Ink Experimentation (Not Pen Related At All)

[Winchester]

I did some home shop experimentation this weekend. I wanted to make my own layout fluid. If you don't know what that is, it's a quick drying fluid you brush onto metal when doing metal work. you can then scratch very visible lines for layout work. I mixed shellac with noodlers baystate blue and also a batch with some red leather dye. The BSB performed really well, I think alcohol is the only thing that really dissolves BSB too.

The BSB based stuff make a much cleaner line, I used it in the shop last night and was pleased with how it behaved. BSB is water based so there's some water in there but it doesn't seem to be an issue, there's also some water in the denatured alcohol I dilluted it with.

I think this was pretty cool and fun experiment, the strange ways you can use ink sometimes...

I am curious too, are there any fountain pen inks that are alcohol based rather than water based? And do you know of any wide brush of felt tip pens you can fill with ink? I think that might be a good application method for layout work.

[Noihvo]

 

[amberleadavis]

I love Ink-sperimentations!

[Flaxmoore]

Are you trying for a custom Turnbull’s Blue?

[Winchester]

Nah I just needed some layout fluid for shop work and a bottle is 30 euros and a week away for me. Might as well make some when I got the materials. Bought some cheap brush pens online to experiment with, will see what happens with them.

[jonschram]

If you run coolant and a mister you might want to be careful with homemade solutions. I know I've plugged up my mister with homemade layout solutions. Shellac does weird things to nozzles.