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Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Noodler's Blue Ghost

 

This is review #53 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:

 

Post-recording notes: Sorry for poor video / images. I did two takes - my equipment just doesn't like this ink. :(

 

Zoom is from my first attempt - the video of that wasn't readable so I did a second video. The screenshot is from the second video.

 

Cleaning: Heaven knows, I mean, unless you shine UV light on your pen, you'd never know it was ever there... OK, just kidding (I checked with a UV light): Cleaning was easy everywhere except that little part of my section where normal flushing can't seem to reach. A trip through the sonicator got rid of it, but I think a simple flush would be just fine for normal use (not doing reviews and not obsessive about getting rid of every trace).

 

And here is a screen of the final result, for those not interested in the video:
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Zoomed in photo:
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Screenshots also available on Instagram: @zilxodarap

 

Previous Review: Robert Oster African Gold.

 

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Hope you enjoy. Comments appreciated!

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Woohoo! Thanks for that. Heroic effort!

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Woohoo! Thanks for that. Heroic effort!

Gladly! (Well, glad that it's over, anyway!) And thank you!

 

Also, for anyone interested, these UV lights are insufficient or the wrong design, or for some reason not good for filming this ink. (I had one on the left and one on the right of the page.) I don't know if I needed more wattage or maybe strip lights that would cover a wider area more evenly (though that would be hard with an overhead camera) or maybe floods or what, but these just didn't work very well for filming. (One alone was fine for seeing, but didn't cover a very large area.)

 

Meanwhile, I see you adopted a new avatar - what was its name again? Something about an upset penguin, as I recall. :)

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what was its name again?  Something about an upset penguin, as I recall. :)

Koala is mad that its head got transplanted onto a penguin.

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Whatever it is that you put in the water, please stop. :P Black Lights?!! Did you put Peter Max posters too?

Add lightness and simplicate.

 

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Whatever it is that you put in the water, please stop. :P Black Lights?!! Did you put Peter Max posters too?

The water is perfectly safe. Nothing to fear. Drink deeply. Ignore the slight aftertaste. :) No, no Peter Max posters, just a couple of now-useless UV lights.

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I'll admit that I accidentally bought a 4 oz. bottle of Blue Ghost, back when Birmingham Pens still had their B&M store, (forgetting that I had an unopened 3 oz. bottle of it already... :headsmack:).

I used to use the ink for my password notebook, but that's gone walkabout. But it gets relegated to a Charlie eyedropper, just to be on the safe side.

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Now we know what sound a ghost makes.

 

Yes, I had a sample of this ink.

 

Brave review, thanks.

:lol: (Same sounds as helicopters and muffler-less cars owned by young men who think a noisy car makes them cool.)

 

The brave part was seeing my carpet under UV light! :yikes:

 

You're welcome!

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I'll admit that I accidentally bought a 4 oz. bottle of Blue Ghost, back when Birmingham Pens still had their B&M store, (forgetting that I had an unopened 3 oz. bottle of it already... :headsmack:).

I used to use the ink for my password notebook, but that's gone walkabout. But it gets relegated to a Charlie eyedropper, just to be on the safe side.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

:D Perhaps an inventory to keep with you is in order...

 

Hopefully your missing notebook was never after exposed to UV light (while someone was looking at it)... I don't think Blue Ghost is any more dangerous than any other Noodler's bulletproof ink. And as far as I could tell, I got it all out. Also, I've read that it's safe for mixing, so even if some is left over, it should be OK.

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Heroic effort both ways... My eyes are aching... :yikes:

I was afraid that I would miss an episode, of Quintus' adventures....

So, Quintus hired a ghost or ghost writer? I thought he was just about to start his adventures..... :P

 

On a more serious note, the esteemed amberleadavis uses it often to render water loving inks, water repellant..... I was planning at what time to mix it with Apache Sunset....

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Heroic effort both ways... My eyes are aching... :yikes:

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:) Thank you, and I apologize! :D This is not the ink I would recommend for writing a novel. Pretty sure that much exposure to UV lights would seriously mess up one's eyes.

