What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[Sasha Royale]

Noodler's Blue.

 

It's pretty color that seeps from the section/barrel joint of my new fountain

pen from India. I believe this model costs about 100 rupees, in a retail

purchase in India.

 

I figure that anyone can make a good-writing Safari, TWSBI, or Kultur for

$50. I want to explore what I get for the additional $47. (ie. What is

missing from a $3 Indian fountain pen)

[FountainPenCollector1994]

Hello, My name is Silas.

 

I am 18 and have a love for collecting fountain pens!

 

I am trying to expand my collection of pens, inks, papers. I love both new and old.

 

To get an idea of what I am working with;

 

As for inks, I am a big fan of Noodler's Inks!

 

I am trying to expand my collection of inks, I would love samples of inks and papers! I have yet to try any of the great papers I have read about. I would love to gain experience in using all I can get lol. As you can imagine the fountain pen hobby is a bit pricey for a kid my age! But I love it, and we all start somewhere.

 

Thank you to all the wonderful people on here for all the great reviews, help, and knowledge I have gotten from reading. And especially all the generosity I have witnessed and experienced in growing my knowledge, experience, and collection!

[Newjelan]

Noodler's Bay State Blue in my new blue Lamy Al-Star I bought for the purpose. (This one better not burp ink because it has taken me 6 months to get the courage up to use use BSB after it burped all over my beautifully dining table - which will never recover)

 

Mont Blanc Lavender Purple - I can't seem to stay away from this ink!

[79spitfire]

Today, Scrip Blue-black from a troublesome Wearever, which has thoroughly proved it can't be trusted, (it burps ink into the cap for no apparent reason)

[loqutus]

Hello, My name is Silas.

 

I am 18 and have a love for collecting fountain pens!

 

I am trying to expand my collection of pens, inks, papers. I love both new and old.

 

To get an idea of what I am working with;

 

As for inks, I am a big fan of Noodler's Inks!

 

I am trying to expand my collection of inks, I would love samples of inks and papers! I have yet to try any of the great papers I have read about. I would love to gain experience in using all I can get lol. As you can imagine the fountain pen hobby is a bit pricey for a kid my age! But I love it, and we all start somewhere.

 

Thank you to all the wonderful people on here for all the great reviews, help, and knowledge I have gotten from reading. And especially all the generosity I have witnessed and experienced in growing my knowledge, experience, and collection!

 

Welcome Silas! You'd be surprised how many people with jobs work largely to support one expensive hobby or another......

 

Anyway - an uncharacteristically messy load this morning - it's the deceptively named Noodlers air corp "blue black" which perhaps should have been called Air Corp Flight Suit instead; as it's a pleasingly inoffensive olive drab coloured ink which goes particularly well on yellowish or beige paper ( to my eye at least ). This is one ink I should use more but I have a blue fetish

[psfred]

Skrip blue-black on my fingers today, yet another Parker 21 that leaks. This one was only a badly sealed hood, thankfully, that is now fixed.

 

Inky fingers annoy me.

 

Peter

[Lhyrre]

Diamine Grape (AKA purple.) =D

[Stonerman33]

A bit of diamine oxblood I neglected to wipe from my twsbi mini's section after filling. Tried to figure out when I cut myself for a good 5 seconds or so before it dawned on me.

Edited April 23, 2013 by Stonerman33

[LionofdiSouth]

Noodlers red-black from trying to adjust nib

[amberleadavis]

I'm traumatized that dipping my thumb into the Parker Penman Emerald did not instantly improve my yard. I will simply have to try another shade of green.

[bernardo]

Lamy Turquoise

very badly...

[reicel]

PR Black Magic Blue on the right and Diamine Red Dragon on the left. The BMB is always stubborn to remove but I like looking at the Red Dragon.

[JakobS]

Diamine Ancient. Copper, must of missed a spot othe section of my Lamy Studio! Looks better out of the 1.9mm nib. than on my fingers I must say.

[TomZak]

Lamy Turquoise

very badly...

 

Me too + Quink Black! It's impossible to wash out from fingers while Quink Black gave up after 2 washes. Lamy is really water-and-soapproof

[NewFPU]

Am I cheating myself of a valuable experience? I wear gloves when I change my inks. This is in order to keep my hands clean but am I somehow missing out on one of the fundamental joys of fountain pen ownership by doing this?!

 

 

Myste

[SeeksAdvice]

Old Manhattan Blackest Black. Like all of the Noodler's inks I have, it's very good at going places I don't want it. Not sure what it is, but always happens if I don't wear gloves :/ Also one small spot of Iroshiuku Take-Sumi where I caught the lip of the bottle.

 

To Techie-geek, there is no particular joy, in my opinion, to getting inked by anything. Having had ballpoints, rollerballs, and FP's self destruct in my hands, pockets, etc., I don't find the experience to have any fundamental joy.

[pmhudepo]

Parker Quink Blue, my EF nib caught a fiber during some Palmer drills.

[Painterspal]

Pilot Iroshizuku Peacock (ku-jaku)

 

Fingers back in their normal state after the clumsy filling of my Nakaya.

[bernardo]

They're clean today, I can't believe it!

[bernardo]

Double post, sorry.

Edited May 8, 2013 by bernardo