Noodler's General of the Armies

Review of Noodler's General of the Armies fountain pen ink using a Pilot Penmanship EF nib.

Chapters:
00:00 Swatch color comparison
00:05 Zoom (microscope) photo
00:10 Line Width
00:15 Written review
00:31 Dry Time
00:49 Writing Sample
02:14 Subjective Analysis
02:46 Fluorescence
03:12 Zoom of absorbent paper
03:25 Water test
04:24 Quote & Writing Prompt
04:54 Close-up of completed review
05:06 Scan of completed review
05:11 End screen, links to channel and previous review

Post-recording notes: This is a sort of washed out army green. It leans strongly blue. Per instructions, I shook the life out of it before filling... :) Had flow problems on day 4 while doing a logic problem. After cleaning dried ink from between the tines, flow was much wetter and the ink darker and greener, so watch out for fast drying on the nib.

I was wrong in the video about dry time - looking under the microscope, the smear I thought I saw on 1:40 was an illusion. I'm saying 1:25 is the dry time (or 85 seconds). Dry time seemed almost instant on other papers, FWIW.

Cleaning was surprisingly easy, though it did take some extra effort. The ink wanted to cling to the underside of the nib and to the glass slide, but came off the grip section easily enough. Don't ask me to explain it.

The microscope slide was boring: blue, green, and yellow (green could have been where the other two colors didn't separate, I don't know); and gritty grey, like fine sand, that's common to pigmented inks.

According to Noodler's website, it is: bulletproof, eternal, partially fluorescent (I was able to see this, but attempts to capture it didn't really work - you can sort of see it in the video - photos didn't work at all).

Zoomed in photo (Pretty close except in real life, the ink looks like one solid, smooth color, not blotchy like the image.)
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Screenshot (Text is a little too dark.)
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Scan of Completed Review (Text is a bit light, and maybe a little too blue.)
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Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (AP: A little too blue; CP: a little too dark)
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Line width (The "I" in "Ink:". Magnification is 100x. The grid is 100x100µm. The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each. The line width for this ink is roughly 353µm. With 295 inks measured, the average line width is 297µm.)
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Water Test Results (I couldn't see any green or yellow on the paper towel used to sop up the water, yet it's as if the green/yellow was lifted (from day 5 on, see notes about days 1-4), leaving only a blue shade behind. Can't explain it.)
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