You Can Only Have O N E

[Funkmon]

Gotta be Bay State Blue. Who cares about staining when it's just you on an island? But, if I have limited writing surfaces, Quink Washable, so I can use the same writing surface after some rough saltwater cleaning.

 

EDIT: maybe a 3.

Edited February 10, 2014 by Funkmon

[MyriamV]

Can I select an ink that's no longer available and make it magically appear on the island in unlimited supplies? If so, I'll take Sheaffer Peacock Blue. If not, I guess it would have to be Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo. On a scale of 1 to 10... I'd say about a 4.

[kulindi]

I would write a note in a bottle using Visconti Blue and wait to be rescued.....

[OcalaFlGuy]

Hi,

 

Pelikan Edelstein Topaz, because every day would be a day at the beach.

 

The hue is mood enhancing, and the writing experience very enjoyable, so that would keep me amused.

 

PET has enough water water resistance that messages in bottles are likely to survive until intercepted. Those messages wouldn't be the droll SOS sort of thing, but invitations to a luau with hula dancing - I'd have plenty of time to practice both cookery & dancing until guests arrive. Definitely BYOB (bring your own boat).

 

Bye,

S1

 

<Making the note to be sure I "end up" in S1's lifeboat.>

 

[EDIT] Probably The Best Member of FPN to ask, Sandy, what is this? Can we eat or drink it? What does it taste like?

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

Edited February 10, 2014 by OcalaFlGuy

[dspeers58]

Visconti Blue, and 3

[flyingfox]

What an interesting question!

 

The choice of ink depends on the condition...

If I have to be concerned about water-proof etc., 54th Mass.

Purely by color- Poussiere de Lune, my first love and still the favorite color EVER.

 

I was happy just with Poussiere de Lune for two years. So- if that's the one I pick, I would be like 2 or 3- mildly disappointed but can deal with that. With 54th Mass., it'd be a LOT worse...

[lynxcat]

Noodler's bulletproof black, and a 2 for annoyance.

 

let's face it, if there were only one ink it'd have to be a basic black. it may be boring, but black goes with anything. black goes with everything, sooner or later... </pratchett> and i may never bother looking for another black considering how well behaved and well performing bulletproof black is.

 

i don't use many ink colors. it'd be hard to do, when i do so little writing that most of my pens can go weeks on one fill and there's no point in my keeping more than two or three pens inked. so i ink up a basic black, for to go with anything, and maybe one other shade; i could easily do without that other shade.

[Renfield]

Well, I can sort of answer that one.

 

I am taking part in Inkuary, which is using only one ink and one colour for the entire month of February (for charity)

 

So for this month I have been using Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black and a sheaffer nononsense.

 

So far 11 days in, I am demented.

 

before I started I thought I would be fine with one ink, but thought one pen would be a struggle, but I was wrong, they are both a struggle....

 

I did not choose Black for the challenge, so perhaps that is an issue, if I could have chosen, I would have chosen a different ink......

But even though I am an 8 at least and I still have 17 days to go!

[Just I]

1. I think I would go for Heart of Darkness. I have never had any problems with this ink, it is (relatively) waterproof, nice to draw with, watered down into greys easily.

 

2. 12 - my note in the bottle would likely read "send colour" and I would probably get stung and grow an extra eye trying to harvest brightly coloured tropical bugs into coloured ink.

 

I am editing this because I just realized that I assumed the deserted island to be tropical in nature. What if were an island off the coast of northern BC? If I am going to go all Emily Carr, I might need a polar colour to get me through the winter.

Edited February 11, 2014 by Just I

[onepuff]

Rohrer & Klingner Salix - lovely ink that writes well with any pen and is waterproof in case the bottle leaks (I'll be sending a message in one).

 

1 definitely.

[inkstainedruth]

Hi,

 

Pelikan Edelstein Topaz, because every day would be a day at the beach.

 

The hue is mood enhancing, and the writing experience very enjoyable, so that would keep me amused.

