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I haven't as yet tested this for permanence and fading; NB the water I used was from a Brita filter pitcher.

 

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Fascinating American project that looks like it truly took some persistence. Virginia hickory nuts, 36 hours of boiling time, a classic dip pen, and a classic American stub nib. Beautiful reddish brown ink. Congratulations!

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Very nice!

What ink did you mix the reduced hickory nut juice with?

 

No mixing at all, just the reduced liquid as an ink. I used a similar process, minus the detergent, to make a woodworking dye using pecan hulls. Hickory, pecan, and walnut are all in the same general grouping of nut trees.

 

I forgot to add that after reduction, I filtered the liquid using a coffee filter held in a seive. Took overnight to complete, it had extremely fine precipitate in the reduced liquid.

 

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Sample with swab, SMPTE test target. The SMPTE target is black, white and grey, there are no colours in it. If you see it on your monitor with a colour hue, your monitor is not properly calibrated. The target itself may be found here:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/SMPTE_RP-133_small.png

 

 

 

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That's a beautiful color.

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Very pretty! I wonder if I can get hickory nuts around here...

Find my homemade ink recipes on my Flickr page here.

 

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