Satis, thanks for the information. I did not realize the antisemitic aspects of Tardif's politics and labeling.

When today did Brian Goulet announce he was stopping Noodler's sales? I checked his site after reading your post, but could find no reference to it.

The horns are shocking! I have no tolerance for antisemitism and other forms of ethnic/racial prejudice.

I will be buying other brands of ink when I visit Wonder Pens next month. I appreciate your giving examples of water resistant inks. I need to find substitutes for Baystate Blue, Lexington Grey, Legal Lapis, and Hunter's Green, so suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Daly



satis wrote:

Daly de Gagne wrote:
> Satis, I'm aware of Nathan Tardif's politics, about which you and I
>would agree. However, I confess that I use Noodler's inks, primarily
the
>ones which are waterproof/eternal. Much as I love fountain pens, I am
>paranoid about damaging/losing notes due to water damage

I don't know what colors you tend to use but for permanent black ink I
enthusiastically recommend Platinum Carbon Black. It's my primary black
ink, permanent, and is not hard to clean out of my pens. At $25 for 60ml
it's not cheap but to me it's about the best permanent black out there.
YouTube's AnInkGuy just reviewed it recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh9Bm_JpMU4

For a permanent dark-grey/black consider Monteverde Documental Black
(they also make a Documental Blue). For other colors you might want to
look at Platinum's fairly recent line of Iron Gall inks, which are water
resistant but not as permanent as the Carbon or Documental inks. I
recently tried Platinum Cassis Black, which is actually a nice
unsaturated Burgundy (which I successfully used for margin notes), and
it worked well with the steel nib pen I put it in, and with my usual
Rhodia and Kokuyo notepads. Nice overview here:

https://mountainofink.com/blog/platinum-cassis-black

FYI I just visited Reddit's fountain pen forum and was shocked to learn
that Tardif just put his foot in it again, this time raising such a row
among our little community that he had to apologize for ink labels which
put horns on Jewish people on his in bottles, like this one for Bernake
Red!

https://i.redd.it/rkz509kffjy81.jpg

Seems he'd also made another ink whose label featured former Federal
Reserve Chairs Volcker, Bernanke, and Greenspan, placing a halo over
Volcker’s Christian head and horns on the other two Jewish men.

If anyone is unfamiliar with the antisemitic nature of the 'horns of
Moses':

https://www.commentary.org/articles/norman-cohn/the-horns-of-mosesold-symbols-and-new-meanings/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42944790

I'd long ago given up on considering purchasing Noodlers so I hadn't
paid any attention to this until today. But apparently community
displeasure had been brewing for months and Tardif made a public apology
only after Brian Goulet announced earlier today that he's "halted" sales
of the 100+ Noodlers products he sells. (Given their personal and
professional dealings I lamentably expect sales to resume once all ink
bottles get relabeled.)