 

PET has enough water water resistance that messages in bottles are likely to survive until intercepted. Those messages wouldn't be the droll SOS sort of thing, but invitations to a luau with hula dancing - I'd have plenty of time to practice both cookery & dancing until guests arrive. Definitely BYOB (bring your own boat).

 

Bye,

S1

Wow -- and here all this time I thought you were the Queen of Blue-Blacks!

 

Hmm. For me this is a toughie. Six months ago I would have said Noodler's Kung Te Cheng, no brainer. Now I'm not so sure. I've gotten away from using that recently in favor of other colors. OTOH, if I was on a desert island, I'd probably need something water resistant/waterproof. So that might still be my choice. Although, given that Pharmacist has surfaced recently, I *might* give that up in favor of his Urkundentinte. Or Turkish Night.... AACK!

As for answering the second question, I'd have to say at *least* a 7....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Runnin_Ute]

Either Diamine Sherwood Green or Pelikan 4001 Blue Black. (assuming Pel Blue Black becomes infinitely available again)

 

I have actually done it with the Pelikan. There was a time when that was all I used. Of course, I only had 2 pens then too. I had a partial bottle of Levenger Raven Black during that time, but rarely used it.

 

It would certainly be an annoyance maybe a 3 or 4.

[senzen]

Tsuyu Kusa!

[casualmerlinconstant]

Noodler's blue. great colour . the only colour I HAPPILY (quink blue and black =*retch*) used exclusively for a year before discovering all the different ink colours.

 

now I never fill a pen with the same ink twice so..8.

[casualmerlinconstant]

Hi,

 

Pelikan Edelstein Topaz, because every day would be a day at the beach.

 

The hue is mood enhancing, and the writing experience very enjoyable, so that would keep me amused.

 

PET has enough water water resistance that messages in bottles are likely to survive until intercepted. Those messages wouldn't be the droll SOS sort of thing, but invitations to a luau with hula dancing - I'd have plenty of time to practice both cookery & dancing until guests arrive. Definitely BYOB (bring your own boat).

 

Bye,

S1

I've been very frustrated with this ink. sometimes its nice and vibrant and cant-tell-if-is-blue-or-turqoise. most of the time it just looks like a dull and muted blue with a half hearted Stab at light blue

[Chettiar]

PR Ebony blue and .. Oh only one ink?.. Ugh.. Already my blood pressure soaring.. Can't see the screen.. Fingers shaking.. Falling off the chair...

[Bigeddie]

Montblanc Midnight Blue (old formula), it does everything I could want an ink to do. If I could have an unlimited supply of the old formula then I might consider moving to the island voluntarily when the last of my stocks run out.

 

Concern with only having one ink: 5

Concern with running out of old formula Midnight Blue: 8

Edited February 11, 2014 by Bigeddie

[Sandy1]

Montblanc Midnight Blue (old formula), it does everything I could want an ink to do. If I could have an unlimited supply of the old formula then I might consider moving to the island voluntarily when the last of my stocks run out.

 

Concern with only having one ink: 5

Concern with running out of old formula Midnight Blue: 8

 

Arrrrg!

 

Unlimted supply of MBBlBk you say? Your island is one that has time-shifted!!

 

Perhaps I'd sail across time from my island to yours during tsuki-yo nights to avail myself of such a trove!

 

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/332/7/8/hello_jolly_roger_by_ncozz-d5mg314.jpg

Edited February 11, 2014 by Sandy1

[lauriond]

+1 for R&K Salix with the <sigh> that I only use it in my few non-demonstrators and F+ nibs. It taints the transparent plastic/cellulose barrels, and it clogs in F, EF nibs unless very frequent flushing.. which I am not too good at.. :-( (fine nibs tear and collect very small paper fibres, and Salix seems to carry them up (? ) in the feed and create a clogy puree from the cellulose fibres/coating it actually solves. But the color, and its changes are really unique)

 

Waterman BB (née Mysterious Blue) if the ONE pen with the ONE ink should be one of my transparent TWSBI's.

[hoppes no9]

Noodler's Zhivago.

 

8/10.