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A mix of blue inks ... which thankfully I haven't mixed together.

 

Rinsed out and used my finger to scrub out a Visconti travel inkpot with Iroshizuku ku-jaku. A beautifully behaved ink with lovely colour and shading but the ink sticks and is hard to flush out, even a Visconti open ended inkpot!

 

Then refilled a partially (mostly) empty MontBlanc Dumas with Aurora blue. Thus have both colours on my little fingers.

 

Try to decide what colour to fill next... hmm... eenie meenie .... (probably Tsuki-yo in an Aurora Optima but thinking out putting black back into the rotation)

In Rotation: MB 146 (EF), Noodler's Ahab bumblebee, Edison Pearl (F), Sailor ProGear (N-MF)

In storage: MB 149 (18k EF), TWSBI 540 (B), ST Dupont Olympio XL (EF), MB Dumas (B stub), Waterman Preface (ST), Edison Pearl (0.5mm CI), Noodler's Ahab clear, Pilot VP (M), Danitrio Densho (F), Aurora Optima (F), Lamy 2000 (F), Visconti Homo Sapiens (stub)

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I have written with 4 different pens/inks today, and have NO ink on my hands. I really only had one problem pen in the drippiness department, and it has broken in another way, so good riddance.

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Baystate Blue. My Noodler's piston filler made a beautiful mess on me today. But maybe I shouldn't blame the pen. Everyone knows the dangers of BSB.

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P.O. Box 196 Kingsburg, CA 93631

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Baystate Blue. My Noodler's piston filler made a beautiful mess on me today. But maybe I shouldn't blame the pen. Everyone knows the dangers of BSB.

 

what happened? did the pen fail or was it user error? did you post it, unpost it and accidentally twist the piston knob?

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Baystate Blue. My Noodler's piston filler made a beautiful mess on me today. But maybe I shouldn't blame the pen. Everyone knows the dangers of BSB.

 

what happened? did the pen fail or was it user error? did you post it, unpost it and accidentally twist the piston knob?

 

I'm not sure what happened. I was using it all day posting, capping, posting, capping. The end of pen is badly stained and so is the inside of the cap. It never actually leaked on me, it just doesn't seem to like being capped. This has never happened in the weeks I've had the pen.

www.lettermatters.com

P.O. Box 196 Kingsburg, CA 93631

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Baystate Blue. My Noodler's piston filler made a beautiful mess on me today. But maybe I shouldn't blame the pen. Everyone knows the dangers of BSB.

 

what happened? did the pen fail or was it user error? did you post it, unpost it and accidentally twist the piston knob?

 

I'm not sure what happened. I was using it all day posting, capping, posting, capping. The end of pen is badly stained and so is the inside of the cap. It never actually leaked on me, it just doesn't seem to like being capped. This has never happened in the weeks I've had the pen.

I know they are pretty different designs, but the pen I referenced above that was a leaky disaster is a Noodler's ebonite. Just constantly was filling the cap with ink and flinging it on opening. Boooo.

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Baystate Blue. My Noodler's piston filler made a beautiful mess on me today. But maybe I shouldn't blame the pen. Everyone knows the dangers of BSB.

 

what happened? did the pen fail or was it user error? did you post it, unpost it and accidentally twist the piston knob?

 

I'm not sure what happened. I was using it all day posting, capping, posting, capping. The end of pen is badly stained and so is the inside of the cap. It never actually leaked on me, it just doesn't seem to like being capped. This has never happened in the weeks I've had the pen.

I know they are pretty different designs, but the pen I referenced above that was a leaky disaster is a Noodler's ebonite. Just constantly was filling the cap with ink and flinging it on opening. Boooo.

 

That's not good news. I've been eying the ebonite :wub:

www.lettermatters.com

P.O. Box 196 Kingsburg, CA 93631

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Baystate Blue. My Noodler's piston filler made a beautiful mess on me today. But maybe I shouldn't blame the pen. Everyone knows the dangers of BSB.

 

what happened? did the pen fail or was it user error? did you post it, unpost it and accidentally twist the piston knob?

 

I'm not sure what happened. I was using it all day posting, capping, posting, capping. The end of pen is badly stained and so is the inside of the cap. It never actually leaked on me, it just doesn't seem to like being capped. This has never happened in the weeks I've had the pen.

