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6 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Although of course, since there is some variation between ink batches (Nathan Tardif calls that a "feature")

I talked to a guy who knows him recently, and he claimed that Nathan is too lazy to write down his recipes, he just more or less remembers what goes into each ink, and that's why each batch is different. Dude's really out there.

 

Anyway, yeah I'm not a big black ink guy, personally. Just want it for this mixture to be honest haha

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Well that's certainly, um, interesting to know.... :o  And now it's making me wonder about other features (such as permanence or dry times between batches...).

Although I have to say that the ink color in the bottle of 54th Massachusetts was definitely better looking to my eye than the sample I'd tried of it....  But for the "store exclusive" inks I'm now ALSO wondering how much pushback those businesses are getting from customers -- OR how much pushback they're giving him....

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