What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[chromantic]

A copious amount of Kana-cho Midnight on my right thumb and two fingers that had leaked out of the converter in a Waterman JIF when I went to refill the pen.

 

This is the same JIF that two different cartridges leaked #51 into the barrel due to a tiny split in the collar of each (that's why I switched to the converter). I just checked and ink has leaked out into the barrel again.

 

I'm wondering if maybe there's a deformity in the feed nib. I have #51 in my M300 green striped and I haven't experienced any leakage there.

 

Curiously, the staining on the skin is purple.

Edited July 23, 2017 by chromantic

[Chrissy]

Yesterday I got some Diamine Dark Forest on my fingers when cleaning out my Parker Sonnet, but I managed to easily remove it with bar soap and water. It's almost noon here today, and so far I haven't picked up a FP yet, although I have now fixed my Sonnet cap so that it doesn't let any air in and dry out the next ink again.

[inkstainedruth]

Today my hands are ink free -- but on Thursday (and to some extent also on Friday) there was a VAST amount of what I *think* was Cross Blue-Black (cartridge, but diluted). Gonna have to learn where to grip the section on that Cross Verve I picked up in a thrift store on Wednesday. The design is snazzy, but not exactly 100% functional, which is why I suspect they were only on the market for about 4 years....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[GardenWeasel]

Just a hint of Monteverdi Purple Reign under my thumbnail...how? No clue. But it's been there for two days.

[Ink Stained Wretch]

In this case it's not actually on my fingers, but I think it counts for this thread anyway.

 

I have a bit of Noodler's Red/Black ink on my nose right now.

 

I decided to see if the ink had started out-gassing ammonia yet, it had. I managed to touch the tip of my nose to the lip of the bottle while doing the sniff test. So I am even more ink stained than usual at this time .

[white_lotus]

For some reason this thread has been forgotten. I don't know why. Perhaps no one gets ink on their fingers any longer?

 

I have a decent mess on my fingers from Sailor Joyful Honda Taniguwadaki Blue. At least I think that's the name. I'd received a small sample, and couldn't fill my Edison Mina from the nib. So the converter went into the vial, and one has to finagle to hold it in place while turning the piston knob. Next time I'll remember to simply suck up ink with a syringe.

[inkstainedruth]

For some reason this thread has been forgotten. I don't know why. Perhaps no one gets ink on their fingers any longer?

 

Oh I wish....

Today it was diluted KWZI Grey Lux, when the pen it was in (a Wearever lever filler with a rather nice stub nib -- *normally*, anyway ) decided to burp ink everywhere....

Repeated hand washings over the course of the afternoon and evening have faded it, but it's still there. Even diluted, it's a really DARK grey....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[displacermoose]

Orange. I had a rather embarrassing incident with a Pilot Petite cartridge. It won.

[ca49reber]

Pelikan Edelstein Tanzanite. Using it in a pen with a needlepoint nib & I keep scraping fibers off the nib with my fingernails.

[Barkingpig]

ORANGE!

 

A very pleasing orange & completely washable I am sure. I received a bottle of Sailor for Kingdom Note's, Yellow Red from their Genji series, today from Mr. Atsunori Tanaka & had to remove the Sailor filling funnel from the squat little bottle.

 

I am NOT complaining because it was a small price to pay to receive an ink I had only recently seen in the Sailor posts & happy to discover on Mr. Tanaka's auction site.

It is always a gamble when you have merely some swabs or lines even, to determine an ink's color, hands & paper are the real "proof" needed to confirm your choice.

[displacermoose]

Pilot's most famously boring blue accompanied by a few little dribbles of Iro Syo-ro to liven things up. I was inking "work" pens.

[coriander]

J. Herbin Émeraude de Chivor, from filling a pen from a friend's bottle at my local Pelikan Hub yesterday.

[chromantic]

Refilled 4 M150s and got nice-sized spots of Miru-ai on two fingers doing the first one. Was a little surprised I got through the others unscathed.

[inkstainedruth]

Noodler's Boston Brahmin Blue LE (from this year's Commonwealth Pen Show). Interestingly enough, it doesn't seem to be as washable as advertised.... Hard to get off skin (good thing I still have half a jar of Ink Nix!), but ALSO (surprisingly -- and in a good way) seems to be pretty water resistant/waterproof on the page once dry. And it dries pretty fast (five seconds on the very absorbent -- and generally crummy for fountain pens -- Piccadilly sketchbook paper).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[hh1990]

I tried using my Franklin Cristoph music nib on some vellum without minding the longer dry time initially and ended up smearing Yama Budo all over the page and side of my palm.

 

[amberleadavis]

That sounds sort of funny.

[hh1990]

That sounds sort of funny.

 

Being a lefty and trying to learn calligraphy does seem like an exercise in absurdity some days.

[AndyYNWA]

KWZ IG Blue-Black

My pen is having a small leak. Plus that the ink smears quite a bit.

[Newjelan]

Platinum (Iron-Gall) Citrus Black - I think it is on the section of the Lamy Nexx I am using.

[johnboz]

I have a Waterman 92 that was just about to run out of Diamine Teal. Today was a fairly hot day, so I think the air pressure built up in the sac and it burped a blob of ink on my left index finger. I decided to go ahead and rinse it out and call it good for that fill.