Inky T O D - The Unthinkable Has Happened, Amber Had To Choose 1 Ink

[Fuzzy_Bear]

 

 

You were the one who helped me find Dromgooles and two of the inks I hoard - Tanned Armadillo and Comanche Rouge (which just got replaced by Maoxi).

I still have my Tanned Armadillo. Only 1 bottle left of Comanche Rouge. Gave it to a student along with a pen. Replaced the pen 2 years ago as the section split.

 

May have to try the TA as a drawing ink.

[Fuzzy_Bear]

I didn’t participate in this thread (I don’t have a lot of experience with different inks), but I have thoroughly enjoyed following it. Very entertaining and I’ve learned a lot!

Be very careful. We are not only enablers, we are pushers of the inky kind! You will soon have more than you ever thought you would have.

[amberleadavis]

I still have my Tanned Armadillo. Only 1 bottle left of Comanche Rouge. Gave it to a student along with a pen. Replaced the pen 2 years ago as the section split.

 

May have to try the TA as a drawing ink.

 

TA is color of my skin. Nothing tan about it.

[amberleadavis]

I didn’t participate in this thread (I don’t have a lot of experience with different inks), but I have thoroughly enjoyed following it. Very entertaining and I’ve learned a lot!

 

I am glad you have had fun!

[wallylynn]

I need to sort my few inks. If such a situation came up, I'd grab KTC because the bottle is big and bright (white box). Then I'd be disappointed because KTC is finicky. What I really want to bring is my bottle of discontinued MB midnight blue IG. I hope it hasn't degraded.

[Fuzzy_Bear]

 

TA is color of my skin. Nothing tan about it.

Didn't know armadillos lived out there!

[Visua]

Had Noodlers Red Black already been guessed? If not, thats my guess #2

[amberleadavis]

Visua, thank you for playing! It was Stipula IG Red. I do like Noodler's Red-Black, but I don't own a bottle of it, just some samples.

[RitwijMishra]

I never not witness with astonishment the astonishment most of you fellow users feel at the prospect of using an ink and no other.

 

I only ever use Montblanc Permanent Black ink.

 

It satisfies my aesthetics by being darker than the tenor of my poems; it is undoubtedly one of the (many) blackest inks available for fountain pens these days.

 

It flows wet enough to feel viscous and lubricated and to satisfy my lust for the glint of daylight upon ink droplets. It flows dry enough to not veil the line variation of the nib on my fountain pen (I own no other) - a stubbish Broad 14C on my 149.

 

As for permanence, an attribute I would die for to have in my ink, it has as of yet proven to be as lightfast and water-resistant as I would hope an ink formulated for fountain pens as being.

 

We are in the middle of a nationwide lockdown at the moment, and my nagging fear, besides coronavirus - I am too cowardly of life to fear death - is running out of ink. I brought along no more than a bottle of this ink to this town where I got stuck in. I am at my parents, so I am comfortable enough to not have the right to quibble, but my spare bottles being at home in my hometown, I feel quite anxious lest I have to resort to taking a cue from Marquis de Sade who, as the lore goes, used his blood instead when ink was denied him.

[Intensity]

I never not witness with astonishment the astonishment most of you fellow users feel at the prospect of using an ink and no other.

 

I only ever use Montblanc Permanent Black ink.

 

It satisfies my aesthetics by being darker than the tenor of my poems; it is undoubtedly one of the (many) blackest inks available for fountain pens these days.

 

It flows wet enough to feel viscous and lubricated and to satisfy my lust for the glint of daylight upon ink droplets. It flows dry enough to not veil the line variation of the nib on my fountain pen (I own no other) - a stubbish Broad 14C on my 149.

 

As for permanence, an attribute I would die for to have in my ink, it has as of yet proven to be as lightfast and water-resistant as I would hope an ink formulated for fountain pens as being.

 

We are in the middle of a nationwide lockdown at the moment, and my nagging fear, besides coronavirus - I am too cowardly of life to fear death - is running out of ink. I brought along no more than a bottle of this ink to this town where I got stuck in. I am at my parents, so I am comfortable enough to not have the right to quibble, but my spare bottles being at home in my hometown, I feel quite anxious lest I have to resort to taking a cue from Marquis de Sade who, as the lore goes, used his blood instead when ink was denied him.

 

If ordering for delivery is not available to you in your location and you do begin running on your ink, you could consider diluting the remaining ink with water. The result will be gray, of course, but still permanent.

[amberleadavis]

 

 

I feel quite anxious lest I have to resort to taking a cue from Marquis de Sade who, as the lore goes, used his blood instead when ink was denied him.

 

 

Doubtful that you will finish a full bottle during this time, but WWII soldiers used more than blood. Personally, I would start in the spice cabinet. Turmeric would be interesting .

[RitwijMishra]

Part of my response was in jest.

 

In truth, I do believe that the bottle (I had packed quite a fresh one) might outlast this exile, both because the ongoing introjection we writers across the world are witnessing in ourselves has somewhat stifled our writing arms - mine frail ones not excepting - and because I have noticed in the past that half a bottle of this ink can fill two unruled A5 sized Clairefontaine Triomphe tablets. A single side of each sheet I usually fill with about 2000 words - my style of handwriting is unwittingly a minuscule one. So a bottle quite recently uncapped for use might be used for quite a few poems.

 

Besides, I could always use Scrivener to compose if I do run out of ink.

[inkstainedruth]

 

 

Doubtful that you will finish a full bottle during this time, but WWII soldiers used more than blood. Personally, I would start in the spice cabinet. Turmeric would be interesting .

 

Of course turmeric would ALSO stain everything it was in contact with (and people think Noodler's BSB is bad... ).

Years ago, a friend lent someone some kitchen spoons, and the person who borrowed them went overboard on the turmeric in whatever it was she was cooking. And the stains NEVER came out (and I think they might have been stainless steel spoons, but might also have been wood...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[amberleadavis]

BSB has nothing on Turmeric.

 

 

@R -I use giant pens and write like I'm yelling so that I can get through my ink collection.

[clazbill]

@R -I use giant pens and write like I'm yelling so that I can get through my ink collection.

 

Hmm.. now you're making me re-think my recent preference for EF/F nibs. Go broad to use up ink so I can acquire new ink.

[mhguda]

Turmeric is an essential ingredient of massala and curry, tastes great and is good for most people. BSB can't claim that!

[inkstainedruth]

Turmeric is an essential ingredient of massala and curry, tastes great and is good for most people. BSB can't claim that!

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Fuzzy_Bear]

My go to spice is Cumin. Wonder how that would work?

[FLZapped]

For me it would be Noodler's Legal Lapis. -Bruce

[Highbinder]

Platinum 3776 + Sailor Jentle Miruai

 

I could, and have, used this as my only pen and ink combo.

 

Although after a quick google looks like the 50ml bottles are no where to be seen (£44 on amazon?!?!).