If You Could Only Choose One Ink for a Lifetime...

[Bo Bo Olson]

If Blue Black, then ESSR, which can depending on the paper turn black while you write, or take three days. A good blue black will change from blue to a blackish ink.

Back when the longest thread on the com was current, users rated ESSR over Diamine blue black.

[inkstainedruth]

Which is funny because I tried a sample of Diamine Registrar's and was completely underwhelmed -- it had nice shading but otherwise seemed awfully light and wispy in color for an IG ink.  
Have not tried ESSRI -- for that size bottle?  I don't think I could through it fast enough before it started to precipitate the iron content out, even if it was the ONLY ink I used.  I had enough trouble with a 60 ml bottle of Akkerman Ijzer-Galnoten go bad on me, and I liked that ink WAY more than the sample I tried of Diamine Registrar's....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[lamarax]

On 10/4/2024 at 9:42 AM, Wil D said:

Pelikan 4001 Blue-black

 

I'm with @Wil D on this. Although it will get mortally boring for the duration of a lifetime 😛

[lamarax]

On 5/30/2024 at 7:56 PM, torstar said:

That wasn't on my bingo card for how someone would tell the world what they think is amusing.

 

Well it's certainly amusing thinking that someone could get stuck with an ink for a lifetime, but no pen left to use it (because said ink had destroyed the pen) 😛

[dhanks]

Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black ink.

 

Rumpole

[Mercian]

On 10/5/2024 at 8:42 PM, lamarax said:

 

I'm with @Wil D on this. Although it will get mortally boring for the duration of a lifetime 😛

 

Ah, but the fact that some pens lay it down wet enough to make it turn black, while in others it 'only' becomes a dark blue-grey with lovely shading, while in the driest it cures to a grey-blue that still shades means that it can provide more variety than most other inks (without incurring the highly-increased maintenance necessitated by e.g. the 'trickster' ink ESSRI).

[AndyYNWA]

On 10/4/2024 at 5:33 AM, booboo_vn said:

Sailor Konagi. Love its blue

Lovely ink!

[torstar]

On 10/5/2024 at 6:56 PM, lamarax said:

 

Well it's certainly amusing thinking that someone could get stuck with an ink for a lifetime, but no pen left to use it (because said ink had destroyed the pen) 😛

 

a pointy stick or a quill or bird feather might do in a pinch

 

 

[Mercian]

11 minutes ago, torstar said:

 

a pointy stick or a quill or bird feather might do in a pinch

 

 

 

Aye, as long as one can find someone who is willing to try to get a suitable one out of a goose, or a swan.

The swans here are legally regarded as being the property of the monarch. Harassing one of them in the hope of removing one or more of its flight feathers might well attract some ancient condign punishment, as encoded in some still-un-repealed mediæval law.
Perhaps a spell in the stocks, or the amputation of a hand, or maybe imprisonment in the Tower, or beheading... 😱

[lamarax]

21 minutes ago, torstar said:

 

a pointy stick or a quill or bird feather might do in a pinch

 

 

 

You'd need a goose handy for that. No gooses in St. Helena. (pointy stick is scratchy... eeww) 😛

[lamarax]

12 minutes ago, Mercian said:

 

Aye, as long as one can find someone who is willing to try to get a suitable one out of a goose, or a swan.

The swans here are legally regarded as being the property of the monarch. Harassing one of them in the hope of removing one or more of its flight feathers might well attract some ancient condign punishment, as encoded in some still-un-repealed mediæval law.
Perhaps a spell in the stocks, or the amputation of a hand, or maybe imprisonment in the Tower, or beheading... 😱

 

Aha! Hanging, drawing and quartering! I quite like that 😛

[torstar]

37 minutes ago, Mercian said:

 

Aye, as long as one can find someone who is willing to try to get a suitable one out of a goose, or a swan.

The swans here are legally regarded as being the property of the monarch. Harassing one of them in the hope of removing one or more of its flight feathers might well attract some ancient condign punishment, as encoded in some still-un-repealed mediæval law.
Perhaps a spell in the stocks, or the amputation of a hand, or maybe imprisonment in the Tower, or beheading... 😱

 

 

thanks!

 

a recent matter required reviewing cash ledgers from the mid-1800s

 

the handwriting was exquisite and useful on the pages that were decently preserved

 

 

 

 

[torstar]

25 minutes ago, lamarax said:

 

Aha! Hanging, drawing and quartering! I quite like that 😛

 

geese and swans would never submit to this

[inkstainedruth]

Yeah.  As I understand it, geese and swans are pretty nasty.  

Years ago, when I was living in MA, the local SCA chapter's Cooks Guild had a field trip out to someone's house because they were raising geese, so we were learning how to prepare and cook one (trying to get all the stubs of the quills out of the skin is a PITA, BTW).  

And the woman said that one of their neighbors didn't like the geese, even though they were penned in.  So he let his dog loose into the pen.  And the dog started chasing the geese, who (as a flock) ran to the end of the pen.  But when they got to the fence, they turned around (as a flock) and started chasing the DOG!  And the dog's owner called the local police....  And the cop who came out was like, "Okay, let's see.  You were trespassing, you let your dog off its leash (there's an ordinance against that in this town), and -- oh, by the way -- there's a law in Massachusetts against harassing livestock....  Wanna rethink this, buddy?"

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth