Whiteboard Markers?

[kaissa]

Hello,

 

I need a whiteboard marker and the options I have are Edding and Pilot. Are there any whiteboard markers that are refillable and look like fountain pen?

 

Regards,

[kiavonne]

If you can find any left from some obscure corner of a shop somewhere, Nathan at Noodler's made a batch of 70 4.5 oz bottles each of blue and black "Waterase," and supplied the refillable, demonstrator-type marker pen to go with it. If enough interest generates, he may consider making more. I didn't even know it existed myself, until it was too late to get any. Brian and Rachel of Goulet Pens carried it for about a day until they sold out. They are keeping an eye out to see if Nathan will make more.

 

The ink was water based, not solvent based. It also needed a small amount of moisture to erase from the whiteboard. Someone reported using a damp sponge wrung almost dry to use on their's without a problem. The surface could not be left wet, else the ink would bead. It had some good reviews. I wouldn't have minded the extra step of wiping/drying just for the fact it was water based and refillable and didn't dry out as quickly as the standard disposable dry erase pens.

 

Here is a link to a video on the ink Nathan put up on YouTube back in November.

 

Edited January 22, 2011 by kiavonne

[richellemedina]

I learned this lesson from my experience AusPen signs batteries. It is a good example of a truly green option. Slimline Whiteboard Marker is writing from Penflex finest. This is a standard pencil and behaves just like the rest of other.

[notgiven]

If you can find any left from some obscure corner of a shop somewhere, Nathan at Noodler's made a batch of 70 4.5 oz bottles each of blue and black "Waterase," and supplied the refillable, demonstrator-type marker pen to go with it. If enough interest generates, he may consider making more. I didn't even know it existed myself, until it was too late to get any. Brian and Rachel of Goulet Pens carried it for about a day until they sold out. They are keeping an eye out to see if Nathan will make more.

 

The ink was water based, not solvent based. It also needed a small amount of moisture to erase from the whiteboard. Someone reported using a damp sponge wrung almost dry to use on their's without a problem. The surface could not be left wet, else the ink would bead. It had some good reviews. I wouldn't have minded the extra step of wiping/drying just for the fact it was water based and refillable and didn't dry out as quickly as the standard disposable dry erase pens.

 

Here is a link to a video on the ink Nathan put up on YouTube back in November.

 

 

I saw the video last week, and try to hunt one of this down, but no luck. I wish some of those lucky "Waterase" owner will talk about it, good or bad, just so more people will know about its existence.

[Aunt Jill]

Want!

 

I've been looking for a fine-point whiteboard marker for years! And I love that shade of blue!

 

Want!

[jde]

I saw the video last week, and try to hunt one of this down, but no luck. I wish some of those lucky "Waterase" owner will talk about it, good or bad, just so more people will know about its existence.

 

In my experience the ink works as you'd expect it to. In Nathan's video he indicates it may not work so well on some whiteboards.

 

I've got a post up about it here. Remember: it's "wet-erase" style not dry erase.

 

I wonder: do people want it because now they can't have it?

Edited January 23, 2011 by jde

[GOB Bluth]

If you can find any left from some obscure corner of a shop somewhere, Nathan at Noodler's made a batch of 70 4.5 oz bottles each of blue and black "Waterase," and supplied the refillable, demonstrator-type marker pen to go with it. If enough interest generates, he may consider making more. I didn't even know it existed myself, until it was too late to get any. Brian and Rachel of Goulet Pens carried it for about a day until they sold out. They are keeping an eye out to see if Nathan will make more.

 

The ink was water based, not solvent based. It also needed a small amount of moisture to erase from the whiteboard. Someone reported using a damp sponge wrung almost dry to use on their's without a problem. The surface could not be left wet, else the ink would bead. It had some good reviews. I wouldn't have minded the extra step of wiping/drying just for the fact it was water based and refillable and didn't dry out as quickly as the standard disposable dry erase pens.

 

Here is a link to a video on the ink Nathan put up on YouTube back in November.

 

 

Email Brian Goulet. I seem to remember hearing or reading that he can get some.

