Noodler's Fox Red

[xwingrox]

Hi all,

Just my Goulet sample and I'm loving Noodler's Fox Red. I'm thinking of buying an entire bottle (I use it for highlighting and note making in college) but the 1oz for a 3oz price is throwing me off. I really like the color and the bulletproof qualities but I can't seem to justify the price when I could get a 3oz Noodler's Antietam for the same price...

Any thoughts? Can anyone tell me why Fox is limited to 1oz? I'd love to buy a 3oz bottle...

[Silent Speaker]

Fox red's an Eternal ink (whatever that means, I've not yet watched the Goulet+Tardif interview, Part 2., where apparently all Noodler's properties are explained).

 

I imagine that it's more expensive because the materials involved in making it are dearer.

 

So, I'd guess that in an effort to keep down the price down, and yet allow the ink to be sold at all - The Noodler's Man has a limit as to how much his inks will cost - it's only offered in those 1oz bottles.

 

I don't know how it would be calculated, but 3oz's of the stuff as it's already sold is $40.50! (so, well in excess of his price limit, I think).

 

If you don't require Eternal properties (again, whatever that's supposed to mean), then just go with Antietam. Are your notes so in danger of having water damage occur? Or constant exposure to sunlight as to make a few underlines or annotations fade? I would say that for mere notes, Antietam (or even Nikita - that's 4.5oz plus a free pen, if you need to make that many notes!) would be a better buy.

 

Unless your notes are threatened by constant exposure to the elements (in which case, what are you doing?!), I wouldn't use Fox red for them.

 

I know that of all the countless notes I made whilst at university, I've kept maybe two notebooks - the rest (and there's a mountain of it) will never be looked at again - that's a good thing as I'd mostly used blue quink (or should I say, Fadey McFadesalot.), and black quink (or, rather, parker dark grey ink) before discovering Heart of Darkness.

 

The small bottle suits me as I only use Fox red once a year.

[tfwall]

I'd love to buy a 3oz bottle...

 

Custom sizes are available, contact your favourite NI retailer or the US distributor.

[MrsGouletPens]

It's strictly because of the cost of the materials that go into making the ink. Those 1oz eternals are very difficult to make and very costly. To package it in a 3oz bottle would be astronomical, and Nathan won't stand for that.

 

Yes you can get custom larger sizes (usually 16oz, 32oz, or more) but it's going to be tremendously high in cost. He may not even be able to do it for these particular inks because of materials availability/cost, but happy to inquire if you'd like.

[raging.dragon]

You might want to try Empire Red, it's another eternal (or perhaps even bulletproof?) red ink.

[MrsGouletPens]

You might want to try Empire Red, it's another eternal (or perhaps even bulletproof?) red ink.

Yep, fully eternal and bulletproof. Still a little more expensive than the standard 3oz price, but better than Fox Red per ounce!

[kitsunec4]

 

If you don't require Eternal properties (again, whatever that's supposed to mean), then just go with Antietam. Are your notes so in danger of having water damage occur? Or constant exposure to sunlight as to make a few underlines or annotations fade? I would say that for mere notes, Antietam (or even Nikita - that's 4.5oz plus a free pen, if you need to make that many notes!) would be a better buy.

 

 

Oh, water damage on university notes, or shall we say, tea/soda/coffee damage? I was, and am, still a constant drinker of various beverages while reviewing notes. This has ended rather disastrously once or twice.