Woohooo, look at this:






Recently I got me 2 Bottles of Baystate Blue but I didn't liked the fact that there was no shading at all, so I mixed it with some Noodlers
Gruene Cactus, Waterman Florida Blue and some Pelikan Brilliant Black... and some water! And I LIKE the result! Geat shading!!!

That's an amazing new colour. Congratulations on the discovery.

Neil

And you didn't get any precipitation? Baystate Blue isn't pH-neutral so one has to be careful to mix it with other inks as some dyes could react when the pH-level has changed ...

by the way you're taking law as a subject, don't you? These expertise seems quite familiar to me;)

Nice color, and great shading!

Go slowly with whatever pen you use this in. I mean, put this ink in something cheap and rinse out the pen it was in it if cost more than twenty bucks.

As someone else mentioned, when these inks came out there were postings warning AGAINST mixing them with other inks. I am probably paranoid, but if the warning is not to mix then I would not have mixed.

I probably sound like a grumpy old man, sorry about that. Good luck, j

Yes, there was alot of precipitation, that looked soo ugly... >_<' ...I had to shake it for a while until it became fluid again!




Yepp, I know what you mean, the first result when mixing BSB with something else is just HORRIBLE!!!
But as I explained above, I have to shake it alot untill it was fluid again! =) And I'm not using it with any of my
FP's, I'm using it just with my dip pens, and the result is great, specially that shading!

I don't remember the exactly portions of inks I mixed together, but that's not so important, I have 250 ml left, hehe...




yap, that's Economic Law! ...it's interesting! ^^

I would never want to change or mix the BSB. It's in its own class, where it shall remain....warts and all....nothing comes close to it.

Post by Nathan Tardif of Noodlers
Posted on: Mar 20 2008, 03:05 PM

FYI
Baystate should not be mixed with other inks, however - we've decided that a few should be available that can be mixed with it. They will all share the "Baystate" artwork and are classed as an ink family the following way: "1946 compatible". Any Noodler's Ink that states "1946 compatible" on the label will be fully mixable with Baystate Blue and any other ink that states the same. The colors are very intense and a joy to write with - and have had positive reviews in testing. They are still radical inks - not your usual fountain pen inks....so, please keep this in mind when using them. They really do NOT like being mixed outside their family - and it is wise to rinse out a pen that had a different ink in it before filling with a 1946 style ink. They are also the first inks to have very divergent properties and reflections of light - some even have "migratory" pH (the pH of the ink changes depending upon the paper one uses and even due to different temperature exposures - you can see this with certain thermal papers and chemically treated papers). That is why Baystate Blue has a range for its pH. Baystate Blue is waterproof on all but the most coated papers (those with wax and oil content in particular) and the other "1946 compatible" inks vary in their properties....but the distinction is made only based upon their ability to be mixed with each other - not based upon properties.
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^^

I read those warnings when the ink was released and I do not understand.

"really do NOT like being mixed outside their family" and "should not be mixed with other inks"

Or what? The pen will explode? Clog? Not write?

Probably clog due to the formation of precipitates.

What sorta nib are you using?!!

It's a dip pen nib as I wrote somewhere above... a broad itallic nib, 1,0 mm

One of these:


LEONARDT TAPE 1 mm

You will be tampering with the fundamental forces of the universe and risk setting off a chain reaction that will destroy us all! Destroy us all!!! Or you might clog your pen. One or the other anyway.

Be careful mixing acids and bases- you can get reactions that precipitate out product "salts" that can clog pens.

...as long as I'm using it with a dip pen it's ok, and the color is really GREAT!!!