Noodler's Apache Sunset - Compact Review

October 7, 2017

October 7, 2017

So many visible shades in one ink! Definitely like a vivid sunset.

October 8, 2017

Three inks which are quite similar:

Diamine Amber

Robert Oster Peach

Stipula Calamo Zafferano

Colors and behavior are very much alike.

Also Noodler's Apache Sunset comes close, but behaves different.

September 15, 2018

Help! My bottle of Noodler's Apache Sunset came today. Very excited. ---- BUT, but! I have put it in two different pens and have gotten two different "colors!" One is somewhat like the line ---- "Tomoe River White" line ---- on the "first page" of this "site." And the other pen puts down a line, very much like the line ---- "Noodler's Apache Sunset" line ----- on the "first page" of this "site," except that the second example may ever be more "pink."

I do not ever remember getting such color variation with a bottle of ink. Help me understand what is going on! "Am I falling out of my tree?"

Thanks. I know that there are many Noodler's ink "lovers" out there, and I too have enjoyed the company's inks, but this one has be scratching my head!

Please explain this to me soon, or I may have to be forever puzzled!

C. Skinner

September 15, 2018

Probably the pens have different flow/wetness levels.

Do they have the same nib (say an F)? There are variations even if the pens/nibs are the same brand and model.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

September 16, 2018

Hi Charles!

Apache Sunset is a color with pretty extreme shading. The color goes from orange-red (Sphinx) to yellow (White), like Sunset ;-)

The swabs also the effect of different ink quantities.

This effect depends on fountain pen and nib, more ink orange-red, less ink yellow.

For me personally I like the shading, it makes your handwriting even more personal.

The pink could be possible if you look at how the color is composed. On the right side of the review you see a chromo (the vertical piece of paper). This gives an impression of how the color is composed.