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--Lorie

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.

 

"Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will."

 

~Frederick Douglass

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Thank you for a good review.

 

My brain doesn't interpret colors well. Still, I love color. This ink has a vintage or archival look to me, especially when used with the calligraphy nib. I write with italic and stub nibs a lot, and this ink might be very effective from my pens. I generally avoid blue and black inks, but this one looks like something I have to try.

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Your photos have caught the color pretty well. I like this ink but I wish it had not been called "Navy". Being a literalist, I expected a very deep blue/nearly black tone like my father's winter uniform was. Still I like the color.

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Thank you for a good review.

 

My brain doesn't interpret colors well. Still, I love color. This ink has a vintage or archival look to me, especially when used with the calligraphy nib. I write with italic and stub nibs a lot, and this ink might be very effective from my pens. I generally avoid blue and black inks, but this one looks like something I have to try.

 

FrankB,

 

I'm not a blue or black ink person as a rule with FPs, but this ink has become a staple for me. I highly recommend it for class and yet something different.

 

--Lorie

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.

 

"Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will."

 

~Frederick Douglass

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Thank you for all the kind words. I may have to do another review. This was fun! :lol:

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.

 

"Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will."

 

~Frederick Douglass

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Another big fan of this ink. I'm also not a huge fan of blues, but this is pretty, yet understated. The black component of the ink is waterproof, but it doesn't look as "powdery" as some of the waterproof blues.

 

I keep a blue Parker 45 loaded with this all the time.

 

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I forgot to mention: Thanks for the beautiful review; I like your handwriting.

 

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I figure I need to weigh in on the Navy as well. I use it almost exclusively at the school where I teach - often taking notes blindingly fast (and sloppy, alas) - and this particular Noodler's keeps up no prob. That said, I also use the Aircorps for class and work: same excellent results. They're both really smooth and really unique-looking. Miminal smudging; wet and slick; just saturated enough; and what a fountain pen is supposed to feel like in my book. (Usual pen is the ever-trusty Rotring 600).

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Lorie,

 

Thanks for the great review and especially, the comparison with Aircorp Blue-black, one of my favorite Noodler's. I really like the shading. Looks like I'll have to pick up a bottle. Maybe I have a thing for the Military. :)

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I like this ink but I wish it had not been called "Navy". Being a literalist, I expected a very deep blue/nearly black tone like my father's winter uniform was.

 

I've got a few wetter nibs that result in the deep blue/nearly black one would expect from the name "Navy". I like the ink both ways, but since I started using it with a drier pen, it just doesn't look "right" when it's actually Navy-looking. :headsmack:

 

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Interesting, so there seems to be a distinct difference between the Navy and the Aircorps -- I often wondered.

 

On the scans, the Aircorps looks a little bit greener, would you say that's accurate? Are there differences in flow, water resistance, or any other properties?

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Great review, thanks especially for the comparisons, very helpful! Have you used Luxury Blue, or have a comment as to how it compares? I'm looking to branch out. Thanks!

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I like the feel of Luxury blue better, but I definitely prefer the color of Navy -- it's less chalky and it's more saturated than Luxury Blue. Plus it's less expensive. If you like the look of Navy, Legal Lapis is pretty close color-wise, and it's bulletproof.

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Hi Deirdre, thanks for the info. Pendemonium classes Navy as "Near Bulletproof", but I can't find any such designation on Noodler's website. I am attached to waterproofness as much as color/saturation/smoothness, but not tied to other archival quality or anti-forgery characteristics (acid resistance, etc). Any feeling about Navy's waterproofness? I've been very impressed with Luxury Blue. I'll definitely try Legal Lapis, though it looks a little grey-blue-black from the screen shots.

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Great review, thanks especially for the comparisons, very helpful! Have you used Luxury Blue, or have a comment as to how it compares? I'm looking to branch out. Thanks!

 

Oh, Lux Blue is a totally different color-family of blue. In my opinion, it is a very uninteresting color: a pale, "denim" blue, that is not only chalky as Deidre said, but also ... how to best put it?... lacks the richness and saturation that we usually associate with Noodler's. If I saw it on paper, I would think it was maybe Herbin rather than Noodlers, except it also lacks that fascinatingly transluscent lightness of Herbin. So I would decribe Lux Blue as a pale, yet somehow "heavy" color. The flow is extremely good though, can't say anything against that aspect. I use mine for mixing.

 

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Just got some of this ink from another FPN member. Quite nice, although I did have to double-check. I used my recently revived burgundy Statesman (new nib to replace the seriously bent one it came with) and while the initial color was a lovely blue with dark shading, it rapidly went a darker greenish blue black.

 

I don't ordinarily see the green cast in Noodler's inks other people do (except under dim incandescent lighting which is seriously blue deficient), so I dipped another nib. I must have forgotten to clean the feed on the Snork -- the other nib provided a nice vibrant dark blue more teal or cyan colored than Ottoman azure.

 

I'm quite happy. although I do have to put up with the muddy color until I finish the write-out test on the Snork. I hate to waste ink, so I'll just use it up. Should get all the old ink out of the nib and Snorkel tube, too!

 

Peter

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