Pilot is one of my favorite brands since I’ve found pretty much anything with that name on it writes beautifully - whether top of their line or this great little work horse. I bought a set of these years ago and the ones I still have (they’re a really great stocking stuffer!) are going strong. Noodlers always gets a big thumbs up too! Nice video series - thanks, Chris.
I have my Petit1 loaded with heart of darkness too! I like having a basic black pocket pen that I can even fit in the farce that passes for pockets in Women’s pants. 😄
Hi Nicki! I know just what you mean! I'm loving winter because I always have some sort of zip hoodie on and I can put my pocket pen in a pocket. Jeans these days the pockets are like a really bad joke! Like getting short sheeted. I sometimes spend lots of time in thrift stores looking for an older pair of jeans with deeper pockets ... I always need to carry my small wallet in my jeans when I travel and even the expensive jeans are so poorly made nowdays ... ahhh.... don't get me going!!!!! :)
Great video! I'm loving this series. A great addition/alternative would be some combos you found that you would NOT recommend. It might save some folks some headaches. I just received my first Pilot pen (details coming to you) and surprisingly, I don't own any Noodler's inks. But my ink collection barely qualifies for the word. ;-) Sometimes I really enjoy a good, sharp black on crisp white paper.
Hi Donna! That's an interesting idea: what doesn't work! It seems I could fill a book with those combos that didn't work. I always fear I'll start to generalize ... so this series is helping me focus in on specifics which I think is good! And I could do that either way - works or doesn't work - for me anyway! When I first got into the hobby I was confused by statements from some videos and blogs that were for or against an entire ink or pen brand ... especially when I'd had a good or bad experience with a specific ink or that didn't support the general statement. :) OOOh a new pen ... I can't wait to hear about it!
I received a generous sample in a traveling ink box thing I participated in a couple years ago on a reddit thread, that was fun, but I don't remember if I've used it yet. I don't use black ink that often, but I should ink up a pen! I haven't tried the Petit 1 pen, but they're so cute. I should add one to my Jetpens cart for the next time I place an order, lol. thanks for sharing. I love this series! :)
Hi Manda - awesome! I'm glad you plan to try a Petit 1 - I really love mine! I've given several away and I think they are amazing for kids too! I had success introducing one young person to fountain pens starting with the Petit 1. :)
I just dug out my little Pilot Petit 1 to do a little journaling and am really enjoying that little guy. I haven’t used Heart of Darkness, but I do like Lexington Grey. Love your videos.
Hey pen friends ! I just love that greeting ! It’s so happy. I enjoy noodlers inks to the point ( even tho I do have other inks) my husband calls my time writing with a fountain pen “noodling” ;) loving this little video series.
Hi AB - only Diamine out numbers Noodler's in my inks and that's probably because of the 30 ml bottles Diamine sells. I really love Noodler's ink too! :) Happy writing!!!!
I haven’t tried either this pen or this ink, but I have a sample of HOD and I have used a Pilot Varsity. Time to check out the Petit 1 instead of picking up another varsity. I like the cartridge instead of a full barrel of ink. I love refilling cartridges, and it’s become my go-to filling system with cartridge converter pens. Thanks for the awesome video. This seems like a perfect combo! 🧡
Hi Casey - oh yes I think you'd love the Pilot Petit 1! The cartridge is small but if you're like me, I don't mind filling them -- I find it fun! I keep a small bottle of Heart of Darkness by the sink in my pen cleaning "tub" so that I can refill my Petit 1 anytime quickly. :)
Great combo. I always keep at least one pen inked with HOD. But now I need to find where I put my little pen like that, I haven’t used it yet...great series! Going to order some Lexington Gray very soon along with a TWSBI Go. Keep up the great videos.
The very best 13:48 minutes of my morning! Thanks, Chris! I’ve never seen the Pilot Petit 1. Your choice os Heart of Darkness is always a good one. I need to find it in a smaller bottle - but not sure it’s an option. Off to check! Hope you have a great weekend!
This is a wonderful review of the Pilot Petit 1 and the Noodlers Heart of Darkness!!! I love all of my Petit 1's and I have a few in different colors! I have been wanting to eyedropper one. And now you have nudged me that way!! Thanx Chris.
