White Out, Write Over?

[Aunt Jill]

Is there a chalk-line or other white correcting substance that can be written over with a fountain pen?

 

—Jill

[WendyNC]

I've been able to do it in small places with wite-out correction tape, although I can't say for sure which brand I've used as it's in the office. Here's a link to the Bic brand on the Staples website to make clear what I'm talking about.

[Aunt Jill]

Yes, that's exactly what I mean. I'm looking for a good brand. Does anybody else go blank in the middle of a word and write the wrong letter? No? Oh well, forget I said anything.

 

—J

[dmmcf]

Yes, that's exactly what I mean. I'm looking for a good brand. Does anybody else go blank in the middle of a word and write the wrong letter? No? Oh well, forget I said anything.

 

—J

Even if there is someone here do doesn't do things like that, I make enough mistakes for both of us. I just strike through them once, rarely twice, and keep going.

[Shangas]

I would never use traditional whiteout "paint" with fountain pens. The flakes of paint just clog up your nib and it's a pain in the...ehm...lower extremities...to remove it from your tines.

 

You can write over white-out TAPE, though. But you still have to be a little careful.

[pen2paper]

the tape works.. every day;)

[germanmadepenlover]

they might only work with blue ink but they are the greatest things ever.

 

http://www.pelikan.com/pulse/Pulsar/en_US.Store.displayStore.36419./super-pirat---super-sheriff

[farseer911]

I cross out once and keep going. if it is just a letter on white paper, I have the Uni-ball Signo Angelic UM-120AC Gel Ink Pen - 0.7 mm - White Ink pen that I can just go over the single letter and correct.

 

I have recently be thinking of using Noodlers White Peacock for corrections.

[blackonblack]

I try not to make mistakes. Usually I will re-write or just cross out the mistake. Just watch out because it will smudge.

[2Hearts]

Correction tape works for me. I just find it hard to write over after, and need to give it a good chance to dry.

[Octo]

I've had good luck with the "Pen and Ink" version of Liquid Paper brand of correction fluid. It works with FP, but not very well with ballpoint pens. It's made by Gillette and has a bar code of 0-4154074700-0. The secret is to be sure it's dry before writing over it.

 

Octo

[ladyambrosia]

I use liquid paper and have all the colors. I just leave it a good long time to dry and wipe my nibs well after.

[Aunt Jill]

Thanks everyone. I've added your solutions to my Select From These list. My mistakes will no longer reproach me.

 

—Jill

[welch]

Look for "ink eradicator".

 

As best I remember, it came as a clear liquid in a brown-tinted bottle. The cap had a glass dipper that applied the magical eradicating fluid: a thin cylindrical stem with a round bulb at the end.

 

I believe the "eradicator" bleached out, or over, our writing. When dry, we could re-write the word(s).

 

Here's a link from someone who remembers seeing teachers use eradicator:

 

http://www.nysut.org/newyorkteacher_14363.htm

 

For an example, "Ink eradicator systems generally include two components. One component is an aqueous ink that includes a dye -- typically a triaryl methane -- that can be converted to a colorless form when contacted with a substance such as a sulfite reducing agent or a basic nitrogen compound. The second component is an aqueous eradicator fluid that includes a substance that can cause the dye to convert to a colorless form. A user writes with the ink and, if correction is necessary, applies the eradicator fluid to the ink marking to decolorize the dye. It is desirable to be able to write-over the area to which an eradicator fluid is applied." At:

 

http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?KEY=97%2F31070.970828&IA=US1997003051&DISPLAY=DESC

 

Carters sold a "two-bottle" eradicator...yu can find examples on eBay.

 

Still, I remember using a one-bottle system as late as 1965/66. Available in the same drug-stores (aka "pharmacies") that sold us stick pens, Sheaffer's ink bottles, Parker cartridges, Revell model ships, model glue, crayons, pencils, binders, paper (wide ruled, college ruled, and narrow ruled), comic books, Cliff's Notes, and a selection of pretty high-class paperback books -- from John Updike to Xenophon.

 

Whatever, "ink eradicator" was, it turned your written words white, it culd be written over, and it was not limited to Pelikan inks. (In those days, we'd never heard of any fountain pens but Parker, Sheaffer, and maybe Esterbrook.)