What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[madden11]

Diamine Rustic Brown (that darn TWSBI!) and Diamine Oxblood from fooling with my Esterbrook

[pmhudepo]

I was quite well-behaved during a business meeting today, but a tiny drop of Iroshizuku Asa-gao managed to get on my fingers.

[bardharlock]

Currently my fingers are Noodler's black. They are about to be Noodler's Baystate Blue: I left Baystate in a Hero 100 for 3 years. Today I see the damage!

[Gaslight]

Akkerman 11 - Treves Turquoise

 

This ink is a bit strange, it seems to has a pretty high surface tension, even when I hold my Vac 700 level, the Ink is just one big blob at the end of the barrel. Also took quite a while before it started writing after wiping the nib and feed after the fill. But now everything seems fine, lovely color...

[79spitfire]

Dragon's Napalm... again!

 

It's my favorite highlighter/correction ink, the pen is just not very well behaved.

[TheModernGent]

Diamine Sargasso Blue

[Chairman Miaow]

Mont Blanc Midnight Blue, the old iron gall formula. I can't believe it but it's a new purchase!! Shows how quickly stock moves in lovely Australia...

[jackieblue]

Grey, but a few days ago, when I got a bunch of ink samples, they were ALL the colors. I looked like a kindergarten finger paint session gone bad. I'm kinda klutzy so I may start wearing gloves to ink my pens. It occurred to me when I was inking my brand new white pen today that maybe gloves would be a good idea. They might remind me to be more careful, so I don't stain the outside of a brand new pen. I'm not sure this could actually happen, but I've never wiped ink off a pen so fast!

[FayeV]

Trying out my new bottle of Akkerman #18 Garuda Rood. Are they all sealed with black electric tape around the cap?

At first, I thought this was a dry ink. But it turned out to be a pen problem. Ink is flowing OK now. I wouldn't call this red a favorite, but I definitely don't hate it. Maybe it will grow on me.

[Gaslight]

Trying out my new bottle of Akkerman #18 Garuda Rood. Are they all sealed with black electric tape around the cap?

At first, I thought this was a dry ink. But it turned out to be a pen problem. Ink is flowing OK now.

 

Yes my bottle Akkerman #11 Treves Turquoise also was sealed with tape. First I also thought it was dry, I filled through the feed (Vac 700) but the pen wouldn't write?! After lots of tapping and drawing ink from the nib with tissue it finally wrote. But seemed to be a one-time issue, it writes fine now without starting problems...

[madden11]

Diamine Rustic Brown - a reddish brown. Does anyone know what to do about a Bleedin' TWSBI? I'm tired of going to work in the morning looking like I was trying to stop a nosebleed!

[Algester]

my personal ink mix... I cleaned the cap of my eye dropper pen only to realize that water was still stuck on the cap....

 

@Madden check the nib and feeb assembly check the cap of the nib and feed colar is ther anything broken next make sure the nib and feed are properly set they are friction fit feed and nib

Edited May 23, 2014 by Algester

[SujiCorp12345]

Yama-budo. I was having trouble opening it, and got some on my fingers.

[Newjelan]

Tsuki-yo - same as SujiCorp12345 - inner cap was stuck on the bottle and some ink splashed on my fingers as I removed it. I also have a little MB Lavender Purple from cleaning the threads of the bottle.

[Lou Erickson]

I have Esterbrook blue ballpoint ink on me today. I don't know where the refill was leaking from, but something's seeping ink. It will get on me, but won't write. Yay.

[inkstainedruth]

Private Reserve Ebony Purple. From filling a Parker 51. Yesterday. I can still see the shadow of a spot on my index finger.

The diluted Diamine Presidential Blue seems to have washed off (too lazy to flush a pen, so I just refilled with distilled water), and I got it transferred from wiping the excess off the nib).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Vgimlet]

Noodler's Liberty's Elysium, because I'm trying to find a pen in which it isn't a hard starter. And I had a small issue with the syringe, and a knocked over sample vial, and....yeah.

 

Good news, it starts well in a Platinum Plaisir, AND one of my beloved Pilot crystals so far. SO, I see a bottle of it in my future.

[lizncats]

Diamine Marine - it doesn't seem to like my glass pen (that's my story and i'm sticking to it).

[Pira]

My thumbs are Diamine Steel Blue....again; same old story when I'm filling up two of my go-to pens. My index finger is Iroshizuku Kosumosu pink....since the breeze kept moving the flowers from their position atop the ink, while I was attempting to photograph them.

Edited May 26, 2014 by Pira

[Newjelan]

Mont Blanc Irish Green - have it in my Namiki Falcon and intercede I was holding the notebook right where I'd used the pen. I now have green writing on my right thumb.