52+ Inks - 2017 - Weekly Community Ink Project

March 31, 2017

Well, it was going to be my Akkerman #5 Shocking Blue, that I paid $40 for, but it wasn't Shocking Blue, but #8 Diep-Duinwaterblau in a Shocking Blue bottle, and Akkerman replaced it with a real bottle, so now I have two bottles of Akkerman ink for $40, so that's not so bad.

Perhaps, if I added my time, it would be the 100 cartridges of Parker Penman Sapphire that I got from Pokydady, because I then punctured each cartridge and extracted the ink with a syringe, and decanted it into a bottle.

This will require some thought...

March 31, 2017

Well you are free to choose any criteria you want!

March 31, 2017

Liz, sometimes the most expensive ink is the one that ended up costing you the most ... as in one or more of FPNers has spilled ink on some dreadfully expensive clothing ... or irreplaceable furniture. At least one person has a BSB sink story that really ought to qualify.

That expanded definition of expensive would distress my poor brain in its efforts to distill this down to 0s and 1s, except I don't (yet?) have such a story. There is a bit of (I think) Waterman Audacious Red on my family room carpet, though.

My take away is that we should each define "most expensive" for ourselves rather than apply a standard rule for determining expense. That works. Thanks!

PS: I've read that BSB story and must confess to being amused by the author's tale (though I'm sure it wasn't amusing for him at the time).

March 31, 2017

Yeah and if the spouse asks for a divorce over ink spills, then the ink becomes very expensive.

March 31, 2017

Yeah and if the spouse asks for a divorce over ink spills, then the ink becomes very expensive.

Yes, much too expensive. Let's hope no one has (or will) come close to that expensive! And now I'm off to see if I can find an ink that's "fun" or "up to no good"...