What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[Lloyd]

Noodlers Liberator Blue in an Edison Pearl, 18kt fine nib (see above)

PR Chocolat in a TWSBI 580 with stock XF nib

Noodlers Bulletproof Black in a Parker P51 with XF nib

Mix of Noodlers Habanero and Diamine Red Dragon in an Edison Huron with fine steel nib

Noodlers Navy in a Danitrio Densho with flexy EEF nib

Mix of Noodlers Legal Lapis and PR DCSSB in a small Newton with a lag steel XXF nib

[MrsHobie]

Today my right thumb has a Caran d'Ache Ultraviolet stain, and the index finger has a small part of Sailor Yama Dori gentle ink

Edited November 5, 2016 by MrsHobie

[inkstainedruth]

My right middle finger has some stains around the callus which look suspiciously like the inks I was testing yesterday -- Califolio Bonne Espérance, and Robert Oster Moss. Especially the Moss -- the pen I put it in was a Morrison ringtop lever-filler, and even with a 4 ml sample of the ink, it was hard to get the nib submerged *and* work the lever. And I ended up wiping a lot of ink off the nib and feed (and the section, and the threads... ) with a tissue and not necessarily spotting all the places at first....

Oh, and yesterday there was also some (slightly diluted) Noodler's BSB in one of the Charlie eyedroppers which had burped into the cap.... But it seems to be gone now....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Mining4God]

Irosizuko Yama Budo. Drops sloshed from my sample bottle and ran down my fingers. I looked like I got cut.

[LWJ2]

As of this morning, a dark-ish blue-black from a recalcitrant Jinhao X750 converter. Noodler's Bad Belted Kingfisher.

 

It's a lovely, clear morning here in the Great Valley of Virginia; I hope everyone is having a great day.

 

Leon

[LWJ2]

Not posted in this thread before, but I feel honour bound to do so now.

 

I recall making a rather sniffy comment in a thread about ink stained fingers to the effect that all one needed was a little care and hands could be kept clean.

 

Today I noticed the neck of my Edelstein Tanzanite bottle was very inky, making the cap rather stiff. So, I decided to clean it. A simple job requiring only a bit of damp kitchen paper.

 

Well, the threads are deep and it was all a bit more difficult than imagined. With the job nearly done I held it to the light for a final inspection, decided another wipe would do it . . . and tilted the bottle just a little too far. Ink slopped out and, as we all know, it is astounding how far a small amount of liquid can spread itself!

 

The good news is that I was in the kitchen, it all cleaned off the laminate work top easily and I was able to hide the evidence before my wife got home.

 

But, today, my fingers are Edelstein Tanzanite!

 

 

She Who Must Be Obeyed hath made Remarks about our kitchen sink and Baystate Blue. Rather pointed, and somewhat unpleasant ones. SWMBO has this silly idea that porcelain sinks should be a pristine white.

[dcwaites]

Methinks foot massages and chocolates (the expensive ones) are in order.

[inkstainedruth]

Methinks foot massages and chocolates (the expensive ones) are in order.

 

And a cheap white plastic dishpan to flush pens into in future....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Guardy]

Pelikan 4001 royal blue and blue-black.

 

I love those inks (well, at least one of those inks), but constantly inky bottle threads and an ink level so low that you have to tilt the bottle to get a good fill are a pretty bad combination.

 

The threads are hellishly hard to keep clean, too, due to the cap inserts on the bottles.

[inkstainedruth]

Today it appears to be a smidgen of Yama-budo....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[setriode]

My right index finger has Hero 232 iron gall blue black in it; an ink that is disproportionately more impressive than its price.

[AndyYNWA]

Diamine Blue-Black. Refilled my Pilot Custom 74.

[trdsf]

Robert Oster Purple Rock

[eliweisz]

Diamine Denim - inking my Aurora 88P

[thudthwacker]

I've got great huge splotches of Iroshizuku Momiji on my right hand. You know how you shouldn't take a mostly-empty pen on a plane? Well, if you're going up into the mountains -- as I did, when we went to visit my wife's parents for Thanksgiving -- that causes air pressure changes, too. Fortunately, the other two pens I had with me were almost full, and so didn't eject large quantities of ink into their caps when I wasn't looking.

 

Gadzooks, but I can be dim when I put my mind to it.

[chromantic]

Got a fair-sized drop of black or blue-black on my left index finger from the threads of a pen I was unwrapping. Wiped the threads with a paper towel and got a bit off but nothing wiped off the nib/feed or section, it's bone-dry; I rolled up the towel and screwed it into the cap but nothing seemed to come out there either. Strange.

[mr2txaggie]

 

 

Serenity Blue. I had to refill the ink in my Carene Edson, Blue Sapphire and their blue fits that pen so well!

[Helen350]

Got some Chesterfield Xircon under a couple of fingernails.

[parkerwasmyfirstlove]

 

Sailor yama dori (me) and Pelikan brilliant green (my daughter)

[topaz]

Asa-gao across my left thumb