 

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I was afraid that I would miss an episode, of Quintus' adventures....

So, Quintus hired a ghost or ghost writer? I thought he was just about to start his adventures..... :P

....

 

I'm sure you won't miss any - there's an easy way to search for them, after all. And perhaps not all the episodes are related in chronological order. ;)

 

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On a more serious note, the esteemed amberleadavis uses it often to render water loving inks, water repellant..... I was planning at what time to mix it with Apache Sunset....

That would be one eye-searing Sunset! :yikes: I imagine the other ink will still wash away with water, though. It would be very interesting if Blue Ghost actually made the other dye bond to paper, though.

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:) Thank you, and I apologize! :D This is not the ink I would recommend for writing a novel. Pretty sure that much exposure to UV lights would seriously mess up one's eyes.

And yet the poor ghost/ghost writer wrote one using that same ink [/size] ;)

 

I'm sure you won't miss any - there's an easy way to search for them, after all. And perhaps not all the episodes are related in chronological order. ;)

Then this is the beginning: As Quintus sat with his new apprentice [/size][/background] Lee's Ef,, he thought it would be time, to dictate his adventurous life......so that she could follow his mighty steps.....

 

That would be one eye-searing Sunset! :yikes: I imagine the other ink will still wash away with water, though. It would be very interesting if Blue Ghost actually made the other dye bond to paper, though.

The beauty is that it wouldn't change the colour..... It purportedly make it water resistance......or maybe the Blue Ghost part remains and I can read Quintus, memoire if they are washed away.... :)

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And yet the poor ghost/ghost writer wrote one using that same ink [/size] ;)

Touché.

 

Then this is the beginning: As Quintus sat with his new apprentice [/size][/background] Lee's Ef,, he thought it would be time, to dictate his adventurous life......so that she could follow his mighty steps.....

:D

 

The beauty is that it wouldn't change the colour..... It purportedly make it water resistance......or maybe the Blue Ghost part remains and I can read Quintus, memoire if they are washed away.... :)

I suspect the latter - only Blue Ghost remains.

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My sister gave me a whole bottle of this last year. Why anybody needs 3oz is beyond me. She also included a 6-pack of Jinhao Shark pens, which is the only thing I put this ink into. Now whenever I send a card or letter to anybody in her family I feel obligated to ink up shark pen and write hidden messages for my nephew. That was fun for a while. :unsure:

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My sister gave me a whole bottle of this last year. Why anybody needs 3oz is beyond me. She also included a 6-pack of Jinhao Shark pens, which is the only thing I put this ink into. Now whenever I send a card or letter to anybody in her family I feel obligated to ink up shark pen and write hidden messages for my nephew. That was fun for a while. :unsure:

 

:lol: Yes, nieces and nephews are a good target audience for this ink.

 

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:lol: Yes, nieces and nephews are a good target audience for this ink.

 

 

I filled a couple of cheap translucent Daiso-Hauser fountain pens (but I had to 'sacrifice' a couple of Nemosine converters, since these pens cannot be eyedropper-filled) with Noodler's Blue Ghost and gave them my wife's 'nieces' — daughters of a close family friend — to let them wreak havoc all over the place at home, haha, but I certainly am not going to be writing to them myself in this ink!

 

My sister gave me a whole bottle of this last year. Why anybody needs 3oz is beyond me.

 

 

The family friend told us the girls are still drawing all over the walls and their desks with it, weeks after we last saw them and gave them the gifts, and she did ask me, "So what happens when the pens run dry? Can they bring the pens back to Uncle Dill for refilling?" No, but they can have the (>95%) remainder of my bottle next time I see them.

 

I think what's left of my tiny bottle of Tramol Turritopsis ink will do me.

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Wow

That was a lot of work for that review! Always was curious on that ink, guess it would be great for someone trying to keep their diary secret :unsure:

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Wow

That was a lot of work for that review! Always was curious on that ink, guess it would be great for someone trying to keep their diary secret :unsure:

:) I think :unsure: sums up this ink quite nicely. :lol:

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