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Well, I've got a nice cut on the side of my finger now. embarrassed_smile.gif

 

I think I angered my Ahab. I put "that ink which we do not speak of" into it, and it really hated the ink, and me for doing that.

 

I was getting sick of it's lousy performance and temper-tantrums, so I decided to flush and re-ink.

 

 

Whilst flushing it, the side of the nib, those nice and sharp shoulders, cut my thumb. I had one heck of a time flushing it. Almost permanently stained my sink too...

 

 

I put it back together. Re-inked with Noodlers black. Like a new pen now. :)

 

But my wound still remains. I shall vow to never feed my Ahab a nasty ink again. Sorry Ahab...

 

 

Anyone else ever gotten bit by their pens? I've had plenty of clients pen try and spear my hand before, many with great success... mellow.gif

Need a pen repaired or a nib re-ground? I'd love to help you out.

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Colossians 3:17 - And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

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I once got stabbed in the hand with a Lamy Safari. I had a tattoo of sorts on my palm. It hurt like heck, but fortunately the American blue ink was not toxic.

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Yea, that is my first and last tattoo, I was stabbed in the finger by a crowquill loaded with India ink. Still there!


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Hm, there's an opening for the enterprising tattoo artist; BSB tattoos.

"Perdita thought, to take an example at random, that things like table manners were a stupid and repressive idea. Agnes, on the other hand, was against being hit by flying bits of other people's cabbage." (Pratchett, T. Carpe Jugulum.)

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Well then... I guess I won't be letting any writing instruments into my padded room! You're talking to the guy who cut off a part of his finger pad taking out the rubbish (something sharp inside...)

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My husband had a little Noodler's Black tattoo for a good long time after a fight with a pen. I laughed at him until I ended up with BSB all over my hands after an angry exchange with my Preppy Eyedropper and ended up being called "Smurf" for several days until I finally got it off. These inks don't play!

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Just like me when someone give me coke zero instead of regular coke! and that goes for diet coke and any other coke flavors as well!

 

I am a one ink pen, I only work with regular coke in me! :roflmho:

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Heh, BSB is far away from nasty -- try Chesterfield Archival Vault :P Great ink but the sample I have precipitates like crazy, wouldn't dare to put it into something else I can't as easily clean as an Ahab... BSB cleans up nicely w/ a bit of bleach. How in the world did you get cut when flushing ? Trying to remove the nib and the pen hold on to it ?

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Heh, BSB is far away from nasty -- try Chesterfield Archival Vault :P Great ink but the sample I have precipitates like crazy, wouldn't dare to put it into something else I can't as easily clean as an Ahab... BSB cleans up nicely w/ a bit of bleach. How in the world did you get cut when flushing ? Trying to remove the nib and the pen hold on to it ?

 

You ever had it, where you're holding something, and suddenly, your fingers and the object just explode? Not literally of coruse, but they explode with movement.

 

That happened. I twitched I guess. :) While holding the nib.

 

Gave me a no-joking 1.5" gash on my thumb. Luckily the deep part was only about 1/4" long.

 

I feel stuuupid... wallbash.gif

 

 

Need a pen repaired or a nib re-ground? I'd love to help you out.

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Colossians 3:17 - And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

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You ever had it, where you're holding something, and suddenly, your fingers and the object just explode?

 

Honestly? No.

 

Maybe you should get that checked out. You might be turning into a werewolf or a zombie.

"Perdita thought, to take an example at random, that things like table manners were a stupid and repressive idea. Agnes, on the other hand, was against being hit by flying bits of other people's cabbage." (Pratchett, T. Carpe Jugulum.)

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You ever had it, where you're holding something, and suddenly, your fingers and the object just explode?

 

Honestly? No.

 

Maybe you should get that checked out. You might be turning into a werewolf or a zombie.

 

Haha - now that I have *that ink which we don't speak of* in my bloodstream, I'm sure to turn into something nasty. :)

 

An ink-zombie!

Need a pen repaired or a nib re-ground? I'd love to help you out.

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Colossians 3:17 - And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

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You ever had it, where you're holding something, and suddenly, your fingers and the object just explode?

 

Honestly? No.

 

Maybe you should get that checked out. You might be turning into a werewolf or a zombie.

 

 

 

So, uh, you're a fictional character, eh?

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More than ten years ago, I got stabbed on my right hand by my classmate with a fountain pen. After reading your post, I checked my hand and the tattoo dot is still there. :roflmho:

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Well ...

 

I did once ... without taking too much care - press hard on the nib end of a Pilot VP which was exposed rather than the click end. That hurt!

But it didn't bite me as hard as your ahab did!

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In storage: MB 149 (18k EF), TWSBI 540 (B), ST Dupont Olympio XL (EF), MB Dumas (B stub), Waterman Preface (ST), Edison Pearl (0.5mm CI), Noodler's Ahab clear, Pilot VP (M), Danitrio Densho (F), Aurora Optima (F), Lamy 2000 (F), Visconti Homo Sapiens (stub)

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You ever had it, where you're holding something, and suddenly, your fingers and the object just explode? Not literally of coruse, but they explode with movement.That happened. I twitched I guess. :) While holding the nib.Gave me a no-joking 1.5" gash on my thumb. Luckily the deep part was only about 1/4" long.I feel stuuupid... wallbash.gif

 

Not with a pen...

 

When I was a teenager my parents wanted me to trim the carpet in my sister's room as I was getting ready to go out. I was rushing with my pocket knife when there was sudden movement. I'd cut the carpet. Pity the tip of my thumb was in the way. Lots of blood.

Fortunately the next door neighbor was the family doctor. He though that stitches wouldn't work and to just use Neosporin and bandaids. I don't even have a scar.

 

 

The "Tattoo" I've got from a pencil is another matter.

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