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Nice review. Does anyone have a Heart of Darkness/Old Manhattan Black comparison?

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I have been using HOD extensively for the past few weeks, and I can honestly say I have not seen any traces of feathering on any of the papers that I have used, and it has been used in my Pelikan IB and Visconti Stub which are superbly wet.

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The horror! The horror!

I wanted a black ink, and for my sins, they gave me one

When teaching writing, make sure your students don't learn to hate to write.

Primum non nocere

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I just received a bottle of HOD and its terrible! Its like someone diluted the ink, it writes dark grey, nothing like the sample seen above. I flushed the pen several times, no better results. It also came with a free Noodler's pen, all I can say is, its worth what i paid for it...

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I just received a bottle of HOD and its terrible! Its like someone diluted the ink, it writes dark grey, nothing like the sample seen above. I flushed the pen several times, no better results. It also came with a free Noodler's pen, all I can say is, its worth what i paid for it...

 

What paper are you using what pen and nib? Need the full story to get the picture...

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I just received a bottle of HOD and its terrible! Its like someone diluted the ink, it writes dark grey, nothing like the sample seen above. I flushed the pen several times, no better results. It also came with a free Noodler's pen, all I can say is, its worth what i paid for it...

 

What paper are you using what pen and nib? Need the full story to get the picture...

 

At first I loaded it into the free Noodler's pen that came with it, which I thought first to be the culprit. But then I loaded it into a Lamy Safari with a fine nib and got the same results.

 

The paper was standard 20lb copy paper which easily holds any of the other Noodle's inks I have, which include:

 

Forest Green

Bulletproof Black

Red-Black (my new fav)

Mauve

Tiananmen Red

American Eeel Blue

Blue Ghost

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I just received a bottle of HOD and its terrible! Its like someone diluted the ink, it writes dark grey, nothing like the sample seen above.

 

My suggestion. . . Shake up the bottle. Shake it thoroughly for about a minute, as if it were a can of spray paint. Some of the "bulletproof" inks need this from time to time.

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I am not a fan of black ink this is a black I would use.

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TrowelTalk NOS (New Old Stock)

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I just received a bottle of HOD and its terrible! Its like someone diluted the ink, it writes dark grey, nothing like the sample seen above.

 

My suggestion. . . Shake up the bottle. Shake it thoroughly for about a minute, as if it were a can of spray paint. Some of the "bulletproof" inks need this from time to time.

 

That's pretty good advice, I can't believe I didn't even think of it; probably because I've never had a problem using ink right out of a new bottle. Dah... :headsmack:

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Not liking it so much - nib creep and feathering. Happily, I paid only for a sample.

 

I'll be sticking with my favorite standard Bulletproof Black. Great in my Namiki Falcon and Phileas with a 0.7 CI nib.

It is easier to stay out than get out. - Mark Twain

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