Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Noodler's Apache Sunset
This is review #255 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:
Post-recording notes: I know this ink is a shade-monster, but not from this fine a nib, which is the reason I didn't rate it high in shading. If you want to see this ink in all its glory, you need a larger, dry-ish nib. An Ink Guy is the one and only person I've seen rate this as having a fast dry time. That rating is true on absorbent paper (for me), but on FP friendly paper like Rhodia, basically, the ink doesn't dry, so keep a blotting page in your notebooks and just use that.
Cleaning was quick and easy with plain water, but may need an extra flush or two because the dye is pretty concentrated. The microscope slide was boring as can be, just solid orange/yellow - perhaps because it never dried...
NOTE: This ink was renamed to "Southwest Sunset".
Zoomed in photo (The image exaggerates the shading a lot. Also, the color I see is like the darker colors from the image - the lighter colors there aren't on the paper - to my eyes.)
Screenshot (Text is a little too dark, but the dry-time smear is closer to what I see.)
Scan of Completed Review (The text is probably a little too light, but mostly, the smear for the dry time should be much yellower. Otherwise, I think this is the closest to the actual color.)
Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (The mini microscope camera didn't like this ink. It's not quite as fuzzy as the absorbent paper part suggests. The ink is a little darker in real life.)
Line width (The "I" in "Ink" in "Extra Fine Nib Ink Review". Magnification is 100x. The grid is 100x100µm. The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each. The line width for this ink is roughly 284µm. With 255 inks measured, the average line width is 295µm.)
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