What Color Are Your Fingers Today?

[AndyYNWA]

Iroshizuku Take-sumi and De Atramintis Steel Blue. Have been cleaning out two pens...

[amper]

Finger-coloured. I haven't filled my pens in weeks.

[inkstainedruth]

So you're saying that you're using a bunch of piston fillers, eyedroppers and/or Vacs?

 

For me, there seems to be a tiny bit of Diamine Flower Collection Pansy on my finger -- used the Vector filled with it this morning for my journal entry, in between running to the phone in another room. (I've now had FIVE spam phone calls since before 10 AM; plus a cold call from some landscaping service who couldn't be bothered to check the PA Do Not Call list -- and which then got a nasty email sent to them via their website, where I told them I was giving them a fake name and number and an obsolete email address so they couldn't hassle me further...).

Ruth Morrisson inkstainedruth

[amper]

Two TWSBI ECOs (pistons), at the moment, having switched from Platinum Preppy eyedroppers that I only filled about 2-3 times a year, if that, since I kept at least two going at any one time: one in my Filofax, one on my desk at the office.

[inkstainedruth]

For me it's a bit of unknown black ink. I was looking at vintage pens in several antiques stores about an hour and a half north of me and got some schmütz from the nib/feed of one of them. Whatever it was was fairly permanent, since I've washed my hands several times over the course of the day; guessing that it might be something like Skrip Permanent Black or V-Black, since I saw a bunch of Sheaffer pens (but also a few Esterbrooks and at least one Wearever).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[madrigal]

Noodler's Polar Blue, Lamy Petrol, and Caran d'Ache Hypnotic Turquoise, unevenly distributed across every finger of my right hand after doing some cleaning.

[Tas]

Stipula Calmo Grigio Fumo.

Taking that inner lid off isn't easy

(On a posative note, my Faber Castell Ondoro loves it.)

[ardene]

Waterman blue with the occasional no-name cartridge black.

[pschwartz]

Rohrer and Klingner Cassia Ink all the way from Leipzig for 12 Cdn

[chromantic]

Levenger Fireball, both hands though fortunately mostly on the inside of the fingers. And it was right before I got in the shower.

[loganrah]

Still very slightly blue from yesterday.

[Runnin_Ute]

Clean this morning. Have four pens that either need a flush (3?) or a fill. Plus I haven't done much writing today yet as it is just after 7 am.

[inkstainedruth]

Tiny spot on my thumb (barely noticeable) of vintage Quink Green, from refilling the black Laidtone Duovac yesterday and then using it for my journal entry this morning.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

edited for typos

Edited April 3, 2019 by inkstainedruth

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Rohrer and Klingner Cassia Ink all the way from Leipzig for 12 Cdn

I love Cassia!!

[uceroy]

A small streak of Diamine amazing amethyst, from refilling my Pilot VP from a sample bottle.

Way too tempted to buy a bottle, but my budget this month is basically zero, so trying to refrain from buying anything 😅😆 It's hard, so I've challenged myself to try to use up a few of my samples instead.

[chromantic]

Not my fingers but the side of my hand, Kana-cho Midnight. I was oh so careful topping off the cart before going to work, didn't get a drop on me. I noticed a big smear on a parking permit I was filling out, that's when I saw the matching splotch on my hand. The collar on the cart had split from too much use and and leaking into the barrel and some oozed out around the feed. Got it all cleaned up when I got home and transferred the remainder of the ink into a fresher cart.

[DilettanteG]

Noodlers American Eel Black. I was hoping the lubrication would mean I wouldnt have to keep manually pushing ink thru the nib of my Namiki Falcons converter. Sadly, this pen still seems to be unwilling to spit up ink under its own power.

Edited April 7, 2019 by DilettanteG

[chromantic]

A small splotch of Monteverde Sapphire on the end of my left thumb and a pretty large splotch on the kitchen counter; fortunately, both cleaned up easily.

[Enkida]

This thread made me laugh! Right now mine are Robert Oster Fire & Ice, Pilot Black (cartridge), a smattering of J. Herbin Rouge Caroubier, and one small splotch of white-out. It was weekly journal prep day.

[DilettanteG]

I admire Noodlers generous heart, but I sometimes wish they wouldnt fill their bottle quite so full. My finger pads are now 54th Massachusetts Blue Black from a fresh new bottle. There are also spots of Noodlers American Eel Black since my Namiki Falcon converter holds very little to feed its ravenous Binderized Spenserian nib. Great flexy nib, though.