Edited January 28, 2011 by fuchsiaprincess
Removed email address

[Lloyd]

Want!

 

I've been looking for a fine-point whiteboard marker for years! And I love that shade of blue!

 

Want!

Try View-Graph markers.

[jde]

 

Email Brian Goulet. I seem to remember hearing or reading that he can get some.

 

Actually, he can't get more because he is sold out & there's no more to be had. However, Brian is going to talk with Nathan about making more! Yes!

Edited January 28, 2011 by fuchsiaprincess

[notgiven]

I saw the video last week, and try to hunt one of this down, but no luck. I wish some of those lucky "Waterase" owner will talk about it, good or bad, just so more people will know about its existence.

 

In my experience the ink works as you'd expect it to. In Nathan's video he indicates it may not work so well on some whiteboards.

 

I've got a post up about it here. Remember: it's "wet-erase" style not dry erase.

 

I wonder: do people want it because now they can't have it?

 

Thank you for the review!

 

I think more people use whiteboard marker than we thought. After all, I know many people use whiteboard marker regularly, but none of those people I know use fountain pen, and they don't know the brand Noodler's ink at all, let alone this product. Nathan offers an inexpensive way to make white boards, so that more people can have a board and use this ink, but there is already a large distinct group of speaker who use dry/wet erase marker regularly, and they don't know about this product. Putting this product's information in education board probably yield a lot more demands.

 

I guess can't have it makes me want it more, but I think it can be a very useful product. I want to try it in pointed marker for overhead transparencies, and see how it works under light and heat. At the end of your review, you mentioned more color choice. I think if this ink has yellow and magenta ink on top of the now black and blue/cyan ink, people can start mixing their own color wet eraser markers.

[kiavonne]

That was a very good review, jde. I hope more folks see it and this thread. I really want to send some to a professor friend of mine, as well as have some for me, too.

[jde]

That was a very good review, jde. I hope more folks see it and this thread. I really want to send some to a professor friend of mine, as well as have some for me, too.

 

Thanks for the kind words, kiavonne. fingers crossed for more Waterase!

[jde]

For those of you hoping for more, I heard from Rachel Goulet (aka GouletPens.com) that Nathan made some more Waterase Ink.

GouletPens will have it in stock sometime next week.

 

This has been an unaffiliated FYI ,

Julie

Edited January 30, 2011 by jde

[notgiven]

Thanks for the update, Julie. I think you are the main cause to bring this ink back to production. I read in ink nouveau blog that they will be getting more of this ink by the end of the week.

[jde]

Thanks for the update, Julie. I think you are the main cause to bring this ink back to production. I read in ink nouveau blog that they will be getting more of this ink by the end of the week.

 

Aww that's kind of you but honestly I believe it was the clamor of those who did NOT get to grab the initial bottles that created another batch. Plus Brian Goulet knows a good sell when he finds one. My hope is the market is out there beyond a few of us fountain pen peeps! It's such a great product. *Having just put my Waterase pens down for the day.*

[tjt7a]

I know its been a few years, but do people still use the waterase inks? I know Goulet still has them in stock.

 

Tom

[Bloch]

I've been using the Noodler waterase blue for over a year now; my husband and I use it for the whiteboards we have for our grocery list and dog notes, respectively (don't ask).

The only thing is, it used to work wonderfully well, but now it beads up a lot. I've tried cleaning the pen and refilling it (twice!), but though it works better for a while, it soon goes back to beading up. I've also thoroughly washed and dried the whiteboard... I'll have to see if I can find that tutorial that you mentioned earlier about Nathan showing how to make whiteboards. Maybe it's the writing surface. Heh, I didn't think to try the pen on other surfaces. I'll go do that...

[WaskiSquirrel]

I use Waterase as a teacher on a daily basis. My only complaints are that the blue is a little more difficult to clean off than the black, and that I wish there were a red color. It is very nice and dark. When I wash my hands, I save the paper towel to recycle several times to clean off the board. I'm also refilling the markers regularly.

 

I do wish that I had a sturdier, nicer marker available than the Platinum Preppy. But, I haven't seen such a thing out there.