Which Inks Are You Using Today?

[HollyGolightly]

Nagasawa Kobe #55: Not the orange/red some have speculated. It's more dominated by magenta and yellow within the red. Gorgeous color and does well on low quality paper too--glad I picked it up!

 

Look at that old gold sheen. :cD

 

 

Top: Ink Card

Bottom: Tomoe (left), "everyday" paper (right)

What paper do you use for the card? Watercolor?

[haruka337]

Maruman Word Cards, which are now discontinued. However, if you can find watercolor paper at 90 lbs cold pressed, it should suffice nicely.

 

The more common watercolor paper weight is 140 lbs, but I find it too thick for ink samples.

 

Good luck!

[HollyGolightly]

Maruman Word Cards, which are now discontinued. However, if you can find watercolor paper at 90 lbs cold pressed, it should suffice nicely.

 

The more common watercolor paper weight is 140 lbs, but I find it too thick for ink samples.

 

Good luck!

Ah of course it's those. I blame myself for not buying them when I had the chance. Maybe I'll invest in a paper cutter? Watercolor is my preferred medium so I'll make sure I pick up something that's in that range. I think I read they are 156 gsm but my memory has never been terribly reliable.

 

Thanks kindly!

[inkstainedruth]

Today's inks (so far) have been:

diluted Montblanc Midnight Blue (trying to use up the fill in the M200 Café Crème, italic medium (?) nib, which is now flushed out ready to try something, well, drier...)

Private Reserve Arabian Rose, in a Noodler's PFC (flex nib)

diluted Lamy Dark Lilac, in the Dark Lilac Safari, F nib (not quite enough left of the sample left for a full fill, so I'm trying to run through it and may get that pen flushed out before going to the Triangle Pen Show)

vintage Parker Quink Violet, in the blue Laidtone Duofold with the OF, semi-flex nib

 

Still to come is some blue or blue-black because I've got bills to write; likely that will be diluted Noodler's BSB, in one of the Charlie pens.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[mehandiratta]

Pen in rotation today is ASA Swan which I have fitted with #5 Ambitious Flex Nib. The feed from Schmidt Nib Unit Keep up with the flex nib amazingly well. The ink used is Pelikan Edlestein Amethyst.

[eliweisz]

Platinum Black (cartridge) in my #3776 SF.

[uemuraw]

Noodler's Habanero in my orange Kaweco Sport Ice featuring a 1.1 mm italic nib.

[Shannon]

Edelstein Amber. Falling in love with it....

[Fabienne]

Stipula Calamo Verde Muschiato, OK, I am in love.

[Technomancer]

Diamine Sargasso Sea in my Jinhao 599 and Diamine Ancient Copper in my Kaweco Sport Brass.

[ENewton]

Rohrer and Klingner Solferino in a Platinum Balance, Shaeffer Skrip Gray in a Shaeffer Viewpoints calligraphy pen...and Pelikan 4001 Violet in a Pilot desk pen, except that I'm still waiting for the ink to saturate the feed.

[amberleadavis]

Nice choices.

[mehandiratta]

Custom pen from FOSFOR which is a button filler.... and inspired by Duofold...

It is inked with Krishna Officer's BlueBlack

[Shannon]

Loving Chesterfield Night Sapphire

[stephanos]

J. Herbin's Ambre de Birmanie in my Waterman 52V

Lamy dark lilac (cartridge) in my eponymous Safari

Sailor blue (cartridge) in my Sailor ProGear Imperial Black

Sheaffer blue-back (cartridge) in my Sheaffer Targa

(I almost never use cartridges, so this is very unusual!)

[amberleadavis]

Sometimes, I enjoy cartridges.

[mehandiratta]

Pilot 78G – B Stub Nib inked with Lamy Turquoise Ink. This ink is my all time favourite Turquoise ink and it was also my first turquoise ink.

[Technomancer]

Diamine Ancient Copper in my Kaweco Brass Sport

Pelikan 4001 Turquoise in my Baoer 051

[Cyber6]

WOW Mehandiratta... I haven't dropped by this thread for some time.... WOW... you have a real nice collection of indian and custom pens... (and indian/customs pens.. lol)

 

Really nice...

 

 

 

C.

[mehandiratta]

WOW Mehandiratta... I haven't dropped by this thread for some time.... WOW... you have a real nice collection of indian and custom pens... (and indian/customs pens.. lol)

 

Really nice...

 

 

 

C.

 

 

Thank you cyber so much....