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First Look: Noodler's Summer Tanager


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This is a not-very-good scan of this orange ink in my ink notebook. I did my best to correct the color of the scan on my monitor, and it is still not quite right. Not bright enough, some of this looks a little "brown" (which the color is not), and the corrections washed out some of the fine detail. Whatever. This is just a first look, right? If you have ever seen a tanager or an oriole, you have seen this color.

 

I reduced the image but it's still 594x825, so it's still going to take a little while to download at 56K. Yes, I know I'm the one who complained about big images. So sue me. Open another browser window and spend some money somewhere while you wait. (It seems to be taking much longer to receive this from Flickr than it took to upload it. I don't understand why.)

 

Summer Tanager is a thin ink. You can tell by how much it feathers in the sections written with dip pens. The Hunt 1-1/2 and the Speedball A-0 are my extreme tests. No other ink in the book to date has feathered quite as much as this one did. However, in the last ten lines, written with a Parker Sonnet fitted with a stub nib, it doesn't do so badly (I've seen worse ...). I had hoped for more variation in color, but it still isn't too bad in the original. I think with a bright ink like this, the saturation sort of blasts your eyeballs and you can't see the variation quite as well. (the scan makes it look like there's more variation than it seems to the naked eye.

 

I actually like this color, and will probably use it for letters to my grandchildren. Maybe for special projects, and for the lettering my wife always wants me to do for her scrapbooks.

 

Not waterproof, eternal, or bulletproof. Drying time is very slow (in broad strokes, no worse than any other Noodler's from a normal-size nib). Does not smear once dry. Test sample written on Levenger Circa notebook paper. Humidity today is high, but the test was done inside the air-conditioned house, so the air in here is a bit dryer. If that makes any difference to you scientists.

 

Late edit: So that no more FPNers will injure themselves trying to stand on their heads to see the review, I've replaced the original image with an upright version.

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Thanks for the sneak peak.

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Never thought I'd like an orange ink but this one is rather pretty.

 

Thanks for the photo. It was hard standing on my head to read it but it did give my dog a giggle.

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Your picture is fine wrt width, Bill, and that's the number that's important! A width that exceeds about 750 pixels will require most readers to scroll horizontally to read the test and view the entire picture. Yeah, we could change resolution, but we ain't gonna as most of us have set 'em to accommodate most websites. But, yours will please almost all.

 

Now about that upside down picture. Please don't do that again! Seeing that it was a review with graphic, I scrolled down to the picture before reading the second paragraph. In spite of it being a bit early, I immediately ran to the kitchen and poured a stiff bourbon. I thought I was having a full blown case of the DTs along with the hallucinations that might accompany the attack. Now, I have to go explain to my wife why I was early into the jug!

 

Aside from that, the review is great! But, of course, I have reversed the picture so that I can read it without bending down with my head between my legs. That's another thing...she saw that, too! Try explaining these two things to your wife sometime.

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Nice color!

http://www.mobirds.org/Galleries/images/KNickell/Summer%20Tanager.jpg

 

Now how about one for a Scarlet Tanager?? :D

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And are your arms tired? :ph34r:

Thanks, Bill! B)

 

Edit: Sorry, I tried this website's orange text, but it's almost illegible on the standard light blue background.

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I am so ashamed of the crummy quality of the scan color on the first image that I went back and fiddled with color correction on a smaller section of the test page.

 

This still isn't 100% right, but it's a whole lot closer than the first picture. The color is dead on except in the really soaked area of the capital T and in the bar on the right. Those two areas, for some reason, persist in looking too "wet" or too "orange-y" but I haven't been able to correct it out. But (monitor differences aside) you can trust the color in this one.

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oooof

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I like darker oranges but that is really a beauty!!! I will most certainly add that to my ink collection. Thanks!!!!

 

 

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Looks interesting... based on this thread I bought it and like it somewhat.... ---I'm not sure if it is a little too bright for my tastes.... in any event how does it compare to noodlers haberno? Any thoughts on that ?

 

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I don't have this Tanager ink (but I bet it's great for mixing), but I have Habanero, and I think it can appear very similar to reds (for instance, Antietam) if you use it in a wet writer. It is also very bright, sometimes hurts my eyes. Supposedly Cayenne is a redder-version of Habanero, but I avoided it because it made me think of Ketchup. yuck.

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