Most Boring - On Emptying A Bottle Of Tsuki-Yo

[I.M.]

We even have a tassel.

 

I'm wondering how long the tassel will last before being baptized, or even coming completely undone.

 

Well dang. I was doing a bit of a race on emptying a bottle and was doing very well. I had only about a fourth of a bottle of Asa Gau to go and then tragedy struck. I broke the cap. Grrr. So the rest of the ink was mixed with some Parker Blue and the bottle (the only reason I bought the ink in the first place) now rests in the recycle bin. I hang my head in shame.

 

I was going to ask if you open your ink bottles with your chain saw, but then a couple of posts later the truth was revealed.

 

eleventh and twelfth refill at once (both the Vac and the Vista ran out this morning). So expect to see a huge difference this time...

 

Flicker's gobbled up this photo

 

Cool project you've got going here KaB.

Edited September 18, 2015 by I.M.

[jmccarty3]

I've found that if I place the tassel around the bottom cap thread before replacing the cap, the cap is much less likely to stick to the threads and is much less likely to break. I've not seen any leakage doing this, and the cap comes on and off much more easily.

[KaB]

16th filling: Vac700 again:

 

 

17th comming soon...

[KaB]

and 17th filling (the Lamy again)

 

[I.M.]

Woohoo!

[clazbill]

I'll admit to coming back to this thread over and over. I'm tempted to do something similar with a new bottle of ink in the future.

[sirgilbert357]

I'll admit to coming back to this thread over and over. I'm tempted to do something similar with a new bottle of ink in the future.

 

I check in periodically too. I use like 3 or 4 inks in rotation though, so if I did a thread like this it would take years to show just one bottle being fully emptied, lol...

 

To KaB: Hey, are you shaking the bottle gently before filling, or just leaving it as is between/during fills? Obviously, the picture leads me to ask since there is a bit of build up on the bottle's insides. My Iroshizuku Asa-Gao does not have this build up I don't think, but I shake all of my inks a little prior to filling just to be sure everything is well mixed in there. It may not be necessary with some of them, but its a habit of sorts...

[Aetheric Continua]

I'll admit to coming back to this thread over and over. I'm tempted to do something similar with a new bottle of ink in the future.

 

 

 

I check in periodically too. I use like 3 or 4 inks in rotation though, so if I did a thread like this it would take years to show just one bottle being fully emptied, lol...

 

To KaB: Hey, are you shaking the bottle gently before filling, or just leaving it as is between/during fills? Obviously, the picture leads me to ask since there is a bit of build up on the bottle's insides. My Iroshizuku Asa-Gao does not have this build up I don't think, but I shake all of my inks a little prior to filling just to be sure everything is well mixed in there. It may not be necessary with some of them, but its a habit of sorts...

 

I've subscribed to this post I have my notifications set to send me a kind of daily digest if anything new's been posted.

[I.M.]

 

... I shake all of my inks a little prior to filling just to be sure everything is well mixed in there. It may not be necessary with some of them, but its a habit of sorts...

 

I've stopped shaking my bottles, thinking it's best that anything that looks... 'dusty' is better in the bottle than in my feeds. But to be honest I'm still not sure of where to draw the line between harmless and hazardous.

Edited October 9, 2015 by I.M.

[FOUR X FOUR]

Forgive me but I don't see the excitement.

[Charles Rice]

Forgive me but I don't see the excitement.

It's sort of like a horse race. Nobody really gets excited until the last furlong.

[sirgilbert357]

I've stopped shaking my bottles, thinking it's best that anything that looks... 'dusty' is better in the bottle than in my feeds. But to be honest I'm still not sure of where to draw the line between harmless and hazardous.

I don't really see anything settling on the bottom of my bottles, so I guess I'm OK for now. Or maybe shaking them each time I fill keeps them from settling enough to see it in the bottom of the bottle. I agree though--the less junk that ends up in my pen feeds, the better.

[clazbill]

For me, it's the joy of using up a bottle bit by bit. I have quite a few bottles and I rotate inks quite a bit. I smile when I notice an ink has reached some arbitrary point - past the top of the label, say.

 

Here's a thread focusing on that. Focusing on the use of a single bottle.