I know they are pretty different designs, but the pen I referenced above that was a leaky disaster is a Noodler's ebonite. Just constantly was filling the cap with ink and flinging it on opening. Boooo.

 

That's not good news. I've been eying the ebonite :wub:

 

I haven't seen much info about them, but I'm pretty bummed. Like the feel, love how it writes, hate the fact that it makes a mess on everything.

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Baystate Blue. My Noodler's piston filler made a beautiful mess on me today. But maybe I shouldn't blame the pen. Everyone knows the dangers of BSB.

 

what happened? did the pen fail or was it user error? did you post it, unpost it and accidentally twist the piston knob?

 

I'm not sure what happened. I was using it all day posting, capping, posting, capping. The end of pen is badly stained and so is the inside of the cap. It never actually leaked on me, it just doesn't seem to like being capped. This has never happened in the weeks I've had the pen.

I know they are pretty different designs, but the pen I referenced above that was a leaky disaster is a Noodler's ebonite. Just constantly was filling the cap with ink and flinging it on opening. Boooo.

 

:crybaby:

 

That's not good news. I've been eying the ebonite :wub:

 

I haven't seen much info about them, but I'm pretty bummed. Like the feel, love how it writes, hate the fact that it makes a mess on everything.

www.lettermatters.com

P.O. Box 196 Kingsburg, CA 93631

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Baystate Blue. My Noodler's piston filler made a beautiful mess on me today. But maybe I shouldn't blame the pen. Everyone knows the dangers of BSB.

 

what happened? did the pen fail or was it user error? did you post it, unpost it and accidentally twist the piston knob?

 

I'm not sure what happened. I was using it all day posting, capping, posting, capping. The end of pen is badly stained and so is the inside of the cap. It never actually leaked on me, it just doesn't seem to like being capped. This has never happened in the weeks I've had the pen.

I know they are pretty different designs, but the pen I referenced above that was a leaky disaster is a Noodler's ebonite. Just constantly was filling the cap with ink and flinging it on opening. Boooo.

 

That's not good news. I've been eying the ebonite :wub:

 

I haven't seen much info about them, but I'm pretty bummed. Like the feel, love how it writes, hate the fact that it makes a mess on everything.

 

 

Hopefully the problem will be corrected in time.

www.lettermatters.com

P.O. Box 196 Kingsburg, CA 93631

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dang. i just ordered one a few hours ago from swisher. the piston fill, black, and with a bottle of pel blue black to make it worth the shipping.

 

Just keep a tissue handy. It's a great pen, one of my favorites. When my co-worker today was lamenting the mess of blue on my hands I responded. "Yes, isn't it beautiful?" Just enjoy the pen...and don't use a real stainer like BSB.

www.lettermatters.com

P.O. Box 196 Kingsburg, CA 93631

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dang. i just ordered one a few hours ago from swisher. the piston fill, black, and with a bottle of pel blue black to make it worth the shipping.

I have both the piston and the ebonite Noodler's pens and I don't have ink leak issues with either. I did find that you really need to wipe off the piston filler well after filling because I was getting a lot of ink that would sneak back under the edge of the section and end up in the cap, I don't have that trouble anymore. I wouldn't be too worried, YMMV.

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For a change - they are CLEAN!

 

Mine are the same way this morning sad.gif . I'm thinking of dismantling one of my pens just so I can get "inked up" again. tongue.gif

 

*begins contemplating what pen to take apart*

 

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Need a pen repaired or a nib re-ground? I'd love to help you out.

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Refilled all my daily carry pens today, so there's Noodler's Legal Lapis, Diamine Monaco Red, and Parker Blue-Black all on my right index finger.

 

I just got the Legal Lapis this morning, it's great stuff. :)

 

- Lewis.

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B.Eng. (Elec&Electronic) + B.Sc (Mathematics) James Cook University - MIEEE GradIEAust

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Whatever dye they put in the sweet & sour dip at lunchtime. Inkermann's Wizard Prang, I think.

 

Smells nice, too.

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When you're good at it, it's really miserable.

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J. Herbin Rouge Opera and Diamine Delamere Green. Either I got into fisticuffs with one of the cedars in the back yard, or I'm early for Christmas.

"Expect a most agreeable letter, for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say), I shall have no check to my genius from beginning to end." --Jane Austen

 

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