What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[Muncle]

Sheaffer Lavender but, a quick rinse and fingers clean.

Oh, the vintage? Love that ink!

[bayindirh]

Mont Blanc Royal Blue.

There's something I love about that ink.

[A Smug Dill]

The splatters would be lovely, but I shudder to think of the inky mess that is likely to result. Better you than me, as my father-in-law used to say.

I can deal with the mess after the fact, but I just can't handle going to the cost and trouble but fail to achieve the desired outcome.

"I mean, what if they say I’m no good? What if they say, “Get outta here, kid. You got no future”? I mean, I just don’t think I can take that kind of rejection." —Marty McFly

 

Anyway, I only have 20 sheets of those 19mm-diameter labels, and while I don't mind the cost per label or sheet per se, if I screw one up that'd be 5% of my supplies gone, and to replenish I'd have to order another lot of 20 from overseas and wait three to four weeks for delivery. I did a splatter on a sheet of 100gsm paper on which I've laser-printed some text, and the ink splatter just obscures it. I suppose I could mask the text, but then the splatter would have enough room or coverage to show the ink's true colours; and I doubt the result would be any different on the actual sheets of labels.

 

So, 'swabbing' with a q-tip or make-up applicator it is.

[chromantic]

I managed to refill a cartridge with 1864 without getting any on myself but that doesn't mean I won't be marked from smearing that or Lamy Coral at work tonight.

[A Smug Dill]

I suppose I could mask the text, but then the splatter wouldn't have enough room or coverage to show the ink's true colours; and I doubt the result would be any different on the actual sheets of labels.

 

So, 'swabbing' with a q-tip or make-up applicator it is.

Actually, the results are very different on the actual sheets of labels I ordered from A4labels.

 

 

It didn't take a lot of ink to soak through the label and start spreading uncontrollably; even two or three passes with a q-tip will cause it. Never mind trying to emulate @JulieParadise's awesome work on her bottle cap labels and getting sheen to show for her bottle of Diamine Blue Velvet!

 

I think I'll stick to scratching a 永 and a squiggle on the label with a "dip pen" (but, for the above, I used a fountain pen on which the feed was not connected to an ink reservoir), and leave it at that.

[cello]

I managed a small smear of Franklin Christoph Terra Firma this morning while refilling my M205.

[A Smug Dill]

Montblanc Corn Poppy Red and Diamine Inkvent Nutcracker all over my fingers, from trying to heat-set the clear plastic feed on a PenBBS 494 to better fit a Pilot Plumix nib.

[white_lotus]

A good covering of Noodler's Alamo Twilight. I was looking for a blue to fill a pen, rummaged through the Noodler's box (containing all the Noodler's inks obviously). Saw Alamo Twilight and thought "It has a lot of blue on the label". A large dribble got on my fingers after opening the cap to check.

 

It's not a blue ink. 😂

[gawain3]

Sailor Shikiori Yodaki and Kyonooto Kokeiro. Red and green for the holidays!🤨

[Detman101]

Covered fingers in green "Iroshizuku - Shin-Ryoku" from last nights unprotected "nib-tweaking" session with the Penbbs-355.
Thankfully, got it back in functioning order...not touching it again til I replace it with the modified F-C gold flex nib in January.
Until then, only ink changes.

[aurore]

Time to resurrect the legendary thread. 

Waterman Serenity, CdA pen and a bit of feed adjustment (was slightly off-center). 

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's a bit of Noodler's Akhmatova.  For some reason, the Konrad it's in keeps burping ink into the cap, more that almost any other ink I've used in that pen.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

Noodler’s Dark Matter is on both hands, plus it got on my shirt. Gah!  Leaking Jinhao 599 is to blame.