I'm looking for a truly gold (not yellow!) ink. Is a metallic color even possible?

I have some, but it is for dip pens only.

Maybe we should write that again in huge, red letters

Just this week I had to clean the gold ink out of a client's fountain pen. Not his fault - he bought it that way, but it's really ugly, and a royal pain to get out of a regular feed. I don't want imagine what it would be like in a 51.

sure gold ink is out there and easily available in art stores but don't use it in a fountain pen as gold ink is heavily pigmented/ sedimented so the little particles that make it gold will pretty much muck up the insides of any FP you use it in.

So if you want to write briefly with a FP that you can clean out alot or throw away then there is one available,

I wouldn't do it.

K

Yes, but (again) for dip pens only. I'm absolutely enamored with gold ink right now. The best I've found is Maimeri metallic powder or metallic mica powder (that you can find at a craft store) mixed with gum arabic (available on ebay). I did not care for Herbin gold ink and the powders I've mentioned are better than metalics mixed in an acrylic media.

The nice thing about dip pens is you can mix up basically any concoction you want and it will still write well.

True. Someone posted a lovely shade of coffee the other day. Perhaps we could have a wine-writing evening sometime and see which vintages write best.

I have some espresso and a nice bottle of white sherry to try.

Metallic powder clogs the mechanism, huh? That's about what I expected. I have no inclination to hurt my Pelikan.

I bet port would be nice too.

Regarding gold ink, you may have no interest in going the dip pen route but I have to say that the gold ink I've been using is sooooooooooooooooooo pretty. I don't know how to scan it to get it to show up though... it ends up looking brown on screen.

I know what you mean. The trick is reflected light, which scanners don't do well at all. I spent some time photographing a paint job I did on a paintball marker a few days ago. A beautiful gold paint from an airbrush, with green and tan spots in a scale pattern. Beautiful. She doesn't look at all right on the computer, though.

Anyway, that's what got me interested in the gold.

now if you really want to get gold then you've got to try gold leaf. Amazing stuff that is a bear to work with. But oh does is shine.

K

Yeah, I've worked with that a little. Haven't even thought about it since...high school art class? Ouch.

I've always liked the idea of something that's a tough to work with and really shows for it. Might take you up on that little challenge next time. Paint seems like cheating now.

My art store sells Windsor and Newton Gold Calligraphy Ink which I might try someday.
I don't know whether its gold or not so if anybody has tried m do tell.

yep that is gold ink for DIP PENS not FPs.

Kurt