Hi Sharon - plenty of silicone grease is the key I think - I know Chrisrap52 eyedroppers his Petit 1s. The one time I tried mine I had a leak ... granted I was a newbie then. So, be careful til you know it's sealed really well. :) My Kaweco Sport eyedroppers much easier because the threads are smaller on that pen!
I do like this pen, but I use mine with the Pilot Petit apple green cartridges as I do like that green. I've been meaning to purchase a couple more of these pens, but that will now have to wait until next year due to this year being a no spend year. I've some samples of Heart of Darkness, but I don't think I've tried it out yet........if I have tried it, I don't remember doing so 😂😂😂😂
Hi Annie -- the apple green sounds pretty!!! The Heart of Darkness ink to me seems so nice and crisp. And I prefer it to the DeAtramentis Document ink even though the document ink is more permanent/waterproof.
I believe that with HOD and most other Noodlers waterproof inks you need to be sure it is only one layer. Noodler's inks need to bond to the paper cellulose and if you have more than a single layer, the second layer can no longer bond so it will run off a bit. Also, you should give the ink at least a day to complete the bonding. It's not really designed for artwork as such where it needs to hold fast quickly. This bonding is what is important to make it bulletproof, archival, water-resistant/proof, and forgery resistant.
Hi John - I still have so much to learn about using fountain pens in art. This is good info about the bonding time needed and the one layer issue. I've turned to ballpoint for my art journal (for now) and may revisit testing some other black inks later on. But I still enjoy Heart of Darkness for writing!
@@ChrisSaenz13 I don't have Heart of Darkness (yet) but I do have Borealis Black and Black Raven, a Canadian Exclusive. I love the Noodler's inks due to their pigment saturation and Nathan's philosophy of giving the customer the maximum for his money. It does make sense to use a ballpoint for art journalling since the Noodler's inks are not designed for that kind of use. You might want to try the Diamine document ink and the DeAtramentis archival inks for artwork. I've heard that they are very water-resistant and fast drying. I love the Noodler's pens too but if you are not interested in tinkering and experimenting, they may not be a great choice. I have 9 of them and they are great fun to try different things with and the fact that they all use ebonite feeds makes them well worth the effort of any tweaking needed. Even my 2 (free) Charlie's are great little pens after heat setting the nibs. I just have to remember to keep them loaded up fully and to warm them a bit before writing so the expansion of air from warming up in hand doesn't cause burping. I have more than one big splotch of black ink on my writings to remind me of this :)
@@ChrisSaenz13 I forgot to mention that if you get ink in the cap and you can't get to it in short order, filling the cap with pen flush (I use Goulet Pens flush) and a vigorous shaking after an overnight soak should do the trick on all but the Baystate inks. They require a 30/70 bleach mix to get rid of any staining.
Hi Chris! I love the Petit 1 and Rhodia paper but I haven't had the opportunity to try a Noodler's ink yet. My Petit 1 is also a work pen, but for me that means it's the one that has wild ink in it. When I got mine, I was shocked at how well it wrote and how good the build quality and design are. And like you, I refill cartridges. I'm too scared to eyedropper a pen.
Hi gadgetstop321 - I have had 2 pens that eyedropper really well: the Moonman Mini (Wancai) and the Kaweco Sport plastic one! The threads need to be nice and small I think in order for me to feel confident about the eyedropper situation since I love to carry pens in my pockets! :)
i like Noodler's inks for their permanence. One thing I really like about Heart of Darkness is the dry time. It is so fast drying--great for bullet journaling. The draw back is that I find it feathers a lot. More than that though, I don't like how much it moves with water. I think the fact that it is so dark leaves a lot of pigment-on-pigment that just moves around a lot. Noodler's Black doesn't dry as quickly or go down as black but when it gets wet at least nothing happens. This is great bc if drops of water hit H.O.D. it makes it illegible if I fail to wipe it up but with Noodler's black there's maybe a little shadow but its still plenty readable
Hi Thomas - I need to try Noodler's Black - because I know exactly what you mean about Heart of Darkness moving too much when water drops on it!!! I have a few other samples of black inks that may be more permanent for art that I will be testing out soon too. Heart of Darkness has been a great ink for note taking - it was my first black ink and may take me a lifetime to finish the bottle lol.
