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Gives a whole different meeting to writing mom.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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Oh, they're turning people into graphite. That's not too easy to put in a fountain pen. You could make people pencils however

 

I don't think that you were being helpful.... Well, maybe to Amberlea's kids, maybe. ;)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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I couldn't find any Soylent Green, but did find some Laundry Blue.

 

Here y'are - https://www.soylent.com/

 

Sadly, no green...

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Blood might work well for a dip pen, but it would need an anticoagulant I suspect.

Heparin, and keep it refrigerated B)

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I tried adding iodine to inks to make them more permanent on paper, as well as fabric dyes for inks. Not great results. I learned there is so much more to inks than just the dyes.

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I don't think that you were being helpful.... Well, maybe to Amberlea's kids, maybe. ;)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

 

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water during flushing. Or a 10:1 Distilled H2O:ammonia mix. And then for only very short periods.

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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is he/she suggesting something ....... lol ...... !!

 

 

I think so. (I did tell him that I only approved of I love MOM tattoos.)

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Red wine perhaps?

 

I tried port. (A late bottled vintage)

A lovely dark, rich red in the glass - but, a very disappointing, weak, unsaturated colour on the page.

The pen flushed out alright, so I drank the rest of the bottle.

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I'd think the ethanol level in port would be a threat to long term usage. That, and the remnant sugar (Regular wine ferments to between 8 and 12 % before the alcohol kills the yeast consuming the sugar; port is made by taking a wine that hasn't reached killing levels -- maybe around 4 % -- and injecting higher alcohol compound, say a brandy, to kill off the yeast and raise the alcohol load to 20 %).

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I'd think the ethanol level in port would be a threat to long term usage. That, and the remnant sugar (Regular wine ferments to between 8 and 12 % before the alcohol kills the yeast consuming the sugar; port is made by taking a wine that hasn't reached killing levels -- maybe around 4 % -- and injecting higher alcohol compound, say a brandy, to kill off the yeast and raise the alcohol load to 20 %).

 

Nice!

 

I hadn't taken any of that into account. It was a spur of the moment thing, rather than a plan.

But, good to know.

 

Thanks.

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I only tried with water when cleaning pen and sometimes for testing the pens.

I am afraid that I might harm my pens so even I did think of trying some new material for the ink, but too scare to make it real.

My friend has tried with red wine, printer ink, and kuretake ink (he said he need to wash the pen off right away after reading some comments about brush pen ink can clog up fountain pen on internet)... some works well but some not so good.

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I really want to try putting dye based liquid watercolor in some pens. Has anyone actually tried this? 

 

I would only try this on cheap pens but I'm an artist and I want to put weird liquids in my pens like All The Time. 

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On 4/11/2021 at 11:16 PM, mouse2cat said:

I really want to try putting dye based liquid watercolor in some pens. Has anyone actually tried this? 

 

I would only try this on cheap pens but I'm an artist and I want to put weird liquids in my pens like All The Time. 

 

In the past, I've used Dr. Martin liquid watercolors.  My pens did not explode.  But I don't think they're recommended.

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My other pen is a Montblanc.

 

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3 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

 

In the past, I've used Dr. Martin liquid watercolors.  My pens did not explode.  But I don't think they're recommended.

 

LOL I'm glad your pens didn't explode. 

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On 4/21/2016 at 9:59 AM, Bookman said:

I usually fill with a 1:1 mix of honesty and verbosity.

Ohmygosh!  I time traveled just to appreciated that comment!!

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I'm another person that enjoys using food colouring in my cheaper calligraphy pens (XB nib gets through a standard international cartridge in 1.5 pages!). I've been using a lovely blend of green/blue to make a fantastic shade of teal green (almost identical to Lamy Turmaline, which I bought before the food colour experiment). Every time the cartridge empties, I flush the pen though. So no impact has been seen on my pens...yet. I've currently inked an M nib for the past 3 weeks with the same ink fill without issues. Never left it to dry out (and don't intend to). As previous Aussies have done before me, the brand I use is Queens Food colouring liquid. I had so much enjoyment with a teal made from green/blue that I went back to the store and got red and yellow to complete the primary colour set for fun mixing times. I have half the mind to make a recipe post just for imitation "inks" that I mix, but the prospect of having to take all the pictures and upload them means at this stage they recipes shall live in my journal until after I pass all my exams.

 

I sometimes place the teeniest smidgeon of dishwashing liquid in the cartridge, as the ink can be a bit dry. Overdoing it makes the thing gush like a fountain...as I've experienced. Although my use of Lamy Turmaline in the same pens caused ink burping, which I never experienced with the food colours. So maybe this is the "ink" for these particular pens?

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On 4/11/2021 at 11:16 PM, mouse2cat said:

I really want to try putting dye based liquid watercolor in some pens. Has anyone actually tried this? 

 

I would only try this on cheap pens but I'm an artist and I want to put weird liquids in my pens like All The Time. 


I love how we can explain away a whole host of weird questions with the phrase "I'm an artist." Recently I've also been dabbling a bit in sanguine media, but I never thought to put it into a fountain pen. I guess a bit of heparin would mean it wouldn't clot up in the pen, or just go with a dip pen. 

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