Week #45 / 5 Nov: My Significant Other - 2017 Weekly Ink Project

[lgsoltek]

This week, use an ink that has a special meaning to you.

As usual, don't forget to share with us your choice of ink, your writing, drawing, doodling or anything with the ink in this thread. You can take a photo, make a scan, or even better, write letters and CRV reviews (what is a CRV?) and mail them to the many ink pals here. You are welcome to check back on this thread even when we've gone past this week.

Click here to read more about this community project. Links to the two previous links can be found there too.

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Next week: Rock That Colour! (most saturated ink)

[LizEF]

http://www.paradoxcommunity.com/vps/45steelblue.jpg

 

Black n' Red paper.

[Chrissy]

That's a good one Liz.

 

This topic will take some thinking about for me.

[lgsoltek]

That's quite a nice blue!

[LizEF]

Thanks! I love the shading! My memory thought it was a little darker and had some green in it, but when I added some text to the old swatch card, the color was the same, so my memory must not know what it's thinking...

[HalloweenHJB]

That's a good one Liz.

 

This topic will take some thinking about for me.

 

 

Agreed. Steel Blue is wonderful.

 

Like Chrissy, I am not sure what ink will fit this category. Perhaps special gifts from generous benefactors...?

[lgsoltek]

Tough one for me too! I thought about the first ink i've bought (but there's week #49), the first ink I love so much that i've bought more than one bottle of, the first ink of my favourite brand, an ink gifted to me, the first ink I've reviewed... Difficult choice, even more so when most of these inks are in my other stash in another country!

[evyxmsj]

Tough one for me too! I thought about the first ink i've bought (but there's week #49), the first ink I love so much that i've bought more than one bottle of, the first ink of my favourite brand, an ink gifted to me, the first ink I've reviewed... Difficult choice, even more so when most of these inks are in my other stash in another country!

 

Well to paraphrase you back: feel free to pick more than one

 

I had my entry all lined up, but now I can't find it

[Intensity]

My one and only (well,.. I wish it were...), Robert Oster's Fire & Ice:

(sorry about the odd page hue shift, I had the worst time trying to present the ink accurately, and ultimately failed. In person it is an almost fluorescent blue-turquoise. The photos in Chrome browser make it look washed out, comparing to how it is in person, photo viewed in Microsoft Edge is super vibrant and is closer to reality).

 

Edited November 8, 2017 by Intensity

[dcwaites]

[LizEF]

 

Any chance of getting a translation of that? There are several words I can't figure out.

[dcwaites]

Dunno about a translation, although I could possibly manage Church Latin with lots of Googling...

However, here's a transcription --

 

There are some on this board who

might recognise my inky partnership

with Parker Penman Sapphire and

its clones.

This is one of those clones - Faux Penman

Sapphire #9.

A simple blend of two Diamine inks,

and an equal amount of water

make this quite a safe and well-

behaved ink. And quite cheap per

ml. of ink.

This was written with a Perry

Iridinoid #26 dip pen on Whitelines

paper.

[LizEF]

Dunno about a translation, although I could possibly manage Church Latin with lots of Googling...

However, here's a transcription --

 

clones <-- struggled with that one for a ridiculous amount of time. All I could come up with was "cloves" and that made no sense at all.

ml of

Iridinoid (wasn't sure on this one as I'd never heard of it)

 

Perfectly obvious now, thank you!

 

"Translation" was just a little joke on my part.

[dcwaites]

A clove of ink. Hmm.

 

However, Perry made a range of dip pen nibs, as well as some fountain pens. The Iridinoid range were made of a shiny stainless steel, unlike, say, the Brandauer Scribbler and some DP Leonardt nibs which were a different blend of stainless steel, and quite dull. The Iridinoid nibs all had a large reservoir under the nib, and could write for a fair time on one dip. They came in a range of tip sizes and designs, such as the folded fountain pen style tip of the 105, slender, almost flexible bowl tip of the 26, and some nice stub nibs.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Interesting thread!

The scan looks brighter than in real life.

 

Edited November 12, 2017 by RoyalBlueNotebooks

[lgsoltek]

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Oh gosh, Meadow looks so good, and look at that shading. /sigh of appreciation/

[Chrissy]

I've come up with a post for this one right at the last moment:

 

[lgsoltek]

I've come up with a post for this one right at the last moment:

 

 

 

That is one gorgeous ink!

[lgsoltek]

Oh gosh, Meadow looks so good, and look at that shading. /sigh of appreciation/

I find it not lubricating enough. I remember Akkerman #28 being an extremely similar colour but writes somewhat smoother.