NOODLER'SLuxury Brands Bottle 3 Ounce Refill Baystate, Blue (19048)

This is the BLUE other inks which they were. Vibrant, eye catching, royal blue that grabs your eyes and wrestles them to the page. Vivid is a small and helpless word when trying to describe this color.Recommended!

The infamous Noodler’s Baystate Blue is in the house.I have heard about this ink on various fountain pen websites and reddit groups, and pictures don’t do it justice. This is a bold, vibrant, stunning color of Blue. However, the general consensus about using Baystate Blue in fountain pens is as follows:1. Baystate Blue will stain any pen you put it in. Period. Yes, you can clean it with a mixture of bleach and water solution…but, honestly, if you’re going to do that each and everytime you change inks from BSB to something else, that seems like a lot of trouble. Therefore, it’s advisable to designate ONE (1) pen [a kind of sacrifice ;)] to be used for Baystate Blue. Some might even say use a “cheap pen”. A cheap pen would work if you’re just testing it out. But if you’re serious about this ink, then put it any pen you like. Just be aware that it will eventually stain that pen.2. Baystate Blue does NOT play well with other inks. If you have not thoroughly cleaned out all the ink in a pen before inking it with BSB…you will have problems. It will react to most other inks in a bad way. So either thoroughly flush out your pen before inking, or use a new pen dedicated only to BSB.The pen I have sacrificed to this Blue Ink God is a TWSBI GO 1.1 Stub (Sapphire), which I bought specifically for this ink. I have another TWSBI GO 1.1 stub (clear) currently inked with Iroshizuku yama-budo and I love the way it writes. So when I considered getting Baystate Blue (BSB), I wanted a pen that had a pretty broad nib so really show off the color, and I wanted something I knew would write well.This is an incredibly vibrant BLUE. There is no subtlety or depth to this ink. It is simply a big stunningly bold blue. No Shading. No Sheening. In a way, it feels like I’m writing with a very bright, bold blue marker, especially through a broad nib like my 1.1 stub.Writing Samples (see attached pictures):1. Baystate Blue literally GLOWS on Cosmo Air Light paper. This is probably the most vivid blue fountain pen ink I’ve ever seen and it looks absolutely beautiful on this paper.2. On 52 gsm Tomoe River Paper, BSB looks fabulous and flows nicely. However, the ghosting is intense. No bleed thru (well maybe just slightly, some dotting), but still..the color really stands out on both sides of the page.3. I really enjoyed writing with BSB on Midori MD paper. It’s a toothier paper, so you do get feedback on it (no matter how smooth your pen is) and it’s thick enough to take this ink with out any feathering or ghosting or bleed thru, and it really shows off the color.4. Rhodia 80 gsm paper, however, was a disappointment. BSB feathered a bit on this paper and that, more than anything, really annoys me. I won’t be using this ink on that paper. (Side note: I tried it on my Rhodia Webnotebook with Clairefontaine 90 gsm and it looks great on there. No feathering or bleed thru. Very nice)5. Another nice surprise was how well BSB does on conventional or cheaper paper. I have a Walmart Pen+GEAR composition notebook, which costs maybe $1 o $2 each and it looks fantastic on that paper. The color does not lose it’s vibrancy, nor does it feather or bleed thru. Solid writing experience.All in all, Baystate Blue is a phenomenal blue. It’s a stunning color profile, eye catching and bold. Love it.

Excellent ink. Unfortunately arrived with a broken lid the packaging was full of ink luckily the ink is usable but the lid is damaged. I need to either find a new bottle or find a suitable cover

Die schönste blaue Tinte die ich gesehen habe.ABER DIE FLECKEN, meine hand war ein tag lang blau

Lo adoro ad iniziare dall'odore . Il colore è il blu che cercavo , a volte ho l impressione che sia un po' spesso come fluidità, ma forse dipende dai pennini che uso.Ha una resistenza enorme, l'acqua non crea problemi e neanche l'alcool, un colore sicuro. Va maneggiato con cautela perchè rimane sulle dita e su tutto cio che tocca. Per le dita un buon sapone risolve ,sul resto dipende.Credo che ne farò una grande scorta tra lui e il nero aurora ho cio che mi serve.Coem blu ne ho provati molti altri , Parker , waterman , pelikan , nulla in confronto : bello bello bello .