Noodler's Ink Fountain Pen Bottled Ink, 3oz, Bulletproof 54th Massachusetts

Re. 54th Infantry. This ink has a very nice color on decent paper. Almost a denim blue with a hint of green/gray. It is a little wetter than I am used to. It behaves best in my Parker medium nib, but makes the lines a little broader. My Lamy with a 1.1 stub nib, has a tiny bit of nib creep, but not like some of the other Noodler's inks I've reviewed. My Waterman with a medium flex nib is not so well behaved with this ink. I am wiping it a lot. I guess it all depends on what pen and nib combo you use. I can say that it holds fast on paper in a water test. I haven't gone as far as using solvents, but under a good dose of water, it is almost as it was written. It will bleed through cheap paper a bit. In my water test, with cheapo notebook paper, the lines of the paper disappeared but the ink did not. On Rhodia, other than the water wrinkling the paper, it was as if the ink was just written. IMHO, pretty good. I'm not worried about anyone tampering with my checks.....remember those? :) I like the color and characteristics. I'll buy this again if I ever run out.

I really bought this ink because its waterproof and it have not let me down. It dries quickly. Also a very nice shade of blue. I'll be sticking to Noodler's brand for all my future fountain pen ink purchases.

So much to love about this ink! So I'll start with the actually ink itself: 1. The color is spectacular. Blue is my favorite color but not any blue will do. It is not those flashy, bright, overkill, bright, dance recital color blue but rather a dark denim, matte tinge blue. A blue that if I were to purchase this color dress, I would not have an issue matching it with other accessories. 2. What's not to like about a permanent ink in today's day and age with so much theft and deception going on. I did not know that regular pen ink could be washed away until recently which is one of the reasons I went on a search for a permanent ink. 3. Archival ink. I again did not know anything about archival quality until I started a few decades ago working on my ancestry and saw how ink could fade. 4. It is a good size bottle of ink. Will last me a while which is very important. NOW... the most exciting about this bottle of ink. It is made in good old New England! And so we get to support a fellow New Englander. So far I know for sure that my family is and always has been a true New Englander... residing in New England through many a war... including the Revolutionary War. And I will even go so far to say that even the box it came in is interesting. Not sure if the boxes are all the same but mine had cute little decorated pictures on it and had a fish. If you are a New Englander and have ever been Striped Bass fishing, you just know what I mean. Now they have forced me to have to go look up this regiment and learn more about it. And who knows, maybe I'll find one of my relatives served in it.

I am glad that I bought it. That is all I am going to say for now.

I received the item I was expecting to receive as indicated on the label. Be forewarned, Noodlers Ink fills the bottles to the very top. Before opening, place on paper with a paper towel on top to help catch absorb any spills. The did overflow when filling a fountain pen due to the displacement. The label got messed up. Ink on hands. The ink cleaned up well when I addressed it immediately. Don't care to find out what happens if I wait. The ink worked as expected. It is extremely water resistant. I have not tested the forgery resistance. I will take Noodler at its word. The ink kept up with my writing speed while using a LAMY Extra Fine Steel Nib. The black/blue color of the ink which drys to be more of a blue-grey color will allow me to sign legal documents with a fountain without the worry of my signature being washed off. FYI, some folks have started to request a color other than black when signing documents, so a distinction can be made when scanning and sending. The dry time for the ink is relatively quick. 5 seconds Rhodia. 7 seconds on generic. I washed up The ink flows well and keeps up while writing with a LAMY extra fine steel nib. For a waterproof ink, this is a good sign. I bought this ink to have something that is water resistant and more permanent than many fountain pen inks, of which 80 % or more will wash away. The color contrasts fine with Black. I recommend this ink for those wishing to use a more waterproof ink.