New Noodlers Ink:El Lawrence

[Guest]

I just read the review and the subsequent comments and I am extremely tempted but this ink doesn’t seem to be the easiest to find. If anybody knows where I could be more lucky, please let me know (I am in London, UK).

 

Many thanks, Laurent

 

[Celeste]

All this makes me wonder about my bottle of El Lawrence. It's very yellow. I add blue and black to it to make a color I like. In fact, it stained my green Esterbrook yellow where the ink leaked and sat on the pen for a couple of days.

 

 

Yellow??!!Thats very strange.Did you ask your seller about it??

 

JD

 

No I did not. I just assumed it was one of the side effects of Noodlers. In about a week I will post a picture of the pen (right now I am up to my eyeballs in work...doing those 14 hour days and such).

 

Celeste

[Rasputin]

Handlebar,

 

Thanks for your review. Since my pen budget was about out for July, it prompted me to order some Lawrence to try. What an interesting ink! For the first time, I believe I can use some current youth dialect and say that "this ink is SICK" The truth is I really like it. I put some in my Binder's Pelikan 200 and got some nice shading. In my True Writer it is fantastic, as well. BTW, I also got some Sailor's Blue Black from Pendemonium. It writes very nicely in my Sapporo (well, duh!) and also in my Namiki Falcon.

 

I always appreciate your reviews and comments. They add to my poor FP education.

[psfred]

Hmm. My new bottle of El Lawrence looks great when my old Wearever writes, but the nib dries badly between uses (as little as an hour!).

 

I have been working on this, as the pen also dried out with other types of ink (Skrip Blue-black) as well -- it has an on Waterman style feed with a HUGE slot, and it was pretty gunky (I did not sonicate the nib and section when I replace the sac as I usually do on old pens).

 

Taping over the breather holes in the cap seems to have helped quite a bit, so did aligning the nib and cleaning all the crusty stuff off of it and from the slit.

 

Lovely ink, though -- not that I need another dark green, but it's waterproof and Zhivago and Sequoia are not.

 

I also just finished reading TE Lawrence's condensation of "Seven Pillars" -- hope to find a copy of the unabridged work someday! Quite interesting.

 

Peter

Edited July 26, 2007 by psfred

[handlebar]

I will admit that i only use this particular ink in three of my pens as they have feeds that can handle the viscosity and thickness.It is not going to do well for most smaller feeds i imagine.But it is certainly a delight to use.

 

Thanks for the kind words Rasputin.

 

JD

[Loveforwords]

I just got A bottle, and it puts down nice juicy wet lines with my Al-star EF nib. I've gone through 12 bulletproof inks and the only one I had problems with flow was Highland Heather. Do you consider a Lamy's feed to be generous, or am I just lucky?

[Deirdre]

Highland's Heather is a drier ink than the other bulletproof inks I've tried. Granted, there are some I have that I've only ever tried a dip test with, and HH is one of them.

[Loveforwords]

I know this may seem strange, but I was comparing Bulletproof black to El Lawrence and I could only distinguish between between the two only under bright light. So my question is, What's the point if you can't tell the difference?

[Lloyd]

So my question is, What's the point if you can't tell the difference?

It lets you know you have a lack of color discrimination.

[Loveforwords]

I suppose your right. One would need the faculties of discrimination that are attributed to artists to make such a distinction.

[CountryMouse]

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h93/n7myw/Pens/NL1-small.jpg

 

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h93/n7myw/Pens/NL3-small.jpg

 

So far i really like this ink.Being a die hard historian,i even fell for the bottle itself!!!

Adorned with a photo of TE Lawrence(Lawrence of Arabia)himself on a motorbike!

Before he became the famous writer,poet,philosopher and lover of all things Arab,he was a cartographer.And this ink does him justice!!

Here is a photo of the bottle:

 

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h93/n7myw/Pens/NLink-small.jpg

 

(snipping out parts of the post)

 

I have been away from fountain pens and inks for some years. But the first thing that pops into my mind is, "Why did he have to name if El Lawrence??" I mean it's either Lawrence or El Aurens (the mangled way his troops in the desert said his name).

 

Sorry for being picky. :-P But, hey.

 

CountryMouse

[psfred]

Because Nathan Tardif likes to play with names, and it's an ink, after all.

 

Peter

[satrap]

OH. I was thinking about catching the EL on Lawrence Ave.

[djmaher]

I have a new M200 with an EF nib, and have flow trouble with this ink. I love the color, though, so if someone could maybe give me a bit of advice as to thinning, that wont change the color...

 

Add just water, or something else??

 

D

[bossy]

Try a little dishsoap for more flow. Water's gonna lighten it.