@@ChrisSaenz13 I'm glad I'm not the only one who notices it. I've really gotten back into fountain pens in this trying time and I just had to refill my black ink and finished a sample so I've been revisiting some ink videos. Having a hard time justifying buying anything not-essential with the circumstances but I still do really love the ink exploration lol
Thank you Chris for the video.For quick notes I tend to use a VPen / Varsity (in USA) and my travellers notepad or a piece 160 gsm copy paper cut down & the parts stapled together , i don't do food journaling the notes that i take are generally on videos I've watched so i can comment intelligently about the subject . :-) I do have a few petit 1 pens and they are nice little pens but i don't find myself using them that often. I am not someone who eyedroppers pens unless the pen can only be eyedroppered by design and i do have a number of cartridges for the pens i have but would refill them like you have once they were gone. The wick can be removed but it's a bit of a faff and i have found that flushing can clear the wick if you use a bulb syringe with some pressure but the wick is not the easiest to clean, ultrasonic cleaning can help, but if your just using black and refilling with black I'd just give it a quick quizz like you said. I wonder if there is a way to clean inside the inner cap if you get ink in there possibly again ultrasonic might work .
Hi Matthew - oh I hadn't thought about an ultrasonic cleaner for those cap/liners that get stained. It's one of the biggest irritants but if I keep up with cleaning the cap it's minimized. I'm going to do some research and see if anyone has gotten the cap liner stain issue solved! I still have one cap I saved to try and fix since the staining isn't too bad but one I threw away!
Hi Diana, Noodler's HOD is waterproof, yet some of the ink will move when you add water. De Atramentis Archival ink does not move at all. Have a look at Liz Steele, she is using it for pen& wash.
Hi Diana - Tanja is right - the ads call it waterproof and it is VERY water resistant but it will move when water is added making it not as good for wash/sketching. I have heard that Platinum Carbon Black is good for this but I'm not experienced with it! :)
Aloha Chris! Enjoying this series, especially this one since I am about ready to flush out a Pilot Petit 1 in Apricot Orange (way too light in color to be a useable color!) and put in my go to black ink: Noodler's Heart of Darkness (although I have a bottle of Pilot Take Sumi coming!) My other Pilot Petit 1 is the blue-black, which I find to be a very good blue-black ink and was hoping to find something comparable in bottle form. Any ideas since you have a vast knowledge of inks and the few I have tried are all much lighter and/or too blue in color. Thanks for the reminder about the cloth "wick" type feed for the Pilot Petit 1 and I think I will just let the Noodler's HOD "replace" the Apricot Orange in the feed instead of flushing it out as I normally do with all my fountain pens. Mahalo from Hawaii, Thomas
Hi Thomas - yes that sounds like a good idea since the Apricot Orange is so much lighter the Noodler's Heart of Darkness will overtake it quickly anyway. I just hate having to wait 3 days for the wick to dry. Maybe there's some other way to deal with it but I'm not sure how. I tend to just keep the same color family running thru separate Petit 1s. :) Hmmm I'm not sure on the blue black ... but one that does come to mind is Kaweco Midnight Blue - I like that one a lot. It's hard to get the right balance of black/blue to suit me as well so I hesitate ....another one I personally like is J. Herbin Bleu des Profondeurs. :)
Aloha Chris! As always, thanks for the personal reply. I just made the switch and now I have a pen that I can actually use! It will replace my other Pilot Petit1 with OEM blue-black cartridge that I keep in my pocket as an EDC, so now I can use that for my "around the house" writing! Thanks for the warning about the ink transferring from the section to the seal in the cap as I noticed some ink in my EDC blue-black pen! Thanks also for the recommendations. I will surely consider one or both the next time I order. Thanks once again and have a wonderful evening. Mahalo, Thomas
Thanks for your recommendation. I believe I looked at a review or two of the "standard" Pilot blue-black, but thought it was too blue for my taste. Same for Pilot Iroshizuku Shin Kai, but hard to tell until I actually try it in my pens ....
