I recently bought a bottle of Noodlers Antietam... I love the color... but I find it is a very dry writing ink in the 2 Sheaffer Triumphs I have tried it in... one has a fine nib and the other a medium... I even put in a Sheaffer stub nib and it was not a wet writing ink...

Now all of these nibs wrote nice and wet with Pelikan Black and Quink Black. I have not tried it in my Pelikan 200 with a OM nib yet, that is filled with Pelikan Brown and writing nice and wet... this is the only Noodlers ink that is am seeing this with... I also have Navajo Turquoise, RedBlack, Gruene Green and La Coulour Royale, all of which write wet for me in other pens... including my inexpensive Pakisatan pens I bought.

Is this dry writing normal with this ink or am I seeing something that should not be...
I have considered buying some Tryphon Inksafe or maybe just doing the drop of dishwashing soap in the converter trick to see if that helps...

All reasonable suggestions will be appreciated.....
Reasonable means NO I will not send you the bottle of ink to test...

I have only two Pelikan inks, green and brown (cartridges I use as a kid do not count), and I have found that they flow extremely well in all the pens I have tried. I have a feeling all pelikan inks flow extremely well, and perhaps this particular Noodler ink is dry in comparison.

well, stylo, i'd argue with you on at least one Pelikan ink - Blue-black. But i like the stingy flow because it gives some delightful shading.

Griz, i'm just losing most of my interest in reds in general because with the exception of some pink-reds I have nothing but flow problems with all of them, including most red-browns. Even Havana could behave better, IMO. It's still one of the nicer browns but...

Hi Tom,

My bottle of Noodler's Antietam was wet writing like my Gruene Cactus & Saguaro Wine. Those were my 3 faves in the regular Noodler's line, but they remained too wet on the paper and I inevitably smeared all 3 of them.

I'd guess that it is the particular bottle of Antietam that you got that's dry...Especially if it acts that way when you try it in your Pel. 200 w/the OM nib!

Best, Ann

Yep, my Antietam is probably the driest writing ink I own. It doesn't get much use

I havn't experience any dry-writing with this ink. I'm with Roy, it's not the wettest, but not at all dry.

I have known some people to add a drop of soap to the bottle of ink. I personally would take some ink out of the bottle and place it in an ink-exchange vial and do my experimenting there. The soap should loosen it up for you.

Give it a try and let us know if it works.

-Bryan

Well I decided to give Wim's dishwashing soap trick a try on a converter full of Antietam.... what an amazing difference.... I think I put a bit too much in because the ink was spreading a bit on the Rhodia pad... so I emptied about 1/2 and refilled the converter with my syringe....
The pen is definately writing more like I wanted it to.... Interesting trick...
I will not add any to the bottle until I see how my Pelikan F nib reacts when I get my pen back from Chartpak.... and my .8 stub from Richard on the other Pel.
But on the Sheaffer it made a big difference...

Thanks Wim ... another great piece of advise...

My Antietam is really really wet in my Frontier. I use it a lot.

I have never tried this dishwashing liquid trick myself. If I want to add it only to a converter of ink, how much do I add? I dab on the end of a toothpick?

The information Wim gave is in this thread
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...2907&hl=inksafe