What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[Kiaxa]

Many colors, I just got finished creating some infectious seeds for a trip I'm going on this weekend. *twirls mustache*

 

For those curious I've got some preppies filled with the following:

H.O.D.

Red Dragon

Apache Sunset

Tsuyu-Kusa

Platinum yellow

[Newjelan]

Pelikan Highlighter ink in Yellow

Diamine Majestic Blue

Private Reserve Plum

Kaweco Blue

 

I'm in a big mess!

[gryphon1911]

Today, just a trace of Noodler's Habanero.

[Flaxmoore]

Quink black and some oddball blue I don't remember loading a pen with- got it on my hands cleaning out a seldom used one.

[snowbear]

Flush and fills today:

Iroshizuku murasaki-shikibu, fuyu-syogun and tsukushi; Noodler's Gruene Cactus Eel; and Diamine Blue Pearl Shimmer.

[Guardy]

Pelikan 4001 royal blue - I've been cleaning one pen and doing some nib adjusting on another.

 

Not just my fingers, though - nose and eyebrows, too.

[kmeredith923]

Clean! I have, so far, been able to get every drop of ink off of my hands, arms, thigh and foot with generous dollops of hand sanitizer and a little rubbing. So far so good!

[DaveT]

A small amount of Diamine Jet Black on my left hand.

[Helen350]

Iroshizuku Kon Peki & Chesterfield Xircon

[eliweisz]

Diamine Presidential Blue

[Pensei]

I've had mishaps with 4B on consecutive days, including under fingernails. It's fairly sticky.

[Arkanabar]

Noodler's VMail Midway Blue, from using an crappy medicine dropper that had a bad bulb-tube seal to fill my sample vial rather than a disposable pipette.

[Shannon]

J. Herbin Lie de The

Levenger Fireball

[Guardy]

So much Pelikan 4001 royal blue. Again.

 

Did some nib fixing and man, that was a pesky one. Tiny and super stiff. But eh, operation successful *shrugs*

[mhpr262]

Lots and lots of Lamy Red on my left hand. And on my table, my chair, my trousers, my carpet and my floor.

 

Here's a real pro tip for you all: Many new pens come with empty "virgin" cartridges inside. Never attempt to fill these cartridges with a syringe for actual use in a pen. They may have an easily overlooked hole in the bottom .... apparently they use cartridges that failed the quality check in the cartridge factory for this.

 

Verdammte Scheiße.

Edited April 20, 2016 by mhpr262

[amberleadavis]

Lots and lots of Lamy Red on my left hand. And on my table, my chair, my trousers, my carpet and my floor.

 

Here's a real pro tip for you all: Many new pens come with empty "virgin" cartridges inside. Never attempt to fill these cartridges with a syringe for actual use in a pen. They may have an easily overlooked hole in the bottom .... apparently they use cartridges that failed the quality check in the cartridge factory for this.

 

Verdammte Scheiße.

 

EEEEEKKKKK

 

We are so sorry.

[dcwaites]

Lots and lots of Lamy Red on my left hand. And on my table, my chair, my trousers, my carpet and my floor.

 

Here's a real pro tip for you all: Many new pens come with empty "virgin" cartridges inside. Never attempt to fill these cartridges with a syringe for actual use in a pen. They may have an easily overlooked hole in the bottom .... apparently they use cartridges that failed the quality check in the cartridge factory for this.

 

Verdammte Scheiße.

 

Been there, done that. Bought a Rotring Skynn, which came with an empty cartridge as a filler. I didn't think anything of it, but put it away, and put in a real cartridge.

Some months later, was looking for a cartridge to fill, found this nice looking, never used one, held it pointy end up, put the dispensing needle attached to a syringe full of ink in, started to fill the cartridge. I noticed that the level of the ink in the cartridge wasn't going up...

The cartridge was absolutely perfect, apart from NOT having a sealing disk in the big end.

I think the words I uttered would have been accurately translated as "Verdammte Scheiße"

[Shavely Manden]

J. Herbin 1670 Rouge Hematite, for that "appears to have brutally murdered someone" look.

[inkstainedruth]

Today it was Baystate Blue, from filling a Noodler's Charlie eyedropper pen yesterday. Only I didn't completely fill it, and didn't have time to find a separate eyedropper or syringe to top off with distilled water. So when I was doing my morning journal entry, the pen burped ink. A lot....

I grabbed a tissue to use as a blotter, and it's a good thing the ink isn't red -- otherwise, my husband would probably have been calling for an ambulance. (Imagine a severe nosebleed, only, well, BSB colored... ).

I used other pens for the rest of the day. Tomorrow I'll refill it and actually add distilled water this time, to curb the feathering (which is actually less pronounced than when I had the ink in a Noodler's FPC ) and *hopefully* also control the dripping -- which is, of course, the downside to eyedropper pens....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Witsius]

A little Aurora Blue on my fingers today. Wonderful ink!