof and water resistant ink, and some people are not satisfied with its performance....