Inky T O D - Silly things you know not to do with a new ink, but you do anyway

[amberleadavis]

I've been meaning to post this for a while - I even have my handwritten response, but I'm going to post it without the response for now.

 

What are things you do with an ink that you know better but you do it anyway?

[amberleadavis]

My number 1 - I mix inks in the pen.  Yep, I know better, but I will refill a pen without cleaning it out.  I never dip a dirty pen into a bottle of ink,  but those little sample vials are fair game.

[lapis]

I sometimes mix  -- i.e. shake vigorously -- a bottle of Noodler's. No, not to whip up the sediment and thereby increase the concentration but under the impression that that might possibly freshen up the original color intended, even if it means I'm later going to have to wash out all of the unwanted (over-concentration) crud.

[inkstainedruth]

Putting a new to me ink in a standard "test" pen to see how wet the ink is.  Instead, I tend to go "Gee, I think this color would look good coming out of this pen...."

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[amberleadavis]

3 hours ago, lapis said:

I sometimes mix  -- i.e. shake vigorously -- a bottle of Noodler's. No, not to whip up the sediment and thereby increase the concentration but under the impression that that might possibly freshen up the original color intended, even if it means I'm later going to have to wash out all of the unwanted (over-concentration) crud.

 

 

Don't forget the little dance where you shake body parts in time with shaking the bottle of ink and hope that no one catches you.

[PithyProlix]

8 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

 

 

Don't forget the little dance where you shake body parts in time with shaking the bottle of ink and hope that no one catches you.

 

Not sure what you are referring to. A video would surely help us understand. 

[JulieParadise]

14 minutes ago, PithyProlix said:

 

Not sure what you are referring to. A video would surely help us understand. 

Har, har, nice try! 😉

[amberleadavis]

17 minutes ago, PithyProlix said:

 

Not sure what you are referring to. A video would surely help us understand. 

 

 

[PithyProlix]

1 hour ago, amberleadavis said:

 

 

My inky sin is that I like to try 'unknown' inks and will put them in almost any pen besides my most expensive ones. By 'unknown' I mean inks that don't have any reviews, at least that I am aware of, and, sometimes, not even a picture or description online, almost all Chinese. 

 

No major catastrophes so far. 

[A Smug Dill]

Fill a condom (or balloon) with it, then add more water into the cavity, then tie a knot to seal the elastic container, and then drop it from a sufficient height?

[IlikeInksandIcannotlie]

Me after reading the replies here: 

As for what I do, I probably just throw whichever ink I get into whichever one of my pens I feel like using at that moment and take it for a spin, cleaning and behaviour be damned.

[amberleadavis]

17 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

Fill a condom (or balloon) with it, then add more water into the cavity, then tie a knot to seal the elastic container, and then drop it from a sufficient height?

 

You scare me. 

 

[dragondazd]

"I wonder if this is dry" *put in dry pen*

 

"I wonder if this clogs" *put in hard-to-clean pen*

[PithyProlix]

19 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

Fill a condom (or balloon) with it, then add more water into the cavity, then tie a knot to seal the elastic container, and then drop it from a sufficient height?

 

2 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

 

You scare me. 

 

 

Let's be glad he's on a different continent than both of us.

[lapis]

4 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

 

 

Let's be glad he's on a different continent than both of us....

... otherwise, ....

[amberleadavis]

17 hours ago, dragondazd said:

"I wonder if this is dry" *put in dry pen*

 

"I wonder if this clogs" *put in hard-to-clean pen*

 

OH MY GOODNESS  I have done this.

[arcfide]

I guess I'm a pretty good boy when it comes to my inks! But I'd have to nominate Inky Rocks (Youtube) for her absolute anarchist disregard for using fountain pen inks as, well, as writing inks instead of as bottles of goop to throw all over the place. Or, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if she bathed in her favorite scented fountain pen inks for that matter, given how much she seems to slap that ink all over the place. Of course, more power to her in this case, since I find it highly entertaining and enthralling to look at (the ink splatters and spills, not the supposed ink bath). 

[Sailor Kenshin]

Opening an eyedropper to see how much ink is left.

 

No.  I haven't done it yet.  But I totally would.  Which is why I don't have eyedropper pens.

[dragondazd]

1 hour ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Opening an eyedropper to see how much ink is left.

 

No.  I haven't done it yet.  But I totally would.  Which is why I don't have eyedropper pens.

This is bad? I do it all the time. How else would you know? Probably reduces burping potential by evening the pressure.

[A Smug Dill]

8 minutes ago, dragondazd said:

How else would you know?

 

By scrubbing all the opaqueness from the material of the barrel, so that one can see into it from the outside at any time?