Hi Chris, this is a great series🤗Have you ever used HOD in a Lamy Safari with a fine nib? I am looking to buy a black ink for a friend. I have read that some Noodler's inks have a very unpleasant odour, like Rachmaninoff 😕. How do you find HOD in that regard?
Hi Tanja -- I don't notice any odor in my Noodler's Heart of Darkness. I have tried it in my Lamy Safari F nib and I would just say that the Lamy F writes a little wetter than the Pilot Petit 1 F so I prefer the Petit 1 for the HOD ink. That way I can hop onto cheaper paper like grocery lists and my food journal without any trouble. :)
i love my pilot pitet 1 i keep it in my backpack so i i need to write with and my one fountain pen doesnt want to be cooperative the pitet 1 is for sure cooperative.. ive been meaning to go to the 99 to buy some grid paper i need to practice my lettering with better defigned boxes cause the dot grid is great but maybe im missing something the width of my letters is all wonkey
@@anniescolourfullife i totally spaced out and forgot i had that thank you for that reminder i could have sworn it was just lined but im glad i rediscovered tht i had it now i can have another sheet to do calligraphy and tests with
Pilot is one of my favorite brands since I’ve found pretty much anything with that name on it writes beautifully - whether top of their line or this great little work horse. I bought a set of these years ago and the ones I still have (they’re a really great stocking stuffer!) are going strong. Noodlers always gets a big thumbs up too! Nice video series - thanks, Chris.
Hi Sue! This is so true - they make quality pens! I love how comfortable these Petit 1s are in the hand even more longer writing sessions!
I have my Petit1 loaded with heart of darkness too! I like having a basic black pocket pen that I can even fit in the farce that passes for pockets in Women’s pants. 😄
Nicki Hill couldn’t agree more on the “lady pockets”!
Hi Nicki! I know just what you mean! I'm loving winter because I always have some sort of zip hoodie on and I can put my pocket pen in a pocket. Jeans these days the pockets are like a really bad joke! Like getting short sheeted. I sometimes spend lots of time in thrift stores looking for an older pair of jeans with deeper pockets ... I always need to carry my small wallet in my jeans when I travel and even the expensive jeans are so poorly made nowdays ... ahhh.... don't get me going!!!!! :)
Great video! I'm loving this series. A great addition/alternative would be some combos you found that you would NOT recommend. It might save some folks some headaches. I just received my first Pilot pen (details coming to you) and surprisingly, I don't own any Noodler's inks. But my ink collection barely qualifies for the word. ;-) Sometimes I really enjoy a good, sharp black on crisp white paper.
Hi Donna! That's an interesting idea: what doesn't work! It seems I could fill a book with those combos that didn't work. I always fear I'll start to generalize ... so this series is helping me focus in on specifics which I think is good! And I could do that either way - works or doesn't work - for me anyway! When I first got into the hobby I was confused by statements from some videos and blogs that were for or against an entire ink or pen brand ... especially when I'd had a good or bad experience with a specific ink or that didn't support the general statement. :) OOOh a new pen ... I can't wait to hear about it!
I received a generous sample in a traveling ink box thing I participated in a couple years ago on a reddit thread, that was fun, but I don't remember if I've used it yet. I don't use black ink that often, but I should ink up a pen! I haven't tried the Petit 1 pen, but they're so cute. I should add one to my Jetpens cart for the next time I place an order, lol. thanks for sharing. I love this series! :)
Hi Manda - awesome! I'm glad you plan to try a Petit 1 - I really love mine! I've given several away and I think they are amazing for kids too! I had success introducing one young person to fountain pens starting with the Petit 1. :)
I just dug out my little Pilot Petit 1 to do a little journaling and am really enjoying that little guy. I haven’t used Heart of Darkness, but I do like Lexington Grey. Love your videos.
Hi Cheryl - awesome! I also have a red one inked all the time and a blue one with Diamine Aqua Lagoon! :)
Hey pen friends ! I just love that greeting ! It’s so happy. I enjoy noodlers inks to the point ( even tho I do have other inks) my husband calls my time writing with a fountain pen “noodling” ;) loving this little video series.
