What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[dcwaites]

it's probably a black, maybe even Parker Quink Permanent Black with Solv-X

[inkstainedruth]

Brown...I think?

 

http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l526/cherenkov-hummingbird/image_zpsolsx9zrl.jpeg

 

Which is interesting, because here's the same ink doing the instant chromatography thing before soaking through the tissue to give me inky fingers:

 

http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l526/cherenkov-hummingbird/image_zpscqdfanis.jpeg

 

And yes, it really does look like an impressionist painting of pansies!

 

I have no idea what this vintage ink is or was - I'm soaking it out of the capillary filler of a Parker 61 - but I want a bottle.

+1 on on that....

I'll admit that when I got my first 61, I flushed it just enough to get ink flow, and wrote with what was reconstituted. And when it seemed to go dry did that again, and again. And I wrote with it till it was to the point of illegibility, because it was so diluted. For nearly four months (of moderate use)!

If dcwaites is right and it's vintage Quink Black, I'm going to start hunting around antique stores a whole LOT more than I already do....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[richila]

Orange , that hasn't all come off from yesterday's fill and green today.

[dcwaites]

+1 on on that....

I'll admit that when I got my first 61, I flushed it just enough to get ink flow, and wrote with what was reconstituted. And when it seemed to go dry did that again, and again. And I wrote with it till it was to the point of illegibility, because it was so diluted. For nearly four months (of moderate use)!

If dcwaites is right and it's vintage Quink Black, I'm going to start hunting around antique stores a whole LOT more than I already do....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

I was going to say that eBay is your friend --

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-Parker-Super-Quink-Permanent-BLACK-Ink-Made-in-England-Full-Bottle-w-BOX-/131665150951?hash=item1ea7dac3e7:g:HckAAOSwT5tWKoCM

but at that price, it makes PPS look cheap.

 

Even an empty bottle - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-Parker-Super-Quink-Permanent-Black-Ink-2-oz-Glass-Jar-with-Box-Empty-/161782739968?hash=item25ab00b400:g:T9oAAOSw-vlVgbQh

is going for $20.

 

What is this madness???

 

[haruka337]

Bungbox Piano Mahogany.

[inkstainedruth]

Even an empty bottle - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-Parker-Super-Quink-Permanent-Black-Ink-2-oz-Glass-Jar-with-Box-Empty-/161782739968?hash=item25ab00b400:g:T9oAAOSw-vlVgbQh

is going for $20.

 

What is this madness???

 

Some people collect bottles?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: Today's entry is (scarily enough) almost leftover from yesterday -- Noodler's Myles Standish LE. It's an interesting color, with a magenta undertone (which I know from trying to wash it off yesterday...).

I have it in the Charlie pen that came with it, but unfortunately, it's an eyedropper. And I'm trying to decide the relative merits of attempting to write it dry vs. refilling vs. dumping the remaining ink and flushing the heck out of the cap.

Edited December 2, 2015 by inkstainedruth

[evyxmsj]

This morning was Diamine Grey. The other day it was Pelikan Mandarin: looks a lot like dried blood...

[FountainPenCowgirl]

DA Aubergine. Hadn't noticed, until it was on my fingers ,that there's a bit of a coppery sheen to it. Harder to get on paper, though I see a bit on an onion-skin notepad that I have. Another reason to enjoy that one.

[FountainPenCowgirl]

Oh, but I have to share a related anecdote from a recent trip. I'd taken a few of my Kaweco Sports, with ink cartridges, to a conference right before Thanksgiving. All behaved through the conference itself. I opened one, filed with a Diamine Monaco Red cartridge, on the last leg of my trip (at the airport, not in flight). I looked down and found my hand absolutely *covered* in red ink. I sopped it up with tissues, which then looked like someone had been stabbed. Couldn't find a trash recepticle fast enough. Took a good two days or so to finally get it all off my skin.

[a m a r g o]

Waterman Havana!

[carlos.q]

Iroshizuku Kon-Peki.

I'm warming up to this color that I initially disliked...

[OCArt]

Parker Penman Sapphire! I'm working on the CRV and hope to post soon.

[uemuraw]

Iroshizuku Kon-Peki.

I'm warming up to this color that I initially disliked...

I feel the same way.

At first it looked a little flat to me. I think maybe I used a glass pen on cheap paper.

Later, I loaded it in a TWBI to finish the sample. I was just getting rid of it when one day, I was writing on 20-lb paper, and the light caught it just right, both on the paper and in the pen.

So I compared it to other blues I liked, and Kon-Peki found its way into the rotation.

 

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But todat, it looks like either Pelikan Edelstein Amethyst or Binder Burgundy made it onto my fingers.

[Newjelan]

De Atramentis Bookworm - dark green, smells like books and I keep sniffing my fingers. (for once I'm happy that I'm a clutz who always gets ink on their fingers)

[uemuraw]

I can't see it, but I think I got some Noodler's Blue Ghost on my fingers. Dang battery in the black light died, so I can't check.

[haruka337]

Diamine Wagner.

[amberleadavis]

I can't see it, but I think I got some Noodler's Blue Ghost on my fingers. Dang battery in the black light died, so I can't check.

 

Go to a nightclub.

[dcwaites]

For some ignorant reason, I can't see the words nightclub and Alabama in the same sentence. It's along the lines of Canberra and nightlife.

[uemuraw]

Kung te-cheng. The converter in my Plaisir was a teeny bit loose, so my pen was a little bit drooly and i didn't notice for a few pages. Tightened the converter, wiped the pen and good-to-go. Fingers still a little inky, though.

[snowbear]

No inks today but I had some automobile engine crud on them this morning.