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So far, I have experienced no probems with it as my daily scribble. Forgot about my pen with it for a couple months. Quick, easy start when I discovered it again. However, I use $5 hobby store pens and Hammermill paper. It loves to stain though, so be careful with it. Marks stay underwater too.

If it isn't too bright for you, it isn't bright enough for me.

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I love it, but I'm very particular about what pen I use it in. I've used it in a wide variety of pens, and the key is it cannot be allowed to sit unused, and must be cleaned regularly.

Scribere est agere.

To write is to act.

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Thought I didn't like it after I got a sample. No shading, just bright blue. Did a card with it and a 3mm calligraphy dip nib. Wow! It glowed. I now have a bottle. Still don't like the staining and feathering. More the feathering than the staining. Still a fun ink.

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The Noodler's Baystate Blue Ink is what I've been using in the TWSBI Mini with the 1.1mm Nib. With these two (2) I've been liking it very much thus far. Of course, Your Methods May Vary accordingly so. Write On!

See with what large letters I have written you with my own hand. GaVIxi

The pen is the interpreter of the soul: what one thinks, the other expresses. (MdC)

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So far, staining is hard to get off of organic surfaces (my hands) and persists for two weeks. Even if I use alcohol. Comes willingly off of countertops willingly, albeit requiring some scrubbing.

If it isn't too bright for you, it isn't bright enough for me.

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I love the color but had to stop using it because of staing when it got on my hands and desk. I've looked quite a bit for other blues that had the same pop but haven't found one yet. I used it primarily in a Lamy Vista without any trouble but it didn't do too well in a Sheaffer 100. That could be purely an observation bias, however, as I flushed it out of there once it started skipping bad and haven't tried again since.

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Does diluting BSB make it less staining?

“Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today, because if you do it today and like it, you can do again tomorrow!”

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Does diluting BSB make it less staining?

 

 

I guess it should. can't say that it really made that big a diff.

 

some people love the stuff, some use it warily, some despise it.

 

I'm in the middle

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I love the brightness. I keep a Kaweco Sport, that used to be clear, but is now a beautiful blue demonstrator, full. It's my fountain pen version of a sharpie.

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I find it hard to read anything I write in BSB.

"Don't hurry, don't worry. It's better to be late at the Golden Gate than to arrive in Hell on time."
--Sign in a bar and grill, Ormond Beach, Florida, 1960.

 

 

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I bought BSB about a year ago with a preppy pen as eye dropper. I have filled the pen and abused both for the entire time. The ink, for me, has performed flawlessly in this pen. Sometimes the pen sites for a week and it starts right up. No feathering issues or bleed through issues or sudden stop issues. Yes, it is a bright blue ink.

My preppy has not been cleaned in the entire year (F nib) and I topped it with a little more ink about 4 months ago. I assume the preppy will remain blue in color when I get around to running out of ink and cleaning, but, it was free with the bottle of ink.

At the present rate the ink will last me my lifetime and be able to be passed on to the kids!

I have read the horror stories but have not experienced any with my bottle except a bit of a strange odor when I first used it. I guess it has mellowed into the pen or I just don't notice the odor anymore.

Did I mention I find it a bright blue ink?

 

Regards,

Be Happy, work at it. Namaste

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I love BSB.

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/Colors/Blue/slides/2014-Ink_127-BSB.jpg

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

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Love the color. Hate the fade to zero in sunlight.

 

And I've not been here for a long long time and am not shocked that a Baystate thread exists on page 1 of Inky Thoughts.

 

The more things change, the more they stay the same. LOL.

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Enjoy it, but not the issues it brings. If I'm dying for the color, I have a non-FP alternative that is virtually identical. Tossed my bottle this weekend to make space for other inks.

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Enjoy it, but not the issues it brings. If I'm dying for the color, I have a non-FP alternative that is virtually identical. Tossed my bottle this weekend to make space for other inks.

 

Feel free to trade inks when you don't like them. I'd pay the postage and save the landfill. :)

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

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Change of plans.

 

I filled my Aurora Afrika (my favourite workhorse) with BB by mistake and for the past 2 weeks have been very impressed with BB.

 

(by mistake in that I filled an empty vial with BB a few months ago and pulled it out of my stash of Goulet monthly samples...)

 

the smell and the colour told me something was up after a few minutes...

 

so, I love BB, but it took my prize pen to make me love it.

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