Noodlers Pens and Inks

This pen, in Red Rebellion ebonite, is the second Neponset I've gotten in my second adventure with this pen. I'm glad I made the effort.

In use, it has the vaunted "velvet stroke". Writing with a very light hand, it tends somewhere between a Medium and Broad nib; writing with a somewhat heavier hand expands that to a Broad to Double Broad; and a little more approaches a Triple Broad or Coarse. That's more pressure than I'm comfortable with, though, so I'll call its MB to BB width good and resort to dip pens if I think I need more.

Excellent pen! It surprised me because it's not the most sexy pen, but it feels so good to hold and write or draw with, that it is almost my favorite pen. It feels so good unposted. The ebonite makes it a slightly heavier pen than resins. It takes some patience sometimes when extending the nib, so that no ink is spilled. I recommend it to artists who need to work with bonded inks!

First, I hate the Noodler's flex nibs, because I think they are terrible for writing WITHOUT flex. But the Wendigo model of this pen looked so cool, I bought one (and now several) and planned to change out the nib immediately.

I planned on installing a Fountain Pen Revolution nib, but decided that for $0.80, the Noodler's non-flexible F/M was worth a try. I like it! It felt rather scratchy and sharp for the first few lines, as if it wanted to snag the paper, but after a few lines, I got the nib aligned against the paper correctly and the pen wrote great.

The build quality seems pretty good. This feels like a solid pen. But I wonder if Noodler's bothers to put silicone grease on the piston. I have tried several of these, and the first time trying to move the piston by twisting the filler knob it always seems "stuck" and I am afraid something is going to break. (And that happened in one of my five Konrads). The filling assembly is supposed to be removable by twisting counterclockwise. I haven't tried that yet, but on future Konrads, I will probably remove the filling assembly and grease the piston before the first fill.

The one major downside to buying one of the multi-color acrylic designs (like the Wendigo, Chimney Afire, or Emeralds on the Sun) is that you never know what the one you get will look like. I've seen Wendigos with very little blue on them and Wendigos with an overwhelming amount of blue. You just have to take your chances there.

Love it, the color is awesome, the feel while using and how smoothly it writes. Very pleased, would buy again as a gift.

There seems to be a lot of love or hate for this pen in the fountain pen community. My experience so far has been very good, so much so that I have 5 of these pens. Each one dedicated for specific Noodler's ink. A pen with this size and girth, ebonite feed, a semi flex nib and ability to hold a ton of ink for around $20 is hell of a value.

Noodler's is doing some funky stuff when it comes to pens and this pen is one funky pen. A music nib with ebonite feed in full ebonite body for around 70 USD is a lot of pen for the money. Some folks have had issues with their music nibs but mine write well out of the box. These steel nibs don't flex like vintage gold nibs so don't expect that when you buy this pen but most definitely give good line variation. I recommend using it with inks that don't feather much and on good quality paper.

My first Noodlers fountain pen that I purchased.
It is a gift for someone that does not have one.
The pen looks and feels top shelf.
It does have a slight odor to it, nothing bad.

I am always Happy when I order Noodlers Fountain pen ink ( this time I ordered four different colors), and I am also happy with the excellent service I get from the wonderful folk at Pen Chalet. I have always gotten excellent and efficient service with every order. Thank you!

I have yet not used it but know it will please me to no end. Get this, along with the ink I received
two freebee pens/instruments I didn't expect. Now isn't that nice. Normally and rarely do I get something
for free except a cold or subpoena. What a deal. Many thanks. As to may rating, whom am I to judge. I stand by the product.

An affordable piston fountain pen, a joy to write with, taking me back to my youth when usually every student wrote with these wonderful writing utensils in elegant cursive penmanship. Ballpoints are so crude after writing with a genuine fountain pen. I'll never use a ballpoint again.

These inks a great for drawing with a dip pen. These inks dry to a nice look. Pretty resistant to other drawing inks. Just don't use them in a fountain pen. Great value for the amount of ink. Nice large glass bottle as well.

Noodler's Boston Safety Pens are completely satisfactory and easy to use, to clean and feel great to hold in the hand. It would be a great option to choose additional size nibs

Noodler's Inks can be very different from each other. Some are excellent. Some bleed and feather on everything. Some are downright dangerous to pens. Some (Baystate Blue) are referred to some pen users as radioactive waste.

I ordered Baltimore Canyon Blue. This is an excellent archival quality, bulletproof, really well behaved blue. It's not that far in color from the legendary and out of production Parker Penman Sapphire. If you want a closer approximation to Penman Sapphire, get Monteverde Horizon Blue. I can't tell the difference between Penman Sapphire and Horizon Blue.

Noodler's Baltimore Canyon Blue is a really beautiful color, not better or worse than Penman Sapphire, just ever so slightly different. However, unlike Penman Sapphire and Horizon Blue, this is really well behaved on all papers I tried including cheap copy paper. Absolutely no feathering, spread or bleeding even on cheap copy paper. It's completely bulletproof. It will not leave the page once it's dry, no partially bulletproof nonsense here. In my opinion this may be the best ink Noodler's makes. Worth every penny.

One of my true colored inks. I like the way it looks on paper and it is well behaved on less expensive paper. I am enjoying this ink a lot.

Much much better than the Triple Tail pen.

As a collector this pen fits in well with my collection. The evolution of pens, materials and styles is fascinating. This style is still unique.

One of my favorite pens - the Ahab fits my hand, is the correct weight, handles nicely and best of all, even on bad days writes easily. I have arthritis so my hands are very finicky and I needed a pen that I can use on good days as well as bad days. This pen fits that bill.

This is a very nice pen. It wrote immediately after being inked and has a very nice feel for a thin pen. It handles the shimmer ink that I got it for perfectly.

Excellent ink. Works well with Pilot Met.

The Patriot's Gunpowder and Bunker Hill Blue perform pretty much the same. The blue is brilliant, the black is deep. Drying time is surprisingly fast for the written word (as little as 8 seconds), a bit slower when smeared (as long as 25 seconds). The BSP holds about 30 drops of ink. Some has to be bled off the nib before it can be fully extended. Economical use would suggest using about 25 drops to conserve ink. It's not expensive, but why waste anything at all?

Had a problem with our original bottle (Blue Ghost, so it was immediately apparent there were floaters in the bottle), but Pen Chalet quickly and kindly replaced it for us! Noodlers inks are usually great, so it was a bit of a shock for us. Hopefully just a fluke, but I did have to knock down a star for that. It does also seem that the Blue Ghost needs to be mixed in to other inks at a pretty high percentage if you're trying to get it to fluoresce.

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This is a very nice pen at a good price, I believe. It's very nice to be able to use any ink I want in it, and it works very well. Thanks to Pen Chalet for making it available when I couldn't fine it elsewhere.