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Noodler's is one of the companies that don't need introductions. Nathan's Tardiff work is unimaginable. The guy must be a vampire who doesn't sleep and feeds on developing ideas: new inks, new pens.

 

Noodler’s Zhivago is one of most interesting inks I've used recentlty. It's hard to say what color it really is. Zhivago is a green-black-grey ink, heavier on the black than on the green in most nibs and on most papers. On the other hand green is still visible and while some people may argue I think of it as dark green-black and not black with green accents. Whatever. Rhe thing is the ink is excellent and water resistant. It may also serve as a transition ink for those who are hesitant if it's appropriate to use colors other than blue or black during business meetings.

 

Ink splash

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Drops of ink on kitchen towel

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Software Id

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Tomoe River, Kaweco Sport Classic, B

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Leuchtturm 1917, Kaweco Sport Classic, B

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Lyreco Budget, Kaweco Sport Classic, B

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Rhodia, Eversharp Skyline

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Rhodia, Baoer, F

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Water resistance

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AndyYNWA Collectors Item

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Nice review!

 

When I have used it, it has been quite chalky and boring. Not the saturated green-black I expected. Not my kind of ink at all...

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If Noodlers mixed this ink for a stationery store in the southern United States, the color would be called Charleston Green. The way your close-up photographs show how the ink behaves in handwriting is extremely useful, Visvamitra.

 

Photo of Architectural Details in Charleston, from Flickr

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This is a very nice green. My favorite green is Kingdom Note Cicada green, but this is nice, too.

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Lovely review of a "classic".

I keep returning to my bottle and filling pens with it every now and then but find the sour green left after washing over a deal breaker for me. It only gets used for writing with now but for that it's stellar.

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I like this color! Thanks for the review and beautiful writing samples:)

I don't have any Noodler's ink myself, I wonder what its behavior is like....does this one cause any clogging, staining, or other problems?

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I don't seem to get on so well with Noodler's but Zhivago I do like.

 

An added bonus is that being such a dark green you can still use it when the jobsworths say you must use black ink! It does not happen to me very often but a little bit of civil disobedience can make the day.

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I've had this ink for a while, when it was available in the UK. Great stuff but sometimes a little hard to get out of some pens.

The Good Captain

"Meddler's 'Salamander' - almost as good as the real thing!"

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KellyMcJ Vintage

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I loved my sample so much that I ordered a bottle! It's a hard color to describe. "off black". I'm not a big carbon black fan so I love this!

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Strange.

Just received a sample, but with a dip pen it doesn't look black at all, just a green slightly darker than Pilot Iroshizuku Chiku-Rin.....

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http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu239/chingdamosaic/zhivago_zpstvxwe6ku.jpg

 

The Zhivago sample I received, and Pilot Iroshizuku Chiku-Rin, both written with a dip pen on creamy paper.

 

P.S. This sample was from the recent plastic bottle version.

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Crazy :) It looks like totally different ink. I know that no two batches of Zhivago are the same but this is just too much.

I agree! Fortunately I love both. That's some pretty extreme variation though. Let me dig out another old nib and see if I can make mine look like that.

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The random flex nib turned out to be a Hunt (speedball) school niv, and I rather like it!

 

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Here's my scan of it, quite some time ago, I must admit.

 

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I've not used it for a while.

The Good Captain

"Meddler's 'Salamander' - almost as good as the real thing!"

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http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu239/chingdamosaic/zhivago_zpstvxwe6ku.jpg

 

The Zhivago sample I received, and Pilot Iroshizuku Chiku-Rin, both written with a dip pen on creamy paper.

 

P.S. This sample was from the recent plastic bottle version.

 

No way, that's not Zhivago . . . :o

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