Holy Cow - New Noodler's pen

[Silverbreeze]

The Neponset colors were selling out at Goulet faster then I could complete an order. Finally made it thorough with a basic black. Did anyone else make off with one?

[KBeezie]

I'm waiting for general reviews before I even consider it. The main reason I still think the Noodler's pens are a decent deal at $20 or less is because even as a tinkerer pen they're not too bad priced, but at $75, I don't want to have to tinker with it.

[Silverbreeze]

I'm waiting for general reviews before I even consider it. The main reason I still think the Noodler's pens are a decent deal at $20 or less is because even as a tinkerer pen they're not too bad priced, but at $75, I don't want to have to tinker with it.

Makes sense

[moynihan]

Got mine today. Ordered from Anderson Pen. Got my pre-arraigned In Stock notice about 12 hours before the one from Goulets. Sold out very fast at both sites. Got the green one. Flushed with water then pen flush the water, prior to inking. Writes (diamine ancient copper) very wet and smooth. Flex is easier and greater than other non-vintage flex i have (Kontad Ebonite and Ahab). I was disappointed enough with those two that they now have Goulet nibs.
So, will see how it does. If, after sitting with its nib up overnight, and writes in a.m. on first stroke, that will be cool.

[Silverbreeze]

Got mine today. Ordered from Anderson Pen. Got my pre-arraigned In Stock notice about 12 hours before the one from Goulets. Sold out very fast at both sites. Got the green one. Flushed with water then pen flush the water, prior to inking. Writes (diamine ancient copper) very wet and smooth. Flex is easier and greater than other non-vintage flex i have (Kontad Ebonite and Ahab). I was disappointed enough with those two that they now have Goulet nibs.
So, will see how it does. If, after sitting with its nib up overnight, and writes in a.m. on first stroke, that will be cool.

Update us if it does

[moynihan]

Update us if it does

Will do

[Mags]

Hoping this is the quality leap that Noodlers needed.

[moynihan]

Couple more points re mine.
I have compared it sizewise to my MB 149. It is slightly thinner than the 149, but a tad longer when posted or capped. It appears to be the same length un-posted.

In the various pre-release videos, the nib size was stated as a fine-medium, un-flexed. Mine with, diamine ancient copper ink is really wet. with light touch no pressure, it behaves like a medium. With a heavy hand, but not trying to flex, it is a wet broad.

When flexed, mine lays down alot of ink. It also, so far flexs for much longer than an Ahab without railroading.
Mine, Flexing slow, can cause bleed through on that HP 32 pound paper folks on the forum seem to like , but it does not spread/feather on it. I wonder if there is sample to sample variation in point size? That will be hard to judge given the variety of hands, inks, etc.

Like i wrote above, i will see how it starts up after a night of being stored nib up. So far, i am impressed.

[moynihan]

there was start up on first stroke this a.m.

[reprieve]

Thanks for the report, moynihan.

I'm looking forward to receiving mine. I ordered the chestnut ebonite from Anderson Pens. USPS says it's out for delivery today! Now to decide which ink to use first.

[Mags]

Moynihan this is promising user feedback. Is there a nib sweet spot or its a round nib and you can hold the nib at various angles and it's smooth writing?

[Waski_the_Squirrel]

I'm glad to hear people are liking it. I got one of the prototypes. I enjoy writing with it. It has good flex, it writes well, doesn't skip, and its comfortable to hold.

But, I now know I wouldn't buy it. It's not a criticism of the pen. It's more that I realized that I don't have a regular use for the massive amounts of flex the pen can do. It does them well, but I won't use them very often.

[manoeuver]

The Andersons brought a Red Ripple and a Black one to Ohio for me.

I like the pens, I inked up the red one. No trouble with flow or skipping.

My only criticism so far is the dullness of the finish. I may spend a little time polishing mine.

[Neo]

The Andersons brought a Red Ripple and a Black one to Ohio for me.

I like the pens, I inked up the red one. No trouble with flow or skipping.

My only criticism so far is the dullness of the finish. I may spend a little time polishing mine.

How can it be polished?

[reprieve]

I'm impressed with how mine writes thus far. I gave it a quick flush with a bit of water and then inked it up with R&K Alt Goldgrün. The music nib is incredibly wet. In my very unscientific estimation, the nib flexes from medium to triple broad, maybe even a bit wider. It's got some impressive line variation. No skips or hard starts. It's smooth. I haven't had to make any adjustments. It writes well out of the box.

The Neponset is a large pen. I like the shape. It's well-balanced and relatively light. The filling system is efficient and appears to hold a lot of ink (which is great--as wet as this pen is, it will eat up ink!).

I do not like the chestnut ebonite. It is a very dull, muddy brown. I was expecting a richer reddish brown color. The ebonite on my pen has several tiny pockmarks as well. They aren't noticeable unless you look very closely but I can feel them whenever I hold the pen.

I'm hoping that the Neponset will be released in some punchy acrylics. I like it enough that I would buy another one in a more appealing color.

[gbryal]

I got my black Neponset today. I inked it up with Apache Sunset, because I wanted to see the shading and pooling of the ink. I wasn't disappointed, it came out looking much like demonstrations have shown already.

The pen itself as other have noted was dull with what I'd call polishing scratches; like if you polished with progressively finer abrasives but didn't get down far enough. I think it will wear smooth from use.

The piston was sort of cloudy looking also, sort of the yellowed look of old plastic. Now that ink is in it I can't tell if it's still that way. Not bothered by it but I was expecting glass-clear plastic.

It writes well, and within F-B it can be varied without much pressure, and I got about a 2mm thick line when pressing as hard as I was comfortable with. I got it to railroad a little, but it came back from it.

With 3 tines, I am at a loss concerning alignment: whether mine is aligned or how I could align it if it wasn't (it writes well enough so I don't need to adjust it, but just curious). I think the nib is so springy it wouldn't "remember" any adjustment well anyway. The tines don't look like I expected: three side-by-side. Instead, the middle tine sort of sits above the two side ones in sort of a triangle, just at the very end.

Once I am done playing with the shading it's getting Bulletproof Black and I intend to carry it for a while and see what becomes of it.

[Silverbreeze]

I am using mine for addressing
I think I may like the Hebrew Stub on my Karas INK more. But that will take use to confirm

[TheRealScubaSteve]

The piston was sort of cloudy looking also, sort of the yellowed look of old plastic. Now that ink is in it I can't tell if it's still that way. Not bothered by it but I was expecting glass-clear plastic.

Both my Ahab and Konrad were like that too. I guess that's just Noodler's. Perhaps a bit more disappointing on a pen approaching $100, though.

[gbryal]

One thing I really like is the huge piston. Besides holding a lot of ink, it takes advantage of the pen's size; it is of the type that is pulled up, syringe style, and remains up while in the pen. This simple action combined with the size seems to really help with cleaning the pen; I just changed inks and it was very quick. I am not sure the piston is removable, haven't tried that.

One thing I don't know the purpose of; the tube that serves as the piston's pump also fills with ink, which is sort of cool.

[Silverbreeze]

It should be. Mine's full but I am sure it's like the Ahab.
I am pretty sure you can ED convert this pen.

Without the tube the upper chamber/syringe plunger doesn't fill.