What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[Pen Nut]

Red (very) and I can state that Montblanc SuperCleaner 21 does not apply to skin :embarrassed_smile:

[spcitrin]

Usually Irish green & Burgundy Red are on my hands no matter how careful I am. I dont know where the ink is coming from but alas I have become a fan of having a little ink on my hands.

[gumwater]

Noodler's Bad Blue Heron today. Love this blue-black

[P.A.R.]

Some faint smears of Noodler's Zhivago. I got a Goulet Sample and have only been using it in my Ahab since yesterday, but I think I may have to get a bottle. :hmm1:

 

Gumwater: I agree that BBH is a great ink. I also really like your "avatar."

 

TonySMJC: I don't think many people who post here walk around with half of their hands or an entire finger covered with blue or purple. It's not uncommon for me to have a bit of ink on my thumb and forefinger from writing with a pen, adjusting it, or wiping off a bit of ink around the section lip after uncapping.

Edited May 29, 2012 by P.A.R.

[gumwater]

Gumwater: I agree that BBH is a great ink. I also really like your "avatar."

 

Thanks, P.A.R. Seeing as how I really think I stink at graphic design, that means a lot.

[Cerbeos]

I did fill a pen with Noodler's Rome is Burning. And I got some on my fingers. The spots turned purple when I washed my hands.

 

AWESOME!!!

 

May have to get some just for that.

 

Just make sure you're in the bathroom and someone else is there washing their hands. When they see it change colours, just start screaming in pain

 

BTW, pix or it didn't happen

[matt385]

PR Tanzanite on my left hand. Was cleaning a cart and immediately washed with soap once I saw what was happening. It is now a faded purple like a faded bruise.

Also got PR Sepia all over the cutting board, thought that pen was empty!

[inkstainedruth]

I've got Herbin's Rouge Hematite on the side of my right middle finger, just below the nail (there's some nib creep with it in my Noodler's Flex Piston, but since it's otherwise behaving well and is such an awesome color -- and I don't even normally LIKE orange or rust -- that I don't care.

I'm just waiting for someone to tell me that I've got a bleeding hangnail, though.... Maybe I should bring a different pen with me when I go shopping later (although most places have the touch screen for credit card signatures any more so I can't even sign using a pen...)

:hmm1: Now do I bring the Guanleming Accountant (which is currently loaded with La Reine Mauve), or the Vector (to attempt to finish up the fill of Diamine Registrars Blue Black so I can flush the pen out and try something else), or do I bring the Urban, which has Salix in it at the moment? Or do I bring the Konrad (borked nib and all) because it's still actually writing and has KTC in it?

Decisions, decisions....

(no -- don't answer: I have to go buy shoes and unfortunately that means driving 45 to an outlet mall because the regular Easy Spirit store is gone.... :bonk: ). Sigh. I hate shopping if it isn't for yarns or books -- or inks....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[skipperhughes]

Private Reserve DC Supershow Blue

Noodler's XFeather

[enricof]

Hands cleaned quite well, but I wasted my business trousers with Noodler's Aircorp Blue-black.

 

Clipped my M-90 in the pocket, body fallen inside the deep pocket, a lot ok ink on the inner lining and then...

 

Currently in the washing machine, no much hopes...

[PDW]

Diamine Ochre between two fingers when I was swabbing for review. The yellow washed away leaving some VERY persistent magenta which is taunting me.

 

I have no sympathy whatsoever. Your excellent stream of reviews of the new Diamine inks is tempting me into adding even more to the growing ink collection. It's all your fault.

Edited June 1, 2012 by PDW

[WOBentley]

Noodlers Gruene eel in my MB Czar Nikolai I...I love the pen and it was due for some eel love! Bubbling of expelled air + full Noodlers bottle = green finger freckles!

 

Noodler's Black eel in my new to me MB 149...note to self please be careful with fingers around bottle rim!

 

Somehow I kepy the Liberty Elysium off of me...a small and rare personal victory!

Edited June 1, 2012 by WOBentley

[Artemis200]

Noodler's BSB, along with a little bit of Noodler's Blue-Black.

I haven't yet quite figured out how to fill my converter without making a horrible mess...

[bernardo]

Black (Aurora)

[GardenWeasel]

la couleur royale....and a beautiful stain it is!

[Tom Aquinas]

About 70 years of a technicolour eerrrk, from an old Shaeffer Snorkel I picked up in the wild and am tying to get going. It has a magnificent nib, so I'll persevere.

[MaikeruS]

As usual, slightly phenolic Urkundentinte stains courtesy of Pharmacist

[Tom Aquinas]

Blue Skrip and Quink

[kayakjax]

I'm very colorful today. I just installed a Continuous Ink Supply System (CISS) on my printer. It consists of a set of ink tanks connected to the replacement ink cartridges by a length of rubber tubing.

 

I'd bought it off ebay a few months ago but had waited until the ink cartridges that came with my printer (Canon MP640) ran out. Of course, when I finally opened the box, it did not come with instructions, but referred me to their youtube videos. And, of course, there was not a youtube video for my particular printer. I tried to figure it out myself. And the ink didn't feed through the tubes correctly. And the tubes kept stopping the print head from moving side to side correctly.

 

To make a long story only slightly shorter, I ended up taking the cartridges out several times before I realized I had the little filters/breathers plugged into the wrong place and had to pull little rubber plugs out and put them THERE. And when I got the vaporlock cured, I got ink all over my hands when I put it all back together.

 

So, in addition to the little splotches of Noodler's Red/Black and Heart of Darkness on my left thumb and forefinger (filled up a couple eyedropper pens), I have yellow, magenta, cyan and black printer ink on both hands.

 

Its a very vivid effect, especially where the yellow and cyan are next to each other.

 

Once I found out from another CISS dealer's video on my particular printer that you must leave the whole top slightly ajar enough for the hoses to feed (and then figured out a way to hold down the little switch that's supposed to keep it from working slightly ajar), everything works just fine. I can buy bottles of ink to refill the tanks MUCH cheaper than a set of cartridges would cost, so the miser in me is happy.

 

And I will be happy right up until that inevitable day (if the printer lives long enough) that the hoses finally fail somehow to flood my nice white tile counter top with a half pint or so of very vivid inks.

[melissa59]

Today I finished up my sample of Noodler's Midway Blue. Lovely shade! And I'm not normally a blue person.

I inked up my Lamy Safari, then put some in my Hero 616, and then I tried to get some inside my Noodler's Konrad. It just would not suck it up. I had to dump the ink from the 616 back into the tube, tip the container and slurp a tiny bit into my Konrad, then went back gave my 616 a drink.

 

Meanwhile, I got ink all over my fingers and it did not wash off with soap and water. I'm going to have to go give my hands a good scrubbing with a bar of Lava soap, which I think removes skin as well as dirt. If that doesn't work, I'll use bleach but I'd rather not do that if it can be avoided.