Pif Noodler's Texas Navy And Q'ternity

[GreenMountain]

Hi Folks,

Here are two inks that Amberlea sent. Thank you, Amerlea!!

They are both in the navy family:

 

- Noodler's Texas Navy is blurple in my view, Somewhat faded, vintage blue. Very waterproof...doesn't bleed or smear at all. Dries quickly. Maintains its line width well on copy paper. The ink drops on wet paper towel spread out to the same blue color with a slight fade to purple (top blotch).

 

- Noodler's Q'ternity is teal-ish and not waterproof in any way...washes out to nothing. Dries less quickly than Texas Navy, but not bad, at least for right hand writing. Spreads a lot more more than Texas Navy on copy paper, somewhat more on Tomoe River paper. The ink drops on wet paper towel resolve to a dark blue with a yellow tinge that fades to turquoise (bottom blotch).

 

Similarities: Little shading, no sheen, average flow, significant bleed through on copy paper, none on Tomoe River.

Note on the scan: both written colors are drabber than in real life; the swab colors are fairly accurate.

Edited May 25, 2020 by GreenMountain

[yazeh]

I like these short to the point reviews, the get to the point, good job

[Sailor Kenshin]

Thanks for the review. Is that the QTernity chroma which breaks into turquoise and green?

[GreenMountain]

Thanks much, Reed. This is my second review.

Its hard to catch colors on a regular scanner. The people with good pics must have fancy cameras.

[amberleadavis]

OMG, when I used Texas Navy it was a teal leaning blue black. That looks blue. I may go grab my bottle again and look. You received one of my unopened bottles.

 

 

http://www.sheismylawyer.com/2017_1_Ink/04-April/slides/2017-04-28_Ink_9.jpg

[amberleadavis]

OOPS, that will teach me, I thought I sent you USS Texas and Not Texas Navy!

 

Can you send me back a sample? I have to try it now. and I may gave to add a bottle to my collection.

[Sailor Kenshin]

USS Texas is a color I have, and that above is exactly what it looks like.

[GreenMountain]

Wellll...maybe it's the famous Noodler's variations on a theme.

Here is Parker Quink Permanent Blue vs Noodler's Texas Navy, both on cheap post-it paper. Swabs always come out lighter than the ink in a pen, but still, Texas Navy looks blue to me and not teal.

Amberlea, are you pining for Texas back? It's on it's way home!

Edited May 26, 2020 by GreenMountain

[IThinkIHaveAProblem]

Weird.

 

I had different results in my water test of Q-Ternity.

By no means was it completely water proof, but normal writing allowed to dry for a couple minutes, rubbing with a wet q-tip had a minor effect (removed some of the blue), and dropping water, letting it sit and dabbing off on writing by a 6mm pilot parallels (dipped) removed most of the blue and left a greyish mark behind!

 

(paper was in a Rhodia Web book)

 

My chromatography (done on a strip of coffee filter) showed some grey (water fast), a couple shades of blue, and some PINK!

 

Thats the risk of small batch boutique ink i guess! YMWillV

[GreenMountain]

I made the swab swishes, waited maybe 1/2 hour, and ran the swishes under cold tap water. Not sure there is a correct method to test waterfastness. I didn't do water drop tests in sqaures as I've seen some do.

[GreenMountain]

Thanks for the review. Is that the QTernity chroma which breaks into turquoise and green?

Yes. And Texas Navy is just navy.