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November 18, 2005

Ink mix recipes (may take a while to gather them)

Incompatible mixes

Maja

Posted: Oct 20 2005, 11:45 PM

Private Reserve's Tangerine Dream ®, Candy Apple Red ®, Hot Bubble Gum ®---all discontinued now--- had problems when they were mixed with other inks (and each other), if I recall correctly. Yep, it says so on Greg Clark's 'Ink Sampler' page on PR Inks (near the bottom of the page).....

Mixing Noodlers black with Zhivago

woodwindmaster06

Posted on Oct 21 2005, 01:03 PM

I have mixed Noodlers black with my Zhivago and had really good results also I needed a ton of black to make a difference! I wonder if I had pelikan black or a more saturated black if it would make a bigger difference.

Noodler's/Swishmix

Roger

Posted: Oct 4 2005, 02:28 PM

in "my ink inventory" post

Burgundy-------------Noodler's/Swishmix

Glacier Blue----------Noodler's/Swishmix

Darkening Eternal Brown

in"do you mix ink" post

tburke0

Posted on Jan 28 2005, 02:38 PM

Just today I mixed my first recipe. I thought Eternal Brown would be a darker brown. Straight-up it's quite reddish, so I mixed it 10:1 with black to get the walnut shade I was after...

mixing Eel inks Rattler Red and the blue=Purple

Leslie J.

Posted on Jan 30 2005, 02:07 PM

In "do you mix ink Post"

Well, I'm waiting for my next ink fix right now. I will be mixing Eel inks. drool.gif That's partly why I ordered the Rattler Red and the blue. Might make an interesting purple in there. I've yet to have a pen self-destruct from an ink mix, and mixing two from the same company is probably safe enough. You only live the once! tongue.gif

'stone soup' brown

Tytyvyllus

Posted on Jan 30 2005, 05:56 PM

In "do you mix ink Post"

The only ink I do mix now is a 'stone soup' brown that consists of pretty much every brown ink I've used. When a brown ink bottle gets low it gets dumped into that bottle. So it's an average of many colors and is quite nice.

Ink mixing 101, do and don't

KCat

Posted on Jan 30 2005, 07:22 PM

In "do you mix ink Post"

i've had one precip problem and that was with NOS Skrip red in a mix. Of course, there are the Do-Not-Mix inks that Private Reserve used to make, Candy Apple Red, Orange Crush, Hot Bubble Gum... and I think there was one other but can't be sure. Since they can still be found on shelves, people need to be aware that they shouldn't be mixed with other inks. I did test this once with HBG. It's true. smile.gif

otherwise, i've mixed Herbin with Omas and PR with Omas and Levenger with just about everything and so on. I think it's wise that if it's a highly saturated ink, test drive the mix either in a cheap pen or let the mix sit for a few days in a container to make sure there's no precip.

the Do-Not-Mix inks that Private Reserve used to make and 2 recipes for Orange

mchristi

Posted on Jan 30 2005, 07:43 PM

In "do you mix ink Post"

I thought that there were three that could not be mixed: Candy Apple Red, Tangerine Dream, and Hot Bubble Gum. Orange Crush is still available, and I don't believe it has any mixing problems.

I successfully mixed Orange Crush and Fiesta Red to make a deep orange/red color. Adding some Buttercup lightens it a bit, and makes it a bit more like a orange/red fall leaf color.

A"Cedar Blue"with no recipe

Denis Richard

Posted on Jan 31 2005, 01:58 PM

In "do you mix ink Post"

Just mixed an interesting color, which I call "Cedar Blue", as it is very very close to the color of my Blue Cedar "51". smile.gif

Darkest Green Zhivago and Noodler Black

woodwindmaster06

Posted on Sep 26 2005, 11:46 AM

In "do you mix ink Post"

Yesterday I did my first ink mixing: I felt the Zhivago to be a little on the bright side so I put my pr ink mixing kit to use for the first time and put 15 ml of the Zhivago and about 1.5 ml of the noodlers black ink.

It creates one of the greatest darkest greens imaginable, I wonder what more black would of done to it??? How much is too much.

So I had a very positive first experience with ink mixing.