 

That and it's different than just about all the other threads, so it's interesting as a contrast.

[KaB]

 

I check in periodically too. I use like 3 or 4 inks in rotation though, so if I did a thread like this it would take years to show just one bottle being fully emptied, lol...

 

 

 

So do I (see my signature): the tsuki-yo is only in my 1.5 vista that sits on my desk at home and will be used only for any writing I do working at home and in the 1.5 VAC that is one out of 3 pens I use at work Other than those 4 there's the Lamy Al-star that's always in my shirt pocket when not out for work. So the Tsuki-Yo is used in 2 out of 5 inked pens only...

 

These 2 are indeed used more than the others and they do have the broadest nib.

[KaB]

 

To KaB: Hey, are you shaking the bottle gently before filling, or just leaving it as is between/during fills? Obviously, the picture leads me to ask since there is a bit of build up on the bottle's insides. My Iroshizuku Asa-Gao does not have this build up I don't think, but I shake all of my inks a little prior to filling just to be sure everything is well mixed in there. It may not be necessary with some of them, but its a habit of sorts...

 

No, I'm not shaking the bottle. On the contrary: it's kept in a small drawer (together with it's brothers and sisters) and I always open and close the drawer carefully and pick out the carton carefully in order not to shake things up. Has nothing to do with not shaking up the ink but with keeping the lid and the rim of the bottle clean. I've noticed that if the bottle has been shaken, I try to avoid getting blue ink all over my fingers by cleaning lid and rim first with an cloth I use to rinse ink from the pen after filling and this brings dust from the cloth into the bottle, sometimes even smears other ink colours from the cloth to the lid. This seems a lot worse than accepting there might form some residue at some time.

If residue forms, we'll see by then.

(yes I do change cloth from time to time, but not every week )

[KaB]

For me, it's the joy of using up a bottle bit by bit. I have quite a few bottles and I rotate inks quite a bit. I smile when I notice an ink has reached some arbitrary point - past the top of the label, say.

 

 

That's exactly the intimate pleasure I try to share!

[SahilGulati]

This post is so Zen. I'm not kidding. You just need the right music.

[sirgilbert357]

 

No, I'm not shaking the bottle. On the contrary: it's kept in a small drawer (together with it's brothers and sisters) and I always open and close the drawer carefully and pick out the carton carefully in order not to shake things up. Has nothing to do with not shaking up the ink but with keeping the lid and the rim of the bottle clean. I've noticed that if the bottle has been shaken, I try to avoid getting blue ink all over my fingers by cleaning lid and rim first with an cloth I use to rinse ink from the pen after filling and this brings dust from the cloth into the bottle, sometimes even smears other ink colours from the cloth to the lid. This seems a lot worse than accepting there might form some residue at some time.

If residue forms, we'll see by then.

(yes I do change cloth from time to time, but not every week )

 

Ah, makes perfect sense. I like the way you think. I hadn't thought about the possibility of getting stuff in the ink from the wiping of the bottle (I use a paper towel, but not every single time). Food for thought...

[sirgilbert357]

This post is so Zen. I'm not kidding. You just need the right music.

 

 

I agree. LOL.

[sirgilbert357]

 

 

So do I (see my signature): the tsuki-yo is only in my 1.5 vista that sits on my desk at home and will be used only for any writing I do working at home and in the 1.5 VAC that is one out of 3 pens I use at work Other than those 4 there's the Lamy Al-star that's always in my shirt pocket when not out for work. So the Tsuki-Yo is used in 2 out of 5 inked pens only...

 

These 2 are indeed used more than the others and they do have the broadest nib.

 

Wow. You're still going through it relatively quickly compared to how I use my inks. Those fat juicy nibs certainly help...I have a bottle of Pelikan Edelstein Topaz that I bought a year ago and used in my Pelikan M205 (which was a daily carry for me for a long time) and its still just a smidge over half gone. I do write more now than I used to though, so I expect that bottle to be gone within 6 months (assuming I get my M205 back from Chartpak sometime soon; its out for repair), even though the M205 is only running a medium nib. Man, I miss that pen and that ink just doesn't look right coming out of any other pen I own currently...