Noodler's Ink: Concord Grape

[Signum1]

Here's Baystate Concord Grape from Noodler's Ink. Enjoy ink fans.

 

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[Felix1]

Is that a color-accurate scan (I'm using a calibrated monitor)? I ran a sample through a broad stub a few months ago and it was more like a dark grape color.

[MJ Vesuvius]

Thanks for the great review, Signum1.

 

This is just what I've been looking for, a water resistant dark purple.

In fact I am trying to slowly replace all my inks with water-proof or -resistant

equivalents. Too much random moisture in my world!

 

– MJ

[Sproctor]

Very Impressive!

 

Thanks Sig...

 

Stephen

[Lloyd]

MB Violet (or whatever they're calling their most recent purple) is water resistant.

[IWantThat]

Mmmmm... pretty! Thanks for the review

[777]

Yumm! I like grapes and I like this ink!

[Jared]

I tried this ink with a dip pen (after hearing of what its cousin, Bay State Blue could do to feeds), but found too much feathering and bleeding. Nice color, but poor performance on paper.

[hologram]

I agree with the last post - I use Clairefontaine 90g/m paper and this ink is the only one of my inks that feathers and bleeds on this paper.

 

The colour is quite amazing however.

It reminds me of the purple colour that the old xerox machine used to print on that special smelly paper back in the 1970s.

[777]

Great review! Now I want another bottle of ink...

 

I've got a huge list but I never seem to get around to buying any of the inks on it...

[wlwilcox]

I just received a package today from Brian@ GP ( no affiliation with company ). Inside the box was a group of 4 Plat Preppy's. Two with converters and 2 set up for eye drop pens. I also was supplied with a bottle of Noodlers Concord Grape and several others. I immediately set one of the pens with a converter and began to test this ink and pen out.

I was surprised at how nice the pen worked but was more impressed with the ink. WOW!!! What a nice color. After writing on some regular 20 lb copy paper, I immediately went to the sink to test how it reacted to water. What I found was that this ink did very well. There was an initial bit of wash off, however it was very slight and the writing was still very visible. This was testing the ink within a 1 minute timeframe from writing to soaking in water.

This was very nice to see and will be my ink for journaling and for anything that I want not to disappear.

Good stuff!!

[Ipno Tizer]

Tempted. Very tempted.

 

Chris B.

[wlwilcox]

WOW!!!!! I have now put this in most of my pens and they all behave wonderfully. In my Cross Townsend it feels like my pen is floating on the paper. This is one spectacular ink. The color is so nice I feel like one could drink this stuff. LOL

Nathan you did yourself proud with this one.

[mirosc]

I would like to love this ink.

It's an amazing color, dries very quickly, it's waterresistant - I let the paper sit in a bowl of water verwater overnight and the text was very clearly visible, only the color changed a bit (more blue): I wouldn't hesitate to adress envelopes with it.

 

But it feathers so very much on my papers, more than most other inks I use.

[TheGreatImber]

MB Violet (or whatever they're calling their most recent purple) is water resistant.

I believe it's called Lavender Purple. I wasn't aware it was water resistant (proof?).

[torstar]

Had to clean out the office for a repaint/recarpet job for the entire firm.

 

Came across a bottle of this ink under all kinds of books and papers and decided to give it a spin, and resurrect an old ink review.

 

From my Waterman Exception Med, it's a good deep purple colour, a thicker lay-down than the paragraph above under "overall".

 

It's a Baystater, so I'll see how it works in the morning...

[Tweel]

I just received a sample vial of Concord Grape. It seems to go down as a darker purple color, then dry to a more vivid, bluer shade. It's also very lubricating. Nice ink.

[Aquaria]

I have a Maruman Eco notebook that I've been using to scratch out a line or two of every ink I use with a glass dip pen. It isn't the greatest paper out there, but it's still fountain-pen friendly, unlike the typically disgusting American notebook and copier garbage.

 

Until now, every ink I've used in the Eco has worked perfectly well, including Baystate Blue and Air-Corpse Blue-Black, two inks that can be quite temperamental, at times. But Concord Grape? It's the only ink I've used thus far that bleeds and feathers, on everything, without exception. It's the most aggressive ink I've used thus far, of the nearly 200 I've tested.

 

So beware--it's an interesting color, but I think it would only work in a Japanese F nib. And even then, it might not play nicely with very many kinds of paper.

[kestrel]

Try diluting it 9:1 or 8:1 with distilled water to tame the feathering. I don't own Concord Grape but the 80% concentration tamed Baystate Blue's feathering considerably.

[FLZapped]

Nice color. Odd how the other Baystate colors don't get the fanfare of the blue.