on saleNoodler's Bad Belted Kingfisher - 3oz Bottled Ink

Pretty good. The colour is magnificent! However, there was some bleed-through, even though I was using a good quality paper (Rhodia). I will keep using this ink and enjoying it, but I will only use it on a very high quality paper.

Bad Belted Kingfisher is great ink for several reasons, mainly for all those previously stated by the 100+ positive reviews here. Thus, I'm not going to reiterate their points but instead report my findings on an amateur test I did on Noodler's Bulletproof claims. I will say that BBK is my personal favorite blue ink. I use it in TWSBI Eco's all the time, and it works nicely. Like many of these inks, it does not play well with cheap paper though�being highly absorbent and readily feathering on and bleeding through average copy paper and in most (but not all) cheap notebooks. THE TEST:Several Noodler's inks were tested, and Bad Belted Kingfisher was among them. Each sample had the same writing on a piece of paper "Quick brown fox" and some simple lines and shaded blocks. Also, each sample was half-exposed; one side covered with an aluminum foil shield attached with gentle masking tape, and left the other half open to the elements. Once tacked to a board and left facing the sun (south) toward the ocean, the test began on a warm Monday morning.+ For two days the summer sun scorched it.+ Then the high humidity of the briny sea air got to it.+ Next, a gentle rain fell on it.+ Stiff breezes abraded it. + Finally, another day of 80�F hot sun baked it.After a total of five days in the elements, Bad Belted Kingfisher remained. At sunset on the third day, the sun had done very little to it. The rain was the one thing which really got to it�desaturating it entirely into a light gray. According to this test, technically their Noodler's claims are valid. Although the sample was very faded and gray, it was still there; the lines were sharp and my writing was perfectly legible. It goes without saying that you're not going to do this with your prized writings or artwork. Testing Noodler's claims of resistance to all sorts of things was my motivation to put it through the wringer�that and because I'm a geek. Essentially I mimicked the scenario of a page that accidentally sat outdoors for a long while, or a flyer posted outdoors. Unfortunately, after searching for the last hour, I do not know what happened to the photos or the samples, so you'll have to take my word for it. Maybe this coming summer I'll do the same test, refine it more, and add more inks�and of course remember to save everything.

This is a great ink! Super rich hue! It's just the shade of blue ( a sort of navy turquoise) I was looking for. Noodlers never disappoints. Not too wet or dry. I never have flow problems, or problems with it drying up and clogging the nib between uses, hardly any smearing.

A wonderful blue. It does not stain my converter. It flows wet. I love the shade. It is not a bright blue but more of a dark blue just bordering on Navy Blue.

It is a very nice black blue ink, with the bulletproof features of some of Noodler's inks. Is my staple blue black ink.