Fountain Pen Inks With Foam/rubber Stamps?

[bjcmatthews]

I just wanted to know if fountain pen inks can be used with foam/rubber stamps? It seems logical to me that they would work, and would be just as suitable for inking stamps as they ink pens, though I'm not aware of the viscosity of ordinary stamp inks that one can buy in stamp pads, and whether this is akin to that of pen inks. Anyone use fountain pen inks with stamps?

 

Got any pics of the stamp/it's stamp in ink??

[Bigeddie]

I haven't ever tried it, but I know Diamine produce some empty pads for using your own inks.

[pen2paper]

interesting question. I do use some stamps.

Water/moisture would be an issue.. Just yesterday, merely touched my shopping list after touching a bag of frozen berries, and Diamine Meadow ran to illegibility.

[brewerjeff]

There are lots of places that sell stamping / scrap booking supplies. They should be able to help. Some stamp pad ink I have is water based. I have also seen oil based. That's all I know

[pen2paper]

Since the fountain pen inks may be more fluid, was wondering if a clean detailed print would be better achieved rolling an inked a rubber brayer over the stamp, rather than pressing the stamp onto a stamp pad?

I have some finely carved printing types, and have wondered about this subject too.

 

Though in the past I've used pigmented pads and embossing powders for a nice final finish.

[HildyZ]

I tried this once. I didn't have an empty stamp pad as described above, so I used a stack of folded paper towels to create my own stamp pad. I inked it with Noodler's Walnut (because I didn't particularly like it, and wanted to get rid of it). It turned out to be a lot harder than I anticipated. I had trouble inking the stamp evenly. The fountain pen ink didn't cling like regular dye-based stamp ink, which is what I usually use. My impressions were either faint and incomplete, or blobby and the details were lost. I may have had better luck with larger stamps and simpler shapes. I ended up making a gigantic mess all over myself, and I never tried it again.

Edited June 22, 2012 by HildyZ

[Muncle]

I tried this once. I didn't have an empty stamp pad as described above, so I used a stack of folded paper towels to create my own stamp pad. I inked it with Noodler's Walnut (because I didn't particularly like it, and wanted to get rid of it). It turned out to be a lot harder than I anticipated. I had trouble inking the stamp evenly. The fountain pen ink didn't cling like regular dye-based stamp ink, which is what I usually use. My impressions were either faint and incomplete, or blobby and the details were lost. I may have had better luck with larger stamps and simpler shapes. I ended up making a gigantic mess all over myself, and I never tried it again.

 

I wonder...could it have been the paper towels though? All the inkpads I have seen are like a sponge; you squeeze them and ink comes out. A stack of paper towels? They would just absorb the ink and be very reluctant to provide some for the stamp.