Hi AB - only Diamine out numbers Noodler's in my inks and that's probably because of the 30 ml bottles Diamine sells. I really love Noodler's ink too! :) Happy writing!!!!
I haven’t tried either this pen or this ink, but I have a sample of HOD and I have used a Pilot Varsity. Time to check out the Petit 1 instead of picking up another varsity. I like the cartridge instead of a full barrel of ink. I love refilling cartridges, and it’s become my go-to filling system with cartridge converter pens. Thanks for the awesome video. This seems like a perfect combo! 🧡
Hi Casey - oh yes I think you'd love the Pilot Petit 1! The cartridge is small but if you're like me, I don't mind filling them -- I find it fun! I keep a small bottle of Heart of Darkness by the sink in my pen cleaning "tub" so that I can refill my Petit 1 anytime quickly. :)
Chris Saenz I find it fun also! I guess there really isn’t anything that I don’t enjoy about the fountain pen hobby. 😹🧡
Great combo. I always keep at least one pen inked with HOD. But now I need to find where I put my little pen like that, I haven’t used it yet...great series! Going to order some Lexington Gray very soon along with a TWSBI Go. Keep up the great videos.
Hi!!!! Oh you'll love the Petit 1 - they are so comfortable to write with when posted it's truly a fun pen!!!! :)
The very best 13:48 minutes of my morning! Thanks, Chris! I’ve never seen the Pilot Petit 1. Your choice os Heart of Darkness is always a good one. I need to find it in a smaller bottle - but not sure it’s an option. Off to check! Hope you have a great weekend!
Hi Sandy - thank you - happy weekend to you!!!
This is a wonderful review of the Pilot Petit 1 and the Noodlers Heart of Darkness!!! I love all of my Petit 1's and I have a few in different colors! I have been wanting to eyedropper one. And now you have nudged me that way!! Thanx Chris.
Hi Sharon - plenty of silicone grease is the key I think - I know Chrisrap52 eyedroppers his Petit 1s. The one time I tried mine I had a leak ... granted I was a newbie then. So, be careful til you know it's sealed really well. :) My Kaweco Sport eyedroppers much easier because the threads are smaller on that pen!
Nice combination.
Thanks Janis!
I do like this pen, but I use mine with the Pilot Petit apple green cartridges as I do like that green. I've been meaning to purchase a couple more of these pens, but that will now have to wait until next year due to this year being a no spend year. I've some samples of Heart of Darkness, but I don't think I've tried it out yet........if I have tried it, I don't remember doing so 😂😂😂😂
Hi Annie -- the apple green sounds pretty!!! The Heart of Darkness ink to me seems so nice and crisp. And I prefer it to the DeAtramentis Document ink even though the document ink is more permanent/waterproof.
I believe that with HOD and most other Noodlers waterproof inks you need to be sure it is only one layer. Noodler's inks need to bond to the paper cellulose and if you have more than a single layer, the second layer can no longer bond so it will run off a bit. Also, you should give the ink at least a day to complete the bonding. It's not really designed for artwork as such where it needs to hold fast quickly. This bonding is what is important to make it bulletproof, archival, water-resistant/proof, and forgery resistant.
Hi John - I still have so much to learn about using fountain pens in art. This is good info about the bonding time needed and the one layer issue. I've turned to ballpoint for my art journal (for now) and may revisit testing some other black inks later on. But I still enjoy Heart of Darkness for writing!
@@ChrisSaenz13 I don't have Heart of Darkness (yet) but I do have Borealis Black and Black Raven, a Canadian Exclusive. I love the Noodler's inks due to their pigment saturation and Nathan's philosophy of giving the customer the maximum for his money. It does make sense to use a ballpoint for art journalling since the Noodler's inks are not designed for that kind of use. You might want to try the Diamine document ink and the DeAtramentis archival inks for artwork. I've heard that they are very water-resistant and fast drying.
