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This ink was exclusive to the Australian market. Thanks to Genius, I was able to acquire a bottle. The ink had been amazing in my fade tests and I wanted to have a bottle of my own. As you can see, when I tried to scrub it off with water, the ink remained but the paper died.

 

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And here is a larger image.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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You are welcome. Glad you enjoyed!

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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Amber :

 

 

My experience with CSB is that it takes some time to "set", after which it's pretty much impervious, including, as you know from the famous "caboose experiment", lightfastness. OTOH, my experience is with a bottle purchased almost three years back, so it's possible that the formulation has changed. I have had some significant improvement in flow and application from that bottle with about a 30% dilution and the addition of a tiny drop of PhotoFlo (something that I've found has made even recalcitrant inks like Manjiro Nakahama Whaleman's Sepia behave quite well).

 

Great review, I must say, and I now move onto to reading the Catalpa review !

 

 

 

John P.

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Ooh, what's PhotoFlo?

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Ooh, what's PhotoFlo?

 

Good question !

 

PhotoFlo is a surfactant that has been used in photography developing for decades. In that context, it makes developing agents flow more smoothly off of the negatives so droplets don't stay on the negs and make spots. In the context of inks, it helps the ink flow more smoothly into, through, and off the nib onto paper.

 

I wrote up some notes on this topic here. I've also referenced Sandy's discussions on the topic in my post there. Others contributed to her thread and my thread with some alternatives for PhotoFlo.

 

I've had good results with careful use of PhotoFlo on some rather stubborn inks.

 

 

 

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OK,

I want some! How do we get it here in the US?

Is there a retailer in Australia who will ship?

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Thanks for the review. I loved this color when I saw it at Las Vegas Pen Posse #1. If someone is going to do a group buy, I'd be up for a bottle or three.

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Hey guys, I do have a bottle and find it greener than the scans but that could be the paper difference.

 

Anyway, in Australia, prices are 2-2.5x higher than what you would expect.

I paid $25 for a bottle 3oz at the only store I believe who carries this ink. It's not cheap.

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I wish Goulet's would be able to carry the WHOLE Noodler's line, including all these country-exclusive inks...

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I wish Goulet's would be able to carry the WHOLE Noodler's line, including all these country-exclusive inks...

 

+1. Goulet's or somebody else here in the USA. The ink is made in Massachusetts, shipped to Australia, we get some nice Australian to buy some for us and ship it back. Who wins? The Postal Service!

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The ink is made in Massachusetts, shipped to Australia, we get some nice Australian to buy some for us and ship it back. Who wins? The Postal Service!

 

Quite sometime back, I corresponded briefly with Nathan T. on this subject, and he explained that when he made something an "Exclusive" for a given seller, he couldn't then just go and market it elsewhere. There are items where a given vendor has stopped selling Noodler's that have shifted over to another vendor like the Goulets (e.g., the inks formerly exclusive to Jetpens), but if it's still an active item with a vendor (e.g., Legal Lapis with Pendemonium), one can't fault Nathan T. for being a man of his word...

 

 

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The ink is made in Massachusetts, shipped to Australia, we get some nice Australian to buy some for us and ship it back. Who wins? The Postal Service!

 

Quite sometime back, I corresponded briefly with Nathan T. on this subject, and he explained that when he made something an "Exclusive" for a given seller, he couldn't then just go and market it elsewhere. There are items where a given vendor has stopped selling Noodler's that have shifted over to another vendor like the Goulets (e.g., the inks formerly exclusive to Jetpens), but if it's still an active item with a vendor (e.g., Legal Lapis with Pendemonium), one can't fault Nathan T. for being a man of his word...

 

 

John P.

 

One has to admire a man of Integrity. Perhaps he could get permission from his Australian dealer to allow a US dealer to sell it in the USA as well.

"One can not waste time worrying about small minds . . . If we were normal, we'd still be using free ball point pens." —Bo Bo Olson

 

"I already own more ink than a rational person can use in a lifetime." —Waski_the_Squirrel

 

I'm still trying to figure out how to list all my pens down here.

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Hey guys, I do have a bottle and find it greener than the scans but that could be the paper difference.

 

Anyway, in Australia, prices are 2-2.5x higher than what you would expect.

I paid $25 for a bottle 3oz at the only store I believe who carries this ink. It's not cheap.

 

In Sydney it has an eternal ink price of around $38 for 3oz/90mls(compared to $23-$25 for regular Noodler's) in the two shops in the city that sell it.

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This is possibly even more gorgeous than the Catalpa! Thanks for including the larger images, too.

 

This. I also really like the North African Violet you have it compared to.

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Quite sometime back, I corresponded briefly with Nathan T. on this subject, and he explained that when he made something an "Exclusive" for a given seller, he couldn't then just go and market it elsewhere. There are items where a given vendor has stopped selling Noodler's that have shifted over to another vendor like the Goulets (e.g., the inks formerly exclusive to Jetpens), but if it's still an active item with a vendor (e.g., Legal Lapis with Pendemonium), one can't fault Nathan T. for being a man of his word...

 

 

John P.

 

Not trying to be an smart a-s-s, I really do not know this answer. Does the Australian market gets the regular american line of Noodler's?

 

 

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Not trying to be an smart a-s-s, I really do not know this answer. Does the Australian market gets the regular american line of Noodler's?

 

Fair question. Insofar as I could see online, most Noodler's "standard" inks made it Down-Under. However, inks like Pendemonium's Legal Lapis do not seem to have translated there, nor do U.K. "Exclusives" like Prime of the Commons make it there.

 

 

 

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