Noodler's Bay State Cape Cod disaster

[Eeyore]

I had one of my Parker Sonnets filled with Noodler's Bay State Cape Cod. I liked the vivid color, but the ink flow was way too stingy. Because I read on the bottle that you're not supposed to mix it with other inks, I took the nib/feed assembly out, and gave it a good overnight soak. After that, I discarded the very diluted ink water in the sink, and guess what? It left a "nice" large pink stain on the enamel

I have rubbed it for a long time with alcohol, and it looks like the stain is gone. But little did I know that this ink has such staining power! I guess that I was very lucky that the ink was diluted so much in the water; I would never have been able to remove a stain from the ink itself!

Lesson learned: no more Noodler's Bay State Cape Cod for me, despite the wild color.

 

[rickcharles606]

BayState Blue is the same way. It actually stained the feed on my Sailor, and it's still on my fingers from the cleanout of another pen, lol. Said cleanout took place a couple days ago too ;-)

 

[oc_in_fw]

Here is BSB

http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php/339521-Call-the-HazMat-team?highlight=Hazmat

 

[rickcharles606]

yeah, that's pretty much what I looked like a few days ago and I should have grabbed a camera...but I was angry with myself and didn't think about it, lol. I've decided that I'm not using it again, because it's stained the barrel of my Waterman Charleston near the nib.

 

[ouch]

I dropped a bottle of BSB in Toronto, and now Canada is blue.

 

[plpenn]

Sounds like something made for a Hero! I used BSB and loved it in my Hero but it did stain the tube, don't care much about that though.

 

[syngent]

I dropped a bottle of BSB in Toronto, and now Canada is blue.

just in time for the playoffs

go leafs go

 

[Isaac]

I use pure bleach on the sink to clean up BSB.

 

[syngent]

Im starting to think im the only guy around here who stops in the middle of an Ink disaster to make sure to take pictures for the assured uncoming thread

 

[rickcharles606]

Im starting to think im the only guy around here who stops in the middle of an Ink disaster to make sure to take pictures for the assured uncoming thread

Bro...I'm too worried about damage control, before SWMBO finds out. I'm all about limiting my liability ;-)

 

[the_edski]

The Leafs made the playoffs?!? I really need to stop focusing on just the 'Hawks.

just in time for the playoffs

go leafs go

 

[DunEdinRanger]

I dropped a bottle of BSB in Toronto, and now Canada is blue.

I thought they were blue because we drank Canada Dry.

 

[BigWill]

The Leafs made the playoffs?!? I really need to stop focusing on just the 'Hawks.

And the Islanders. The apocalypse is upon us.

 

[Doc4]

I dropped a bottle of BSB in Toronto, and now Canada is blue.

The Leafs made the playoffs?!? I really need to stop focusing on just the 'Hawks.

And the Islanders. The apocalypse is upon us.

 

[radaddict]

I thought they were blue because we drank Canada Dry.

Okay, how long have you been waiting to make that joke? Amodex works well cleaning up BSB.

 

[AirForceMX]

Yikes! It sure is a pretty color though

 

[The Nid Hog]

This is probably no news to most of us, but it bears repeating when you are inking up pens. I had two very well respected FP gurus tell me that they would never use Noodler's ink in pens that they valued (I don't want to quote them by name, but you can probably guess who they are). They think that they are very prone to stain, but they also have found damaged feeds in pens that they attribute to the ink. They were also suspicious of PR. Basically the advice they gave me was to only use ink made/sold by companies that make pens too. I'm sure that some of our FP veterans can sound off on that.

I don't stick precisely to that, but I only use Noodler's when I can live with the consequences of screwing up a pen. They find their way into my Plaisirs or comparable pens. I don't want to give up on them completely because some of the colors he produces are so cool. Kung Te-Cheng is a case in point. I guess my one exception is I only use PR Black Cherry in my Lamy 2000. I read an article somewhere about authors and their FP use and one of the writers interviewed was Neil Gaiman. He said that he wrote his last couple of novels with a Lamy 2000 inked with PR Black Cherry, then had them typed up. At the time, I was stuck on something that I was writing and I decided to give it a go and see if it produced some good ju-ju for me. Since then, it just seemed like a nice combination. Even so, I clean the pen out every now and then to make sure that it doesn't get all gunked up.