Noodler La Reine Mauve

[penguinmaster]

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[Spindrift]

I recently received my bottle of La Reine Mauve and it doesn't look anything like your post. Mine looks like a very pale blueberry. I tried adding 10% Noodler's Bulletproof Black, but only succeeded in creating something dull and muddy. Did I get a bad bottle or what?

[HDoug]

Hmm. My bottle of La Reine Mauve is a deep, rich, purple that pretty much matches penguinmaster's sample. Maybe you do have a bad bottle.

 

Doug

[Spindrift]

HDoug:

 

That's amazing, I had no idea that a new bottle of ink could be that far off!

 

Any suggestions?

Edited December 30, 2008 by Spindrift

[Dave Johannsen]

Any suggestions?

Did you shake it? I know that Noodler's bulletproof black "settles" so that it looks like a pretty crappy grey if you don't shake prior to filling. Noodler's El Lawrence also seperates (so much so that the color gradient is quite visible just looking at the bottle). Perhaps a good shake prior to filling would help.

 

 

Dave

 

[Jared]

Lots of feathering, but a nice purple.

 

 

[Dave Johannsen]

Lots of feathering...

Goodness gracious, that's a lot of feathering!

 

[penguinmaster]

When talking about the feathering please realize this was done in a pen with a somewhat flexible nib. So well it says a fine nibbed, it flexes probably between fine and medium which accounts for some of the extra width. I'm looking at the original and it really does only have minor feathering.

[Jared]

Maybe it's the paper you're using. Flexible nibs tend to gush more ink in one spot, but if the thin line feathers, then it's either the ink, paper, or both. For instance, I've tried Bay State Concord Grape on Clairefontaine Triomphe paper, and it feathered like crazy, where other inks didn't.

 

Maybe this La Reine Mauve is in the same catagory as the Bay State inks.

[Spindrift]

Dave:

 

Yes, I did shake the bottles before use.

[penguinmaster]

Maybe it's the paper you're using. Flexible nibs tend to gush more ink in one spot, but if the thin line feathers, then it's either the ink, paper, or both. For instance, I've tried Bay State Concord Grape on Clairefontaine Triomphe paper, and it feathered like crazy, where other inks didn't.

 

Maybe this La Reine Mauve is in the same category as the Bay State inks.

 

I'm sure it has a bit to do with the paper, as I indicated on the review, it did not feather on the copy paper. But a close look at the actual review on paper shows that the feathering on most of it is minor, the majority of the place it feathers is in the thicker lines, the thin lines mostly do not.

 

Not arguing, just giving more information.

 

-penguin

[Spindrift]

Has anyone tried La Reine Mauve on paper from a Black n' Red spiral notebook? How did it look compared to the example above?

 

Thanks,

Bob

Edited December 31, 2008 by Spindrift

[GardenWeasel]

Beautiful ink - I've kept one pen inked with it, and cannot get enough of it! Thanks for review!

[Stephen-I-am]

My rating of your scan accuracy: just about perfect. Very nice! I look forward to getting to know this ink.

 

StephenB

[Silvermink]

I just got some LRM and really like it. It works very nicely in my VP stub - makes it quite a bit smoother than the MB Racing Green I had been using in it. I had been expecting some chalkiness as Polar Black has that, but I guess it's the freezeproof-ness of it and not the bulletproof-ness that does that because I've experienced nothing of the kind with LRM.

 

Purple (my favorite color) and bulletproof - two great tastes that taste great together.

Edited June 22, 2009 by Silvermink