I love the Noodler's pens too but if you are not interested in tinkering and experimenting, they may not be a great choice. I have 9 of them and they are great fun to try different things with and the fact that they all use ebonite feeds makes them well worth the effort of any tweaking needed. Even my 2 (free) Charlie's are great little pens after heat setting the nibs. I just have to remember to keep them loaded up fully and to warm them a bit before writing so the expansion of air from warming up in hand doesn't cause burping. I have more than one big splotch of black ink on my writings to remind me of this :)
@@ChrisSaenz13 I forgot to mention that if you get ink in the cap and you can't get to it in short order, filling the cap with pen flush (I use Goulet Pens flush) and a vigorous shaking after an overnight soak should do the trick on all but the Baystate inks. They require a 30/70 bleach mix to get rid of any staining.
Hi Chris! I love the Petit 1 and Rhodia paper but I haven't had the opportunity to try a Noodler's ink yet. My Petit 1 is also a work pen, but for me that means it's the one that has wild ink in it. When I got mine, I was shocked at how well it wrote and how good the build quality and design are. And like you, I refill cartridges. I'm too scared to eyedropper a pen.
Hi gadgetstop321 - I have had 2 pens that eyedropper really well: the Moonman Mini (Wancai) and the Kaweco Sport plastic one! The threads need to be nice and small I think in order for me to feel confident about the eyedropper situation since I love to carry pens in my pockets! :)
i like Noodler's inks for their permanence. One thing I really like about Heart of Darkness is the dry time. It is so fast drying--great for bullet journaling. The draw back is that I find it feathers a lot. More than that though, I don't like how much it moves with water. I think the fact that it is so dark leaves a lot of pigment-on-pigment that just moves around a lot. Noodler's Black doesn't dry as quickly or go down as black but when it gets wet at least nothing happens. This is great bc if drops of water hit H.O.D. it makes it illegible if I fail to wipe it up but with Noodler's black there's maybe a little shadow but its still plenty readable
Hi Thomas - I need to try Noodler's Black - because I know exactly what you mean about Heart of Darkness moving too much when water drops on it!!! I have a few other samples of black inks that may be more permanent for art that I will be testing out soon too. Heart of Darkness has been a great ink for note taking - it was my first black ink and may take me a lifetime to finish the bottle lol.
@@ChrisSaenz13 I'm glad I'm not the only one who notices it. I've really gotten back into fountain pens in this trying time and I just had to refill my black ink and finished a sample so I've been revisiting some ink videos. Having a hard time justifying buying anything not-essential with the circumstances but I still do really love the ink exploration lol
Thank you Chris for the video.For quick notes I tend to use a VPen / Varsity (in USA) and my travellers notepad or a piece 160 gsm copy paper cut down & the parts stapled together , i don't do food journaling the notes that i take are generally on videos I've watched so i can comment intelligently about the subject . :-)
I do have a few petit 1 pens and they are nice little pens but i don't find myself using them that often.
I am not someone who eyedroppers pens unless the pen can only be eyedroppered by design and i do have a number of cartridges for the pens i have but would refill them like you have once they were gone.
The wick can be removed but it's a bit of a faff and i have found that flushing can clear the wick if you use a bulb syringe with some pressure but the wick is not the easiest to clean, ultrasonic cleaning can help, but if your just using black and refilling with black I'd just give it a quick quizz like you said.
I wonder if there is a way to clean inside the inner cap if you get ink in there possibly again ultrasonic might work .
Hi Matthew - oh I hadn't thought about an ultrasonic cleaner for those cap/liners that get stained. It's one of the biggest irritants but if I keep up with cleaning the cap it's minimized.
I'm going to do some research and see if anyone has gotten the cap liner stain issue solved! I still have one cap I saved to try and fix since the staining isn't too bad but one I threw away!
@@ChrisSaenz13 Yeah i bet someone has figured out the cap issue I'll be surprised if they haven't.
I am new to the fountain pen thing. I have gotten in to line and wash sketching so I was wondering if the Heart of Darkness waterproof?
Hi Diana, Noodler's HOD is waterproof, yet some of the ink will move when you add water. De Atramentis Archival ink does not move at all. Have a look at Liz Steele, she is using it for pen& wash.
