What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[Ink Stained Wretch]

My fingers are a very dilute hue of green from having done a soak test for some Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Green ink.

 

I've had this ink for quite a few years, and I've played with it a little bit before, but I'm looking at it again, and I wanted to see how water resistant it is. In the aftermath of the soak test I got the water the writing sample had soaked in on my hands.

 

Oh the joy of being able to test fountain pen inks again !

[dcwaites]

Wishing for summer in the midst of all this grey and snow.

 

So far, we have had an excess of summer this year. You are welcome to take as much as you want...

 

I haven't been filling any pens lately so my fingers are boringly bland.

[Bhavna]

Robert Oster Fire and Ice Blue

MB Irish Green

Cult Pens Diamine Deep Dark Orange

Noodlers Mary 1 and Navajo Turquoise and Saguaro Wine... Life is good.

[Guardy]

Some smudges of Pelikan Royal Blue.

 

Refilled a newly-fixed pen for the first time - it was a slightly terrifying experience, because I wasn't sure my cobbled-together replacement piston seal actually held, but everything seems to be in perfect working order. No ink where it doesn't belong, and everything still fills nicely. I'm a happy Guardy - having to send this beauty in for repairs would've been awful. I've only had this pen for less than a week, but I've quickly grown extremely fond of it.

[chromantic]

Fingers? How 'bout my face!

 

I was replacing the cartridge on a Sailor High Ace Neo and, as it popped onto the feed, the section sort of 'snapped', like shaking a thermometer, and I felt a drop fly up onto my cheek. I wiped it with a paper towel and saw a little smear. I didn't think too much about, played on the PC a while longer, then lay down for an hour before I had to get ready for work. When I went to take my shower, I saw in the mirror that there was a big splash on the left side of my forehead, a big splotch under the left eyebrow and a smaller splash down the right side of my nose.

 

Of course, this was the Neo with Pink in it but I suppose that's better than Sky Blue. Most of it came off in the shower but it's still quite noticeable. I'm just glad that it splashed up on me and not the other direction onto my desk, the pens laid out there, the monitor, the stereo.

[dcwaites]

Just be thankful it wasn't Wancher Matcha Green on your face, otherwise people would be wanting you to ring a little bell and yell out "Unclean" when you walked down the street...

[parkerwasmyfirstlove]

Sailor Miruruai all on my hands after aligning and smoothing an old bent nib. Didn't really go off after cleaning the bathrooms either but I don't really care.

[eliweisz]

Just a spot of Sailor Souten. Great ink, even on my forefinger

[Sinistral1]

Pretty teal and bright violet after decanting some vintage ink powder into sample vials.

[inkstainedruth]

I was filling a few pens for this week's "Ink of the Week thread" (yes, more than one because I couldn't decide between them ). So, blobs of KWZI IG Violet #3 and IG Mandarin, Akkerman #10 Izjer-Galoten, and Pharmacist's Turkish Night.

Then a tiny bit of Birmingham Pens Shadyside Walnut Street Brown, from flushing a different pen from the other four.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[thudthwacker]

I've got a few fingers with sizeable splotches of Levenger Raven Black on them. Which is the kind of thing that happens if you're filling a cartridge with a blunt-tip syringe and fail to notice that you've put a wee bit more ink in the syringe than the cartridge will accommodate, and push the plunger all the way down anyway.

[Guardy]

More like "what color are my fingers not?"

 

End of semester means cleaning out my pen pouch, topping up some pens, cleaning out others to put them away and preparing the rest of them for different ink colors.

 

Today I started out filling up those pens that really only needed a new fill. Ended up with rainbow-colored fingers featuring Pelikan 4001 royal blue, blue-black, violet and quite a bit of dark green, Standardgraph violet, and Diamone Oxblood and Saddle Brown.

[Croma]

Hello:

This week in use a classic one. Waterman South Sea Blue. I like its color, its smell ...

 

 

[praxim]

It seems a peculiarity of plunge-fill Onotos that after first filing and a wipe-off they still manage to drop ink madly from some secret reserve, even with the plunge cap closed. Yesterday evening I had whole fingers in Visconti Turquoise, until the pen settled down.

[mehandiratta]

Shocking Pink....

from Sulekha

[Guardy]

Diamine Oxblood.

 

Used my hand to prime a nib, looked at it five minutes later and freaked out for a second because I thought I - competent at life as always - had somehow managed to scratch up my hand without noticing.

 

Alas, this is not the first time this exact sequence of events occurred :'D

[Inkantadora]

After pulling an all nighter between work and ink related play, my fingers are somehow covered with writing in Diamond 1864 Blue Black and Robert Oster Blue Night. All I'm missing is my adored Diamine Moon Dust ink to complete the tired night owl theme. 🌝🌖🌗🌘🌚🌒🌓🌔😊

[domzals1]

Waterman Black - been playing around with mixing the various Watermans!

[white_lotus]

Vintage Shaeffer's Skrip Permanent Blue Black with RC-35!

[Inkantadora]

Waterman Black - been playing around with mixing the various Watermans!

Any results worth sharing? Might be interesting for those of us with a ton of Waterman ink laying around..