What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[corniche]

Quite literally for the first time in two months, there's not a stain on them.

 

Good for you!

 

Greetings all,

 

My fingers are skin colored because I know how to load my pens.

 

Here is how I do it:

 

1. Wash hands.

2. Open ink bottle, set cap aside

3. Ball up a Kleenex and wipe off the threads of the bottle

4. Place pen or converter inside bottle and fill up

5. Take another balled-up Kleenex and wipe off the section and the nib.

6. Replace cap

7. Reassemble pen if necessary.

 

By wiping off the bottle first and by balling up the Kleenex so the ink can't soak through to your skin, you can manage to stay clean through the whole process.

 

All the best,

 

Sean

 

PS: How do you manage to do it, Royal Pen?

Edited August 31, 2013 by S. P. Colfer

[79spitfire]

Baystate blue, and Binder Burple...

[SeeksAdvice]

Iroshizuku Syo-Ro.

[RJJ]

Messing with Purple Mojo

[Redonna]

 

Good for you!

 

Greetings all,

 

My fingers are skin colored because I know how to load my pens.

 

Here is how I do it:

 

1. Wash hands.

2. Open ink bottle, set cap aside

3. Ball up a Kleenex and wipe off the threads of the bottle

4. Place pen or converter inside bottle and fill up

5. Take another balled-up Kleenex and wipe off the section and the nib.

6. Replace cap

7. Reassemble pen if necessary.

 

By wiping off the bottle first and by balling up the Kleenex so the ink can't soak through to your skin, you can manage to stay clean through the whole process.

 

All the best,

 

Sean

 

PS: How do you manage to do it, Royal Pen?

 

Well, wheres the fun in that?

[sargetalon]

Aurora black. A fair bit of it too.

[InterInk]

Noodler's BBK and bit of Lamy blue... Yes, I'm blue man

[Centopar]

Diamine Beethoven goes on green, but once you've washed your hands a couple of times, it's blue. So they're blue!

[Newjelan]

Parker Quink Blue (first time I've used it and I like it) and Sailor Jentle Epinard - both coming offs easily.

[lectraplayer]

Right now, I have one finger Diamine Poppy Red and another Noodler Li'ning Blue. Love Baystate Blue but I didn't bring that pen.

[plumeau]

Clean, pink light like everyday !!!

[inkspot]

Diamine Sherwood Green and J. Herbin Vert Olive

[lalindsay225]

Diamine Red Dragon! I had shied away from red inks in the past, partly because my degree is in education and we were advised not to grade papers with red ink due to its perceived negative connotations, and partly because I saw so few red inks that were truly red, but I picked up a bottle of Red Dragon at this summer's Triangle Pen Show, and I have come to like this color a lot.

[Felix1]

... we were advised not to grade papers with red ink due to its perceived negative connotations...

I guess my kids' teachers never received that memo! ;-)

 

Besides, the ink isn't bright red anyway...more of a claret color...and very nice, I agree.

[Felix1]

Diamine Merlot -- a deep claret but there's a huge difference in color shade between wet and dry writers.

[Felix1]

Noodler's Navy...IMO, misnamed. There's a teal or green or turquoise component in there. Certainly not "navy" as I think of the traditional color (dark blue -- RBG 0, 0, 128).

[Felix1]

Make that "RGB"

[amberleadavis]

Noodler's Navy...IMO, misnamed. There's a teal or green or turquoise component in there. Certainly not "navy" as I think of the traditional color (dark blue -- RBG 0, 0, 128).

 

Yeah, with you on that ... I found one ink that was dark blue like that... now, if I could only remember.

[century]

Take Sumi....lots of Take Sumi.

[SharkOnWheels456]

Hmm... I cleaned all 4 of my pens today, so I have a dash of Baystate Blue, PR Velvet Black, Diamine Oxblood and J Herbin Lierre Sauvage on every finger and on my palm. Oh well