Which Inks Are You Using Today?

[Methanius]

I'm enjoying Monteverde Fire Opal in a PenBBS Cracked Ice 456 M Architect, Diamine Teal in a Pilot Parallel 3.8mm, Diamine Oxblood in a Waterman Hemisphere M, J Herbin Lie de Thé in a yellow Lamy Safari F (really, more M) nib and my brand spanking new KWZ Green Gold in a PenBBS 322 Mini Fude Mian Mian. My currently inked inks lean towards darker and brown side!

[NeverTapOut]

Franklin Christoph Blue 72 in a MB 149 F.

[thesmellofdustafterrain]

My ink for today is a sample of Noodler's El Lawrence.

 

At first, I didn't like it much. It's pretty much just another black. But I've been writing with it for a few days and it's grown on me. It's got quite a lot of shading with a medium nib and looks shockingly different in different lights. If I hadn't already settled on Manjiro Nakahama colour, I would probably choose this as my daily ink. There's a lot more going on there than first appears.

[northstar]

Vintage Sheaffer Skrip Black loaded in a Sheaffer 727

 

[northstar]

Vintage Sheaffer Skrip Black loaded in a Sheaffer 727

 

[inkstainedruth]

Every year I tell myself, This is the year I win NaNoWriMo! I even bought a laptop to make it easier. So far, no novel.

I can't write on a laptop -- not for being creative, anyway. I was never that fast a typist, even on a manual typewriter. On a computer, I get too hung up on fonts and stuff.

I've gone back to using a pen on paper, at least for first drafts. Yes, it's messy and there are lots of scratch outs, and tic marks adding text in, and arrows to or from the margins if I've forgotten something I meant to say, and so on, and even occasionally down below the current set of texts.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedturh

[inkstainedruth]

Every year I tell myself, This is the year I win NaNoWriMo! I even bought a laptop to make it easier. So far, no novel.

I can't write on a laptop -- not for being creative, anyway. I was never that fast a typist, even on a manual typewriter. On a computer, I get too hung up on fonts and stuff.

I've gone back to using a pen on paper, at least for first drafts. Yes, it's messy and there are lots of scratch outs, and tic marks adding text in, and arrows to or from the margins if I've forgotten something I meant to say, and so on, and even occasionally down below the current set of texts.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedturh

[northstar]

Vintage Sheaffer Skrip Black loaded in a Sheaffer Snorke

 

 

Edited April 8, 2019 by northstar

[NeverTapOut]

None today...taking the day off : )

[DilettanteG]

First fill with my new bottle of Sailor’s Shikiori Yamadori in a Pilot Parallel 1mm. This was an impulse buy based off of reviews here. It’s a nice, free flowing dark teal, but doesn’t seem to be sheening on my Graphic Image Journal’s lined, cream colored, FP friendly paper. So far, so meh.

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been:

vintage Quink Blue (not sure if Washable or Permanent, because the label is gone), in the Cedar Blue 51 Vac with the EF nib;

Akkerman Dutch Masters Ruisdael Stormachtig Blauw, in the Pink TWSBI 580-AL, B nib;

and (somewhat diluted) Noodler's Heart of Darkness, in the Noodler's Cobalt Creaper, flex nib.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[DilettanteG]

I can't write on a laptop -- not for being creative, anyway. I was never that fast a typist, even on a manual typewriter. On a computer, I get too hung up on fonts and stuff.

I've gone back to using a pen on paper, at least for first drafts. Yes, it's messy and there are lots of scratch outs, and tic marks adding text in, and arrows to or from the margins if I've forgotten something I meant to say, and so on, and even occasionally down below the current set of texts.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedturh

I totally get this. When Im procrastinating, which seems to be a lot of the time, something about the mechanics of laying ink on paper gets the words flowing. Plus, that inevitably terrible first draft always seems so much worse on that otherwise flawlessly efficient computer sceen. Its like the blinking cursor is taunting me.

 

I think we are the last generation to unironically use a typewritter. Those manual ones were hell. The keys were practically magnetically drawn to stick together if you typed faster than a death march pace. I do miss the satisfying zing of the register return when completing a line, though.

Edited April 8, 2019 by DilettanteG

[chromantic]

KWZ Honey tonight, in M-nib M400 that's laying down a much wider line than I'm used to. Smells great, though.

[NeverTapOut]

MB Royal Blue in a 149 XXF.

[inkstainedruth]

So far today it's been Akkerman: Ijzer-Galnoten in the Parker Shrek 'Puss in Boots" Vector, M nib I got a couple of weeks ago, and Dutch Masters Stormachtig Blauw in the pink TWSBI 580-AL, B nib.

I inked up the Sailor Pro-Gear Slim Purple Cosmos with the zoom nib for the first time, but haven't had a chance to play with it yet -- right now, it's sporting old version Sailor Jentle Sky High, because that's the only Sailor ink I have an actual bottle of (I have some samples, but have mixed opinions on them).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Guardy]

Lots and lots and lots of Pelikan 4001 Blue-Black - my one true ink, especially for story-writing. Gotta be able to read back over that stuff in ten years, something that's not always guaranteed with Pelikan Royal Blue as I've found out the hard way...

 

Also a dash of GvFC Hazelnut Brown because I still had some of that in a pen or two and I'm trying to use that up so I can put those into storage. Still a very lovely ink - just one that lacks some contrast on my cream-colored notebook paper.

[DilettanteG]

Jacques Herbin 1670 Rouge Hematite in a Pilot Parallel 2.4mm. I love this ink, but I don’t trust those little sparkly gold buggers in my fancy, grown up pens.

[KaB]

R&K Königsblau in Lamy Al star (1.5)

Sailor Jentle Rikyu-Cha in Kaweco BRASS Sport EF

MB Lavender in Sheaffer Legacy I (stub)

Own DeAtramentis Document Ink mixture closest possible tu Yama-Dori in Visconti HS (EF)

[northstar]

Vintage Sheaffer Skrip Black loaded in a Sheaffer Snorkel

 

[NeverTapOut]