What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[uemuraw]

This thread's always good for a chuckle.

[Ink Stained Wretch]

My fingers are black-ish.

 

For a change there's no Noodler's Black involved.

 

I am testing out my Sheaffer VFM that I bought late last year. These take a short international cartridge, for some bizarre reason. I wish they took the old Sheaffer Type I cartridge. That thing holds 1½ mL of ink.

 

Anyway I filled the cartridge with some made in the U.S.A. Skrip Jet Black ink.

 

When I began to write with the new pen it was scratchy and I don't mean that it just exhibited a lot of tooth. So I looked at the nib through a loupe and found that the tines were quite misaligned. After various tries of pushing one tine to line up with the other I got the pen to write reasonably well, with some tooth. And of course I got plenty of Skrip Jet Black on my fingers doing this.

[eliweisz]

Pilot Red for my Pilot Parallel.

[clazbill]

Black and blue - from messing with Noodler's Heart of Darkness, Akkerman #11, Iroshizuku Ku Jaku, and some Diamine Stormy Grey. Cleaning pens, re-filling, and rotating through a few others.

 

It's funny how long some of it sticks around.

[trdsf]

J. Herbin Lie de The. That's a pretty brown.

[AndyYNWA]

Iroshizuku Take-sumi and Shin-kai, Montblanc Leo Tolstoy, and Kobe Nagasawa #23... Mostly Tolstoy I think...

 

I changed converters in my Pilot pens, from CON-20 to CON-40... Became a bit more messy than expected...

[inkstainedruth]

Yesterday evening it was a bit of either Diamine Havusu Turquoise or Edelstein Topaz (they're *really* similar looking..., and currently I have my two M200s inked up, one with each color).

I suspect there will be a lot more tomorrow as I decide which pens need to be inked up. Very likely there will be some Noodler's Heart of Darkness, and some (or more than some) iron gall inks....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Aelie]

My Pilot Custom Heritage 91 with a soft fine nib came in the mail today! I inked it up with Iroshizuku Ama-iro, and in the process got some smudges on my fingers. I am really enjoying how much more shading I am now getting with this ink.

 

I will be in Houston this weekend, and the plan is to visit Dromgoole's (my first visit) for a bottle of Noodler's Texas Bluebonnet. Bluebonnets started blooming here in Texas, so it's only fitting. I know what color my fingers will be this weekend!

[sharonspens]

Visconti Green, Private Reserve Ebony Green, and Diamine Mystical Forest. I just filled five pens with my five green inks, and three of them were less than appreciative of my efforts.

 

Sharon in Indiana

[Noihvo]

They just got a bit of Diamine Regency Blue on them, after deciding to do calligraphy on my journal headings with my Lamy Logo 1.5.

[DaveT]

I'm not telling what color my fingers are and don't ask me about my nose.

 

Note to self: next time wash my hands before I scratch my nose

[TaylorT]

Private Reserve Midnight Blue. I'm actually using cartridges so my fingers shouldn't be stained but my pen went flying out of my hand and I caught it mid air, stained palm it is.

[Freddy]

 

Fred

"Roll me up and smoke me when I die"

~Willie Nelson

[inkstainedruth]

An hour ago they were orange. But that was food coloring, not ink....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[dcwaites]

An hour ago they were orange. But that was food coloring, not ink....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Queen Food Dye is an excellent ink, also safe for children

Well, I hope that what we make cupcakes with is safe for children, except for the sugar, preservatives, rising agents, roundup-resistant wheat flour, etc, etc, etc. But the food dye is safe. I think...

 

I comfort myself with the thought that everybody who eats cornflakes, dies.

[zwack]

A pretty blue colour. My wife left three pens on my chair as she has decided she doesnt like them. One is probably junk by now... The other two are a Hero 9082 (360°) with a very odd nib and a Wality eyedropper filler. The Wality feed was producing ink too fast for the nib. I spent a while tuning it and have it working ok... So now it goes back to her to test and I have some of the blue on my fingers but partially washed off. It looks like it is Ottoman Azure.

 

If she still doesn't like that one then it will probably join the hero in a PIF.

[cello]

After a little accident at work which involved some ink in the cap, and then posting it to write with, my hand is now a tealish green - Faber Castell Deep Sea Green to be exact.

And I had managed to ink a pen with Tsuki-yo this morning without any stains!

[AndyYNWA]

Shin-kai and Kobe #23.

Leaks into the caps of my Metropolitans...

[Piper 987]

I received a cheap Chinese pen in the mail today and no, I can't remember (or tell) what it is but... it is an aerometric filler. I gave it a quick rinse in water just in case it had any residues still in it and then I got clever. (Seldom a good idea for me...)

 

I thought that as the nib and feed were out of the section, I would just use the eyedropper from my bottle of Noodler's Nikita to fill it and not bother with the usual aerometric routine. Not a bad idea until you overfill the thing and then when putting back the feed and nib; squirt!! - red ink everywhere but mostly on my fingers.

[etaylor33]

Day two with Diamine Sherwood Green from wrestling with a badly behaving 'Charlie'pen.