What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[mackthepen]

I thought I was clean today, but on careful inspection found a small line of green - it'll be something Diamine. I suspect my tongue might be red too, but I haven't checked.

 

Andrew

[JLT]

I disassembled a project pen - an early Snorkel Valiant - yesterday and my hands are still mostly blue. That pen must have been filled, put away and forgotten decades ago. What a mess!

[schweizer]

J Herbin Ecalt de Saphir

[djpyle]

My fingers are actually pretty clean today. For once. I have a little bit of Noodler's Navajo Turquoise on my right index, but that's it. At least until I go home tonight and do some refilling.

[Northwoods]

My fingers remain blue from a cart refill mishap with BSB last night, and I've added a blotch or two from Diamine Evergreen this morning. My hands look like I've been pummeling smurfs to death with pine trees.

[Possum Hill]

Clean fingers -- which reminds me that I need to clean a couple of pens.

[777]

Thank goodness... My fingers have been clean for a day or two but I finally got some ink on them this morning

 

It's noodlers navajo turquoise today!

 

Regards,

777

[Defacto]

Diamine midnight blue

[ztfw]

A mix of Diamine blue black, grey, damson and Prussian blue.

[Pengrump]

After eight days of Pilot Blue Black on my hand, I'm now ink-free for the moment anyway. I was traveling, took a cartridge pen with a Pilot Blue Black cartridge, and it leaked onto my hand and my shirt. The shirt still has a bit of blue black on it though I treated it with Amodex. The ink on the paw disappeared when I shampooed my hair. Am considering trying the shampoo on the shirt.

[laiki]

J. Herbin Perle Noire

 

Actually my palms are stained with the black ink rather than my fingers...I guess this is the result when mistreatment of my fountain pen led to ink buidup in both the nib and the converter

[bigstick]

this morning, I got off the last of yesterday's violet pensée. Today, so far nowt.

[calhoun tubbs]

A mystery turquoise and an equally mysterious blue-black that came off of some vintage pens I took apart to clean. I bought them off ebay, so I have no idea what those inks were. In fact, the sacks were completely deteriorated, so the dry ink rose from the dead to stain once more....

[LuckyDog10]

A mystery turquoise and an equally mysterious blue-black that came off of some vintage pens I took apart to clean. I bought them off ebay, so I have no idea what those inks were. In fact, the sacks were completely deteriorated, so the dry ink rose from the dead to stain once more....

 

I can relate. I finally dug out my old Sheaffer Calligraphy pens, which were stowed away in a shocking state of neglect years ago by a younger, more foolish version of myself. :embarrassed_smile: I have 6 nib units to clean, and two of them are clinging to some old jet-black ink like there's no tomorrow. It's now under my fingernails, on my knuckles...

 

I keep flushing them with clear water, but after 10 minutes in a fresh bath this ink oozes out and slinks to the bottom of the cup like some evil spirit. It has a certain creepy beauty to it. So much gushed out in the first hour I would have sworn the plastic was dissolving. (I doubt that's the case, since they're marinating in lukewarm filtered water. These pens are cheap, but not THAT cheap! )

[Mickey]

Just the tiniest dribbles of ...

 

Ku-jaku - Aurora 88

 

Tsuyu-kusa - Elysee (Thanks Loren)

 

Copper Burst - Namiki Falcon (Thanks to whoever contributed this at Pen Posse last Saturday)

 

and a close call with some Larmes de cassis.

[jniforat]

PR Dakota Red and, believe it or not, BSB ...such a nice blue

[zwingtip]

Waterman Green... ick. I had to fill the 1.1 italic with it so I could sign my grandmother's birthday card. SHe loves that color.

[Jeroboam]

Today some of my fingers are rose scented and rouge opera coloured.

 

Toodle-pip!

[Lachesis]

My fingers are colored with Aurora Blue and Rouge Opera...xD my mother asked me, "Why is your thumb bleeding?" I replied with "It's only ink, mom."

[Northwoods]

I be sportin' a bit o' the rustic brown and a splotch of oxblood. I ain't saying if the latter is the ink or...