on saleNoodler's 54th Massachusetts - Ink Sample

Very smooth ink for me in my LAMY Safari, with a fine nib. I like it as a day to day ink.

Good flow... very wet; some nib creep. Works well with western medium and Chinese EF nibs. Very water resistant, within a minute. Seemed to darken slightly over a few days, but not like standard blue-black. Would be good for addressing packages and letters. Don't know if easy to clean out of pens, don't get it on clothes.

I purchased the 54th Massachusetts because it's my home state. :-) I do love the color, but the ink is too wet or too heavy. Not sure what to call it. I keep using it nonetheless. I use a TWSBI with a medium nib. This ink is the only one that seeps onto the nib. Doesn't drip, but there's always a tinge of ink on the nib even though I wipe it off, it comes right back. I like a clean nib. I do like the ink when writing on cheaper paper rather than the very smooth paper pads Goulet sells. Those very smooth and more expensive paper pads are super fine to use, but I find writing on very smooth paper doesn't bode well with my penmanship as it's too slick of a surface and the ink doesn't dry fast enough. Cheaper paper is fine for me. Just a bit of ghosting with this ink. My favorite paper pad is a steno pad I got on Amazon. The paper is thick. This ink is very nice writing on the steno paper. Not much ghosting. Smooth writing and my penmanship is better! :-) The inks I bought before, like the DeAtramentis, do not seep onto the nib. I probably won't buy the 54th again because of the seeping on the nib issue. But it dries very quickly on cheap paper and is waterproof as far as I can tell. Can someone please tell me why this 54th ink seeps onto the nib of my TWSBI?

54th Massachusetts is just what i've been looking for. Great color and it dries fast on those crappy receipts at pretty much everywhere

Love this ink. The color is great shade of blue/black. Worth the price. Will purchase again