Source Of Ink Shimmer Glitter?

[Willtato]

Hi,

I have 3 shimmer inks: Emerald De Chivor, Shimmering Seas and Rose Gilt Tynte, the third being my favourite by far.

 

Anyway, I attempted to clean my Moonman C1 out from Shimmering Seas to a shimmer-less Manyo Haha. I can see a little pieces of glitter still remaining in the words (I'd say around 5 speckles per letter so not a lot). Although I'm not entirely keen on the gold glitter, I'd like to experiment with some silver glitter (only a tiny bit more).

 

This might not be the best idea, but my reasons are as follows:

1) I'd like my inks to have more of a sparkle rather than a sea of shimmer.

2) I'm hoping a controlled amount of glitter can reduce clogs at the start when writing.

3) An increased number of glitter inks could be available to me (although I do expect some to fail).

4) The Sailor Manyo Haha is my favourite ink - the colour combinations on TR paper make it magical for me. I would like to see if silver glitter will make it more enchanting.

 

This is more of an experiment. Been loving the Sailor Manyo and Studio series. Eagerly waiting for the new Manyo Sakura be released.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Arkanabar]

One of the advantages of gold is that it's so non-reactive, far more so than silver, which I would expect to tarnish (it's hard to completely avoid sulfur). Rhodium, platinum, or possibly palladium might be more suited.

[BaronWulfraed]

I have no idea if these are usable:

https://www.amazon.com/Mica-Powder-Pearl-Pigment-Incredible/dp/B07C2TZ58T/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=metallic+pigment&qid=1592759178&sr=8-3 ; they appear rather dense and may not go into suspension (the mention of "resin" also concerns me -- use with a dip pen might not be a problem).

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BGSZ9G/ref=dp_cerb_3

https://www.amazon.com/Jacquard-Pearl-EX-Set-3/dp/B000BGSZCS/ref=psdc_12897691_t1_B000BGSZ9G

https://www.amazon.com/Jacquard-Products-Pearl-Powdered-Pigments/dp/B000BGSZ3M/ref=psdc_12897691_t2_B000BGSZ9G

[Olya]

Here you can buy shimmer powder.

I haven't bought it myself or used it, so no idea how well behaved it is.

https://www.pennonia.eu/product-category/inks/shimmer-powder/

[inkstainedruth]

I think Sailor Kenshin has been playing around with adding shimmer powder in inks.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Astronymus]

One of the advantages of gold is that it's so non-reactive, far more so than silver, which I would expect to tarnish (it's hard to completely avoid sulfur). Rhodium, platinum, or possibly palladium might be more suited.

Silvery glitter is usually aluminium. Real silver would be too reactive.

[Arkanabar]

Ah, that makes sense.

[Martolod]

I went ahead and ordered some shimmer powder from Pennonia! I followed their directions and spent a day mixing inks with glitter. Its only been a couple days but I put the ink into a sampling of gold and steel nibs. Only one pen got clogged because I left it upside down too long. I flushed it out and have kept it nib-up but the results have been altogether pretty positive! Im not seeing any slow in the ink flow. I sensed a gold pilot nib was ever so slightly less smooth but it was an ink I added shimmer to pretty liberally but even then I experienced no hard starts or skipping. Again, only been a day, the pens sat with the shimmer all night and had no hard starts or skipping in the morning. Will keep updating if anybody is interested.

[AoKiu]

http://www.leighreyes.com/?s=Shimmerfy

 

https://shop.kremerpigments.com/en/