La Couleur Royale (? ? ?) - Noodler's

[amberleadavis]

There is no doubt in my mind that one or more batches of LCR are a lot more blue. This is sample, and as you can see it is more purple than Visvamitra's sample.

http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/2015-Inklings/2015-Ink_0299.jpg

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/2015-Inklings/2015-Ink_0332.jpg

[wimg]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

 

Please do note that "Chemyst" is not Noodlers', Nathan Tardiff, or anyone representative or representing Noodlers' for that matter.

 

See this post:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/295806-noodlers-1-oz-bottles/?p=3555953

 

Warm regards, Wim

FPN Admin

[dcwaites]

Thank you Wim. We still all love Nathan and his work to bring us all truckloads of inky joy. Please pass this on.

 

And we wait for the day when he has a Kekule's Dream of how to make Liberty's Elysium truly bulletproof.

[BlueJ]

I recently got a bottle of Liberty's Elysium from Goulet's, and I would say LE has a very slight violet tinge that Visvamitra's blue "LCR" doesn't have. In fact the writing sample of that blue LCR looks remarkably close to the sample of "Inkyman Sapphire" that cdwaites posted. It is almost as if Noodler's mixed a batch of Inkyman and put it into bottles labelled LCR.

 

If Noodler's would make Inkyman Sapphire an actual product with semi-predictable color balance then I would buy it in a second, as I really miss the old Penman Sapphire (but not enough to pay $95 for NOS bottles.)

 

Well, I guess it is not hard to guess my favorite color from my moniker...

[BlueJ]

Addendum to the above post:

I went back to read amberleadavis's and other's threads on Inkyman Sapphire and other blue ink quests. Since I have some Noodler's Liberty's Elysium (LE) I went and compared it to some old notebooks I have that were written with original PPS. I confirmed that PPS has more green in it than LE, so I tried a mixing experiment of my own: I added Penman Emerald, of which I still have half a bottle, drop by drop to a 6 mL sample of LE. With 4 drops of PPE (about 3%) I got a blue-green hue that seemed fairly close to PPS, but something else happened: I got much more gray-black in the visual mix than I expected, looking like, say, Noodler's 54th Massachusetts. So that was pretty much a failure (though the ink is usable and I will write with it) and I see why turquoise would be a better starting point.

 

I can see that I am a bumbling newb with a lot to learn about ink. I will continue to write a lot with straight LE as I like it a lot in its own right, but it is not a close hue to Penman Sapphire, in my view.

 

I am also realizing that I should be trying to mix my own personal shade of blue, instead of trying to duplicate an unobtainable classic!

Edited February 16, 2016 by amberleadavis

[amberleadavis]

BlueJ, welcome aboard the inky train! You are not bumbling in a bad way, but bumbling like the bee that buzzes and enjoys all the color. I think of my self as the inky bumble bee. Welcome aboard.

[dcwaites]

BlueJ, welcome aboard the inky train! You are not bumbling in a bad way, but bumbling like the bee that buzzes and enjoys all the color. I think of my self as the inky bumble bee. Welcome aboard.

 

And I am but a drone...

[amberleadavis]

David you are an essential part of this hive.

[dcwaites]

David you are an essential part of this hive.

 

Buzzing away happily -- bzzzzz, bzzzzz, bzzzzz

[BlueJ]

Amber, thanks for the welcome to this corner of FPN. Next time I order from Goulet's, I'll get some samples of other blue-related Noodler's inks, and report how my mixes turn out.

 

Incidentally, I wrote LB in one place in my last post for LE, Liberty's Elysium. It seems FPN does not allow posts to be edited after someone responds.

[amberleadavis]

You should be able to modify your post for 24 hours, but after that, it is locked, but I changed it for you.

[BlueJ]

Amber, thanks for fixing my post. I take note that the edit lock is based on time, not responses.

BlueJ