This ink is labeled everywhere as almost bulletproof, but either my bottle is a very bad batch, or it can't be more far from what it delivers.




The color is nice, sort of golden, not as true chocolate as W.Havana Brown. And well, leaves a readable grey line after soaking it for 1 minute in water. After 2 minutes the grey is even fainter. If you leave the whole page exposed for a 10 days to the July sun -inside a window pane facing the south- this is what happens:
The truth is that does not disappear completely, but is hardly readable. Anybody has other bottle so we can check other batch?

Wow, Ondina, this is a very good review - thank you!! I love it that you've included an UV-light test . . . and I'm a bit shocked by the result: I thought all Noodler's (apart from the Baystate inks) were fadeproof?!

Yeap, I just got the bottle 3 weeks ago and after trying it, I decided to review it to show my own surprise, too. That's why I'm asking others to chime in with their own bottles, mine may be a bad batch and before bashing it, I'd rather be sure. I like the ink, but I'm very disappointed with the results.
And a bit worried, so much that all my supposedly "permanent" inks are undergoing similar test right now..... my husband has already asked why the terrace window is covered by pieces of paper.

It's the Eternal Brown that is waterproof/light-proof/etc. It's also a slightly different shade of brown -- lighter.

What you tested, Standard Brown, is said to be "near" bullet-proof. I suspect that if you shake the bottle well before testing a sample, you will get a different result. One reason I say this is because all the samples of Standard Brown that I have seen are much darker than your sample. A "near" bullet-proof ink should lose its color during soaking, but the ones I've used (Zhivago, Red Black, Marine Green) leave the black part of the ink on the paper, perfectly legible.

Thanks Bill. I have shaken the bottle, actually, as the first tries were a surprise. Maybe is the bottle itself. I am concious is near-bulletproof, but I was not expecting this. I have Herbin inks that behave better and don't claim to be a thing.

Maybe you should contact the vendor from whom you bought the bottle. Or Nathan -- he posts here as "Eternally Noodling" (last posts seem to have been in early March -- maybe send him a PM or an email -- check his profile).

If any one else has a bottle of this ink and can chime in to give his/hers own review and test, that will be most helpful. Before bugging Mr. Tardiff with a specific complain, I'll like to really know if it is just this bottle, or is a general thing to the Standard Brown.

The Standard Brown I have is darker than your written review. I also taped a sample to a window (western exposure in late May) and after a week there was little or no fading.