How Much Ink Have You Eaten?

[andybiotic]

I consistently have ink on my fingers and I like eating with my hands... over time I think I have at least eaten half a bottle of ink...

 

I find that... strange, and a bit disturbing. WHY, I wonder, do you consistently have ink on your fingers?

 

I try not to get my fingers inky when I fill my pens. Sometimes I end up with a small stain of ink on my fingers, but then I go wash it off. I use a lot of Noodler's "bulletproof" inks that wash off skin easily -- but even if it's an ink that stains skin, the amount remaining is extremely tiny.

 

 

There is more than one way of getting ink on your fingers, filling the pen is just a minor one.

 

Nib adjustments (practice tuning, alignment, adjusting the feed etc.), mixing inks, using and exchanging dip nibs, pouring ink into inkwells (for dip nibs) or just simply getting a burp on the paper and you dont have any paper towel at hand!

[andybiotic]

(Shellac is, however, ok to eat. It's in many sweets and medicines.)

So is aniline dye. It's in meats, soda pop, and ice cream.

 

Again, vintage inks such as Quink and Skrip are non-toxic to ingest. Note the word 'vintage'. Back in the old days the US government required inks to be safe. Ink was used in every school and business. The risk of toxic ink was a serious concern. Yet I cannot find a single instance of ink poisoning from these two inks. Of course things are different now. Modern inks are not regulated in the US. Some are probably safe, others maybe not.

 

Thanks for the advice, but I have already done "some research," which is why I quoted Frank Dubiel above. He ran an ink and dye lab for 20 years. He also authored the first comprehensive book on pen repair. Dubiel insisted many times that vintage Quink and Skrip inks are safe enough to drink.

 

 

Still... no matter how much you tell me it is safe to drink I am not going to actually skull it down unless I am in the dessert and I ran out of water (but why on earth do you have a bottle of ink there with you! :roflmho: )

 

Just like those blue waters they put into the Porta Potties, even though the people make them say that (when new) they are very safe and clean to drink. They are probably correct. I am not doing it! :roflmho:

[sirksael]

What an original question!

 

I lick my pen regularly when the nib has dried. Fustermore I used to bite my nails when I was a child, and we had to write with a fountain pen. So I must have ingested quite a fair amount of ink!

 

I wonder if food colouring is similar to ink, as I would think every one of us ingests food colouring on an almost daily basis...

[andybiotic]

What an original question!

 

I lick my pen regularly when the nib has dried. Fustermore I used to bite my nails when I was a child, and we had to write with a fountain pen. So I must have ingested quite a fair amount of ink!

 

I wonder if food colouring is similar to ink, as I would think every one of us ingests food colouring on an almost daily basis...

 

 

One of these days I will try to write with food colouring! They have quite a selection of colours! :roflmho:

[pokermon]

Guilty to licking the nib to get a hibernating pen started.

[ashbridg]

Have you seen this?

 

"Community Clip - Pierce Drinking Ink"

[cedargirl]

(Shellac is, however, ok to eat. It's in many sweets and medicines.)

So is aniline dye. It's in meats, soda pop, and ice cream.

 

Again, vintage inks such as Quink and Skrip are non-toxic to ingest. Note the word 'vintage'. Back in the old days the US government required inks to be safe. Ink was used in every school and business. The risk of toxic ink was a serious concern. Yet I cannot find a single instance of ink poisoning from these two inks. Of course things are different now. Modern inks are not regulated in the US. Some are probably safe, others maybe not.

 

Thanks for the advice, but I have already done "some research," which is why I quoted Frank Dubiel above. He ran an ink and dye lab for 20 years. He also authored the first comprehensive book on pen repair. Dubiel insisted many times that vintage Quink and Skrip inks are safe enough to drink.

 

I do not personally eat or drink ink, as I said earlier. But if young children were to be exposed to ink, I would prefer it be vintage ink, rather than those modern pen-melting witch's brews that the nib masters always complain about.

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Thanks for the additional information, Ashbridg. Sorry if my words offended - didn't mean them to.

Like you, I don't intend to consume the stuff.

[Glenn-SC]

None.

 

I wash my hands and I don't "lick nibs".

[ashbridg]

Hi cedargirl, It's all good fun. Next time we meet at a pen show, let's have an ink drink. Sheaffers and scotch sound OK? (Easy on the shellac). I'm buying.

[cedargirl]

Hi cedargirl, It's all good fun. Next time we meet at a pen show, let's have an ink drink. Sheaffers and scotch sound OK? (Easy on the shellac). I'm buying.

 

 

As long as I can choose the colour!