@@tanjablume6343 Thank you so much, I am using De Atramentis , now looking for other colors that are waterproof, thanks again
Hi Diana - Tanja is right - the ads call it waterproof and it is VERY water resistant but it will move when water is added making it not as good for wash/sketching. I have heard that Platinum Carbon Black is good for this but I'm not experienced with it! :)
@@dianacolt8104 Excellent, you're welcome👩🎨
@@ChrisSaenz13 Thank you so much I am enjoying your channel
Aloha Chris! Enjoying this series, especially this one since I am about ready to flush out a Pilot Petit 1 in Apricot Orange (way too light in color to be a useable color!) and put in my go to black ink: Noodler's Heart of Darkness (although I have a bottle of Pilot Take Sumi coming!) My other Pilot Petit 1 is the blue-black, which I find to be a very good blue-black ink and was hoping to find something comparable in bottle form. Any ideas since you have a vast knowledge of inks and the few I have tried are all much lighter and/or too blue in color. Thanks for the reminder about the cloth "wick" type feed for the Pilot Petit 1 and I think I will just let the Noodler's HOD "replace" the Apricot Orange in the feed instead of flushing it out as I normally do with all my fountain pens. Mahalo from Hawaii, Thomas
Hi Thomas - yes that sounds like a good idea since the Apricot Orange is so much lighter the Noodler's Heart of Darkness will overtake it quickly anyway. I just hate having to wait 3 days for the wick to dry. Maybe there's some other way to deal with it but I'm not sure how. I tend to just keep the same color family running thru separate Petit 1s. :) Hmmm I'm not sure on the blue black ... but one that does come to mind is Kaweco Midnight Blue - I like that one a lot. It's hard to get the right balance of black/blue to suit me as well so I hesitate ....another one I personally like is J. Herbin Bleu des Profondeurs. :)
Aloha Chris! As always, thanks for the personal reply. I just made the switch and now I have a pen that I can actually use! It will replace my other Pilot Petit1 with OEM blue-black cartridge that I keep in my pocket as an EDC, so now I can use that for my "around the house" writing! Thanks for the warning about the ink transferring from the section to the seal in the cap as I noticed some ink in my EDC blue-black pen! Thanks also for the recommendations. I will surely consider one or both the next time I order. Thanks once again and have a wonderful evening. Mahalo, Thomas
Hello. I find the Pilot Blue Black ink to be a really solid ink. Behaves very well and good "traditional" color.
Thanks for your recommendation. I believe I looked at a review or two of the "standard" Pilot blue-black, but thought it was too blue for my taste. Same for Pilot Iroshizuku Shin Kai, but hard to tell until I actually try it in my pens ....
Hi Chris, this is a great series🤗Have you ever used HOD in
a Lamy Safari with a fine nib?
I am looking to buy a black ink
for a friend. I have read that some Noodler's inks have a very unpleasant odour, like
Rachmaninoff 😕. How do you find HOD in that regard?
Hi Tanja -- I don't notice any odor in my Noodler's Heart of Darkness. I have tried it in my Lamy Safari F nib and I would just say that the Lamy F writes a little wetter than the Pilot Petit 1 F so I prefer the Petit 1 for the HOD ink. That way I can hop onto cheaper paper like grocery lists and my food journal without any trouble. :)
@@ChrisSaenz13 Thanks a lot Chris, that's really helpful!🤗
Does Noodler’s heart of darkness bleed through Leuchtturm? I love your combo videos.
Hi Charmi - in most of my pens = yes!
i love my pilot pitet 1 i keep it in my backpack so i i need to write with and my one fountain pen doesnt want to be cooperative the pitet 1 is for sure cooperative.. ive been meaning to go to the 99 to buy some grid paper i need to practice my lettering with better defigned boxes cause the dot grid is great but maybe im missing something the width of my letters is all wonkey
Marilyn, I find that the Lamy notebook (like the one that I sent you) is great for practising lettering to get them consistent in size ☺️
Hi Marilyn - they are sure great little pens! :)
@@anniescolourfullife i totally spaced out and forgot i had that thank you for that reminder i could have sworn it was just lined but im glad i rediscovered tht i had it now i can have another sheet to do calligraphy and tests with
Good stuff. I've been meaning to try this ink for a while but put it off, this video is the nudge I needed.
It's one of my favorite inks! :)