What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[uemuraw]

Chesterfield Antique Raspberry. It was a dark and stormy night. I just wanted to prime the feed a little, but I guess I couldn't see the ink. Then I felt drips running down my hand. Blah.

[Rednaxela]

Platinum Carbon Black. Been doctoring it a little to make it more dip pen friendly.

[eliweisz]

Diamine Wild Strawberry. One unlucky move - and a lot of scrubbing

[MoonMan]

Iroshizuku Yama budo

[MoonMan]

Noodler's Bankers Tan

Iroshizuku Ina Ho (Rice Ear)

 

Do you like the Ina Ho on it's own, if you weren't trying to match a colour you need to replace. I like the tone of that but wondering how useful it would be to me.

[thejournalceo]

Diamine Purple Pizzazz.

 

It's not quite pizzazzy enoughf for me.

[inkstainedruth]

Noodler's Kung Te Cheng. The first fill was well behaved, the refill has been cloggy and hard starting.

​I guess I'm going to have to flush between fills from now on; I don't really like the ink when diluted -- you lose the indigo/blue-black tone and it becomes just another purple ink.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[AndyYNWA]

I've been changing inks in my Metropolitan and Ambition, and now my fingers are quite colourful...

Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo, Waterman Mysterious Blue, Sailor Miruai and a mix of Kobe #37 and #38.

[gmax]

Pilot Blue Black and Yama Budo

[haruka337]

Sailor Joyfulx2 Haruna Green
Sailor Joyfulx2 Jyushu Red-Brown. <---(looks a lot like Sailor Jentle Red/Brown)

[Mew]

Sailor Shousaikan Seiran

Sailor Nagasawa Kobe #4 Ijinkan red

Sailor Sankodo Nagoya castle sepia

[uemuraw]

Noodler's Kung Te Cheng. The first fill was well behaved, the refill has been cloggy and hard starting.

​I guess I'm going to have to flush between fills from now on; I don't really like the ink when diluted -- you lose the indigo/blue-black tone and it becomes just another purple ink.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Ahhh, Kung Te Cheng. Such a beautiful ink, I find myself doing things that are wholly unlike me. I would love to put KTC in everything and use it all the time. Alas, the pens would become cloggy and hard starting.

 

So I put KTC in a Platinum Plaisir. And mostly, I'm happy with it. I thought I had solved the reliability problem. In a Plaisir, I got "write right, day or night, nice 'n bright" performance. Until one day I did not. So I hot swapped the little Preppy nib unit. Good to go!

 

So now, I always carry a few various Plaisirs for my persnickity inks (KTC, BSB, and a highlighter), with a nib unit ready to hot swap when needed.

 

It's a real oddball setup, now that I think about it.

 

 

–– Oh, and I got some Sheaffer Skrip Blue on my fingers. There's some sort of issue with my Sailor Pro Gear Realo where a smidgen of ink somehow leaks into the cap between uses. I must either wipe the pen with a tissue every use, or put up with just a hint of blue on my left middle finger.

 

It's no big deal – I grew up with the medial edge of my left palm constantly smudged with ink because I'm a left-handed overwriter.

Edited August 6, 2016 by uemuraw

[eliweisz]

A bit of Quink Blue-Black, flushing my Duofold Senior.

[deacondavid]

Sailor Kiwa-Guro. Inked up my just-arrived Pilot Custom 743.

[eliweisz]

Waterman Absolute Brown, flushing my friend's Waterman Taperite.

[DahliaFaolan169]

I have Noodler's Heart of Darkness on my wedding ring fingernail and Noodler's Purple Wampum on my left forefinger and thumb. I somehow managed not to get any of J. Herbin's Caroube de Chypre anywhere on my hands or the sink. I need to figure out how I managed this miracle so I can recreate it. Probably has something to do with the J. Herbin going into an eye dropper pen and the Noodler's inks going out of and into a converter pen.

[eliweisz]

A bit of Diamine Sherwood Green, inking my new Pilot 78G.

[gryphon1911]

Just a touch of Noodler's Golden Brown.

 

I was intrigued by what I saw online, got a sample from Goulet....and now I think it is one of my favorite colors to use for everyday writing.

[TimCasey13]

I've got splotches of Akkerman's Diepduinwater-blaw (what a mouthful!) from prying that goofy rubber gasket off the bottle's mouth...

[Noihvo]

A blotch from a sample of Montblanc Lavender from the nice guy that sold me his TWSBI Diamond Mini, along with a sample of Sailor Sei-boku.