What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[Cargoblues]

Sunset (bright red) is the color of my fingers today. That's what happens when you want to test discontinued Caran d'Ache ink.

[a m a r g o]

Iroshizuku Yama - Budo... tough to get rid of!

[wishlittle]

An interesting patchwork of Diamine Midnight and Sherwood Green today.

[richila]

I have been scrubbing Levenger Shiraz off my hand for 3 days.

[AndyYNWA]

Kobe #51 Kano Cho Midnight Blue.

 

Changed it out for Asa-gao.

[cveilleux]

Noodler's Liberty Elysium- switching to a more vivid color from Noodler's Black ended up being messier than I anticipated.

[Ink Stained Wretch]

Very early today it had been the Thistle Blue/Black & Noodler's Eel Black ink mixture. And then later on it was my Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue & Noodler's Black ink mixture.

 

A shower and a number of hand washings later I think that it's all off my fingers now.

 

I think that the Eel Black lasted the longest, was the most resistant. But whichever black ink it was it easily outlasted the other inks.

 

I really have to wonder what my fingers will be like when I finally decide to load up a fountain pen with my Noodler's North Sea Blue & Noodler's Legal Blue ink mixture. That Legal Blue was bought quite a number of years ago at a pen show, and it was, I think, the first bulletproof blue from Noodler's. It was an Art Brown exclusive. It was quite expensive, so I didn't open up the bottle for months. When I did I was horrified to find what may have been SITB! Now maybe it was a fungus, or maybe it was just a human hair that was floating on top of the ink. Does Nathan wear a hair net when he makes this stuff?

 

Anyway, I mixed these two inks up some weeks ago. So far I do not see any real reactions between them. I am hoping that I do not have anything living in that expensive bottle of Legal Blue, and that the little bit of blue that accumulates on the bottom of the plastic vial, and needs to be shaken to get it back in with the rest of the ink, is just the ample amount of the ink stuff that Nathan puts in there. But I will be loading it up into a Pelikano Jr., which is a fountain pen I can so completely take apart so easily that if there is a problem with the ink I can get it completely cleaned out, and I'll see how that ink mixture writes, if it writes.

 

I'm sure I'll get some of that stuff on my fingers .

 

[cleosmama]

Diamine Myrrh (from the Goulet Ink Drop). I really like the color.

[AndyYNWA]

Iroshizuku Asa-gao

[Amandaa]

Noodler's Navajo Turquoise.

[thesolaris]

Sailor Grenade and Private Reserve Ebony Purple.

[ppdiaporama]

Kaweco brown and Vicsconti red

[uemuraw]

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.

That's bad news for my neighbor. He just bought the bar next door for his son and daughter-in-law to run. From what I gather, paid a little too much. Maybe I should suggest that he convert it to a pen shop.

[dcwaites]

That's bad news for my neighbor. He just bought the bar next door for his son and daughter-in-law to run. From what I gather, paid a little too much. Maybe I should suggest that he convert it to a pen shop.

 

I think a multi-function establishment would go well - Bar on one side and Pen/Paper shop on the other.

[amberleadavis]

Great idea! Drunk Writing - even more work for us contract attorneys.

 

Today, I'm wearing Blue Cashmere. A photo or two will follow.

[dcwaites]

Great idea! Drunk Writing - even more work for us contract attorneys.

 

Today, I'm wearing Blue Cashmere. A photo or two will follow.

 

I'm surprised you are only wearing one ink.

Yesterday I had a nauseating mix of PR American Blue and Wancher Matcha Green. Beautiful inks individually, a vile puce when blended on skin.

[jabberwock11]

I cleaned the tiny bit of residue left over from some Chesterfield Antique Yankee out of one of my pens and replaced it with Noodler's Heart of Darkness. I ended up with splotches of dark blue and black that made it look as if I had somehow bruised up a few of my fingers.

[Cryptos]

Kon Peki. First time with the ink, first time with the Pilot Con 70 converter. You can guess the rest.

 

Nice blue though.

[uemuraw]

In my county, drunk writing is the natural state of affairs at the bar (you decide which bar that is).

 

Got some Diamine Blue Black on me, because I don't have the fine motor skills needed to cleanly use the Pilot Con 70. Blah.

Got some Baystate Blue on me, because goofball me wanted to blot up a little drop that got on the bottle ... but I didn't recap the bottle before my little adventure. Should've let the drop alone.

Got some homebrew blue black on me, because by then, why be careful to keep it off the hands?

[inkstainedruth]

For me, it was a small dab of something that *might* have been Diamine Flower Collection Burgundy Rose (not sure because it was in a pen that I discovered had been put away without flushing... at *least* a year ago... ). Fortunately, the pen was a Parker 51, so pretty resilient to that sort of abuse -- and I know how to flush 51s out....

And a few swipes of Noodler's Heart of Darkness, trying to get the Charlie pen it's in to start -- I suspect I'm going to have to flush the nib unit out, even though there's still ink in the pen. Which, given the way this week has gone, could mean that I'm posting on this thread again tomorrow....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstaineruth