Noodler's Bad Blue Heron And Bad Belted Kingfisher

[RoriRants]

Just some photos of my Noodler's Bad Blue Heron and Bad Blue Kingfisher reviews. Ruh Roh, it won't let me load the pics, so I'll include the link to my blog instead:

 

http://www.rorirants...teur-style.html

 

I reviewed a few Noodler's, Platinum, and some new to me R&K's.

 

Thanks!

 

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Edited November 25, 2011 by watch_art
gettin those pics in there. :)

[Uncle Red]

Nice, I lke your quotes. I liked these inks too but decided to go in another direction.

[WOBentley]

Thanks! Also confirms that I am happy with owning just Bad Belted Kingfisher!

[rbadger332]

I've got Bad BLue Heron as well, and I love it. Easily one of my favorite inks.

[wbpeoria]

Both are very nice inks -- is it your experience that BBH feathers a bit more on cheap paper? It might be just that I have the two inks in different pens.

[Ad_Astra]

BBH, IME, feathers quite a bit from a wet M on cheaper paper.

[rbadger332]

yeah, Heron feathers a little bit. I use it in my really fine pens to mitigate this. My Parker Vac is fine enough that if it does feather, I don't notice it as much.

[fjf]

The bad belter kingfisher looks a lot like the sailor sei-boku pigment blue-black, although my scanner does not get the turquoise tone quite right:

Edited November 29, 2011 by fjf

[RoriRants]

Both are very nice inks -- is it your experience that BBH feathers a bit more on cheap paper? It might be just that I have the two inks in different pens.

 

 

TBH, I'm not sure--I only tried the BBH on the Clairefontaine-and didn't like it much so I emptied the pen. I much prefer the BBK.

[RoriRants]

The bad belter kingfisher looks a lot like the sailor sei-boku pigment blue-black, although my scanner does not get the turquoise tone quite right:

 

 

*groans* Oh NO! Another ink to try...;o) That's pretty stuff

[Surnia]

Sei has more shading than BBK. I love it far more than BBK, but the colour overall is... less saturated. However, wash Sei Boku out and it somehow looks even better o.o

[Silas]

I've had all three inks: Sailor Blue/Black Carbon, BBH, and BBK.

 

I found the Bad Black Heron a little washed out for my tastes. Also a tad dry in some of my pens.

 

I moved to the Bad Belted Kingfisher: I liked the more vivid blue of this ink. Still a tad dry...dries up in a pelikan 215 after a couple of days.

 

Then, the Sailor: solved all the problems: nice vivid blue, with a tad of shading depending on nib, and wet like I like it!

 

After that, I tried the Platinum Pigment Blue.....which I have to say, is my favorite of ALL of these blues. Very vivid, with some "Pop" on the page.

 

I'll probably end up dumping the Sailor into my incoming Estie Dip-less Ink well and finish it off there.

[kittytoug]

I have Bad Belted Kingfisher and, although I love the color, the nib creep I get with my Lamy Al-Star EF is driving me crazy. I will need to try it with the Pilot Custom 74 to see if I get better results.

[JLT]

Thanks for posting the comparisons. I've not yet tried BBH but BBK is one of my favorites inks. It gets regular use at the office and my Pilot Custom 823 is dedicated to it, for all practical purposes - they really play well together. Nib creep never really bothered me, even on that huge #15 nib . . .

[doggonecarl]

The bad belter kingfisher looks a lot like the sailor sei-boku pigment blue-black, although my scanner does not get the turquoise tone quite right

I never noticed the similarities when looking at reviews, but I noticed it when I wrote with the Sailor Blue-Black in a day planner under an entry done in Bad Belted Kingfisher. Almost the identical color. If it weren't for shading and sheen, I doubt I'd be able to tell them apart.

 

Had I known, I'm not sure I would have picked up the BBK. Just seems redundant to have two inks the same color. Funny. This from a guy with six different bottles of black ink.

 

Of course, BBK could behave differently in another pen, then I'll be glad I have it.

Edited August 20, 2013 by doggonecarl

[lapis]

Thanks! I now only have to decide which I like better/best: I have all of them, but have not yet compared each of these with those of thre others. Thanks again, that's what this forum is all about!!!

 

Mike

[AnUprightMan]

I love the color of the Bad Blue Heron, but I find that it's too dry for my fine point VP

[GHigley]

I bought a bottle of BBK yesterday. In a Lamy 2000 with medium nib, I find it the most boring ink color that I've tried. So far. Maybe in a different pen.

Edited March 31, 2015 by GHigley

[Christopher Boondoc]

Bad Belted.pdf

Here is a quick sample of the BBK! A really great ink!

Edited April 2, 2015 by Christopher Boondoc