Noodler’s - Tokyo Gift - Ink Review

Hello and welcome back to Duck’s Doodles DIY Inkmas advent calendar!

Out of the goodie bag I pulled Noodler’s Tokyo Gift! I loaded it up in my Nib Creaper - like yesterday it only felt right to load up my Noodler’s pen with Noodler’s ink

Let’s take a look!

Writing

This ink went down pretty middle of the road- not too wet and not too dry. I used my Noodler’s Nib Creaper which has a flex nib and I felt the flow was about what I expected.

There wasn’t any real feathering on my Rhodia paper, but when I wrote on some copy paper it feathered- there wasn’t a ton but it was noticeable

Dry Time

This ink was mostly dry at 20 seconds, and fully dry at 30. Please note on my dry time test it looks like the 20 seconds isn’t dry, but it’s because a tiny drop of water dripped and ran the ink. I super promise it was mostly dry on my Rhodia notebook at 20 seconds

Water Test

This ink isn’t water proof, nor is it advertised to me.

I actually really like the range of colors you can get from this water test, so if you’re an artist who substitutes in fountain pen inks for things, this seems like a good candidate to play around with for some pink-red shades

Color

Okay, this is supposed to be pink. This just....is not in my opinion. This ink was made specifically to emulate a cherry blossom pink but it feels closer to a cherry red.

Now, Noodler’s inks are hand crafted so it’s possible that my particular batch just was heavy on the red and other bottles will get a very pink ink.

Verdict

This ink just doesn’t “wow” me in the same way that other Noodler’s inks do. I love the idea of a cherry blossom ink, but I just don’t think that this is what I was looking for. This feels more like a candy apple red or a cherry red. Still, I can appreciate the versatility this ink can bring to artists.

Thanks for reading day 4 of Inkmas, see you tomorrow for day 5- happy writing!